Cards Against Humanity is digging a tremendous hole.

Love the reactions. It's like the Andy Kaufman biopic Man on the Moon come to life.

To be fair, they're only wasting the money for the land and to employ the workers who are digging. The money for the hole is coming from the people. Those are the people who could be giving their spare change to any number of progressive causes and instead are throwing it into a hole because the internet told them to.

I think it's pretty clever, and watching them dig is very relaxing.

I get it and I think it's hilarious/sad that people are throwing money at this and essentially proving the point they are trying to make but I think it's really stupid and not in a good way.

I hope they reach China ...

Also next time should think about using heavier tools for the job.

@theveteran13: Agree

Is it commentary on America, the Holidays or Capitalism? Sometimes it's hard to tell with art house projects.

They buy the land, get a permit for the construction, and hire a construction company. I am sure there was plenty of paper work to go through, but it's not the logistical nightmare you are making it seem like.

Just realized, but how do we know this is live? Have we seen anyone from CAH in the feed? How do we know this isnt some recording for some other construction? Is vape made of chemtrails?

That can't be cheap though!

From the site.

Why aren’t you giving all this money to charity?

Why aren’t YOU giving all this money to charity? It’s your money.

What if you dig so deep you hit hot magma?

At least then we’d feel something.

Not a big fan of CAH (personally I think that the cards are far too biased towards really easy crude jokes) but I have no idea why people think that this steps over the line on Black Friday. They've made it pretty obvious that the hole digging will stop if the money stops coming in. This could've ended within one hour.

Got absolutely nothing against it. True, my ignorance is bliss. But it seems a Punjii pit for internet vitriol.

Having said that, yeah its kind of strange. I'd spend my laffy money on something with more result. The recent for the children donation thing comes to mind.

Hey, but wait a minute...This is Art!

You have to keep in mind that these are the same guys that purchased an island and divided it up into thousands of sections one year and bought a castle another. Also, they spun off a shipping and packaging company from CAH so logistics is kind of their thing.

Just looks like they're building a burrow pit. What's the problem?

After all this division and sadness in the world, I'm glad someone could find a way to make us hole.

Of course not. It was probably 50k or less to secure the land and permit. The construction company is being paid by whatever people donate.

I thought this was silly and mildly amusing until I read the rest of the comments here. Now I think it's hilarious and I hope it goes on forever.

I think this is dumb, but in a good way. I'm not going to donate to this, but I'll bet most of the people who say "I'd rather give my money to something more worthwhile" aren't actually going to give their money to some other legitimately useful cause.

Yeah sure, it's not much more than a shallow criticism of capitalism, but it's not *nothing*. At worst the money isn't actually going into a hole, but the owners/operators of this machinery. This thing is currently at around $90k and it's not looking like it's going to go on for much longer, compare that to other (also practically useless) events purely about spectacle, like here in Perth we have a yearly fireworks show that lasts for 30 minutes, and costs upwards of half a million (tax) dollars every year. People like looking at the fireworks show, and people like the hole being dug.

Max Temkin continues to throw away money just to make shallow social commentary instead of donating it to causes and try to actually make a difference, what a shock.

If nothing else Max probably had to/promised to pay big to convince a company to not stop digging until he told them they could.

@TechnoSyndrome: it's other people's money. His not telling them to give it to him. Why aren't they giving it to charity?

Holy shit they're still digging it. XD Well I hope they find what they're looking for. No harm in digging a hole I guess.

straight from the Holiday Hole FAQ:

Why aren’t you giving all this money to charity?

Why aren’t YOU giving all this money to charity? It’s your money.

also this

I mean, it's a great jobs program.

@dudeglove: ACLU donations and safety pins. I love Disgruntled Temkin.

I hoping they dig deep enough that they will find the unreleased Giant Bomb versions of CAH...

Wow, some ludicrously salty folks are sprinkled throughout this thread.

Make America Hole Again.

