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In apology for having to eat my hat, I present you this piece of work.

There was a meme that went around LJ. It measured your "coolness" factor, among other things.

The creator of the meme decided that it was too good an opportunity to pass up, and used it for ~~unscrupulous purposes~~ goatse.

People are unhappy, to say the least.

Edit: I should add that as of right now (1:38 AM EST), the post is still safe for work. I can't guarantee where the links in it might lead you to, though.

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esclaramonde
2007-05-10 11:56 am UTC (link)

There is someone on my friends' list who lives in Tehran. She used to do a lot of memes, although she hasn't posted much lately. But the very first thing I did when I got the heads-up about this goatse "prank" was check her LJ to make sure she hadn't done the LJ Mojo meme.

Her life would have been in danger if she had.

Fortunately she had not done the meme, she had no goatse in her LJ, there was no chance that her brother, who monitors her blogging, would kill her to preserve the family honor.

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	seiberwing 2007-05-10 02:09 pm UTC (link)
	Er...I'm guessing her friend went "yea, all right, thanks" and warned her brother next. It's the internet. Pop-ups happen. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	photosinensis 2007-05-11 02:25 am UTC (link)
	Not if you know how to stop them. cough Firefox/AdBlock/Linux OT3 cough (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	seiberwing 2007-05-11 02:27 am UTC (link)
	Or random-porn. Either way, it all reminds me of that one scene with the Klatch ambassador in 'Jingo'. All those assumptions about zomg foreigners are barbarians. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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