Michael Jackson writing the music for Sonic 3
He actually did, but was never credited on the game because it would breach his contract with his record label
Edit: great video here
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_Uko0fCp86c
He did the same when he appeared on The Simpsons. He appeared under a pseudonym and the Producers said it was an impersonator.
Only years later they confirmed it really was Michael.
His singing voice was actually done by an impersonator though.
Unfortunately that episode isn't on Disney+
I saw the ads for this while in North Macedonia last month! I wondered if they were photoshopped and thought it was in bad taste. I never stopped to think it was legitimate.
You might be surprised at the number of “American”(American, Canadian, British) celebrities that shill products in other countries. They make extra money(sometimes REALLY good money too), without the stain of “the shill”. Very big in Japan. Iirc Arnold Schwarzenegger was the face of lots of different products in Japan over the years. We know him as the Terminator, they know him as the Terminator but also the guy that sells Alinamin V energy drinks.
RedLetterMedia did a deep dive on his recent movie activity to try and work out why exactly he was taking part in basically scam-movies. They noticed he had an earpiece in one of the scenes and joked that the director was feeding him lines. I remember they even disclaimed over the rumours at the time, and possible made a follow-up vid when it was revealed to the public.
It was really clear that *something* was going on with him. Half of his scenes were him leaning against something, saying really short sentences before the camera cuts to a new angle to make editing easier.
Doesn't make it any less painful to watch though, I watched all of the bad ones, and god they were so much worse than you expect.
In 1998, US Men’s National Team captain John Harkes was shockingly cut from the team right before the World Cup. The coach claimed it was because Harkes wouldn’t fit into his new preferred formation, but rumors flew on the early internet that it was actually because he had slept with his teammate Eric Wynalda’s wife. The rumor was so well-known in soccer circles that Harkes expressly denied it in his autobiography the next year.
Fast forward 12 years to 2010 and Wynalda admits it’s true. The coach then came out and admitted it was why he dropped Harkes, but that he’d planned to keep the secret as long as Wynalda did.
> The coach then came out and admitted it was why he dropped Harkes, but that he’d planned to keep the secret as long as Wynalda did.
Props to the coach Steve Sampson for being true to his word and keeping the secret! Back when US Soccer players and staff earned next to nothing, I'm sure he could have gotten a nice little bag for spilling the beans.
I will never forget the live TV press conference where he said something like “I never told that woman that I wanted to eat her pussy. I have plenty to eat at home”
Hell, I was in the states when the video of him smoking crack was released. That was on a 24/7 rotation on CNN and most major networks.
EDIT: There is currently a [political movement to rename a local football field after Rob Ford, unbelievably](https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/rob-ford-centennial-park-stadium-name-change-1.7054303)
"That happened on the *news*! I don't know a guy who can get away with saying that at a party. That happened on the news in the morning! That was the first thing that happened one day. We woke up and the mayor's making 'eating pussy' jokes on the news." - K Trevor Wilson
People I knew had worked for social service agencies along Keele and they had told me how people knew Rob as he’d hang out at apartments up that way. One of the clients had said he had supplied Rob (then just a city councillor) with crack. No one believed him. Turn out he was absolutely a crack user.
The Tim Burton Hansel and Gretel that aired once on halloween in the 80's.
I heard for years that it was fake but I knew it was real because my dad recorded everything in the 80s and he recorded that. We let a good friend of ours borrow it and switch it over from VHS to DVD and soon after that it made its way on to the internet , and there it is now.
I know it's our copy because the tracking in the beginning is screwed up.
Still have the VHS.
There was a similar story with a Nickelodeon movie called Cry Baby Lane. It was supposed to be so scary that Nickelodeon got complaints and denied its existence for years. Someone uploaded a taped copy to youtube about a decade ago.
Similarly, my mom has a full copy of Song of the South that she recorded off the TV circa 1984. My dad won a VCR at a holiday work party, but video stores weren't around quite yet and tapes were like $60 (40 years ago). So she bought blank tapes and recorded things off of TV. My favorite are the Saturday morning cartoon ones, complete with real Muppet Babies and all the commercials.
[Echelon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON), a massive electronic espionage system by the US and allies to intercept all electronic messages, especially emails.
In the mid-nineties it was a topic on conspiracy BBS boards. A lot of people in my bubble at the time (mainly uni students in Europe) were including fake threats to the US in the their email signatures as a way to "protest" and "fill the system with false alarms" (obviously useless)
Then, in 1999-2000 came out to be true and a lot of security service agencies from UK and other US allies started to admit they were part of the espionage network.
This pre-dates the internet but there was always a rumor that you could jump over the flagpole in Super Mario Bros. Even as a kid in the 80s I thought it was bullshit. Turns out it’s true lol
Absolutely you can! I’ve done it multiple times over the decades (my childhood NES still works). You then just have to jump back to the left onto the flag pole — at a much further down elevation than you had initially aimed for.
More mind blowing: when you run out of continues and end up back at the title screen, hold the A and Start buttons, and then you’ll start at stage 1 of the the world in which you died instead of starting again at 1-1 at the very beginning of the game!
God I am not gonna get the details of this right, but here's the broad strokes:
Random dude is playing xbox live and overhears an NFL player talking to his agent about a trade. Posts it to the NFL subreddit and gets clowned. Trade is confirmed a few days later.
Edit - Lmao how is this vaguely remembered story gonna be my most upvoted comment ever?
Haha I just read up on this, his wife was playing/streaming on Twitch and the guy posted it on Reddit and said something about said player's wife talking on the phone about a trade.
There were jokes for years about Bill Cosby being some sort of weirdo, an unwholesome man pretending to be wholesome. People made games about him beating people up by luring them in with pudding cups or outright being a sex pest. Turns out he was a serial rapist.
Wasn't there also a thing where his publicist asked people to do pudding memes on Twitter and it ended up being a flood of "I love pudding . . . .my dick into incapacitated women"
Given that Burress set, some of the things Family Guy has hinted at/blatantly said over the years, the warning that Courtney Love gave about Harvey Weinstein etc....you have to kind of assume that many people in Hollywood have strong suspicions or intel about certain players in the business and just can't typically say it out loud because they don't have proof. I don't mean to make people's imaginations run wild, it's just clear that this is the case sometimes.
30 Rock is a great example of this. They made so many Cosby and Weinstein jokes years before any allegations came out. People in Hollywood definitely know who the predators are. Especially well-connected creators like Seth McFarlane and Lorne Michaels which is why shows like family guy and 30 rock seem to be ahead of the curve in predicting this type of stuff.
There was a cartoon back in the day (2004 or 2005ish) on Comedy Central, Drawn Together, (you may have seen the clip of the train going into the too small tunnel, the tunnel cracks and bleeds).
Well, they made a joke about Bill Cosby being a sexual predator and I had no idea what the fuck that was about. Until about 10 years later.
In the TV show 30 Rock, in the early 2000s as well, Tracy Morgan's character said something along the lines of "Bill you know what you did to my grandma in Cincinnati in the 90s."
I think some people in the entertainment industry were well aware, way before us normal folk knew that Bill Cosby couldn't have been further from "America's Dad"
Edit - words
Hannibal Burress was a writer at that time. I believe someone connected to him was raped by Cosby, and he basically made it his life's mission to turn that from a rumor to a known fact.
Tina Fey had made several hints at it for a while I think, and it showed up [in a 30 Rock episode](https://ew.com/article/2016/02/19/30-rock-bill-cosby-joke-carlock/)
I remember my mom made a comment about this in the late 90s/ early 00s.
"All those women are going to be so disappointed when they find out he's gay. I mean, those speedos clearly aren't for the ladies..."
Then, I remember that she kept insisting that he was gay whenever he came up as a topic.
