Originally published at: http://boingboing.net/2016/08/31/deep-sadness.html
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it’s not exactly generating anything, the shapes are looping - i clicked it a lot - the sounds are cool when you click click click
now do a happy one of these, you people that made this - we’ve had enough of sad
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Has a sort of 8-Bit Phantom of the Opera feel to it IMHO
ooh! - that’s lovely - now, scratch right there… up… left… down a bit… aaaaaahhh
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Well waddya know, that does annoy my pet!
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For some reason, this doesn’t seem quite right…
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Those sounds are not sad, they are rage-inducing. I almost damaged my computer before I found that red X.
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I saw the same thing!
iPad Mini, Safari
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Someone should give this thing some Asskicker Coffee.
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Probably worth mentioning that the artist is Rafael Rosendal, and he’s made many similarly simple, engaging little netart pieces like this one:
http://www.newrafael.com/websites/
His blankwindows.com page has been making the blog rounds lately.
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It kind of sounds like the brief warble at the beginning of an old VHS tape, which is actually a kind of sound I’ve always found deeply haunting. I wonder if there’s a name for it.
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Keep tapping or clicking and it’s like the soundtrack to an old science fiction B movie. 
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mine too. major ear rotation leading to an ears back annoyance.
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I was thinking '60s Soviet animated art film.
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HOCH HECH!
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Source code with <> replaced by []:
at 3 a.m. in 19 [span id=“A0”]⟁U[/span] or so
From w3schools: A element used to color a part of a text. That id number…it must be in the CSS sheet. Interesting.
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I also examined the source on this. I pretty much had to.
There’s a javascript function on the page that concatenates a random triangle-looking shape with a random alphanumeric. This function is called every 50ms.
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Click just a liiiiittle bit faster and it re-routes you to a subdomain: suddenseizure.deepsadness.com
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