Anyone else occasionally find Strange or Unusual websites

[VelvetSoul]

The more I delve into the indie/underground web, the more I find absolutely hidden gems of website design. Everything from websites that function as multiplayer pianos, to websites with shrines to some obscure old games I end up loving. However, I also end up often finding something that, I'd arguably say is more interesting to me. That something in question being otherwise strange or obscure websites that often depict cryptic imagery or otherwise strange text.

Now I don't mean to sound judgemental! It's not in my nature to call someone's writing "strange" or something. I moreover mean to say that these websites outright contain obscure and nonsensical images or writing in general. Now don't get me wrong, I believe most of them to be possibly part of some project, whether it be an ARG of sorts or perhaps just something personal to the individual. However regardless of why they exist, the fact you can casually stumble upon a website with cryptic writing or creepy graphics, or just some random equations and graphs and diagrams. It's all kinda cool to me, because we live in a fairly mundane world and I do enjoy breaking free from that outside the realm of things like movies and video games.

I fully admit that a lot of the interest for me comes from the style these sorts of websites or projects carry. They almost feel like finding something I wasn't supposed to see, or rather something that wasn't made for me to understand. I enjoy that; it's fun to piece together what something might mean or what it could be. I also find it entertaining to try to discern whether or not it is part of some project or if it's something maybe more serious to the individual.

However the reason for this topic post is mostly just to ask you all, have you also come across any strange or obscure/unusual websites? Not even exclusively "creepy" websites or ARGs, but just anything unique that felt like it was made for a niche reason or something. I'm curious, I enjoy exploring the web and I'm constantly looking for more stuff to discover; if anyone knows of any sites like that I'd love to check them out. I'm also curious as to what your thoughts on such websites are.

[Kallistero]

I'm not totally sure what you mean without examples, but here are a few that might be what you're getting at!

• Hosanna1 and American Smokers Party are the websites of an American pro-smoking advocate in her 60s named Lynda Farley. The pages are plenty, the design is maximalist, and the words are emphatic & sometimes political!    I would think that the site was abandoned long ago, but this page on her Hosanna1 site references modern social media platforms, including Tik Tok. It's a peek into the mind of an American ideologue who's stubborn to the grave about... smoking? 
• Terminal 00 is from a webmaster from the same design inspiration as Fauux. True to form, there are rabbit holes on this site, but actually going deeper into a rabbit hole isn't always straightforward. It's a site where you can find yourself lost or going in circles, with some of the intended experience being for you to navigate parts of the site while being completely blind. The text is as cryptic as the site structure. Think you can puzzle it out?
• Weird Al Male Pregnancy Theory is seemingly a pastiche of sites like Hosanna1 above, emphatically professing some very important information about Weird Al Yankovic! 

I don't know which of these, if any, would fit into what you're thinking, but they all seem like websites you're maybe not supposed to find or understand too well 

[wolfkitty42]

I think that the first thing this post made me think of was Swampthing's Crypto Adventures. Like, it's just such a... WEIRD site...??? The ai-generated graphics (and probably text) just feel so comical because of the subject matter. Like, what do you MEAN swamp crypto? I can't read the line "we aim to keep the crypto waters flowing with laughter, gains, and swampy success" without laughing super hard. The way the text is overlayed with the white shadow is also just such a perplexing look. I just find it 2 be a very comical combination of concepts.I feel like a lot of crypto and NFT stuff tends  2 be very ridiculous and gimmicky with how it's marketed and I kind of love looking and laughing at that absurdity!

[JINSBEK]

@wolfkitty42 Oh, that Solana Swamp site is hilarious. It looks like their advertised Telegram group has only 4 members, and their X account is following 1, and has 1 Follower… Looks like it’s a joke account for a friend group. Normally, I’d say to be wary of “innocuous” looking content like this—crypto degens are able to rope people into things like this specifically because they look non-threatening—but seeing as their X account is practically inactive (3 retweets from December) and they don’t have a Discord, this might actually be a parody or joke project.

[ThunderPerfectWitchcraft]

https://mid.net.ua/
the guy developed a rather great game, writes about programming languages, promotes the paper industry, and wants to ban those unable to use a ruler from voting.

@JINSBEK clearly a parody, if you ask me.