Viral Marketing...GET IT!?
I get,
Turns out freaky ass mystery disease Morgellons, (which may or may not be completely psychosomatic and causes black wires to grow out of your skin), Might just be one big hoax/viral marketing thingy to promote A Scanner Darkly. link via adrants
Real nice, good idea people, "lets make up a fake disease and then spread the word about it like it's real". Beside getting picked up on various blog, which is understandable, we like crazy weird crap and don't check facts much. But it also got picked up by legitimate news sources and magazines that you'd expect to do a little research.
Now let me give you a little lesson in memetics to illustrate how this was all a fucking retarded idea. Remember toothing? and to a lesser extent, greenlighting. Now all these two hoaxes involved was some people registering a domain name and putting up a fake forum with some fake post about a way of setting up anonymous sex and after a while real non made up people noticed it and some tried it, toothing even ended up being a minor plot point in an episode of CSI (they're so good at keeping current, they had an episode where a furrie gets murdered). So the way of faking a phenomenon has pretty much already been established, all they had to do was photoshop up some medical images and hit up GoDaddy.
People are surprisingly easy to trick into thinking they have a disease. Recently, Portuguese school children all though they had a mysterious illness after watching a TV show. (link). They saw the show and started attributing all their rashes, sneezes and other symptoms to the disease from the show and they freaked out until they had some kind of full blown psychosomatic illness. So somebody reads one of the Morgellons sites and then they think that their scabies or ingrown hairs or lice, or crazy meth-induced hallucinations are some rare incurable disease that doctors refuse to treat.
Yep, fucking with peoples heads for fun and profits is nice. You just show people enough fabricated evidence and their own imagination fills in the blanks. And then your little baby meme matures into a full blown shit storm.
Turns out freaky ass mystery disease Morgellons, (which may or may not be completely psychosomatic and causes black wires to grow out of your skin), Might just be one big hoax/viral marketing thingy to promote A Scanner Darkly. link via adrants
Real nice, good idea people, "lets make up a fake disease and then spread the word about it like it's real". Beside getting picked up on various blog, which is understandable, we like crazy weird crap and don't check facts much. But it also got picked up by legitimate news sources and magazines that you'd expect to do a little research.
Now let me give you a little lesson in memetics to illustrate how this was all a fucking retarded idea. Remember toothing? and to a lesser extent, greenlighting. Now all these two hoaxes involved was some people registering a domain name and putting up a fake forum with some fake post about a way of setting up anonymous sex and after a while real non made up people noticed it and some tried it, toothing even ended up being a minor plot point in an episode of CSI (they're so good at keeping current, they had an episode where a furrie gets murdered). So the way of faking a phenomenon has pretty much already been established, all they had to do was photoshop up some medical images and hit up GoDaddy.
People are surprisingly easy to trick into thinking they have a disease. Recently, Portuguese school children all though they had a mysterious illness after watching a TV show. (link). They saw the show and started attributing all their rashes, sneezes and other symptoms to the disease from the show and they freaked out until they had some kind of full blown psychosomatic illness. So somebody reads one of the Morgellons sites and then they think that their scabies or ingrown hairs or lice, or crazy meth-induced hallucinations are some rare incurable disease that doctors refuse to treat.
Yep, fucking with peoples heads for fun and profits is nice. You just show people enough fabricated evidence and their own imagination fills in the blanks. And then your little baby meme matures into a full blown shit storm.
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