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* Parodied in [http://xkcd.com/591/ this] ''[[Xkcd]]'' strip, which shows Stephanie Meyer (the creator of ''[[Twilight (novel)|Twilight]]'') writing ''Breaking Dawn'' as a response to message board users flaming her books.
* In January 2006, several [[YTMND]] users declared war on the controversial humor site eBaum's World over an imagefile that they stole (which consisted of showing the similarities between photographs of [[Lindsay Lohan]]), and succeeded in crashing the site. YTMND founder Max Goldberg denounced the attacks as "a vulgar display of power" and stated that would place the site in legal jeopardy. When that was settled, eBaum's World agreed to remove the Lohan picture, and YTMND removed the anti-eBaum's World sites, though there are still some pages that exist.
* After a customer complained to a company named Ocean Marketing about the fact that they hadn't received a specially-made Playstation 3 controller on time, he were met with an incredibly rude response by the company's PR representative. The customer contacted [[Penny Arcade]]'s Mike Krahliuk, and when Mike confronted the man, he was insulted by the representative as well. The email exchange between the three parties was posted on PA's website, and spread like wildfire across the internet. Shortly afterwards, the Twitter account for the company was changed to Ocean Strategy, the creators of the controller fired Ocean, and the owner of the company, Paul, backpedaled for all his worth with apologies after a barrage of nasty e-mails. A complete picture of the what happened can be found [https://web.archive.org/web/20140905162708/http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/114961-UPDATE-Penny-Arcade-Smacks-Down-Shady-PR-Dude here.]
* In July 2016, [http://www.pcgamer.com/csgo-lotto-investigation-uncovers-colossal-conflict-of-interest/ it was revealed] that TmarTn and ProSyndicate, who made [[Counter-Strike|CSGO]] skin-gambling videos using a website called CSGO Lotto, owned the website and didn't disclose it. Since their videos were potentially targeting children and their winning could have been falsified, they were called out by, among others, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IuXz-cux1M HonorTheCall] (who broke out the story), [[h3h3 Productions]] ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8fU2QG-lV0 here]) and [[The Cynical Brit|TotalBiscuit]] ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8z_VY8KZpMU here]). After failed attempts at [[Backhanded Apology|damage]] [[Blatant Lies|control]], the offending channels' owners were [http://www.pcgamer.com/csgo-lotto-owners-sued-for-promoting-an-illegal-gambling-service/ added to a class-action lawsuit against] [[Valve Corporation|Valve]] for allowing an illegal online gambling market.
* [http://kotaku.com/drama-over-music-video-ignites-argument-about-what-anim-1787972349 Controversy erupted] on [[Reddit|/r/anime]] in October 2016 when [https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/585u4k/porter_robinsons_shelter_animated_music_video_is/ a thread] for the animated music video of [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzQ6gRAEoy0 "Shelter"] by Porter Robinson and Madeon was removed by moderators for being a music video and thus violating their strict definition of [[Anime]] ("An animated series, produced and aired in Japan, intended for a Japanese audience"), even though the video was produced by [[A-1 Pictures]] and sponsored by Crunchyroll for a Japanese audience. The artist reacted to the news with [https://twitter.com/porterrobinson/status/788476396171427840 a tweet], saying the decision had an "insane explanation"<ref>a comment by the moderator compared the video to a Japanese studio being contracted to produce [[SpongeBob SquarePants]] episodes</ref> and was "really really heartbreaking". Threads created by users to protest the decision [https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/585a23/porter_robinson_madeon_shelter_official_video/d8xvgn6/ were deleted] by the moderators. Some time later, the video was allowed to be [https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/585a23/porter_robinson_madeon_shelter_official_video/ reposted on /r/anime]. [https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/585a23/porter_robinson_madeon_shelter_official_video/d8y08s6/ Reddit users] [https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/585a23/porter_robinson_madeon_shelter_official_video/d8xvs99/ were quick] to protest the decision and its perceived absurdity. The fuss was such that a [https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/5a3gpb/meta_thread_month_of_october_30th/?sort=confidence Meta Thread of the month] announced the removal of the series clause in the rule.
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* 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 scandal] where the publication's reporters were revealed by Nick Davies and Amelia Hill to have illegally accessed the voicemails of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler, [[Lulz Sec]] managed to get into the newspaper's website and replace it with a spoof story about Rupert Murdoch's (imaginary) death. This was but one notable facet among many in the time span that transformed News of the World from a multimillion-reader sensational outlet on Monday to a pariah considered beyond salvation by even Murdoch himself... on ''Thursday'' of that same week.
* 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.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120510054126/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.
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