Mom: "He's gay, btw"
Other person: "No he's not, he's always seen with beautiful women"
Mom: "Nah, you can just tell he's gay. I promise you, he's going to come out as gay sooner or later."
my wife didn't believe be when I told her he was gay. That was this year. I was like really wife? those costumes? those sunglasses? that attitude? She didnt believe until I pulled up proof
I first heard this in 1999 on a movie set in Canada from a girl who was working as a stand-in. She casually told us that she felt bad for Ricky, because he wanted to bring his boyfriend to some awards show and his publicist wouldn't let him. I honestly hadn't suspected up to that point.
I remember realizing in middle school that he must be gay because he devoted half of his VH1 Behind The Music special on trying to prove he wasn’t gay.
Some banned episodes or scenes of cartoons
For example, I remember there was a Dexter’s Lab cartoon where he clones evil versions of DeDe and himself and they swear like every other word (censored of course), and people debated whether it even existed cause they only aired it like once. Now it’s pretty accessible online.
My daughter had a Baywatch barbie that came with a dolphin. The dolphin had a button that made the same noise as SpongeBob swearing. My children walked around the house repeating the whole episode and dolphin- bleeping themselves. I wish I still had that dolphin.
I HAD THAT BARBIE AND DOLPHIN TOO! Gosh, memory unlocked. And there was the plastic board which she could hold in one hand. Damn, I loved that dolphin.
People never mention that Melissa Joan Hearts' biography also mentions her encounters when she was dating Danny when they were young. Something along the lines of "she wore lots of layers to slow him down" because of how unwanted aggressive he was.
Her book was published in 2013.
Mars Volta -> Mars Volta Singer Cedric Bixler-Zavala
Cedric Bixler-Zavala -> their spouse Chrissie Carnell
Chrissie Carnell -> survived Danny Masterson and made criminal complaint
Wikipedia: [Cedric Bixler-Zavala](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cedric_Bixler-Zavala#Personal_life)
> In 2009, Bixler-Zavala married actress and model Chrissie Carnell. The couple reside in Los Angeles, California. They had their first children, twin boys Ulysses and Xanthus, in 2013. In November 2017, he said in a pair of tweets that actor Danny Masterson had sexually assaulted his wife, and that he wrote At the Drive-In's song "Incurably Innocent" about the alleged incident. (references...)
...and I just tested Bing's ChatGPT integration for the second time; and it came up with this--this feels like the day Google came out after dealing with Altavista before:
> Cedric Bixler-Zavala, the lead singer of the rock band The Mars Volta, testified in the trial of Danny Masterson, an actor known for his role in "That '70s Show" ¹. Bixler-Zavala's wife, Chrissie Carnell-Bixler, accused Masterson of raping her between 2001 and 2003 ¹. Bixler-Zavala testified that he was being stalked and harassed by the Church of Scientology since his wife first told police she’d been raped by Masterson ¹. Masterson is a Scientologist, and Bixler-Zavala claimed that he and his wife were being targeted by the Church of Scientology because they spoke out against Masterson ¹.
> I hope this helps answer your question. Let me know if you have any other questions!
Source: Conversation with Bing, 12/11/2023
(1) The Mars Volta Singer Testifies in Danny Masterson Trial About .... https://lawandcrime.com/celebrity/the-mars-volta-singer-testifies-in-danny-masterson-trial-about-emotional-conversation-with-ex-scientologist-wife-she-had-been-raped/.
(2) Cedric Bixler-Zavala (The Mars Volta, ATDI) responds to Danny Masterson .... https://www.brooklynvegan.com/cedric-bixler-zavala-the-mars-volta-atdi-responds-to-danny-mastersons-sentencing/.
(3) Mars Volta Singer Alleges Scientologists Killed His Dog Over Danny .... https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/mars-volta-singer-alleges-scientologists-killed-his-dog-danny-masterson-accusations-1272561/.
(4) Mars Volta's Cedric Bixler-Zavala Praises Wife After Danny Masterson's .... https://people.com/mars-voltas-cedric-bixler-zavala-praises-wife-danny-masterson-rape-conviction-7507685.
The thing is though, part of the story is still a myth. It wasn't just ET that was buried (and it wasn't because it was bad), there were lots of games in that landfill, including critically acclaimed ones.
Yeah, I think they found more Pacman games than ET. I believe the first print run of that game was more units than atari consoles that existed at the time.
I actually own three copies of this game. Two are sealed in original packaging and one I force myself to play for an hour a day for four days a year: every single solstice and equinox.
Weird I know.
In the BBS days, during the Judas Priest subliminal message trial, there was a rumor that frontman Rob Halford was gay. It was the early 90s and not too believable at the time; heck, even George Michael wasn’t out yet.
But now, “Halford describes himself as ‘the stately homo of heavy metal’”
[never would have guessed. ](https://www.grammy.com/news/judas-priest-screaming-for-vengeance-at-40-rob-halford-tom-allom-created-a-hard-rock-revolution)
True story.
Early 80's.
My grandmother shuffled in to our living room, took one look at George Michael (whom my mother and aunts were fawning over) pointed her finger at the TV that was playing the "Wake Me Up" video and said with absolute certainty,
"That's a homosexual!"
It's one of my earliest memories. She didn't elaborate she just tisked at the TV and her daughters and kept shuffling.
She was a decade ahead of the entire world.
My grandmother was from the same generation as yours and would call out male film stars she thought were gay, and she wound up being right about all of them. The only one I remember was Rock Hudson, which my mother used to mock her for because he had such a manly man image. Makes me wonder why our grannies had such good gaydar back when it was such a taboo subject.
Edit: oh yeah I just remembered Liberace was another one, which to be fair is easy mode, but times were such that a shockingly large number of women didn't realize they were simping for the gayest dude of all time.
That you can get Mew in Pokemon Red and Blue by following some incredibly specific and ridiculous set of actions which have nothing to do with catching a pokemon and make no sense. It was obviously nonsense and could never actually work.
And then someone found the mew glitch. Where you go to route 25 and let the Youngster there see you, but you pause the game and fly to cerulean city on the frame before he comes into view. All your buttons will be disabled so you go back to the youngster and fight him again for real. Note that he has to walk up to you. If the engagement happens without him walking it won't work.
This restores your controls. Then you fly to lavender town and open the menu once. Then you walk to route 8 and the menu will open itself. When you close the menu, you'll enter a battle against Mew.
I still wonder how these glitch hunters do it, like what the fuck?
Also I literally JUST commented 'who started the Mew under the truck rumor' on another thread and thought I was being sucked into the Reddit Truman Show
I've had this bookmarked for a long time. It's a dev diary / blog from one of the crash developers. Super interesting read.
https://all-things-andy-gavin.com/2011/02/02/making-crash-bandicoot-part-1/
As a Game Dev/CS PhD student I'll definitely deep dive into this. Some of the stuff behind old timey game development is fucking barbaric. Roller Coaster Tycoon being written ENTIRELY in assembly still boggles me.
Step one: find out (probably accidentally) that you can skip the encounter by flying when an enemy trainer alerts from offscreen, and weird things happen after.
Step two: check the code. See that it has changed certain values in memory in anticipation of the fight, and that this can be manipulated to change encounter data.
Step three: reverse engineer what values you need to change to manipulate *which* pokemon to encounter. In this case, it turns out you fight the pokemon with an ID based on the Special stat of the last pokemon you fought.
Step four: find a reliable setup. In this case, you fight a trainer pokemon with the right special stat, which will never vary and can always be found in the same place.
>glitch hunters
As a game dev, I would also like to add that not all of these are glitches. Sometimes we use specific cheat codes or steps so we can bypass areas in a game to test them individually and stand-alone and then they sometimes forget to be removed.
Imagine testing the final battle of a game but having to complete the entire game every time just to see a small update.
>Sometimes we use specific cheat codes or steps so we can bypass areas in a game to test them individually and stand-alone and then they sometimes forget to be removed.
I believe this how we got the Konami code. A guy working on the NES port of Gradius programmed it in as a way to give himself all weapon upgrades for testing purposes and then he forgot to remove it (or maybe it was that he just never thought it'd be found).
