Switcheroo: Reasons Not to Direct Link Images
Reason #2: You may experience a sudden and embarrassing shift in musical preference
A link from the DoC referral log led to many posts by an Irish Metallica fan helping himself to bandwidth from Deuceofclubs.com, in the form of a Black Panther fist logo (taken from a review of the film Panther):
A little Photoshop here, a little filename change there, and poof! -- a Metallica fan becomes a Britney Spears fan:
It's especially fun wherever there are multiple posts by the same user:
Apparently some people just can't get enough Britney.
Let that be a lesson to us all: direct linking is bad.
Bonus lesson: There is no y in fist.
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