I’m a Snopesophile. Snopes, for those unfortunate few who don’t know, is a website dedicated to urban legends, email chains, and other ephemera than can be identified as apocryphal or true. When I first found out about it, I would stay up nights digging through their horror page, finding totally over the top, but nonetheless unnerving grotesqueries. It’s a fantastic collection of silliness, but they also tend to do a commendable job of discovering hoaxes and, occasionally, analyzing their spread.
I don’t visit the site nearly as much anymore, but I am subscribed to their twitter feed and occasionally check out the Internet scuttlebutt. Unfortunately, as can be seen on their Top 25 page a lot of the circulating rumors tends towards the boring side. Most of the popular pages on Snopes are dedicated to ridiculous terrorist warnings, virus alerts, questionable home remedies and, unfortunately, Islamophobia. But one of the incredibly persistent rumors on that Top 25 list, one that’s consistently been there since I first started going to the site, is the warning that someone is making a gay Jesus movie.