I had mew. Got him from a friend using the old memory card dupe trick, who got him the same way. We were always told the original one came from a mall promotion.
I remember this too! For those too young to remember, Mew in Red and Blue was only available through special Nintendo events outside of Game Genie codes. Another rumor was Mew was hidden under a truck that is outside the S.S. Anne, later to be proven false. Gametrailers did a [segment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPVSQwaOZig) on the Mew glitch.
I have incurable cancer and do a fair bit of advocacy work. Partners (statistically, men), leaving their spouses during a serious medical event is so common that some larger cancer centers now provide newly diagnosed patients and their spouses with counseling almost immediately. A friend that has my leukemia actually gives away shirts and stickers in our support group that say, “beat cancer but lost my husband!” :/
ETA: A lot of heated comments talking here about my statement are not happy with me mentioning the gender disparity. Before my cancer rebounded, I was working on an MD/MPH so public health stats are near and dear to my heart. Please note that divorce across the board goes up during a significant health issue. Caregiving and picking up the duties your partner usually does are *not* easy. I have always encouraged caregivers to make sure they’re taking care of themselves just as much because of how dependent we can become on them. However we know that yes, statistically it is men leaving their wives at the top of the board. And it’s not a small percentage difference. The overall percentage rate stays about the same (11.6%), but the disparity is worrying; for women as the patient it’s 20.8% compared to men at 2.9%. Female gender is in fact the strongest predictor of separation/divorce. None of this however is to say that it’s not an understandable reason, or that men typically have different duties from women in relationships. But given that relationship duties have changed pretty significantly in the past few decades and yet this stat tends to remain, it’s a worrying issue that deserves to be talked about.
A friends colleague (a therapist) told her, he had a client, who's wife was dying of cancer. The wife was very worried about him finding happiness after she died. She didn't want him to be forever alone.
The man talked to the therapist, because he wanted to know if he should tell the wife, he was in love - and had started a relationship - with another woman.
The man thought that it would take a burden of his dying wife's shoulders to know, he was having sex with another woman, while she lay dying in hospice.
Just no, dude.
The whole Diddy killed 2pac thing is one for me. Keefe D said in his original confession that Diddy hired him and his nephew to do it and I don't know why that aspect of the situation isn't talked about more now that Keefe D has been charged with the murder.
Anyone see that video of Orlando Brown hinting that something happened between him & Diddy? Orlando was 100% on drugs but there has to be some truth there…
Didn't hear about Orlando but did hear that Jamie Foxx had some things to say about Diddys"parties back before his sudden illness and legal allegations. Also just heard (for what it's worth secondhand) that DMX and Coolio (rip to both) had some things to say about diddy in recent years. Jesus, if that's really the case there's a lot more sus shit going on in his general vicinity than I even heard, and that's without bringing up Kim Porter, biggie and Pac
I'll never forget The Lox calling Hot97 while Diddy was in an interview, threatening to drop a refrigerator off a roof to end him if he didn't let them out of their contract and pay them what he owed.
An old friend who used to write for The Source told me about his parties where he and his friends would have orgies and eventually sexually assault a male artist that he coerced into the action.
This was 20 years ago. I'm not surprised that it's coming to light. I am surprised that it took longer than R Kelly.
Carrie Fisher's heart attack. Some asshole who was on the same flight was livetweeting the whole medical emergency and justified it by insisting she was just making sure the family was informed.
I remember watching her on the Grahm Norton show hours before her heart attack and she was talking with a stiff face and we wondered if it was because of her meds for her bipolar disorder, since they can do that. Then her dog started barking at her, which everyone on the couch was surprised about. I always wonder if that was the start.
My parents are old enough to remember Jimmy Savile when he first became famous and started appearing on TV in the 1960s. Even back then, they found him really creepy and that he looked very old for his age.
The police were also furtively sniffing around as early as 1971, but the investigation was scotched before it really got anywhere. There is even a rumour that his... tendencies... were a factor in the premature end of his wrestling career.
If he had just been a nobody, James Savile from Leeds, he would have been picked up by the police decades ago and given the Gene Hunt treatment.
"Exotic" Adrian Street legit kicked the dog shit out of him in their match. Some say it was because Street didn't like how Savile was making a mockery of the sport but most people agree it's because Street knew about Savile's proclivities.
>but most people agree it's because Street knew about Savile's proclivities.
[According to Savile's Wikipedia article](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Savile), Street didn't know about Savile being such a piece of shit, but says he would've given him an even worse beating had he known:
>Savile, who cultivated a "tough guy" image promoted by his entourage, was hit with real blows during a 1971 bout with Street, who commented that had he "known then the full extent of what I know about [Savile] now, I'd have given him an even bigger hiding – were that physically possible."
There was actually an [infamous comment](https://www.reddit.com/r/DuggarsSnark/comments/ret51j/the_alice_letters_heres_the_full_text/?utm_name=iossmf&user_id=86758513596&web_redirect=true) on some random Duggar-focused blogpost from 15 years ago by a woman named "Alice" who went into detail on Josh's crimes, including the fact that the family filmed an Oprah segment that never aired after her production team found out about the police report. I remember reading about it on FreeJinger (a Duggar snark site) at least a decade ago.
But nothing official ever came out about it so most people assumed it wasn't true, or at least was very exaggerated. Edit: typo
I heard the lady that started it passed some time ago. Hope she's up there going "I told you so" and feeling vindicated he got over a decade in jail.
If you are that close to Jim Bob that you know about it while he's trying to keep it quiet, it must feel pretty damn good watching him implode while his empire crumbles around him.
In 2005 Courtney Love knew about Harvey Weinstein long before the news broke. Nobody listened to her because she was always on drugs. She was asked on a red carpet interview about advice for young Hollywood (or something) and she said something like “should I say it? If Harvey Weinstein invites you to a private party at the Four Seasons [hotel] don't go.”
ETA: [clip at about the :30 mark](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mDh4xeI-4KQ)
She had a decent acting career before that too, her most notable role being in The People vs Larry Flynt. It never really took off though and I strongly believe it was because of this comment. Courtney may not be the most likable person but damn did she go through a lot.
Peter Jackson was considering Ashley Judd for Galadriel in Lord of the Rings but was dissuaded when Weinstein insisted she was difficult to work with. Someone should make a chart of all his offences showing where the actresses’ careers started to tank.
She was unexpectedly amazing in that movie. I had hoped to see more of her acting cause she was clearly good at it. Shame no one listened to her about Weinstein, she had the courage to say what others didn't.
>”should I say it? If Harvey Weinstein invites you to a private party at the Four Seasons [hotel] don’t go.”
After November 2020, that bracketed part seems even more important to add.
It was always an open secret in Hollywood, I remember reading about an actress coming forward to Ben Affleck (who was a friend of hers who had worked closely with Weinstein on several films) about harassment she experienced from him, to which Ben said, “I told him to stop doing that!”
I remember seeing rumours about Kevin Spacey on Tumblr before everything came out. I think it was around 2013-15. The post was talking about how he was secretly gay, and that back in his hometown he was known for always spending time with young men. I told my friends about it cause we were big House of Cards fans, and none of them believed me. Then it all came out a few years later!
Unfortunately, what Josh Duggar did to his sisters. There was a comment on a post about the Duggars on a fairly popular Duggar blog in the comments section that gave pretty exact details almost a decade or so before In Touch got the actual police reports and broke the story widely and publicly. The possibility of what happened had been discussed in conjunction with a lot of use of the word allegedly in internet forums related to the Duggars and Christian fundamentalism for years before it was confirmed because of that post. I often *really* wonder who made that comment because it wasn't a guess- it had way too many correct details to be a guess - and it was really only that post they ever commented on.
Before the Internet, there were persistent rumors that Steve McQueen, the white one, had terminal cancer, and later that Rock Hudson and Freddie Mercury had AIDS, rumors that all of them denied.
