How I Owned a Role-Playing Dork
Where to begin…
Okay. I have a crappy little web site about the Spider-Man 3 movie. On this site I have a few images of the main characters in the film. These images are hosted by me, on my server.
So yesterday I’m looking at my web stats and I see an “in-site referrer” from invisionfree.com. Last time I checked, invisionfree.com isn’t my site. So I decided to investigate.
What I discovered was very disturbing.
I was taken to a thread by SkyCaptain, Ultimate Super Hero. This thread was disturbing for three reasons:
- People were role-playing characters from the Spider-Man movie;
- It was very bad role playing;
- It had one of my images embedded in it.
It’s bad enough that you’re embedding my image and using my bandwidth for every page view. But role-playing? Spider-Man?? In a forum????
I knew what I had to do. I keep a few images on hand for such occasions. I quickly fired up PhotoShop, customized my alternative picture, and replaced the original image with it.
I think the results speak for themselves:
(click for the full-sized image)
Owned!
Tags: dork, funny, role-playing, Spider-Man, WTF
July 20th, 2007 at 9:09 pm
HA HA HA, Nice work!
August 9th, 2007 at 3:44 pm
Nice one!
I’m confused though as to how is it an “in-site referrer” if the image is referenced from the outside?
Also, did you actually create the SP image? Or is it some fan-site kit?
Don’t you need some sort of permission to reproduce Marvel’s IP?
August 13th, 2007 at 2:01 pm
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