The cunning 4chan, the wily 4chan, the evil 4chan, however you put it, the guys from one of the biggest image board community are unrelenting in their pursuit of lulz. Their most recent victim, video game journalists. The day in, day out grind of finding stories and wanting to get that big scoop is difficult, to say the least. But when something falls right in your lap, say, a series of games that has not been announced such as, Vice City Nights, Monster Portable 3 and Final Fantasy Type-0, all for the Vita, then you lap it up in droves.
The games were made with a bit of photoshop and wit and sent to different game journos around the globe. They were picked up by Joystiq, Kotaku, GameSpot, Eurogamer and a few others who ran with the story that the games were being released and all from a simple, Play.com screenshot (see above). The story fell apart when someone actually did their job of being a video game journalist and talked to Play.Com who told them the screenshots were BS.
So this was a pretty epic trolling, what do you think they could have done better or how have you been trolled before? Tell us below :)
Via [DigitalBattle] |
http://digitalbattle.com/2012/03/13/4chan-trolls-game-journalists-and-bloggers-with-fake-story/
When did Sony piss off 4chan?
