MetaFilter posts tagged with viral and hoax

"Jia Junpeng, your mom is calling you to come home and eat."

tapeguy — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 12:28:11 -0800

China's latest Internet obsession began with an anonymous post on a computer gaming forum: "Jia Junpeng, your mom is calling you to come home and eat." After attracting more than 17,000 replies in six hours, the original message went on to appear in All Your Base-style photoshops and on t-shirts amid claims by internet marketing experts that they invented the whole thing. Why did the joke travel so fast and so wide? Childhood memories, according to China Daily. Or maybe it was because of a team of secret viral "internet promoters". See also: Toyota's co-opting of the Leeroy Jenkins World of Warcraft video, Russia's Preved! bear and all your memes.

Come Visit Camp Okutta

generichuman — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 09:34:17 -0800

Camp Okutta: give your child a summer to remember!

Web 2.0 effect busted

doublesix — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 13:39:06 -0800

~~Fearless experimenters~~ viral marketers Web 2.0 Effect get pwned.

bryanzera — Wed, 23 Oct 2002 09:46:32 -0800

I must keep on the move. I must not allow them to stop me or trace my whereabouts. I must keep on the move. I must not allow them to stop me or trace my whereabouts. I have set the date for the release in the future to allow time to build publicity. With the worlds full attention, these secret agencies or privately run factions cannot deny or lie to the public about what I will reveal. This smacks of hoax, but I'm leaving the final decision on that up to you.

y6y6y6 — Sun, 30 Dec 2001 09:13:38 -0800

The Tora-Bora Manuscripts As soon as I published this journal at Blogger.com its servers were hacked. I believe it is a conspiracy perpetrated by the enemies of the TRUTH, trying to stop me. A lame but amusing hoax? Or dangerous and ancient secrets that will blow things wide open?