Bootydrop.com: Bootylicious or bootyfail?

What is bootydrop.com?

It’s not a music pirating website where people “drop their booty.” Oh, no. It’s not even close to something that highbrow.

Bootydrop.com is the newest, trashiest incarnation of sites such as TFM (Total Frat Move), College ACB (College Anonymous Confession Board), or TFLN (Texts From Last Night).

However, rather than a humorous (and often deliciously offensive) mixture of drunken exploits and ridiculous observations, it focuses only on hookups. Its slogan, written under the logo, is, “Everyone has a story.”

Au contraire, Bootydrop. Your definition of what makes a “story” worth telling is a loose one. TFLN and its related sites are catchy because of their short format. Submissions are restricted to one or two sentences at most (usually in text format). On Bootydrop, this restriction isn’t present. By sentence five of what seems to be an essay about some “hilarious” sexual mishap, you’re bored.

TFLN doesn’t let terrible writers show how terrible at writing they are, whereas on Bootydrop, most of the stories are so poorly written they’re painful and impossible to finish. However, the comments sections are almost always hilariously bad and are worth a look. Thankfully, as of right now, there doesn’t seem to be much bootydropping on campus.

The IU page  only has four posts, and all seem as if they could have been made up in the dorm room of some bored, sexually deprived freshman boy. That’s the rub (do you see what we did there?) of this site: Whenever people, especially the bros that seem to be narrating these stories, talk about their sexploits, they tend to embellish.

Someone could post the craziest story in the world, but who’s to say any of it actually happened? Bootydrop.com isn’t a terrible idea; it’s capitalizing on the well-known fact that people like to brag about their sexual adventures and giving them a new venue to do so.

But it raises concerns of authenticity and of how much is too much. Do we really want to know every detail of your hookup last night?

Probably not. That’s kind of gross.

At this point, bootydropping probably won’t be the “next big thing” on campus. However, with some reformatting, it could have moderate success. Shorten the stories, and maybe we’ll feel like paying attention for the 30 seconds it takes to read them. Until then, when the question “Should I bootydrop this?” emerges, just say no.

We probably don’t care.