Brontoforumus Archive
Discussion Boards => Real Life => Topic started by: Zaratustra on September 24, 2013, 03:08:58 AM
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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#)
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Buh huh wha?
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Welcome to the future, where everything even remotely interesting is just viral marketing for some other, boring thing.
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*googles*
Oh I see.
Yes, the marketers are getting better.
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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"
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Oh so Tim Allen is Horse eBooks.
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Oh so Tim Allen is Horse eBooks.
Tim Allen's Home Improvement Grunt (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnsiZOJjfUg#)
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Now I'm just kind of sorry for the horse_ecomics guy.
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I'm more sorry for the people who bought horse_ebooks shirts.
Wait, no, not sorry. What's that other word?
Schadenfreudey.
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jesus god no
no
noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
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It's times like these that I'm glad I'm behind the times.
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Now I'm just kind of sorry for the horse_ecomics guy.
(http://francois.brontoforum.us/miscpic/horse.png)
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I thought everyone knew it wasn't really a spambot. I just figured it was some dude having fun being "weird twitter" or whatever.
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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.
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No. Love_that_goku is a real American hero
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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