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Critical Cricket (criticalcricket) wrote in fandom_lounge,
@ 2009-06-26 19:54:00

Micheal Jackson Breaks the Internet
CNN reports that Micheal Jackon's death nearly brought the mighty internet to its knees. The article Jackson dies, almost takes Internet with him notes all the websites that are buckling under the weight of mourners of the King of Pop. LJ and JF have been particularly robust. And we all thought that Potterdämmerung would be the end of the internets. At least he went out with flair.

Additional mentions of the phenomena here and here.

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	munchkinott 2009-06-27 01:17 am UTC (link)
	But Rory Cellan-Jones says the internet IS fabulously robust! Nope, nothing happened in Britain. Michael Jackson took out my ISP for 2hrs, but nothing happened here. takes Rory outside for a slapping (Reply to this)

	anarchicq 2009-06-27 01:38 am UTC (link)
	Fan to Pro had This interesting write up. (Reply to this)

	sparkysrevenge 2009-06-27 01:40 am UTC (link)
	Flare or flair? :P (Reply to this)(Thread)

	anarchicq 2009-06-27 01:46 am UTC (link)
	Michael Jackson, like lens flair filter, in a way. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	criticalcricket 2009-06-27 02:35 am UTC (link)
	Oops. According to the tasteless joke in my inbox this morning, Micheal Jackson will get no flare. He won't be cremated, he's had so much plastic surgery, he'll just be melted down and made into legos for little kids. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	barankhy 2009-06-27 02:36 am UTC (link)
	snorts (Reply to this)(Parent)

	reeve 2009-06-27 11:31 am UTC (link)
	For little kids? Hell, they'd be made into collector's items for particularly morbid fans. MJ did leave a lot of debt behind, so... (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	reeve 2009-06-27 11:39 am UTC (link)
	*he'd be made into... (Reply to this)(Parent)

	shadowmonkey 2009-06-27 02:12 am UTC (link)
	To be fair, I found LJ and JF were particularly robust before he died. Or maybe the sites are clairvoyant. (Reply to this)

mcity
2009-06-27 04:13 am UTC (link)

nearly brought the mighty internet to its knees.

I'm finding it very hard to resist these set-up lines.

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	beejium 2009-06-27 04:49 am UTC (link)
	Today, before my exam, my Prof was getting all emotional about MJ dying, and started this big ol' conversation about it, and partway through she said, "I think he really touched a lot of us." I snorted so loud the entire room turned around and glared. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	singe 2009-06-27 05:45 am UTC (link)
	SNORTS! along with you (Reply to this)(Parent)

	tree 2009-06-27 08:59 pm UTC (link)
	OK I snorted too. Bad us! (Reply to this)(Parent)

	feenix 2009-06-29 12:08 am UTC (link)
	...this is one of those things where I SHOULD be condemning your tasteless behavior, but I can't, because I laughed out loud and am thus at LEAST as tasteless. If I end up in Hell, this will probably be why. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	bienegold 2009-06-27 04:13 am UTC (link)
	IJ was pretty robust, too. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	insanitys_place 2009-06-27 04:44 am UTC (link)
	But squeaky was having some great difficulty(if his IJ twitter is to believed) moving to a newer, cheaper, and more efficient server. shrugs (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	bienegold 2009-06-27 04:57 am UTC (link)
	Ah, ok. Robustness on any of the the lj clones is to be expected, anyway. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	deadwood 2009-06-27 05:18 am UTC (link)
	Am I terrible for being really, really annoyed at the misuse of the word 'irony' in the quote from the first article? "Irony: The protesters in Iran using Twitter as com are unable to get online because of all the posts of 'Michael Jackson RIP.' Well done." That one there. I wonder if user Foiegras is secretly Alanis Morissette. Because tragic: yes. Ironic: no. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	scifantasy 2009-06-27 06:50 am UTC (link)
	"Irony: The protesters in Iran using Twitter as com are unable to get online because of all the posts of 'Michael Jackson RIP.' Well done." According to a friend, Something Awful has used the line "Iran killed Michael Jackson to bring down Twitter." (But you're right, irony it isn't.) (Reply to this)(Parent)

	siempredescalzo 2009-06-27 03:54 pm UTC (link)
	As I was reading the first part of your comment I was going to say that maybe they learned about irony from Alanis. Then I saw you went there. Carry on. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	feenix 2009-06-29 12:13 am UTC (link)
	So, let me get this straight: Rain on your wedding day: Irony A free ride when you've already paid: Irony Some good advice that you just can't take: Irony But: Iranian protesters unable to use Twitter because the Americans are all flooding Twitter with reports of Michael Jackson's death: Not irony? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	deadwood 2009-06-29 08:06 am UTC (link)
	Nono, it's more along the lines of: All of these things: not irony. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	feenix 2009-06-29 08:55 am UTC (link)
	Well, to be fair, that last line WOULD be hard to work in a song. And I don't believe that Twitter existed back in 1995. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	cleolinda 2009-06-30 12:17 am UTC (link)
	But! This means that a song called "Ironic" contains no irony, which is the greatest irony of all. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	dark_puck 2009-06-27 06:44 pm UTC (link)
	What makes this weirder is that in '04 I had a Matrix OC, a prankster program, whose claim to fame was breaking the internet. Hacked a number of pages, and the ensuing traffic did indeed bring the internet down. I am in AWE that my bullshit actually can work IRL. (Reply to this)

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