How 4chan hacked the time.com top 100.
Brilliant, lonely, and bored teenagers are occasionally hilarious in their own weird way.
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So, is the moral of this story “don’t read into anything you learn from a poll on the internet”?
Why don’t people like that try to get rich this way? Create some shitty band or something and then hack polls on major websites that say their band is the most downloaded or whatever so that people will really start downloading their shit…
It’s all about the LULZ, Jay. In reality, 95% of these brilliant hacker teens are lonely, pimply, poorly socialized creeps who lack the real world skills to do anything other than prank computer systems. Starting a band would involve doing something that didn’t come as easily to them as computers (that is to say, playing an instrument takes practice, computers don’t) and going out of doors. Unlikely, at best.
But that’s just it, they don’t ever have to leave their house. Use the internet to create a ridiculous amount of buzz over something that pretty much doesn’t even exist. I mean, I would literally just stand in a room with a microphone and record myself beating on a pot for an hour, upload the mp3s to www.potwhackersmusic.net, and then manipulate the the shit out of the music blogs or whatever so that people think that others think the potwhackers are the greatest thing ever, then reap the benefits of the traffic. No?
Jay said:But that’s just it, they don’t ever have to leave their house. Use the internet to create a ridiculous amount of buzz over something that pretty much doesn’t even exist. I mean, I would literally just stand in a room with a microphone and record myself beating on a pot for an hour, upload the mp3s to www.potwhackersmusic.net, and then manipulate the the shit out of the music blogs or whatever so that people think that others think the potwhackers are the greatest thing ever, then reap the benefits of the traffic. No?
Wow. Now I know how to spend the remainder of my Spring Break.