It’s weekend, and I’m going through my “2Read” bookmarks I add whenever something looks interesting but don’t have time to actually read in depth at the time.
I ran into this site a few weeks ago, it is about a girl that claims she is going to kill herself in 90 day - heavy mmm .
When looking at the side it looks like there went too much detail into it, and my assumption is that this is some marketing/student project where students are testing the waters and probably making some dough out of Adsense or something similar, or otherwise this could be a very interesting internet social study…
Apparently she has even been approached by some TV networks and received alot of mails of people that are trying to save her .
Also, all the videos posted look abit TOO overdone, also some indication that it could be a spoof!
URL of the site could also be a clue to this being a spoof :
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March 18th, 2008 at 2:45 pm
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April 18th, 2008 at 6:53 pm
Tanya is very well known on the internet due to her and friends creating ‘I Power’ videos which tackle well known issues we face daily (http://athene.movielol.org/)
On the 90 day Tanya site if you click the ‘Suicide isnt sexy’ button to the right you will see that its just a campaign against internet suicides and gives a list of help sites.
April 18th, 2008 at 6:55 pm
In addition to my above comment you can see the campaign page here - http://ipower.movielol.org/suicide.php
April 18th, 2008 at 10:56 pm
thanks you for the link, I’ve read some articles about this, must say it is very effective and really spreads like wildfire, think they really hit a nerve with this one.