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I sincerely hope that each and every fuckhead in every marketing department across the world that has even considered "viral marketing" ends up shitting themselves in public while a really angry bear tears them from limb to limb.
I'm not convinced about Court TV. I think it's something else entirely, somehow. There would have been more about the private investigator in the blog.
I don't understand why I'm not rich. I (any of us, really) could have done a much better job of this... unless for some reason they wanted it to be screamingly obvious that it was a viral/hoax. In which case they did great and deserve every penny of their inflated paycheck!
Just opening the page and seeing the static pre-play image on the youtube video I knew that blog was not "blowing warm truth up my ass". And it went downhill from there.