Avril Lavigne fans cheating was a HOAX! Youtube blocks it
Wednesday, June 25, 2008 4:06
Well that is big news 
Avril Lavigne fan staticrebelle, the administrator of avrilbandaids.com forum who started the whole "lets get Girlfriend in the top of youtube list" cheat, admitted a couple of minutes ago on the forum that the idea was a HOAX to attract media attention.
The cheating was a hoax - I knew it wouldn’t work. But we’ve now tricked about 20 or 30 big media outlets to report on the video and help take it to number 1
The haters will always hate Avril, but now they can hate Avril while helping su reach our goal of making her the most watched video on YouTube.
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In the meantime , according to forum posts, youtube blocked inframe views of the clip by redirecting to the main page! I don’t know if it was planned as a Hoax or in the process they chose "this way" because of the reactions, but they did a great job! Congrats Avril Fans Now I am sure you will get to your goal!
The Two Steps I'll Always Be Ahead Of You By - Avril Lavigne Bandaids: The Best Damn Avril Lavigne Fansite says:
June 26th, 2008 at 7:24 pm
[...] By Dear Media, I usually don’t like to brag until after the war has officially been won, but some sites have already blown my cover, so I am without the luxury of waiting. On June 19th, Bandaids [...]
Anne says:
June 27th, 2008 at 7:44 am
what’s that? The sound of frantic backpeddling!!
internetakias says:
June 27th, 2008 at 7:37 pm
@Anne
I am just transfering what was said on the forum that started the avril-thon
Anne says:
June 28th, 2008 at 5:46 am
Oh well, I don’t know how these things work but I just prefer that stuff like this does not get extra publicity from neutral people, because posting about it (with no comment) implies that you believe it and are on their side.
Some people only see the headline and disregard the earlier headlines of how they did in fact cheat.
The fact is that there’s no way the thing was a hoax. It’s rather pathetic really. Although… interesting that the statement managed to use specific wording to try and trick people even more!!
Anyway, nothing against you.
ALF says:
July 21st, 2008 at 8:31 am
Occam’s razor - All other things being equal…
Not even a fool would publically announce they intend to cheat. How dumb. I can hardly believe anyone would insult their own intelligence with that.