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* Blogger/[[Cable News Network|CNN]] host Fareed Zakaria once referred to the Corinthians, one of Brazil's biggest teams, as "a small club from Sao Paulo, Brazil". [http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2011/07/18/is-brazils-economy-in-danger-of-overheating/ Corinthians fans were simply not amused].
** Later he ran into more and, as they say on ''The People's Cube'', "[http://thepeoplescube.com/peoples-blog/fareed-zakaria-can-dish-it-out-but-can-t-take-it-t17438.html Fareed Zakaria can dish it out, but can't take it]".
* The ''entire "neohacker" movement'' was made up of anti-pornography [[Playful Hacker]]s trying to get out a peaceful message. When they were hit with [[Disproportionate Retribution|several worms and a massive denial-of-service-attack that eliminated most of their computers]], all hell broke loose... the "NHPrime" (original neohacker group) group was a major member of the Hacker Unionist Alliance
** The dialogue (bad spelling and grammar replicated) was the best part:
{{quote|'''adm_ghost:''' You really don't need to be here. You're not accomplishing anything.
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'''[[The Thing That Would Not Leave|guest]] (sic):''' [[Shut Up, Kirk|tell your bitch-admn to stay in kitchen]], [[Would Hit a Girl|whore shoudl stay in kitchen]]. [[Tempting Fate|you cant do anything to anon]] [[Nothing Can Stop Us Now|were invivincible bitch]]
'''adm_ghost:''' Next time you think you're so anonymous, try it on a board where I can't see all the guest posters' IP addresses. Same goes if the rest of you get ideas. }}
* Netflix's rate increases in 2011 came back to bite the company in the ass ''hard''. People didn't just post flaming statements against Netflix on all social media forms - they hit the company where they lived. Netflix suffered 800,000 subscription cancellations in the third quarter of that year.
* Comedienne/radio personality [[April Winchell]]'s (now-defunct) Etsy parody site regretsy.com once held a Secret Santa program where people could donate money to them via Paypal so they could send $100 gift cards to needy families. Paypal then froze regretsy's account, because they supposedly weren't allowed to use a "Donate" button due to being a corporation. They were ordered to refund every donated dollar and send Paypal a letter of apology for being deceitful. When the site's head posted this situation, the backlash was huge, and turned Paypal's Facebook page into a battleground. To its credit, Paypal quickly responded by unfreezing the account and actually making direct donations themselves to the intended recipients, but not before enduring 24 hours of being called the devil.
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* Stephen J. Dubner, of ''Freakonomics'' fame, was served spoiled chicken at a Manhattan restaurant. The manager, gambling that he would leave without a fuss, offered minimal compensation. He got his revenge by posting the restaurant's name and address to the [http://www.freakonomics.com/2005/05/08/why-pay-3609-for-rancid-chicken/ Freakonomics blog]. "Last I checked, the roast chicken was still on the menu. ''Bon appetit''."
* ''[[Cartoon Network]]'' got much backlash from the ''CN Real'' block, especially with its somewhat arrogant marketing ("[[Animation Age Ghetto|More than just Cartoons]]"), to the point that the block and everything associated with it was purged from the marketing as well as many of the shows associated with the block, with the last few live action shows (''Hole In The Wall'', ''[[Dude, What Would Happen?]]'', and ''Destroy Build Destroy'') lingering until November 2011, where they were finally canceled. This, along with the continued attempts to apply live action shows to the Network (their next project is ''[[Level Up (TV series)|Level Up]]'') are possibly more noticed than the Network's attempts to [[Win Back the Crowd]].
* [http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/teen-girl-calls-for-nationwide-girl-scout-cookies A girl made a YouTube video calling for a boycott of Girl Scout cookies]], because the Girl Scouts of America supports
* During the July 2011 [https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/jul/10/news-of-the-world-10-years-since-phone-hacking-scandal-brought-down-tabloid News of the World
* After United Airlines baggage handlers damaged Dave Carroll's guitar and the company refused to accept responsibility, Carroll got his revenge by recording a song called [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YGc4zOqozo "United Breaks Guitars"] and releasing it on [[YouTube]]. As of this writing, it's gotten over 11 million views on [[YouTube]] and is now cited as a case study by United Airlines customer service.
* [http://s3.amazonaws.com/kony2012/kony-4.html KONY 2012]. Essentially, it was an effort to raise awareness of the infamous terrorist Joseph Kony and the horrific tragedies he has caused (including kidnapping children and either making them sex slaves or child soldiers, and even making them kill their own parents), with the hopes of getting the attention of the government to warrant his arrest. The whole thing spread like wildfire right out of the gate.
** It backfired. [http://thedailywh.at/2012/03/07/on-kony-2012-2/ People quickly found out that] [https://web.archive.org/web/20131102170948/http://visiblechildren.tumblr.com/ Invisible Children] only donates 31% of their proceeds to actually helping anyone (very small in any sense of the word), the rest of it going towards the pockets of the people running the organization and their documentary business. They were also criticized for [[Documentary of Lies|oversimplifying and exaggerating the situation]], turning the rather complex affair into a [[Black and White Morality|classical fight between good versus evil]] (even depicting [[People's Republic of Tyranny|the Ugandan government]] as knights in shining armor, when they're [[Not So Different]] from the LRA), and the overall lack of representation the ''actual victims'' get. [http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/mar/16/kony-2012-campaigner-detained Jason Russell had an emotional breakdown because of the criticism.]
* In 2011, a ''[[StarCraft|Starcraft 2]]'' player and trainer named Destiny was the target of DDOS attacks for several months, until he managed to get into contact with the attacker, who tried to blackmail him. However, Destiny managed to pull the attacker's IP and forwarded it to one of his friends, who managed to not only pull the attacker's name, contact information, and address, but the names and phone numbers of all of his immediate relatives as well. After making a call to the attacker to taunt him, Destiny got into contact with the attacker's father, who promised that his son would not do anything like this again. Destiny has not had a single DDOS attack since.
* Starting with is "Project Chanology" in 2008, the hacker group Anonymous has been metamorphosing into a group less interested in [[For the Lulz|lulz]] than in social justice (at least its interpretation of it).
* [https://me.me/i/beloved-cat-fired-from-his-job-at-a-local-public-d6f5e4cef8e843aab34a5d43952ed751 Three news headers] that tell most of the story:
*# "Beloved Cat Fired from His Job at a Local Public Library"
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