Sciencephoto.com

***"oooooooh don't go to sciencephoto.com"***

**Science Photo Library** (registered as **Science Photo Library Limited**) is a privately owned stock photography and stock footage agency that specializes in scientific and medical images and videos. Its headquarters are in Maida Hill, in west London, U.K.

In addition to its commercial aims, Science Photo Library uses its media to sponsor and contribute to events aimed at popularising science to children, through educational multimedia competitions, and to the wider public through exhibitions such as From Earth to the Universe as part of the International Year of Astronomy, and its 2011 collaboration with RIA Novosti to showcase archive material covering the first human spaceflight by Yuri Gagarin.

The website contains medical imagery, but they consist of only a small fraction of its corpus. The website became collateral in the events leading up to what was voted the Funniest Ban of 2019, where Azure Ihrat and JoJo pretended it was a shock site, caused it to be censored completely on NF, and helpfully pointed Mbxx to a website where he might obtain images of a certain yellow citrus fruit for free.

## Exile from NF

In October of 2019 Azure Ihrat created Mary's Thread as a blog to document the various navelgazing initiatives that would occupy her as a basement dweller, eventually culminating in an image and description of literal navel gazing.

Fellow Alleyan JoJo subsequently responded with an inquiry for whether the inverse operation was possible. As personal experimentation could prove temporally and reputationally costly to execute, Azure Ihrat attempted to compromise with an image from Google Image Search. Salvation would come swift and deadly in the form of the professional STEM image repository that was sciencephoto.com, but the veracity of science would prove too powerful for the uninitiated, leading her to issue the warning, *"oooooooh don't go to sciencephoto.com"*.

JoJo, who had also sensed the latent powers behind this photographic powerhouse for accelerating human technological advancement, rebuffed any potential hint of reverse-psychology with a staunch refusal to visit the site.

Finding common ground, they would finally bring their activism to the doorstep of Mbxx himself, sharing the address for the website with the moral protector of the message board.

Mbxx banned the site from being mentioned on NF.

## Further Activism

Having garnered the accolade of one of the first non-piracy-related websites to be banned from NF, sciencephoto.com was no longer a threat to the minds and hearts of innocent forumgoers. Sadly, mindlessly acquiescing to censorship was never in the forums' collective DNA, and a thread was soon made querying the decision.

A vacuous hole where photos of various citrus fruits could be acquired had now been left in sciencephoto.com's wake. In the throes of mourning, an alternative was proposed in the Why did staff censor a harmless website? QC thread - lemonparty.org, which was as-of-then yet to be censored from the boards.

JoJo also offered Mbxx a variety of avenues to fulfil any need for grocery-related images, such as that of revolving meat, ensuring that the overlord wanted for nothing.

JoJo and Azure Ihrat were martyred for their activism, each receiving a 1-month ban for daring to speak truth to power and for opening Mbxx's eyes to the endless potential of the Internet.