www.myroomonline.net is a website accessible in Grand Theft Auto IV. It is a parody of social networking site MySpace.
MyRoom's main page directs to several people's profiles, much like "Cool New People" on MySpace, and each profile is a satire of a stereotypical MySpace user. Some profiles include:
- One by a teenage girl using Alt Caps, a method of typing usually used by adolescent girls that involves capitalizing random letters (LikE tHiS). It is often said that the purpose is to demand the reader's attention by having them focus on each word. She uses it for the entire profile, and it is very difficult to read, especially because the profile is also in bright, tacky colors. The girl herself goes by "HunyBuny" and her interests include partying and "celebs". Her friends are mostly like-minded young girls who also comment on her profile using Alt Caps.
- One profile used by Eddie Low, a serial killer that Niko has the chance of randomly meeting in person. He has zero friends.
- One profile of a man, alias "Flap Tickler", who mostly just gives a highly positive review of his sex doll. He comments that it resembles pop singer Samantha Muldoon.
- An example of an obese high school girl with low self-esteem, who is an outcast at school, gets cruelly teased by her more popular classmates, and instead prides herself as an intellectual (a hand-in-hand relationship said to be typical of the obese child demographic).
- A pale and frail high school girl deeply indulged in vampire phenomena (a la Twilight or possibly Ann Rice) and emo subculture in general. In particular, she discusses sucking on her boyfriend's open wounds as a means of vampire enactment, but warns about the possiblility of an STD (in addition to both of them being sexually active).
- One profile used by a stereotypical "Wigger", or a young (usually upper-class) white male who tries unnaturally to blend in with the gangster rap scene. The boy in particular is the son of an extremely wealthy banker in Alderney, who outwardly expresses that he wishes he weren't rich or white. He also dramatizes the death of his dog, just as a street gang would mourn a friend who was killed. In reference to his use of slang, his mother comments on his profile saying she spent tens of thousands of dollars to send him to private school, she would buy him a new dog, that she and potentially his father would be disappointed by viewing his profile.
- One used by a pedophile, out of a warehouse in Bohan, posing as a "16... oops! I meant 18" attractive young girl who talks extensively about her burning desire to have sex with young boys. One MyRoom user confirms that it is a dirty old man, and that he was asked to change his diaper, while the stereotypical wigger (see above) was fooled and planned to meet the girl.
In a report on Weazel News, millions of sex offenders have accounts. An old woman states that the site should be shut down; her profile has a picture of herself taking a sponge bath and "no one wants to be her friend". A younger girl states that she has 10,000 friends "who are actually strangers who stalk her".
In an email from Marnie Allen to Niko Bellic, she mistakenly names the site myroom.com, which doesn't exist in the game.
Known Users
See also
- www.friendswithoutfaces.net - A Facebook parody