OK, one more from April Fool’s, another social hack:
A LiveJournal user, Moroveus decided to lodge a kind of distributed protest on April Fool’sfirst called Operation Fuck with the LJ Christians and later renamed Operation Jour de Poisson; the prank was a comment on the recent Pledge of Allegiance lawsuit.
Here is his To Do list detailing the mechanics of the prank:
Cut LJ bio and interests in order to disguise my obvious penchant for atheism and liberalism.
Unsubscribe from atheism
Go back two weeks and “friend-only” all the posts about politics, Mel Gibson, religion, the GOP, etc.
Create pro-pledge image.
Create anti-pledge image.
Code and post the meme in my public journal.
Post meme in active conservative/Christian communities.
Wait a few days and then swap the root image and edit the post it points to.
Unsubscribe from atheism
Go back two weeks and “friend-only” all the posts about politics, Mel Gibson, religion, the GOP, etc.
Create pro-pledge image.
Create anti-pledge image.
Code and post the meme in my public journal.
Post meme in active conservative/Christian communities.
Wait a few days and then swap the root image and edit the post it points to.
Then, on April Fool’s, he replaced the original root image with this one:
Hilarity ensued.
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