BannerBlindness = Internet Video Superstar

[tangy]

#cakes was afire tonight with news that BannerBlindness had managed to really take hold on the internet with his blog, located at Banner Blindness - online marketing, web development, and Direct Response consulting services..

Amazingly, he has managed to add over 1400 RSS Feed subscribers in just the past few days! "Where could he possibly have got such an immense following so quickly," we wondered? Could it have been Nickycakes.com and the Top 10 Worst Making Money Online sites post? Could it just be the Christmas rush?

That is... we were wondering until Barman discovered that the Feedburner image reporting 1467 readers was faked!! :xmas-smiley-016:

The faked image was located at http://www.bannerblindness.com/wp-content/themes/default/images/Bannerblindness.gif and is this:

I have mirrored it here just in case it "goes missing":

Grats to BannerBlindness for your massive increase in readers and RSS subscribers!!

 

[BeerNuts]

Hes a internet rockstar.

 

[Crackajg]

Where do you go from here? Pretend like you don't notice? Drop it down to 143 and apologize? Eat a grape and jizz in your pants?

I do not envy the decision.

 

[RBseatown]

haha

It's funny, but people do shit like this all the time.

 

[knukk]

LOL according to Feedburner, he actually only has 8 readers.

 

[keynes]

Wow, nice find - the only thing better than fake FB is the "twins" baby-colour motif he's rocking on his site.

 

[xentech]

LOL according to Feedburner, he actually only has 8 readers.

Now THAT is fucking pwned.

 

[DBWebDev]

LOL according to Feedburner, he actually only has 8 readers.

WTF, you'd think that if he was gonna fake it he'd at least have the nounce to disable the feed count.

In case he works out how to do that within the next few hours, I just wanna mirror the real count.

 

[IronLogik]

gold jacket, green jacket, who gives a shit.

 

[bobsoap]

Yeah, and then there's this:

http://www.blogperfume.com/feed-analysis/?uri=http://feeds.feedburner.com/Bannerblindness

 

[alexb]

That's pretty pathetic.

 

[acemenace]

I don't think he noticed the change on the subscriber count - either he was "banner blind" or busy unwrapping a granny for the Happy New Year video that he plans to post here.

 

[kingofsp]

Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaang

 

[Rage9]

Didn't Uber do something like this in the last year?

 

[riddler2k6]

LMFAO made my Christmas

 

[keynes]

Does he really have Adsense at the top of his site, or am I blind?

 

[alexb]

Didn't Uber do something like this in the last year?

If I recall correctly, his was something obvious like 400,000 or something.

 

[Jon]

Wow the FAILS just keep getting better and better!

 

[AdHustler]

what a douchebag. I thought people used to do this back in the day, get caught and stopped doing it. RETARDED.

 

[rgordon83]

I vote for "Eat a grape and jizz in your pants"

Where do you go from here? Pretend like you don't notice? Drop it down to 143 and apologize? Eat a grape and jizz in your pants?

I do not envy the decision.