@TechnoSyndrome said:

*sigh* have you even read previous comments or did any kind of research to back up your claims?

Here it is:

The best thing about this is how everyone is getting mad about it. Saying it's bad art, shallow social commentary or that it's public spectacle in guise of charity or whatever and just completely missing the point and making the whole thing much more hilarious. It's just a hole. Nothing more, nothing less. I personally consider it just a really fun goof but after this, and since the objective of (modern) art is to create discussion and reactions, I guess this hole is reaching some artistic merit. Well done internet, you've turned it into exactly what you were complaining about.

Anyway, let's lighten up. Here's the Giant Bomb crew playing Cards Against Humanity, I still love these two funny videos:

Same here. The fact that people are legitimately upset over this hole makes me hope they never stop digging.

I guess it's all down to interpretation, but it feels like there are more comments in this thread about how ridiculous it is that everyone is so angry about this than there are comments that actually seem that annoyed? To me, the majority of negative comments just read as it's not the good kind of dumb, it's just dumb. Most don't seem that annoyed, they just don't think it's funny. Which is a perfectly valid opinion here, it doesn't automatically make somebody a curmudgeon, or mean that the dumb thing in question is necessarily subversive or anything. There might even be a little bit of defensiveness the other way, because nobody likes being told a thing they find amusing isn't actually funny.

But also, by putting some consideration into my post on this matter, I can't help but feel like I got played. Like a gosh-darn fiddle.

The obvious evolution for this thread now is for it to fill with comments about how there are way more comments in this thread about how ridiculous it is that everyone is so angry about this than there are comments that actually seem that annoyed.

When the hell did people here turn hard on Temkin/CAH all of a sudden.

maybe it was the awful CAH part of the panel this year hahah.

@donchipotle: Even when Ryan was alive Temkin was controversial among the people here. Remember the pie down the toilet thing? And then there's the rape allegation against him, which made the GB dudes distance themselves from him for a while. This is not a new thing.

@damodar: No surprises there. He's a friend of the site so you can't voice any negative opinions you have about him without being called a salty baby or what have you.

I like how on a site dedicated to having inconsequential dumb fun, people are annoyed at the idea of digging a hole. Everything about this seems silly in a totally harmless way. Although, I guess a few worms are put out by the whole thing.

As their FAQ says:

Q: This is dumb. Why aren't you giving the money to charity?

A: Why aren't THEY giving the money to charity?

You can eyeroll all you like, this is ACTUAL social commentary.

It's KEWWWWWWWWL to hate popular things.

@undeadpool: For me personally I just don't really like Max Temkin in a way that is hard to explain. It's nothing personal, I've never met the guy myself, but sometimes there is a person in a group that you simply don't get along with like the wavelengths are mismatched or something. Thats what it is for me. I'm not trying to be part of the "cool hating people crowd" or whatever. I'm also not taking away anything from all the good his company has done for charities. Sometimes people just don't click, it happens, I assume thats what is happening for most people on this site as opposed to some strange vendetta or group think shenanigans.

Oh I agree, the guy seems a bit high on his own fumes in a way I personally find insufferable, and in a way that could 100% dissolve if I spent any time with him, but you've compartmentalized it to an ACTUAL feeling, not just blindly lashing out at whatever his company does reflexively and I think that's where the "Thing is popular->I am critical thinker->I hate popular thing" becomes far, FAR more insufferable for me.

@undeadpool: Sure I can completely see how hyperbolic reactions to this stuff can lead to that sort of reasoning which I likewise find quite insufferable.

I assume the next step will be to fill it up again.

CAH has raised millions of dollars for many different charities. wtf are you talking about?

i always feel like the diameter of holes is too large if the goal is to make it deep. Like this hole fits 20 of those machines.

O cruel, needless misunderstanding! O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast! Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Hole!

I'm baffled that a bunch of people are donating their money towards this. It's not even funny, it's just bewildering.

Hey, the hole got bigger.

@facelessvixen: that's what she said