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:

1. People were role-playing characters from the Spider-Man movie;
2. It was very bad role playing;
3. 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!