Rapture

If you ever want to kill time and/or brain cells, head over to Break, Collegehumor, or Ebaumsworld if you're truly internet trash. All of these sites are basically repositories for the internet's most hilarrrrrrrrrrrrious videos, most of which involve fireworks, video games, scantily clad women or sometimes all three. Want to make a hilarious video? Play Blue's Clues with those items and see what you come up with.

If we take a look at Break we can see most of its content is videos, with the occasional picture gallery or new joke. Their videos are almost 100% user-submitted, with Break paying up to $2000 per video depending on its popularity. A friend of mine had his video bought for $400. However the story behind his video reveals one of the weaknesses in Break's system. He submitted a video for review, only to find that same video posted by a different user make it to the front page. In other words someone resubmitted his video and was paid for it. Break cannot verify the true owner of a video just by looking at it. However, once my friend proved it was his the financial situation was worked out and he was paid. If you want to see him in great pain, check out this link which has CLOSE TO A MILLION VIEWS. The funniest part of the video is this figure. Go look at Break's submission policy to see how they definitely reward the funniest submissions. In this way Break rakes in a large portion of funny videos over its cheaper competitors. Break uses flash-based video players embedded in its pages. Their money is made back by their advertisements, which are pretty prevalent but not too visible. By the way, Break was once called Big Boys. Apparently a gay porn site sued them. Alright, that was a lie.

Collegehumor is surprisingly more mature than Break in its content. Content is very focused to the college-age population and so all of the jokes center around College-related topics. Content is updated in smaller amounts than at Break, with funny articles and pictures thrown in with the regular video submissions. However they still have a large video database that's pretty fun to peruse. They do not pay people for submissions; they simply highlight on the front page the staff's favorite ones. Let's look at their basic policy:
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1. DO NOT submit any illegal material, including underage sex pics, bestialty or anything like that.

2. DO NOT submit scanned pictures from magazines or other sites; these are copyrighted material!

3. DO NOT submit pictures unless each person in the picture wants it to be on CollegeHumor.com

4. DO submit pictures that are awesome!
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Wow. Good stuff. I wouldn't guarantee every submission there is original though, because they don't scan them very well. Collegehumor has corporate sponsors and because of their audience it is very easy for them to find willing advertisers.

Alright, now Ebaumsworld. This place is almost as bad as Bebo. Granted it's funny enough, but it's really horrible. Poorly designed, with spelling errors made in every update. Ebaums infamously steals material from other sites and then brands it with the Ebaums logo. This happened to ytmnd several times and has garnered Ebaumsworld a lot of disrespect. Ebaums updates pretty much daily with several different formats of media. They do pay for submissions, but only through their various contests. They advertise to bring in revenue, with popups, too, making them more obnoxious than Break or Collegehumor.

So now you can waste your life away trolling another 3 sites that will devour your free time.