What is Pointless Sites?
Pointless Sites is a humor website focused on creating silly, absurd, and outright ridiculous webpages that serve no real purpose other than to entertain. Launched in the early 2000s, it features a variety of strange content like a page that just says "Moo" over and over, a countdown timer to absolutely nothing, and a spinning monkey that goes wheeee!
The site's tagline is "Wasting your time, but not very much of it," indicating that while the content may be utterly pointless, it aims to give visitors a quick, fun break from reality without sucking up too much of their time. Each page takes just seconds to experience before you can move on to the next absurdity.
Over the years, Pointless Sites has accumulated hundreds of strange pages created both by the site's operators and submissions from visitors. While silly randomness makes up much of the content, some of the stranger pages touch on odd themes like airplanes, unicorns, and baked goods. There are no real rules about what kind of ridiculousness gets published.
The intended audience of Pointless Sites tends to be people looking to take a brief, entertaining detour during their normal web browsing or those who enjoy absurdist and surreal internet content. The site attracts millions of monthly visitors who spend anywhere from a few seconds to a few minutes exploring pages and getting a chuckle before returning to more functional parts of the web.
While clicking aimlessly from one silly page to the next, you may encounter pages that are nothing but phrases like "Do you want to dance?" repeated hundreds of times, rapidly changing background colors, or a button you can click over and over that makes a duck quacking sound. If you're looking for pure nonsense to briefly amuse and distract you, Pointless Sites delivers an abundance of meaningless absurdity.