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Zaratustra

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Internettery
« 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
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Re: Internettery
« Reply #1 on: September 24, 2013, 03:12:07 AM »
Buh huh wha?
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Ted Belmont

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Re: Internettery
« Reply #2 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.
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Re: Internettery
« Reply #3 on: September 24, 2013, 04:44:12 AM »
*googles*

Oh I see.

Yes, the marketers are getting better.
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Zaratustra

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Re: Internettery
« Reply #4 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

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

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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Re: Internettery
« Reply #5 on: September 24, 2013, 05:03:53 AM »
Oh so Tim Allen is Horse eBooks.
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Re: Internettery
« Reply #6 on: September 24, 2013, 05:51:07 AM »
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François

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Re: Internettery
« Reply #7 on: September 24, 2013, 05:58:48 AM »
Now I'm just kind of sorry for the horse_ecomics guy.
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Re: Internettery
« Reply #8 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.
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Re: Internettery
« Reply #9 on: September 24, 2013, 07:44:27 AM »
jesus god no

no

noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
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Re: Internettery
« Reply #10 on: September 24, 2013, 09:30:44 AM »
It's times like these that I'm glad I'm behind the times.
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Re: Internettery
« Reply #11 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.

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Re: Internettery
« Reply #12 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.
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Re: Internettery
« Reply #13 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.
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Re: Internettery
« Reply #14 on: September 25, 2013, 04:29:38 PM »
No. Love_that_goku is a real American hero
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Re: Internettery
« Reply #15 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
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