Justin Bieber to tour in North Korea?

Home Archive Serious Business Justin Bieber to tour in North Korea?
GOONx19's avatar

GOONx19

An exceptional poster.

7,147 posts
Aug 16, 2010 12:40 AM
Apparently this is a month old, but I don't watch the news and I never saw it on here. Absolutely hilarious.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10506482

Canadian singer Justin Bieber has become the target of a viral campaign to send him to North Korea.

A website polled users as to which country he should tour next, with no restrictions on the nations that could be voted on.

There are now almost half a million votes to send the singer to the secretive communist nation.

The contest, which ends at 0600 on 7 July, saw North Korea move from 24th to 1st place in less than two days.

Many of the votes are thought to originate from imageboard website 4chan, which has built a reputation for triggering online viral campaigns.

The voting site is not endorsed by Mr Bieber's record label.

Given the fact that almost all citizens of North Korea are denied internet access and there are restrictive controls over all media, it is unlikely that any of the votes have actually come from within the count
Also,
Last month, a post on 4chan urged users to all search for the term "Justin Bieber Syphilis" pushing it to the top of Google Trend's Hot Searches list.
Aug 16, 2010 12:40am
S

sjmvsfscs08

Senior Member

2,963 posts
Aug 16, 2010 12:53 AM
hahahahaha
Aug 16, 2010 12:53am
Mohican00's avatar

Mohican00

Dirty White Boy

3,394 posts
Aug 16, 2010 9:17 AM
The organizational power of 4chan, namely its random message board /b/, is astonishing.

Here's an article summarizing the site and some of the shit they've pulled : Link
Aug 16, 2010 9:17am
darbypitcher22's avatar

darbypitcher22

Senior Member

8,000 posts
Aug 16, 2010 10:50 AM
maybe Kim Jong Il will take him off our hands
Aug 16, 2010 10:50am
M

MontyBrunswick

Aug 16, 2010 1:13 PM
GOONx19;452659 wrote:Apparently this is a month old


it sure is.
Aug 16, 2010 1:13pm