Prank leaves Justin Bieber facing tour of North Korea

Scarinae

According to the BBC news website, Justin Bieber may have to make a tour of North Korea:

Justin Bieber's Twitter page has become the target of an internet joke.

A public vote on the Canadian singer's My World Tour page asked users which country he should tour next, with no restrictions on the nations that could be voted on.

This spurred users of imageboard website 4Chan to nominate North Korea, with the vote now turning viral.

There are now almost half a million votes to send Bieber to the secretive communist nation.

The contest, which ends at 1800 on 7 July, saw North Korea move from 24th to 1st place in less than two days, several thousand votes ahead of Israel.

Given the fact that almost all citizens of North Korea are denied internet access and there are restrictive controls over all media, it is unlikely that any of the votes have actually come from within the country.

A spokesman for the North Korean Embassy in London told BBC News that any application for 16-year-old Bieber to tour would be dealt with by its mission to the United Nations, although the matter would be referred to Pyongyang.

Hate campaign
Justin Bieber has been target of a number of internet pranks in recent weeks.

Last month, a post on 4Chan urged users to all search for the term "Justin Bieber Syphilis" pushing it to the top of Google Trend's Hot Searches list.

And over the weekend, Justin Bieber videos on YouTube were the target for internet hackers, redirecting users to adult websites or triggering pop-up messages saying that the Canadian singer had died in a car crash.

Google temporarily suspended commenting on videos and issued a statement saying: "We took swift action to fix a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability." The vulnerability hole was patched a few hours later.

His Last FM page was also hit, with photos of the singer replaced by pornographic images.

There have also been false rumours circulating that Bieber had died, that he had joined a cult, and that his mother was offered $50,000 to pose topless in Playboy magazine.

"Let's take some time to answer some crazy (rumours)... I'm not dead," Bieber wrote in just one of his Twitter postings.

And last week he posted that "My mum is a moral woman... let's just leave that one for what it is... because that rumour just grossed and weirded me out."

I do feel a bit sorry for him, but at the same time I think it's hilarious

Celly Smunt

hope he takes two Irish twins to support him

bonerm

.... and now I'm another person who knows who Justin Bieber is. Looks like the jokes on him! :rolleyes:

madheaded

haha this might teach him a lesson dont annoy people who have internet access with crap music

greenmachine88

this is hilarious I hate how google and the media try to protect this creep.

Caco

"It is not known if Kim Jong-il is a fan of Justin Bieber's music" :pac:

RolandIRL

pics of his mom or GTFO

Scuid Mhór

Hopefully Bieber will realise that the internet is a force to be reckoned with. I don't have any sympathy for him; he set himself up for this.

tommyhaas

Its those poor North Koreans I feel sorry for, just when you thought that, what with living under a Stalinist dictatorship and that, things couldnt get any worse

Yakult

The picture on the Last FM page was loltastic!

Enjoy North Korea little dude

gleep

bonerm wrote: »

.... and now I'm another person who knows who Justin Bieber is. Looks like the jokes on him! :rolleyes:

lol!

admiralofthefleet

north korea is best korea

Celly Smunt

chin_grin

This is why the internet was invented! For elaborate pranks on "celebs". I, of course, voted for North Korea too. Heheheeee!

From here - http://www.forkparty.com/4chan-sends-justin-bieber-to-north-korea/ (has a link to the poorly thrown together voting page).

vibe666

chin_grin wrote: »

I, of course, voted for North Korea too.

me too, couldn't resist!

Wazdakka

Anonymous justice strikes again.

ejmaztec

He's probably heard that North Korea's got a captive audience, and wants to go there anyway.

IvySlayer

TBH I think most of 4chan are just jealous of someone rich and famous.

They are pathetic.

chin_grin

IvySlayer wrote: »

TBH I think most of 4chan are just jealous of someone rich and famous.

They are pathetic.

Nah, I think they can do it just because they can.

Look at that MTV Music Awards for Best Song....when they trolled the open voting system to get Rick Astley to win. Bless. I think....they....(don't make me type this!).....just did it for teh lulz.....(oh, see what you made me do?).

IvySlayer

chin_grin wrote: »

Nah, I think they can do it just because they can.

Look at that MTV Music Awards for Best Song....when they trolled the open voting system to get Rick Astley to win. Bless. I think....they....(don't make me type this!).....just did it for teh lulz.....(oh, see what you made me do?).

Oh how they must of enjoyed that night laughing behind their computer screens. Oh those rascals!

Indubitable

Israeli's keep voting for Israel. They can't do anything right.:pac::pac:

chin_grin

IvySlayer wrote: »

Oh how they must of enjoyed that night laughing behind their computer screens. Oh those rascals!

Mmmyep, now you're getting it.

But still, it does worry me how a (very off putting and weird forum site) can have so much influence on the net. It's just a group of people........Some Most with sick senses of humour where all the memes start.....Or so I'm led to believe.

My name is URL

IvySlayer wrote: »

TBH I think most of 4chan are just jealous of someone rich and famous.

