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Offered in Parsons graduate Design & Technology program, Internet Famous Class is dedicated to learning how to spread your work to the widest possible audience online. It's also the first algorithmically graded class in the history of academics.

Our Famotron software measures the online attention economy — view counts, blog links, social media activity, followers and their influence — and awards students their final letter grade. more...

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Magibon is fake, TINA is fake, Internet video a hoax

Hot on the tail of suspicion about Tinaecmusic come accusations against gang-sign-waving, eyelash-batting mystery azn Magibon. There’s no real proof, of course — this is the internet.

The controversy heated up when an obsessed fan created magibon.com, which suggested it was all a viral marketing campaign for a new Japanese horror film. Now debunked, and the site is down.

Legitness is encouraged by an awkward appearance on Japanese television:

More unconfirmed info from Dramatica:

She lives in rural Pennsylvania and works at a CVS Pharmacy. She did not go to college so she can spend all her minimum wage earnings on Nintendo DS games and other stupid shit, and is currently residing at her parent’s house.
–drama:Magibon

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