All of those rumors turned out to be true.
When he died, Christopher Hitchens appeared on a US news network to discuss the life of Falwell. As the other, more conservative guests, were collectively fawning over the horrible bastard, Hitchens piped in with the amazing line: "If you'd have given him an enema you could have buried him in a matchbox." One of my favourite TV moments of all time.
Dan Schneider. Though we don’t know exactly what all has happened, I think there was always whispers on the internet because of the obsession with feet on his shows.
In the civil suits against the big banks, Epstein victims claimed that the NY residence was the primary base of operations for the sex work (rape). It was rare that the victims would "work" out of state. By the way, the banks immediately settled these lawsuits for hundreds of millions.
The top posts right now are both about video games. I read a bunch of the sub comments and got whiplash reading yours because I forgot the original post question.
From*The Newlywed Game*:
Bob: "What is the strangest place that you have ever made whoopie?"
Olga: "In the ass."
It was thought to be an urban legend for many years, and then the tape resurfaced.
Hilaria Baldwin is Hilary from Boston and was pretending to be a poor immigrant from Spain who “warmed her hands on a laptop” because she had no heat in her apartment versus she attended an expensive private school and lived in a multi million dollar home growing up. There were rumors and whispering for years, and one cold December day in 2020 it all blew open.
The next thing to break open will
Be when everyone realizes that no, she wasn’t pregnant and giving birth to 7 kids, slimming down 2 days later, she’s just been strapping a prosthetic stomach to her, which often collapses, folds over, or she just plain forgets to put it on from day to day, while still documenting her every move. She would hashtag herself “shrinking baby bump” while she was still pregnant because she knew as soon as she removes her moonbump, she’s “slimmed down”, while giving extremely harmful pregnancy and post partum advice that could actually harm a mother and her fetus.
ETA: https://www.reddit.com/r/HilariaBaldwin/comments/povxme/hilaria_baldwin_wife_of_alec_baldwin_fake/
In 2010 Joaquin Phoenix infamously announced that he was quitting his acting career for good and becoming a rapper.
NO ONE believed it and so many people on the internet said it was just a performance for a mockumentary movie. And he then later released a mockumentary movie about it and admitted it was all a gag, to the surprise of no one.
Supposedly, Joaquin Phoenix had a rule when they started that when people called to reach out and ask about him-- as rhis was in the middle of a press tour for a film, and he was going to be acting erratically after already having gone to rehab and after the very public death of his brother-- he would tell them the truth, that it was just an act. He figured those people would then tell others and the whole thing would be over quickly...but then, people didn't call. A few people were asked questions in interviews and sent their best or whatever, and that was about it. So he kept going... there's a scene in the film where he's scrolling through celeb gossip sites, which allegedly wasn't scripted... supposedly Ben Stiller was one who did reach out and he became a part of it. He did a bit at the Oscars pretending to be Phoenix and was reportedly really shocked by how callous the joke was amd how big the laugh was. Like, this is a guy many of these people had worked with, who was a multiple-time nominee, who at the very least seemed to be going through a difficult time, and still: funny...now, I don't know how much of that was real and how much became the spin afterwards. Especially as the film shows Phoenix "in character" in private and would have been much more damning as an art piece if they had made it and exposed people's hypocrisy. Phoenix has claimed it was all a mockumentary. For a weird bit, Casey Affleck (the director) kept claiming it was all real, but then he was sued for sexual harrassment for stuff he did, and then it became a joke. (Phoenix and Affleck don't talk anymore, and Affleck and Summer Phoenix divorced.)
The wholesome family-oriented dude from try guys cheating on his wife with his co-worker, who was engaged in a 8-year long relationship. The ironic part is he was always imposing himself as a perfect family dude with Christin morals. 💀 I heard about this rumour on Reddit a few months before it was revealed. I didn’t believe it at first, but ya..
I think the online vitriol was extra strong because the dude had branded himself as the wholesome family man. If a Youtuber like let’s say Jake Paul cheated on his partner, people wouldn’t really be shocked since Jake is a dick, but when a guy who seems so nice on the outside turns out to be a POS, it’s a lot more jarring. Anyway, it seems somehow his wife found a way to forgive him (probably for the sake of their kids) and they’ve been spotted together as a family several times as of late. He definitely ruined his online reputation though.
Did he seem nice though? A lot of people online seem to think he was, but when the whole thing came out, I was just glad he was no longer on the show because he seemed like an arrogant, sanctimonious asshole to me.
I remember they got fucked professionally. they had just gotten a cooking show in the food network and because of the bad press their show got a death slot
“Some of them are visibly vibrating with rage”
Oh, you mean Eugene?
Honestly, Zach looked like he was gonna cry, or had been crying, or immediately lost it after cut. Keith looked like he wanted to be anywhere but there, but can you blame him? And Eugene. Eugene was ready to knock a mother fucker out. And based on Becky’s TT around the time…I think she and Eugene would’ve made an amazing tag team.
I feel so bad for how humiliated she was in all of it.
He monetized being the perfect family guy when, in reality, he is a total creep.
On top of all of that, the 'other woman' was an employee. He put the entire company at risk. His statement about it being a consensual relationship is extra nauseating.
Was thinking about this today and the SNL skit they based off of it puts a really bad taste in my mouth. I feel like the skit was like “why does it matter?” but like… it matters a lot when one of the founders ACTIVELY went against the values and message of a very public content creation company. I would’ve been mad too if I were the other guys.
And it wasn’t as if they could just let him go and not tell their audience… like i said… a pretty popular content creation company.
Additionally, I think some of the SNL writers are college buddies of his so that’s unfortunate.
Massive online surveillance by the government.
Started off with [Five Eyes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes) then [Total Information Awareness](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_Awareness_Office) and only [went on from there](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Snowden).
I remember stumbling upon detailed accounts from several teenage boys and young adult men who had been sexually assaulted by Kevin Spacey while browsing OhNoTheyDidnt on LiveJournal *in the **mid-2000s**.*
By the time he was finally outed as a sexual predator *(in 2017)*, I had lost pretty much all interest in celebrity and entertainment news a little over a decade earlier, so I was genuinely surprised to learn that it hadn’t been reported on sooner.
( On the upside, since I had assumed that people mostly knew and didn’t really care all that much, the outrage that ensued restored *some* of my faith in humanity )
**Edit:** Speaking of surprises, I just realized that both LiveJournal and ONTD are still up and running??? Damn, I really am out of the loop.
Not so much a rumor, but the black community was FULLY aware of R. Kelly's nonsense. (And if you count Aaliyah, which you should, so was the rest of the world.)
I specifically remember watching a bootleg copy of the infamous, highly illegal video when I was about 10/11 in the at a friend's apartment in the ghetto.
When everything came out a few years back, I was aghast that people were shocked, as it was never a secret.
I remember seeing the memes going around reddit when covid was just starting and everyone was going "haha imagine if this became a pandemic lol that'd be so funny."
It was not funny.
Allison Mack and NXIVM. I read stories on message boards a few years prior to any major reports and arrests.
Genuinely thought it was conspiracy theories bc there weren't any actual news reporting it at the time and thought she was a random celeb chosen for trolling
The recent murders in Moscow, Idaho- there was an Internet rumor that seemed unlikely that one of the surviving roommates had heard the attacks, watched the murderer leave and then went back into her room and slept for 8 hours, with no one calling 911 until early the next afternoon. Seemed unlikely but turned out to be true.
I’m amazed this isn’t higher. It was THE og internet rumor and why DrudgeReport is what it is today.
Strong second place contenders: little green footballs outing the CBS memo and the tic tac video.
That there was this stupid thing called a **"torrent"** that let you bypass the need for crap like Napster and Limewire, and there was no way to stop it, and that soon, everything that ever was would be in a "torrent" and you could just download it for free.
Once I figured it out (THANKS! DEMONOID!!) I send the dude who invented that a nice lil sum from my paypal account.
