Dearest, beloved, Fandom Wank.

I know you were looking forward to great excitement today. Some of you said words to me that indicated you anticipated fiery 'judgement' upon those who remained fresh and dewey white, those you call n00bs.

Anyway, you got today instead.

Stop anticipating things, we'll just break your hearts.

Sincerely,

Sepia P. Magpie, Esq.



PS: Use this post to reflect on how you could be better people. Or just fuck around in the comments.

Alrighty, first and foremost ASSUME ALL LINKS IN THIS POST TO CONTAIN CONTENT THAT IS NSFW! . I cannot stress this enough. If I didn't think blinking red text would incite justified rage, I'd put it in that. THESE LINKS ALL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO HAVE VERY VERY NSFW CONTENT! So I'll try and summarize it the best that I can here.

Yesterday on the Discovery Channel 'Mythbusters' message boards, a questionable image started being spammed. The image contained what was claimed to be one of the hosts, Adam Savage, doing what I'm going to politely describe as a somewhat mild Goatse impression (DON'T LOOK IT UP IF YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT IT IS, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD). Naturally the threads containing said photo were quickly deleted... but of course not before plenty of folks had the chance to save the evidence.

Encyclopedia Dramatica already has a write-up, including a screenshot from the original chaos on the Discovery Channel message boards of a post from a concerned parent (copypastain' so folks won't have to click it):

"this is to whomever is posting the photos of Adam naked, my 11 year old son woke up early and hopped on the computer to come here to see what episodes are coming up (this is one of his favorite shows) and clicked a photo link (i wont post it here) but the link seems to contain naked photos of Adam Savage, he was terribly upset by these and I feel compelled to contact media sources for scarring my young boy. this WAS his favorite show, hes been crying all morning. It seems to me the names of these invaders are googleable and come back as members of www.ebaumsworld.com please look into this, and until i see an apology for this consider my family no longer viewers of Mythbusters OR ANY Discovery channel shows, if these are the kinds of perverts you put on air. thanks"

There are massive threads about it all over the web, including on Something Awful, ONTD, and Digg.com.

There's still heavy debate on if the picture is real or not, with folks pulling out their degrees in Photoshop all over the place and the blame being cast on everywhere from good 'ol Ebaumsworld to /b/. There has been no official statement from the Discovery Channel on the incident, and so far the hubbub seems to be confined to the internet. But oh, what a hubbub it is.

ETA: Added the 'concerned parent' quote from ED.

ETA 2: According to what's being said on the 'Discussion' page of the ED article, it's possible the 'concerned parent' screenshot was faked. Moreso, it's possible there never was any spamming of the Discovery Channel message boards. Making it quite an epic (and judging by the reactions around the web, successful) joke.

THE SAGA CONTINUES.

When we last left our heroes, YTMND had myteriously disappeared one evening only to reappear the next evening with claims constant DdoSing from eBaum-goers.

But let's leave YTMND behind for now, shall we?

So in my other wank report, my link to ebaumsworld.com was actually a link to ebaumsworldsucks.com, a satire site with a flash by SomethingAwful goons "Trapezoid" (Neil Cicierega) and "Altf4". The site itself is owned by goon "Legalcondom".

Eric Bauman contacted Legalcondom today, asking to have his site removed or he will "take over the domain in 72 hours anyway". He not only wants the flash gone from that domain, but forwarded to ebaumsworld.com itself. Irony. Goons point and laugh as they are wont to do but also give sound legal advice and changes to the site are made. They ask for the chatlogs, but Legalcondom is hesitating.

Possibly because he is previously permabanned user "Azuretek" who used to be an employee of eBaum's.

Several lulz and pages later, Bauman comes into contact with Altf4 himself.

( Chat log with UTTER OWNAGE )

Yea verily. This is way too damn fun.

Edit: There is now an eBaum'sworldsucks LJ community as well!

What the christ is going on?!

So it's pretty common knowledge to everyone not in high school that Eric Bauman, creator and owner of eBaum's World, is a lying sack of shit who steals content and makes tons of money off it (literally millions). Wank's been hitting the fan with that site since day one with not only SomethingAwful, but Viacom and Sega corporations as well. Beyond the theft, Bauman's moderators once encoded JavaScript into every page of the site focused on DdoS'ing (sucking massive amounts of bandwidth) the SomethingAwful forums, which is holy-shit-illegal.

Last Saturday the denizens of YTMND.com discovered the theft of one of the more stupidpopular sites, "Lindsay Lohan Doesn't Change Facial Expressions".

They got a little mad.

A lot of stupid but oddly hpynotizing sites were created. Repeated attempts to contact Bauman fail, surprise surprise.

But meanwhile, on the ytmnd forums, trouble was a brewin'. DUN DUN DUN DUNNNNNN.

Amazingly enough, considering how unorganized the forums are, users managed to form an alliance including not only over six hundred ytmnd forumgoers, but also SomethingAwful, 4chan, Newgrounds, Fark, and LUElinks.

At EST midnight, Monday morning, they united together to massively DdoS the eBaum's World servers, pinging and flooding and all that other technocrap that makes his forums go down for a good while, though it barely dented the main site's MASSIVE bandwidth.

Beyond even that, Bauman received hundreds of prank calls and two ytmnd forum members actually drove to the eBaum's physical headquarters and vandalized the place.

The next morning, even more stupid sites are created, some just plain retarded and some actually documenting the attack.

Max, the webmaster and founder of YTMND.com, realizing the illegality of the situation, repeatedly attempted to gain hold of his minions with little success.

Meanwhile, over in Hellon eBaum's World, they are PISSED. A bright, bold, ugly red link from the top page leads to an "explanation" of the attack.

"For the last 36-48 hours, ebaumsworld.com has been the victim of a global cyber-terrorism attack allegedly conducted by an alliance of webmasters and their followers who disagree with our company's editorial process." says they.

Yeah, okay, I'm sure all them obsessive World of Warcraft players are a real threat to society. Beyond the smell, I mean. That's so full of bullshit it's coming out their asses.

The next day, though, Max recieves an email from Neil Bauman, Eric's father and Vice President of the eBaum's World corporation.

( MY YIDDISH CUP (fear the grammar) )

A follow-up is sent before Max finally swoops down and releases previously unknown ownage. Give the man some image macros for his good work.

Best part: Dramatic reading of the emails!