Warner Brothers learns new tricks on 'teh intarweb'

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Warner Brothers learns new tricks on 'teh intarweb'

Post by Mr. Dipity » Tue Feb 08, 2005 12:47 pm

Warner Brothers isn't content with faking (badly) fan responses on weblogs. They have moved on to (badly) concocting entire online conversations in order to schill their product, polluting online messagebaords with their brand of inept, boorish self-interest.

No-one at Warner Brothers central quite understands 'teh intarweb' yet. What's new?

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Post by Girl Toes » Tue Feb 08, 2005 1:55 pm

All companies do that. Not just online, but in public too. There was a great report on 60 minutes about that over the summer. 60 minutes, by the way, rules.

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Post by Girl Toes » Tue Feb 08, 2005 1:57 pm

After Ashley Simpson half-time show got booed off-stage, some genius got the idea that gives us this, hilarious example:
Was that genius SSerendipty????????

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Post by Mr. Dipity » Tue Feb 08, 2005 2:29 pm

SSRigsbyGargesA.L. wrote:
After Ashley Simpson half-time show got booed off-stage, some genius got the idea that gives us this, hilarious example:
Was that genius SSerendipty????????
Nah. THat genius was a poli-sci major who lied about failing to graduate during the interview at a corporate label that he got by being drunk enough to sleep with the 'fat chick' friend of the 'hot chick' that he and his buddies met at the opening of a fancy yuppy bar in downtown L.A.

By some strange quirk of fate, he forgot not to answer his phone when she called the next day, inviting him to an exclusive record release party by some forgettable flavour of the month family-friendly skank-ho pop star, where he managed to score coke for said fat chick's boss, and later in the evening, cover for him when his wife showed up during a rather awkward moment involving the aforementioned hot chick's backside and several neatly drawn lines of white powder thereupon.

During the interview, he incidentally mentioned that he had an AOL account, and was promptly made director of online promotions and research, which mainly involved avoiding the fact chick's calls, chatting with the hot chick who had suddenly taken an interest in him, and telling the five interns assigned to him to make coffee or take his new leased Beemer for another detail and polish, as well as cruising teenage discussion forums, and cut and pasting the same message into each.

This, in turn was posted to Metafilter which in turn was posted by sserendipity.

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Re: Warner Brothers learns new tricks on 'teh intarweb'

Post by aurelialuz » Tue Feb 08, 2005 2:50 pm

SSRigsbyGargesA.L. wrote:60 minutes, by the way, rules.
ever seen "the insider"?
"While every effort has been made to ensure optimum sound quality, priority has been given to historic content and importance."

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Post by Girl Toes » Tue Feb 08, 2005 10:09 pm

aurelialuz wrote:
SSRigsbyGargesA.L. wrote:60 minutes, by the way, rules.
ever seen "the insider"?
No, but I did see a segment about it once on 60 minutes. It looked very interesting. :)

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Re: Warner Brothers learns new tricks on 'teh intarweb'

Post by Girl Toes » Tue Feb 08, 2005 10:12 pm

Mr. Dipity wrote:
SSRigsbyGargesA.L. wrote:
After Ashley Simpson half-time show got booed off-stage, some genius got the idea that gives us this, hilarious example:
Was that genius SSerendipty????????
Nah. THat genius was a poli-sci major who lied about failing to graduate during the interview at a corporate label that he got by being drunk enough to sleep with the 'fat chick' friend of the 'hot chick' that he and his buddies met at the opening of a fancy yuppy bar in downtown L.A.

By some strange quirk of fate, he forgot not to answer his phone when she called the next day, inviting him to an exclusive record release party by some forgettable flavour of the month family-friendly skank-ho pop star, where he managed to score coke for said fat chick's boss, and later in the evening, cover for him when his wife showed up during a rather awkward moment involving the aforementioned hot chick's backside and several neatly drawn lines of white powder thereupon.

During the interview, he incidentally mentioned that he had an AOL account, and was promptly made director of online promotions and research, which mainly involved avoiding the fact chick's calls, chatting with the hot chick who had suddenly taken an interest in him, and telling the five interns assigned to him to make coffee or take his new leased Beemer for another detail and polish, as well as cruising teenage discussion forums, and cut and pasting the same message into each.

This, in turn was posted to Metafilter which in turn was posted by sserendipity.
Wow.

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Re: Warner Brothers learns new tricks on 'teh intarweb'

Post by Mr. Dipity » Wed Feb 09, 2005 5:45 pm

How fucking cool is this?

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Re: Warner Brothers learns new tricks on 'teh intarweb'

Post by MoreSpaceEcho » Thu Feb 10, 2005 10:56 am

i like how the warner bros rep is describing the secret machines as an indie rock band. uuuummm, yeah.

you'd think these people would be savvy enough to understand the concept of IP addresses...

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Post by RefD » Thu Feb 10, 2005 11:07 am

MoreSpaceEcho wrote:i like how the warner bros rep is describing the secret machines as an indie rock band. uuuummm, yeah.

you'd think these people would be savvy enough to understand the concept of IP addresses...
they prolly think that's where they go to take a piss.

as opposed to "the piss", which they do where ever they happen to be standing.
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