“Did you ever notice that when you hate or just call shit out you get far more response than when you just talk about news or talk about positive shit? I love that…” –Brink

Here’s what happened… Some IRC nerd pasted the emo beatdown picture, which was hosted on Imageshack. I thought it was hilarious and wanted to it link to whoever came up with it. I searched and searched, but all I found were a buncha forums posts, non of them linking to the origins of the image. I then decided to put it on THC.

Please note that THC is just a little blog by and for friends. There’s absolutely no purpose to our site. We review tooth brushes for fucks sake, how lame can you get?

When I posted the image, I was making fun of two of our buddies: Dennys and Brink. Both support the emo hairdo, but not the emo culture. And even if they were emo, I wouldn’t have cared anyway, both guys rule. As you can tell by the first comments, they were totally going along with the joke.

But then it all hell broke loose…

Somehow a lost Myspace kid found our site, saw the image and linked to it. Within minutes our site got hammered and more and more sites started to pick it up and linking to us. They kept coming and coming, leaving pro and anti comments. Our page views went thru the roof.

Eventually the creator of the image, Haters Online, also showed up and pointed out that he started the National Emo Kid Beatdown Day. I could finally give a hat-tip to him and I updated the post accordingly. His site rules btw, he even has a Haterpedia. Brilliant!

But that didn’t stop the kids from leaving comments. Lisa left the best comment, I was ready to be featured on CNN that night! Also hilarious is this g33k who really thought we started it all and now ph34rz we are gonna DoS attack his site. One poor emo kid even created the Anti Emo Beatdown day.

Anywayz, it’s all over now, and things are almost back to normal. We’re talking about useless TV shows again, and we even had our first guest blogger: Nic from Pushingwood, posting about Ping Pong. More guest bloggers to come…

Update: I left a comment on Andrew Barr’s blog post (the g33k sans humor) with a link to this post in the hopes it would explain the situaish to him. He immediately moderated my comment and emailed me: “Learn to spell. Then people might take you halfway seriously.” Yeah buddy, go listen to Sting and watch the Lion King for the 666th time.

Incase

• Average travel time to work in minutes: 15
  I went from driving 2.5 hours/day to 30minutes/day. I’m gaining 10 hours/week of free time! I get home at nite and actually have time to think about what I would make for dinner if I could cook. Next week I’m ordering “The Absolute Beginner’s Cookbook“
• Days I wore my AM90s: 5
  Yes, I wore them to SoleTech as well, but this time I didn’t have Brink stressin out that we’re all gonna fired if we didn’t wear 00tneez.
• Computers installed: 2
  Everybody at Incase is running Mac OS X. However, I got me two sweet Dells! I installed Windoze on one and Ubuntu + LAMP on the other. Combined they are half the price of the laptop that Metzger got.
• Times I played ping pong: 2
  They take their ping pong a little too serious over at Incase (some dude got $200 paddles), and I kinda suck at it, so I’m gonna try to get them to buy a foosball table.
• Saunas in the office: 1
  I kid you not, there’s a freaking sauna in the bathroom!
• Money spent on lunch: 0
  Remember this ordeal? No more! Everyday we get free lunch and eat at a big table like one big happy family.
• TPS reports filled out: 0

So with this post, I’de like to thank Metzger for gettin me out of the skate indu$try and giving me an opportunity to work for such a cool company. I’m looking forward to next week and the week after next and then next after next and next… Thanks homie!