College Basketball rickroll is fake

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

BREAKING NEWS: College Basketball Game Rickroll is fake, edited together by a random college student. And, uh, no one is surprised. Except, you know, the New York Times, and LAist, and everyone who reblogged them. They need to be reading this blog for real. [1]

…an Astley impersonator wandered through the gym and, “lip-synched and mugged [...]

This week in Rickroll: Firefoxin, live rickrolling, mainstream press

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008

Update: Perez Hilton picks up that Rick Astley will be touring in the UK this year (!!)
We smelled a rickroll revival 3 weeks ago… and a revival we’ve had. A roundup of the latest in rickrolling:
Search trends for “rickroll” and “rick roll” circa March 3rd, 2008:

vs. today, March 25th, 2008…

Out of Free Art & Technology [...]

New vid scams itself to #1 YouTube Most Viewed of All-Time?

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

Fan-made music video Alcohol-vs-Hot-Hot-Sex overtakes Evolution of Dance as YouTube’s #1 Most Viewed Video of All-Time…. but is it legit? Waxy investigates…

If you look at the ratio of views-to-ratings, you’ll see the CSS video has a very unusual 21,487-to-1 ratio… the average ratio for every other video in the top 10 is a more reasonable [...]

War on Scientology as effective as War on Drugs

Friday, January 25th, 2008

Inspired by disgust, intolerance, or just plain old boredom, the cancer that is Anonymous has declared war on the Church of Scientology as of Jan 21st, 2008. What does this actually mean? A couple of servers temporarily denial-of-service’d, some unfunny prank calls, a few black faxes… and truckloads of famo. Peep this:

Digg search results for [...]

Not famous? Fake it

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008

Peep the forum thread’s title: “ I’m ACTUALLY famous on the internet. (bhutto)”
In the vein of such great react/respond moments as “Leave Britney Alone”, nobody forum-goer Tonay follows current events, reacts swiftly, and makes a Facebook profile for Bilawal Bhutto, heir to the opposition party of Pakistan. Instantly he becomes notable-ish: NYT, BBC, ABC, Yahoo. [...]