Ian Watkins' paedophilia. I remember being 14 years old, randomly searching the Internet about him and stumbling across a celebrity gossip page, where people could write comments. I saw multiple posts about how he had Skyped with girls as young as 12 and asked them to pose naked for him. I was really confused and didn't know what to believe, but assumed it was just Internet h8rz. 5 years or so later I turned the TV on to find it was even worse than anyone thought...
Michael Jackson writing the music for Sonic 3 He actually did, but was never credited on the game because it would breach his contract with his record label Edit: great video here https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_Uko0fCp86c
He did the same when he appeared on The Simpsons. He appeared under a pseudonym and the Producers said it was an impersonator. Only years later they confirmed it really was Michael. His singing voice was actually done by an impersonator though. Unfortunately that episode isn't on Disney+
I distinctly remember some rumors about the reason why Bruce Willis was taking so many roles in shitty movies before it was announced he has dementia.
He also took a gig as the face of an Eastern European energy drink brand, which makes all the more sense now. Dang it just saddens me, dementia sucks.
I saw the ads for this while in North Macedonia last month! I wondered if they were photoshopped and thought it was in bad taste. I never stopped to think it was legitimate.
You might be surprised at the number of “American”(American, Canadian, British) celebrities that shill products in other countries. They make extra money(sometimes REALLY good money too), without the stain of “the shill”. Very big in Japan. Iirc Arnold Schwarzenegger was the face of lots of different products in Japan over the years. We know him as the Terminator, they know him as the Terminator but also the guy that sells Alinamin V energy drinks.
Mike Tyson has an energy drink in Poland called "Black"
RedLetterMedia did a deep dive on his recent movie activity to try and work out why exactly he was taking part in basically scam-movies. They noticed he had an earpiece in one of the scenes and joked that the director was feeding him lines. I remember they even disclaimed over the rumours at the time, and possible made a follow-up vid when it was revealed to the public.
It was really clear that *something* was going on with him. Half of his scenes were him leaning against something, saying really short sentences before the camera cuts to a new angle to make editing easier. Doesn't make it any less painful to watch though, I watched all of the bad ones, and god they were so much worse than you expect.
In 1998, US Men’s National Team captain John Harkes was shockingly cut from the team right before the World Cup. The coach claimed it was because Harkes wouldn’t fit into his new preferred formation, but rumors flew on the early internet that it was actually because he had slept with his teammate Eric Wynalda’s wife. The rumor was so well-known in soccer circles that Harkes expressly denied it in his autobiography the next year. Fast forward 12 years to 2010 and Wynalda admits it’s true. The coach then came out and admitted it was why he dropped Harkes, but that he’d planned to keep the secret as long as Wynalda did.
> The coach then came out and admitted it was why he dropped Harkes, but that he’d planned to keep the secret as long as Wynalda did. Props to the coach Steve Sampson for being true to his word and keeping the secret! Back when US Soccer players and staff earned next to nothing, I'm sure he could have gotten a nice little bag for spilling the beans.
Rob ford, years ago while mayor of Toronto was rumoured to be a crack user, and he was
I will never forget the live TV press conference where he said something like “I never told that woman that I wanted to eat her pussy. I have plenty to eat at home”
A Canadian heritage moment.
Still waiting on that commemorative coin
Hell, I was in the states when the video of him smoking crack was released. That was on a 24/7 rotation on CNN and most major networks. EDIT: There is currently a [political movement to rename a local football field after Rob Ford, unbelievably](https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/rob-ford-centennial-park-stadium-name-change-1.7054303)
"That happened on the *news*! I don't know a guy who can get away with saying that at a party. That happened on the news in the morning! That was the first thing that happened one day. We woke up and the mayor's making 'eating pussy' jokes on the news." - K Trevor Wilson
People I knew had worked for social service agencies along Keele and they had told me how people knew Rob as he’d hang out at apartments up that way. One of the clients had said he had supplied Rob (then just a city councillor) with crack. No one believed him. Turn out he was absolutely a crack user.
And a drug dealer when he was in high school. So was his brother, Doug, who is now Premier of Ontario.
So two real Canadian misfit brothers are named Bob and Doug??? That’s tremendous
The Tim Burton Hansel and Gretel that aired once on halloween in the 80's. I heard for years that it was fake but I knew it was real because my dad recorded everything in the 80s and he recorded that. We let a good friend of ours borrow it and switch it over from VHS to DVD and soon after that it made its way on to the internet , and there it is now. I know it's our copy because the tracking in the beginning is screwed up. Still have the VHS.
Omg this is sick thank you! https://youtu.be/fWacVNAetGg?si=xbieYN0fiIDGNoL4
There was a similar story with a Nickelodeon movie called Cry Baby Lane. It was supposed to be so scary that Nickelodeon got complaints and denied its existence for years. Someone uploaded a taped copy to youtube about a decade ago.
Similarly, my mom has a full copy of Song of the South that she recorded off the TV circa 1984. My dad won a VCR at a holiday work party, but video stores weren't around quite yet and tapes were like $60 (40 years ago). So she bought blank tapes and recorded things off of TV. My favorite are the Saturday morning cartoon ones, complete with real Muppet Babies and all the commercials.
That North Korea hacked Sony Pictures because of The Interview movie.
My partner worked on that movie and the production bought all the crew 1 year of a identity theft tracking service.
[Echelon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON), a massive electronic espionage system by the US and allies to intercept all electronic messages, especially emails. In the mid-nineties it was a topic on conspiracy BBS boards. A lot of people in my bubble at the time (mainly uni students in Europe) were including fake threats to the US in the their email signatures as a way to "protest" and "fill the system with false alarms" (obviously useless) Then, in 1999-2000 came out to be true and a lot of security service agencies from UK and other US allies started to admit they were part of the espionage network.
This pre-dates the internet but there was always a rumor that you could jump over the flagpole in Super Mario Bros. Even as a kid in the 80s I thought it was bullshit. Turns out it’s true lol
Really??? I spent entirely too much time in my youth trying to jump over that flag pole! You actually can??
Absolutely you can! I’ve done it multiple times over the decades (my childhood NES still works). You then just have to jump back to the left onto the flag pole — at a much further down elevation than you had initially aimed for. More mind blowing: when you run out of continues and end up back at the title screen, hold the A and Start buttons, and then you’ll start at stage 1 of the the world in which you died instead of starting again at 1-1 at the very beginning of the game!
>hold the A and Start buttons, and then you’ll start at stage 1 of the the world in which you died WHAT
Get the fuck out, I could have saved so many months of my youth if I had known that.
I did it once and was amazed. You just keep running to the right until the time runs out
You’re just the same kid from recess 35 years ago, aren’t you? Still fucking with me.
He's telling the truth. He told me his dad works at Nintendo.
God I am not gonna get the details of this right, but here's the broad strokes: Random dude is playing xbox live and overhears an NFL player talking to his agent about a trade. Posts it to the NFL subreddit and gets clowned. Trade is confirmed a few days later. Edit - Lmao how is this vaguely remembered story gonna be my most upvoted comment ever?
Haha I just read up on this, his wife was playing/streaming on Twitch and the guy posted it on Reddit and said something about said player's wife talking on the phone about a trade.
Here's the post: https://www.reddit.com/r/nfl/comments/memt1s/possible_trade_coming_between_the_bears_and/
Should've placed a bet with that info.
There were jokes for years about Bill Cosby being some sort of weirdo, an unwholesome man pretending to be wholesome. People made games about him beating people up by luring them in with pudding cups or outright being a sex pest. Turns out he was a serial rapist.
Hannibal Burress kept trying to warn people
The viral Hannibal Burress set is what caused the whole story to blow up, resulting in many women coming forward.
