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What is your most embarrassing "ate the onion" moment? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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A few days ago I shared some news that the Eurovision song from Israel would be named "Your land is mine now" to later realize it was from an onion kind of website, lol.

I hope I'm not alone in this kind of f'up.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 6 months ago (2 children)

About 20 years ago I was so outraged by Bonsai Kitten that I asked a friend's mom to help me write letters to ISPs and law enforcement to try to get it taken down.

It was a site with pictures of cats in glass jars, but it had very graphic details about how they supposedly kept cats alive in jars and grew them into weird shapes... I still think it's pretty tasteless, but it was clearly someone's idea of satire. It felt like a big deal back then, but these days it would be nothing more than a bad meme.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 months ago (2 children)

It kinda was a big deal back then. This was the early days of mainstream internet hoaxes and a lot of people actually believed that shit (my teenage self included).

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

a lot of people actually believed that shit

Wot. Srsly?

Wow, looks like I hit the Internet really, really early. Because by the time that stuff came out, I laughed myself silly at how ridonkulous it was.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

Dude people fell for "grow crystals on pennies" and "cut for beiber." People are fucking dumb.

[–] DestroyerOfWorlds 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Early internet joke/hoax sight was "drill a hole in your head". pictures of people with drills in hand and bloody bandages looking all blissed out. I think it was shocking for some because the internet was so new people didn't think you just blatantly lie without a disclaimer.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

I remember that one!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

You were not alone, it was taken down (and rehosted/mirrored) multiple times because of complaints.

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/bonsai-kittens/