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This is why we have the [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/uploadform.php Image Uploader].
This is why we have the [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/uploadform.php Image Uploader].
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* ''[[Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal]]'': The "National Organization for Marriage", an anti-gay-marriage group, hot-linked a [http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2144 comic from his site.] The author responded by [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|changing the image]] to one [http://twitpic.com/3w7b1j supporting gay marriage].
* ''[[Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal]]'': The "National Organization for Marriage", an anti-gay-marriage group, hot-linked a [http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2144 comic from his site.] The author responded by [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|changing the image]] to one [http://twitpic.com/3w7b1j supporting gay marriage].
* One guy hosted a "Grim Reaper Holding an Hourglass" image, [http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/989 popularly hotlinked] from [[My Space]], but 400 hotlinks/hour was a bit too much, so he [http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1011 changed it] to [[Shock Site|Goatse.cx image]]. [[Hilarity Ensues]].<ref>links are broken; proper ones are "[http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1012 The Ass-Termath]", "[http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1127 Goatse II: The Widening]", "[http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1052 The February Goat Update]" and "[http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1376 Goatse Metrics]" (graphs of goatse'ing).</ref>
* One guy hosted a "Grim Reaper Holding an Hourglass" image, [http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/989 popularly hotlinked] from [[My Space]], but 400 hotlinks/hour was a bit too much, so he [http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1011 changed it] to [[Shock Site|Goatse.cx image]]. [[Hilarity Ensues]].<ref>links are broken; proper ones are "[http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1012 The Ass-Termath]", "[http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1127 Goatse II: The Widening]", "[http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1052 The February Goat Update]" and "[http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1376 Goatse Metrics]" (graphs of goatse'ing).</ref>
* A 2004 [[Live Journal]] [[April Fools Day]] prank called "Operation: Jour de Poisson" featured a user spreading an icon in apparent support of the phrase "Under God" in the pledge of allegiance... switching the image to one supporting the exact opposite stance on April 1.
* A 2004 [[Live Journal]] [[April Fools' Day]] prank called "Operation: Jour de Poisson" featured a user spreading an icon in apparent support of the phrase "Under God" in the pledge of allegiance... switching the image to one supporting the exact opposite stance on April 1.
* The (hilarious) way Cockeyed.com dealt with a leecher is [http://www.cockeyed.com/pranks/imposter/imposter.html here.]
* The (hilarious) way Cockeyed.com dealt with a leecher is [http://www.cockeyed.com/pranks/imposter/imposter.html here.]
* The John McCain [[My Space]] site featured an update template which didn't give the requested credit to its designer, and leeched images from his site. He responded by replacing it with [http://mike.newsvine.com/_news/2007/03/27/633799-hacking-john-mccain a fake message from John supporting gay marriage].
* The John McCain [[My Space]] site featured an update template which didn't give the requested credit to its designer, and leeched images from his site. He responded by replacing it with [http://mike.newsvine.com/_news/2007/03/27/633799-hacking-john-mccain a fake message from John supporting gay marriage].
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