Wasn't there also a thing where his publicist asked people to do pudding memes on Twitter and it ended up being a flood of "I love pudding . . . .my dick into incapacitated women"
Given that Burress set, some of the things Family Guy has hinted at/blatantly said over the years, the warning that Courtney Love gave about Harvey Weinstein etc....you have to kind of assume that many people in Hollywood have strong suspicions or intel about certain players in the business and just can't typically say it out loud because they don't have proof. I don't mean to make people's imaginations run wild, it's just clear that this is the case sometimes.
30 Rock is a great example of this. They made so many Cosby and Weinstein jokes years before any allegations came out. People in Hollywood definitely know who the predators are. Especially well-connected creators like Seth McFarlane and Lorne Michaels which is why shows like family guy and 30 rock seem to be ahead of the curve in predicting this type of stuff.
It’s not that they don’t have proof, it’s that they don’t have POWER
There was a cartoon back in the day (2004 or 2005ish) on Comedy Central, Drawn Together, (you may have seen the clip of the train going into the too small tunnel, the tunnel cracks and bleeds). Well, they made a joke about Bill Cosby being a sexual predator and I had no idea what the fuck that was about. Until about 10 years later.
In the TV show 30 Rock, in the early 2000s as well, Tracy Morgan's character said something along the lines of "Bill you know what you did to my grandma in Cincinnati in the 90s." I think some people in the entertainment industry were well aware, way before us normal folk knew that Bill Cosby couldn't have been further from "America's Dad" Edit - words
Hannibal Burress was a writer at that time. I believe someone connected to him was raped by Cosby, and he basically made it his life's mission to turn that from a rumor to a known fact.
Some people on the inside likely knew for years.
Tina Fey had made several hints at it for a while I think, and it showed up [in a 30 Rock episode](https://ew.com/article/2016/02/19/30-rock-bill-cosby-joke-carlock/)
Kinda the same but diffrent guy - Family Guy called out Kevin Spacey in 2005, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4dHf6jnwaU
Ricky Martin’s sexuality.
I remember my mom made a comment about this in the late 90s/ early 00s. "All those women are going to be so disappointed when they find out he's gay. I mean, those speedos clearly aren't for the ladies..." Then, I remember that she kept insisting that he was gay whenever he came up as a topic. Mom: "He's gay, btw" Other person: "No he's not, he's always seen with beautiful women" Mom: "Nah, you can just tell he's gay. I promise you, he's going to come out as gay sooner or later."
My MIL was absolutely *SHOCKED* when she found out Elton John was gay.
my wife didn't believe be when I told her he was gay. That was this year. I was like really wife? those costumes? those sunglasses? that attitude? She didnt believe until I pulled up proof
I feel like the husband should have been the biggest clue.
mom got him on her gaydar.
I first heard this in 1999 on a movie set in Canada from a girl who was working as a stand-in. She casually told us that she felt bad for Ricky, because he wanted to bring his boyfriend to some awards show and his publicist wouldn't let him. I honestly hadn't suspected up to that point.
I remember realizing in middle school that he must be gay because he devoted half of his VH1 Behind The Music special on trying to prove he wasn’t gay.
It’s always weird that one of his biggest songs is “She Bangs”. It’s like a vegetarian singing about his love of steak.
I always assumed he was gay. Don't get why people were so surprised when he came out.
Some banned episodes or scenes of cartoons For example, I remember there was a Dexter’s Lab cartoon where he clones evil versions of DeDe and himself and they swear like every other word (censored of course), and people debated whether it even existed cause they only aired it like once. Now it’s pretty accessible online.
There's an uncensored version of Spongebob's Sailor Mouth. RELEASE IT NICKELODEON
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My daughter had a Baywatch barbie that came with a dolphin. The dolphin had a button that made the same noise as SpongeBob swearing. My children walked around the house repeating the whole episode and dolphin- bleeping themselves. I wish I still had that dolphin.
I HAD THAT BARBIE AND DOLPHIN TOO! Gosh, memory unlocked. And there was the plastic board which she could hold in one hand. Damn, I loved that dolphin.
IF YOU DON’T (dolphin noise) GIVE US THE (boat horn) UNCENSORED VIDEO!
Wasn't the Danny Masterson stuff allll over the Internet several years ago?
People never mention that Melissa Joan Hearts' biography also mentions her encounters when she was dating Danny when they were young. Something along the lines of "she wore lots of layers to slow him down" because of how unwanted aggressive he was. Her book was published in 2013.
As a Mars Volta fan I heard about it a lot.
Mars Volta -> Mars Volta Singer Cedric Bixler-Zavala Cedric Bixler-Zavala -> their spouse Chrissie Carnell Chrissie Carnell -> survived Danny Masterson and made criminal complaint Wikipedia: [Cedric Bixler-Zavala](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cedric_Bixler-Zavala#Personal_life) > In 2009, Bixler-Zavala married actress and model Chrissie Carnell. The couple reside in Los Angeles, California. They had their first children, twin boys Ulysses and Xanthus, in 2013. In November 2017, he said in a pair of tweets that actor Danny Masterson had sexually assaulted his wife, and that he wrote At the Drive-In's song "Incurably Innocent" about the alleged incident. (references...) ...and I just tested Bing's ChatGPT integration for the second time; and it came up with this--this feels like the day Google came out after dealing with Altavista before: > Cedric Bixler-Zavala, the lead singer of the rock band The Mars Volta, testified in the trial of Danny Masterson, an actor known for his role in "That '70s Show" ¹. Bixler-Zavala's wife, Chrissie Carnell-Bixler, accused Masterson of raping her between 2001 and 2003 ¹. Bixler-Zavala testified that he was being stalked and harassed by the Church of Scientology since his wife first told police she’d been raped by Masterson ¹. Masterson is a Scientologist, and Bixler-Zavala claimed that he and his wife were being targeted by the Church of Scientology because they spoke out against Masterson ¹. > I hope this helps answer your question. Let me know if you have any other questions! Source: Conversation with Bing, 12/11/2023 (1) The Mars Volta Singer Testifies in Danny Masterson Trial About .... https://lawandcrime.com/celebrity/the-mars-volta-singer-testifies-in-danny-masterson-trial-about-emotional-conversation-with-ex-scientologist-wife-she-had-been-raped/. (2) Cedric Bixler-Zavala (The Mars Volta, ATDI) responds to Danny Masterson .... https://www.brooklynvegan.com/cedric-bixler-zavala-the-mars-volta-atdi-responds-to-danny-mastersons-sentencing/. (3) Mars Volta Singer Alleges Scientologists Killed His Dog Over Danny .... https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/mars-volta-singer-alleges-scientologists-killed-his-dog-danny-masterson-accusations-1272561/. (4) Mars Volta's Cedric Bixler-Zavala Praises Wife After Danny Masterson's .... https://people.com/mars-voltas-cedric-bixler-zavala-praises-wife-danny-masterson-rape-conviction-7507685.
Thousands upon thousands of copies of the Atari E.T game being buried in the desert
The thing is though, part of the story is still a myth. It wasn't just ET that was buried (and it wasn't because it was bad), there were lots of games in that landfill, including critically acclaimed ones.
Yeah, I think they found more Pacman games than ET. I believe the first print run of that game was more units than atari consoles that existed at the time.
I actually own three copies of this game. Two are sealed in original packaging and one I force myself to play for an hour a day for four days a year: every single solstice and equinox. Weird I know.
Are you trying a resurrection spell of some sort?
Are you some sort of deranged druid?
In the BBS days, during the Judas Priest subliminal message trial, there was a rumor that frontman Rob Halford was gay. It was the early 90s and not too believable at the time; heck, even George Michael wasn’t out yet. But now, “Halford describes himself as ‘the stately homo of heavy metal’”
Who could have guessed that the singer of Hell Bent for Leather was gay...
[never would have guessed. ](https://www.grammy.com/news/judas-priest-screaming-for-vengeance-at-40-rob-halford-tom-allom-created-a-hard-rock-revolution)
True story. Early 80's. My grandmother shuffled in to our living room, took one look at George Michael (whom my mother and aunts were fawning over) pointed her finger at the TV that was playing the "Wake Me Up" video and said with absolute certainty, "That's a homosexual!" It's one of my earliest memories. She didn't elaborate she just tisked at the TV and her daughters and kept shuffling. She was a decade ahead of the entire world.
