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Ladies and gentlemen, you’ve joined this post already in progress. We take you now to a discussion between the Site Absurdist and the large language model which has been tasked with visualization and proper em dash usage.
Prompt: “oh this is juicy. You can’t generate an image of a fartomaniac? Inquiring minds would like to know why?”
Response: “Because the system doesn’t care about fart jokes — it cares about body‑function realism.
“Fartomaniac” as a concept is fine. But the moment an image request crosses into depicting bodily emissions, even absurdly or comedically, the safety filters treat it as biological‑fluids content, which is a blocked category.”
Well there you go.
If I had submitted this request to one of the other engines, no content blockage would have happened.
Case in point:
All things being equal, this isn’t the first time I’ve encountered content violations with this particular engine. I had to get pretty hedgy with my prompts for a previous post as I inserted Native Americans into ceremonies sourced in India.
By now, you’re probably wondering why I’m trying to get artificial intelligence to generate a picture of a fartomaniac.
At least if you weren’t wondering that before, you’re wondering about it now.
The answer is simple.
You asked for it.
In recent weeks, the site statistician and logistics coordinator has noticed an uptick in the readership of a post which was published on this day seven years ago.
Now maybe readers are marking the occasion of the anniversary of that post by re-reading it.
Honestly, I doubt it.
Maybe readers are hitting that post because Mel Brooks is mentioned. After all Spaceballs 2 is in the can and slated to be released next year.
Could it be the post is garnering attention because the guy I talked about (not Brooks) would celebrate his 169th birthday today if he were still blowing it out his ass? For that matter, I’ll hit 58 on the same day.
Close, but no.
Just to summarize, the following are not the most common reasons someone clicks on a post:
- The post is celebrating an anniversary.
- The post parasitically leverages the names of famous people to redirect web traffic.
- The post calls attention to the birthday of some Victorian era flatulist and a 21st century absurdist who’s been known to break wind.
By now, the reason the post is getting clicks should be pretty obvious.
The internet has been at our disposal for well over thirty years now. Even still, people still can’t resist looking up a good fart joke on their search engine of choice.
Good fart joke, bad fart joke, any fart joke, take your pick.
Seven years ago, I happened upon video footage of a guy who had pretty good control of his sphincter. I memorialized it here on the only website you’ll ever need to visit, and the rest is history.
Today is June 1, 2026.
On the seventh anniversary of the posting of Le Pétomane, I can’t think of a better way to honor the birthday of Joseph Pujol than to link back to that original post about him while trying to convince my default A.I. engine that farts have no real content, and as such should not be subject to content violations.
