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Title: Internettery
Post by: Zaratustra on September 24, 2013, 03:08:58 AM: Horse_ebooks is fake.

I don't think I can go on.

How to Pronounce Horse_ebooks (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_HaMlLJ7Jk#)
Title: Re: Internettery
Post by: Mongrel on September 24, 2013, 03:12:07 AM: Buh huh wha?
Title: Re: Internettery
Post by: Ted Belmont on September 24, 2013, 04:18:02 AM: Welcome to the future, where everything even remotely interesting is just viral marketing for some other, boring thing.
Title: Re: Internettery
Post by: Mongrel on September 24, 2013, 04:44:12 AM: *googles*

Oh I see.

Yes, the marketers are getting better.
Title: Re: Internettery
Post by: Zaratustra on September 24, 2013, 05:02:39 AM: More details:

Horse_ebooks was bought by current owner on September 14, 2011:

http://gawker.com/horse_ebooks-has-been-a-buzzfeed-employee-since-2011-1377183209 (http://gawker.com/horse_ebooks-has-been-a-buzzfeed-employee-since-2011-1377183209)

Confirmed that this is about 6 months after SomethingAwful discovered it:

http://splitsider.com/2012/01/the-ballad-of-horse_ebooks/ (http://splitsider.com/2012/01/the-ballad-of-horse_ebooks/)

So it's not as much "Santa is fake", but more of a "A dude killed Santa and has been wearing his skin for two years as an art project"
Title: Re: Internettery
Post by: Smiler on September 24, 2013, 05:03:53 AM: Oh so Tim Allen is Horse eBooks.
Title: Re: Internettery
Post by: Mongrel on September 24, 2013, 05:51:07 AM: Quote from: Smiler on September 24, 2013, 05:03:53 AM
Oh so Tim Allen is Horse eBooks.

Tim Allen's Home Improvement Grunt (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnsiZOJjfUg#)
Title: Re: Internettery
Post by: François on September 24, 2013, 05:58:48 AM: Now I'm just kind of sorry for the horse_ecomics guy.
Title: Re: Internettery
Post by: Ted Belmont on September 24, 2013, 06:03:49 AM: I'm more sorry for the people who bought horse_ebooks shirts.

Wait, no, not sorry. What's that other word?

Schadenfreudey.
Title: Re: Internettery
Post by: Mothra on September 24, 2013, 07:44:27 AM: jesus god no

no

noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
Title: Re: Internettery
Post by: Büge on September 24, 2013, 09:30:44 AM: It's times like these that I'm glad I'm behind the times.
Title: Re: Internettery
Post by: François on September 24, 2013, 03:01:42 PM: Quote from: François on September 24, 2013, 05:58:48 AM
Now I'm just kind of sorry for the horse_ecomics guy.

(http://francois.brontoforum.us/miscpic/horse.png)
Title: Re: Internettery
Post by: Lottel on September 25, 2013, 02:40:09 PM: I thought everyone knew it wasn't really a spambot. I just figured it was some dude having fun being "weird twitter" or whatever.
Title: Re: Internettery
Post by: patito on September 25, 2013, 03:35:07 PM: Next you're gonna tell me that love_that_goku is also just a dude being weird on purpose. Don't be that guy lottel.
Title: Re: Internettery
Post by: Lottel on September 25, 2013, 04:29:38 PM: No. Love_that_goku is a real American hero
Title: Re: Internettery
Post by: Zaratustra on September 25, 2013, 06:49:32 PM: Quote from: Lottel on September 25, 2013, 02:40:09 PM
I thought everyone knew it wasn't really a spambot. I just figured it was some dude having fun being "weird twitter" or whatever.

Lottel knew because he pays attention