They are pathetic.

They molest polls for great justice =p

4Chans's creator was named as the 'Most Influential Person in the World' last year by Time magazine because of the amount of people that voted for him on an online poll

danh789

IvySlayer wrote: »

TBH I think most of 4chan boards.ie are just jealous of someone rich and famous.

They are pathetic.

FYP

entropi

I seen this on 4chan last week, just HAD to put in my vote for North Korea...so glad to see that it counted:D:D

sky88

i always thought good old kim jong il was a pop music fan he is definatly behind this campaign

billy the squid

kingofthe3rdyrs wrote: »

Israeli's keep voting for Israel. They can't do anything right.:pac::pac:

next task is to get palestine, which is listed as a separate country on the site, ahead of israel.

theres a lot of hate out there, couple of tiny pacific islands are ranking higher in the poll than places like the US

Flojo

Haha fecking brilliant!! Delighted for the lil gobsh!te :pac:----

Also.... How many Justin Biebers could you take on in a fight?

billy the squid

3,000 people want him to go to the vatican.

http://tweeter.faxo.com/Justin_Bieber_My_World_Tour?page=3

chin_grin

My name is URL wrote: »

They molest polls for great justice =p

4Chans's creator was named as the 'Most Influential Person in the World' last year by Time magazine because of the amount of people that voted for him on an online poll

http://tv.gawker.com/5524887/how-4chan-hacked-the-time-100

:pac:

DazMarz

Here's hoping he gets conscripted into the Korean People's Army and is killed in action shortly afterwards, thanks to a SCUD missile being launched up his stupid arse... Hate that little scumbag...:mad:

General Zod

My name is URL wrote: »

They molest polls for great justice =p

4Chans's creator was named as the 'Most Influential Person in the World' last year by Time magazine because of the amount of people that voted for him on an online poll

The actual manuipulation of that poll was one of the smartest pranks done via the internet as a medium. Not only did they get Moot to number 1, they also manipulated via scripting the voting for the top 10 so that the first letters of the names spelt out "Marblecake", which is an irc planning room for alot of these pranks.

giggsy664

General Zod wrote: »

The actual manuipulation of that poll was one of the smartest pranks done via the internet as a medium. Not only did they get Moot to number 1, they also manipulated via scripting the voting for the top 10 so that the first letters of the names spelt out "Marblecake", which is an irc planning room for alot of these pranks.

Afaik the next 10 letters spelt another meme.

chin_grin

Yes. And if you both watched my link (above) you would've found that out......G'wan.

General Zod

giggsy664 wrote: »

Afaik the next 10 letters spelt another meme.

also, the game.

Flojo

General Zod wrote: »

also, the game.

Grrrrr :mad:

My name is URL

They still invited him along to the Gala and named him as one of the most influential people even after they found out the poll was being screwed with... and he brought his mam!

General Zod

chin_grin wrote: »

Yes. And if you both watched my link (above) you would've found that out......G'wan.

sorry, i haven't clicked on a link since 'Nam.

kylith

Didn't something similar happen with the Spice Girls' comeback when everyone voted for them to play Bagdad or somewhere?

IIRC they just announced that the winning vote was for Canada, so we may not be shut of Bieber just yet.

General Zod

Bieber wouldn't be under any threat if he went to North Korea.

Flojo

General Zod wrote: »

Bieber wouldn't be under any threat if he went to North Korea.

Don't be such a buzzkill

Bob the Seducer

They really should have tried to send him to Zimbabwe, I'm sure Uncle Robbie would be well impressed!

I love 4chan cause they troll real life pretty good sometimes. I put in a few votes myself there a while back for pedobear to be the new face of a columbian milk bottle company.
Think it was Columbian anyway..

Elliemental

Who is Justin Bieber?

Flojo

Elliemental wrote: »

Who is Justin Bieber?

You don't want to know...honestly. :pac:

Elliemental

Flojo wrote: »

You don't want to know...honestly. :pac:

Hehe!! He's really got some people's backs up, so I will proceed to Google, with caution.:)

Pace2008

IvySlayer wrote: »

TBH I think most of 4chan are just jealous of someone rich and famous.

They are pathetic.

Don't worry, I'm sure he'll still be able to fit Ireland into his schedule somewhere.

pablomakaveli

I think Antartica would have been funnier tbh. It's got 19000 votes though.

vampire of kilmainham

My name is URL wrote: »

They molest polls for great justice =p

4Chans's creator was named as the 'Most Influential Person in the World' last year by Time magazine because of the amount of people that voted for him on an online poll

People are easyley influnced because they cant think for themselves.:eek::eek::eek:

Degag

"Let's take some time to answer some crazy (rumours)... I'm not dead," Bieber wrote in just one of his Twitter postings.

At 16 he should really know how to use brackets.

GLaDOS

Degag wrote: »

At 16 he should really know how to use brackets.

The chap doesn't know what German is, I wouldn't hold much hope

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkKqihEUmH4