That’s a neat story, but that website is wild. The whole thing is html + css (with some svgs in the css). There are screenshots and even a video capture, but they aren’t images or videos – they are html. And there are a bunch of easter eggs in them as well.
I am immediately impressed by
.horseTLDIt’s so beautiful. This is like the website version of someone making two-day rich and spicy ramen. It’s delicious and let’s just say good for you, too.
Yeah. You can type in the text boxes in the video, click the captcha, etc. No JS or anything.
I can’t solve the captcha game hidden in the video fast enough! I need to know if it unlocks another easter egg!
There’s a pretty good book from like 15 years ago called Trust Me, I’m Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator written by the former Director of Marketing for American Apparel, Ryan Holiday that basically outlines how fragile and easy it is to manipulate this system. A lot of the anecdotes in the book are similar to this, fake something and create some online buzz, and then get a small publication with no fact checking to write an article about it, and use that to then get larger publications to publish false information. Eventually it becomes a circular web of articles all quoting the false claim from eachother, and enough of a paper trail to even get Wikipedia updated with false information with a lot of citations
That’s a good thing to think about any time you read anything online.