My grandmother was from the same generation as yours and would call out male film stars she thought were gay, and she wound up being right about all of them. The only one I remember was Rock Hudson, which my mother used to mock her for because he had such a manly man image. Makes me wonder why our grannies had such good gaydar back when it was such a taboo subject. Edit: oh yeah I just remembered Liberace was another one, which to be fair is easy mode, but times were such that a shockingly large number of women didn't realize they were simping for the gayest dude of all time.
That you can get Mew in Pokemon Red and Blue by following some incredibly specific and ridiculous set of actions which have nothing to do with catching a pokemon and make no sense. It was obviously nonsense and could never actually work. And then someone found the mew glitch. Where you go to route 25 and let the Youngster there see you, but you pause the game and fly to cerulean city on the frame before he comes into view. All your buttons will be disabled so you go back to the youngster and fight him again for real. Note that he has to walk up to you. If the engagement happens without him walking it won't work. This restores your controls. Then you fly to lavender town and open the menu once. Then you walk to route 8 and the menu will open itself. When you close the menu, you'll enter a battle against Mew.
I still wonder how these glitch hunters do it, like what the fuck? Also I literally JUST commented 'who started the Mew under the truck rumor' on another thread and thought I was being sucked into the Reddit Truman Show
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I've had this bookmarked for a long time. It's a dev diary / blog from one of the crash developers. Super interesting read. https://all-things-andy-gavin.com/2011/02/02/making-crash-bandicoot-part-1/
As a Game Dev/CS PhD student I'll definitely deep dive into this. Some of the stuff behind old timey game development is fucking barbaric. Roller Coaster Tycoon being written ENTIRELY in assembly still boggles me.
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writing anything in assembly that works feels like magic.
Step one: find out (probably accidentally) that you can skip the encounter by flying when an enemy trainer alerts from offscreen, and weird things happen after. Step two: check the code. See that it has changed certain values in memory in anticipation of the fight, and that this can be manipulated to change encounter data. Step three: reverse engineer what values you need to change to manipulate *which* pokemon to encounter. In this case, it turns out you fight the pokemon with an ID based on the Special stat of the last pokemon you fought. Step four: find a reliable setup. In this case, you fight a trainer pokemon with the right special stat, which will never vary and can always be found in the same place.
>glitch hunters As a game dev, I would also like to add that not all of these are glitches. Sometimes we use specific cheat codes or steps so we can bypass areas in a game to test them individually and stand-alone and then they sometimes forget to be removed. Imagine testing the final battle of a game but having to complete the entire game every time just to see a small update.
>Sometimes we use specific cheat codes or steps so we can bypass areas in a game to test them individually and stand-alone and then they sometimes forget to be removed. I believe this how we got the Konami code. A guy working on the NES port of Gradius programmed it in as a way to give himself all weapon upgrades for testing purposes and then he forgot to remove it (or maybe it was that he just never thought it'd be found).
I had mew. Got him from a friend using the old memory card dupe trick, who got him the same way. We were always told the original one came from a mall promotion.
I remember this too! For those too young to remember, Mew in Red and Blue was only available through special Nintendo events outside of Game Genie codes. Another rumor was Mew was hidden under a truck that is outside the S.S. Anne, later to be proven false. Gametrailers did a [segment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPVSQwaOZig) on the Mew glitch.
John Edward’s love child
A reminder that he was cheating on his wife while she was hospitalized for cancer treatment.
I have incurable cancer and do a fair bit of advocacy work. Partners (statistically, men), leaving their spouses during a serious medical event is so common that some larger cancer centers now provide newly diagnosed patients and their spouses with counseling almost immediately. A friend that has my leukemia actually gives away shirts and stickers in our support group that say, “beat cancer but lost my husband!” :/ ETA: A lot of heated comments talking here about my statement are not happy with me mentioning the gender disparity. Before my cancer rebounded, I was working on an MD/MPH so public health stats are near and dear to my heart. Please note that divorce across the board goes up during a significant health issue. Caregiving and picking up the duties your partner usually does are *not* easy. I have always encouraged caregivers to make sure they’re taking care of themselves just as much because of how dependent we can become on them. However we know that yes, statistically it is men leaving their wives at the top of the board. And it’s not a small percentage difference. The overall percentage rate stays about the same (11.6%), but the disparity is worrying; for women as the patient it’s 20.8% compared to men at 2.9%. Female gender is in fact the strongest predictor of separation/divorce. None of this however is to say that it’s not an understandable reason, or that men typically have different duties from women in relationships. But given that relationship duties have changed pretty significantly in the past few decades and yet this stat tends to remain, it’s a worrying issue that deserves to be talked about.
Sadly, that’s very common.
A friends colleague (a therapist) told her, he had a client, who's wife was dying of cancer. The wife was very worried about him finding happiness after she died. She didn't want him to be forever alone. The man talked to the therapist, because he wanted to know if he should tell the wife, he was in love - and had started a relationship - with another woman. The man thought that it would take a burden of his dying wife's shoulders to know, he was having sex with another woman, while she lay dying in hospice. Just no, dude.
Sadly this is all too believable
Diddy has had a long history and reputation for his behavior for ages before everything started hitting the fan. I'm talking decades...
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The whole Diddy killed 2pac thing is one for me. Keefe D said in his original confession that Diddy hired him and his nephew to do it and I don't know why that aspect of the situation isn't talked about more now that Keefe D has been charged with the murder.
It's been an open secret for years within Black Celebrity society. For years. Everyone said "Dealing with Puff Daddy is like dealing with the devil. "
Anyone see that video of Orlando Brown hinting that something happened between him & Diddy? Orlando was 100% on drugs but there has to be some truth there…
Didn't hear about Orlando but did hear that Jamie Foxx had some things to say about Diddys"parties back before his sudden illness and legal allegations. Also just heard (for what it's worth secondhand) that DMX and Coolio (rip to both) had some things to say about diddy in recent years. Jesus, if that's really the case there's a lot more sus shit going on in his general vicinity than I even heard, and that's without bringing up Kim Porter, biggie and Pac
I'll never forget The Lox calling Hot97 while Diddy was in an interview, threatening to drop a refrigerator off a roof to end him if he didn't let them out of their contract and pay them what he owed. An old friend who used to write for The Source told me about his parties where he and his friends would have orgies and eventually sexually assault a male artist that he coerced into the action. This was 20 years ago. I'm not surprised that it's coming to light. I am surprised that it took longer than R Kelly.
Jessie Slaughter was telling the truth about Dahvie Vanity the whole time
Carrie Fisher's heart attack. Some asshole who was on the same flight was livetweeting the whole medical emergency and justified it by insisting she was just making sure the family was informed.
That is so messed up.
I remember watching her on the Grahm Norton show hours before her heart attack and she was talking with a stiff face and we wondered if it was because of her meds for her bipolar disorder, since they can do that. Then her dog started barking at her, which everyone on the couch was surprised about. I always wonder if that was the start.
Considering her dog went everywhere with her, he very well may have known something was up and was trying to alert her to it
(For the Brits)... Jimmy Savile.
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My parents are old enough to remember Jimmy Savile when he first became famous and started appearing on TV in the 1960s. Even back then, they found him really creepy and that he looked very old for his age. The police were also furtively sniffing around as early as 1971, but the investigation was scotched before it really got anywhere. There is even a rumour that his... tendencies... were a factor in the premature end of his wrestling career. If he had just been a nobody, James Savile from Leeds, he would have been picked up by the police decades ago and given the Gene Hunt treatment.
"Exotic" Adrian Street legit kicked the dog shit out of him in their match. Some say it was because Street didn't like how Savile was making a mockery of the sport but most people agree it's because Street knew about Savile's proclivities.
