DataLounge (also styled as Datalounge and The Data Lounge) is an internet forum. Its core community of predominantly anonymous posters share news, opinions, gossip, personal histories, and political views from a gay perspective. While forum guidelines nominally require posters to be respectful of others, much of the site's appeal revolves around its appreciation of wit, satire, and "pointless bitchery", as well as a 25-plus-year shared history and its resulting in-jokes.