Virtual Thought

I received a weird comment on my Earthsea rant. The comment is from someone named “Yellow Monkey”. This person’s URI is yellowmonkey2.com which doesn’t resolve, currently. The text of the message is this:

Thank you! Chinese Apes.

That “Chinese Apes” thing is a link to chineseapesattack2.com. I don’t want to link to anything because it might be spam of some kind… the e-mail address is one of those super-long spammer domains (aa5362fcef81b36d…).

Also, the IP is 205.234.132.50 which resolves to unknown.ord.scnet.net. SCNet seems to be a large-scale broadband provider that seems kinda shady.

What the hell? My only guess is this is the first finger of some shadowy marketing campaign possibly disguised as a game. I enjoy those (anyone out there love bees?) but not if it just confuses me with domains that don’t resolve.

(Since the original www.ilovebees.com seems to no longer be working, here’s a link to a guy who archived most of it)

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