Mr. Hat's Hellhole

Mr. Hat's Hellhole (often just 'The Hellhole' or THH) was a South Park fansite online from late 1997 until June 17th, 2003 (est) and ran by Vin Casale and Matt. For the series' first seven years it was the largest and most popular fansite in the community, hosting ample fanfiction and fanart, sounds, videos, exclusives, downloads, a chatroom and a message board, with daily updates by site owners Vin and Matt for many of it's first years online, as well as strong affiliations with other major fansites like Sweeet.com.
The site's popularity declined in later years with the opening of South Park Studios, which boasted many similar features and functions, as well as a layout change that included banner advertisements that most users found annoying. They were also known for refusing to remove fanfiction the authors requested be removed, and increasingly frequent promotion of the owners' pornographic website Over The Limit in the site's news section, eventually becoming a redirect to the latter site.
==Commentary===
A thread at the Total South Park message board involves some commentary on the website, circa 2000:
TSP's webmaster wondered:
THH is hated by many, loved by many, and appreciated by many. 
What do you think? Is this really the greatest South Park site ever created or do Vin & Matt just rip off their so called fans? 
There have been more Anti-HellHole sites for the Hell Hole than for any other South Park sites, perhaps someone would like to say: why?
An anonymous user commented:
It's a love hate realtionship with me. The layout is terrible, I could do better (that's really saying something), the sounds are nicked, the episode downloads are closed down and weren't on their space anyway, and half the stuff is stolen form people who have sent it in, and the message boards are shit. On the other hand, the Games are great and er, that's it. If beefcake had originals like TSP and KHOD it would be the best. Beefcake is still the best SP site. 
Take care, 
Geeno.
==External links==
* Mr. Hat's Hellhole (archived from April 24th, 2003)
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