Video Game Contest Leads to 'Sporn", Cartoon Porn

It started when the makers of "Spore" released a "Creature Creator" program that allowed users to develop their own characters to drum up hype before the game's scheduled release in September. The game, a joint venture from "Sims" creator Will Wright and Electronic Arts, allows users to create a unique creature, then control its evolution from a single cell into a complex cultural civilization. Within 24 hours of the "Creature Creator's" release, gamers had gone creature-crazy, designing millions of critters that were all thrown into a database and shown on a YouTube channel for the public to see. But scrolling through the database -- past the three-legged sea horse, past the seven-eyed wildebeest and the half-motorcycle-half-pig -- revealed something many users didn't expect. Buried among the more wholesome attempts were two-legged dancing testicles, a "giant breast monster" and a four-legged, "phallic fornication machine," for starters. These naughty -- some would say obscene -- creations have spawned an Internet meme, nicknamed "Sporn" -- short for "Spore" porn.
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