Someone hacked Henderson’s MySpace page and gave him the face of a zombie. Someone placed an iPod on Henderson’s grave, took a picture and posted it to /b/. Henderson’s face was appended to dancing iPods, spinning iPods, hardcore porn scenes. A dramatic re-enactment of Henderson’s demise appeared on YouTube, complete with shattered iPod. The phone began ringing at Mitchell’s parents’ home. “It sounded like kids,” remembers Mitchell’s father, Mark Henderson, a 44-year-old I.T. executive. “They’d say, ‘Hi, this is Mitchell, I’m at the cemetery.’ ‘Hi, I’ve got Mitchell’s iPod.’ ‘Hi, I’m Mitchell’s ghost, the front door is locked. Can you come down and let me in?’ ” He sighed. “It really got to my wife.” The calls continued for a year and a half.
Akasazh@feddit.nl 4 months ago
I kind of figured, bu not really how.
But through the power of internet search I found out:
knowyourmeme.com/memes/an-hero
JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
He was an hero!
Baku@aussie.zone 4 months ago
Fuckin yikes. All that because of a typo.
Sweetpeaches69@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Wow. The Internet is really and truly fucked.
Akasazh@feddit.nl 4 months ago
Oh sweeypeaches69 you’re just skimming the surface…