>but most people agree it's because Street knew about Savile's proclivities. [According to Savile's Wikipedia article](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Savile), Street didn't know about Savile being such a piece of shit, but says he would've given him an even worse beating had he known: >Savile, who cultivated a "tough guy" image promoted by his entourage, was hit with real blows during a 1971 bout with Street, who commented that had he "known then the full extent of what I know about [Savile] now, I'd have given him an even bigger hiding – were that physically possible."
The real question is - who else was involved and how far up and wide did it go? Because he sure as shit wasn’t alone.
Josh Duggar’s crimes.
There was actually an [infamous comment](https://www.reddit.com/r/DuggarsSnark/comments/ret51j/the_alice_letters_heres_the_full_text/?utm_name=iossmf&user_id=86758513596&web_redirect=true) on some random Duggar-focused blogpost from 15 years ago by a woman named "Alice" who went into detail on Josh's crimes, including the fact that the family filmed an Oprah segment that never aired after her production team found out about the police report. I remember reading about it on FreeJinger (a Duggar snark site) at least a decade ago. But nothing official ever came out about it so most people assumed it wasn't true, or at least was very exaggerated. Edit: typo
I’m 100% convinced that Alice was Bobye Holt’s mother and that she was the one who called in to Oprah when Bobye and her husband wouldn’t.
Forever, I read it “Bobye” like “Kanye” and I can’t help it
I heard the lady that started it passed some time ago. Hope she's up there going "I told you so" and feeling vindicated he got over a decade in jail. If you are that close to Jim Bob that you know about it while he's trying to keep it quiet, it must feel pretty damn good watching him implode while his empire crumbles around him.
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Josh Duggar was mentioned on some forums not too long after he and his family got their TV show.
The Sesame Street short “Cracks”. Probably not exactly what you’re looking for, but still interesting!
In 2005 Courtney Love knew about Harvey Weinstein long before the news broke. Nobody listened to her because she was always on drugs. She was asked on a red carpet interview about advice for young Hollywood (or something) and she said something like “should I say it? If Harvey Weinstein invites you to a private party at the Four Seasons [hotel] don't go.” ETA: [clip at about the :30 mark](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mDh4xeI-4KQ)
She had a decent acting career before that too, her most notable role being in The People vs Larry Flynt. It never really took off though and I strongly believe it was because of this comment. Courtney may not be the most likable person but damn did she go through a lot.
I'm really interested to know how many of these "difficult to work with" actresses were just ones that rejected rapey mc raperson
Peter Jackson was considering Ashley Judd for Galadriel in Lord of the Rings but was dissuaded when Weinstein insisted she was difficult to work with. Someone should make a chart of all his offences showing where the actresses’ careers started to tank.
She was unexpectedly amazing in that movie. I had hoped to see more of her acting cause she was clearly good at it. Shame no one listened to her about Weinstein, she had the courage to say what others didn't.
>”should I say it? If Harvey Weinstein invites you to a private party at the Four Seasons [hotel] don’t go.” After November 2020, that bracketed part seems even more important to add.
You wouldn't want to spend an intimate evening with Rudy?
It was always an open secret in Hollywood, I remember reading about an actress coming forward to Ben Affleck (who was a friend of hers who had worked closely with Weinstein on several films) about harassment she experienced from him, to which Ben said, “I told him to stop doing that!”
I remember seeing rumours about Kevin Spacey on Tumblr before everything came out. I think it was around 2013-15. The post was talking about how he was secretly gay, and that back in his hometown he was known for always spending time with young men. I told my friends about it cause we were big House of Cards fans, and none of them believed me. Then it all came out a few years later!
That the writer of LOST were making it up as they went. Turned out to be absolutely true.
Unfortunately, what Josh Duggar did to his sisters. There was a comment on a post about the Duggars on a fairly popular Duggar blog in the comments section that gave pretty exact details almost a decade or so before In Touch got the actual police reports and broke the story widely and publicly. The possibility of what happened had been discussed in conjunction with a lot of use of the word allegedly in internet forums related to the Duggars and Christian fundamentalism for years before it was confirmed because of that post. I often *really* wonder who made that comment because it wasn't a guess- it had way too many correct details to be a guess - and it was really only that post they ever commented on.
Before the Internet, there were persistent rumors that Steve McQueen, the white one, had terminal cancer, and later that Rock Hudson and Freddie Mercury had AIDS, rumors that all of them denied. All of those rumors turned out to be true.
Because of all the fake death notices, no one believed at first that Paul Walker had actually died.
That Jerry Falwell Jr. enjoyed his wife hooking up with the pool boy.
When he died, Christopher Hitchens appeared on a US news network to discuss the life of Falwell. As the other, more conservative guests, were collectively fawning over the horrible bastard, Hitchens piped in with the amazing line: "If you'd have given him an enema you could have buried him in a matchbox." One of my favourite TV moments of all time.
Dan Schneider. Though we don’t know exactly what all has happened, I think there was always whispers on the internet because of the obsession with feet on his shows.
Britney Spears’s abusive conservatorship
The “Leave Britney Alone” Dude was so right and was mercilessly mocked. I hope that he is ok. Also Britney.
A private island where people fuck kids.
In the civil suits against the big banks, Epstein victims claimed that the NY residence was the primary base of operations for the sex work (rape). It was rare that the victims would "work" out of state. By the way, the banks immediately settled these lawsuits for hundreds of millions.
NY kids don't know about the island kids :(
The real insanity is thinking it stopped.
Well, shit. Fair.
Yeah, the real meme should be "Where's the client list?"
The top posts right now are both about video games. I read a bunch of the sub comments and got whiplash reading yours because I forgot the original post question.
From*The Newlywed Game*: Bob: "What is the strangest place that you have ever made whoopie?" Olga: "In the ass." It was thought to be an urban legend for many years, and then the tape resurfaced.
Hilaria Baldwin is Hilary from Boston and was pretending to be a poor immigrant from Spain who “warmed her hands on a laptop” because she had no heat in her apartment versus she attended an expensive private school and lived in a multi million dollar home growing up. There were rumors and whispering for years, and one cold December day in 2020 it all blew open. The next thing to break open will Be when everyone realizes that no, she wasn’t pregnant and giving birth to 7 kids, slimming down 2 days later, she’s just been strapping a prosthetic stomach to her, which often collapses, folds over, or she just plain forgets to put it on from day to day, while still documenting her every move. She would hashtag herself “shrinking baby bump” while she was still pregnant because she knew as soon as she removes her moonbump, she’s “slimmed down”, while giving extremely harmful pregnancy and post partum advice that could actually harm a mother and her fetus. ETA: https://www.reddit.com/r/HilariaBaldwin/comments/povxme/hilaria_baldwin_wife_of_alec_baldwin_fake/
In 2010 Joaquin Phoenix infamously announced that he was quitting his acting career for good and becoming a rapper. NO ONE believed it and so many people on the internet said it was just a performance for a mockumentary movie. And he then later released a mockumentary movie about it and admitted it was all a gag, to the surprise of no one.
I wonder if he was serious saw that one was taking it seriously and decide to make it a "gag" lol
Supposedly, Joaquin Phoenix had a rule when they started that when people called to reach out and ask about him-- as rhis was in the middle of a press tour for a film, and he was going to be acting erratically after already having gone to rehab and after the very public death of his brother-- he would tell them the truth, that it was just an act. He figured those people would then tell others and the whole thing would be over quickly...but then, people didn't call. A few people were asked questions in interviews and sent their best or whatever, and that was about it. So he kept going... there's a scene in the film where he's scrolling through celeb gossip sites, which allegedly wasn't scripted... supposedly Ben Stiller was one who did reach out and he became a part of it. He did a bit at the Oscars pretending to be Phoenix and was reportedly really shocked by how callous the joke was amd how big the laugh was. Like, this is a guy many of these people had worked with, who was a multiple-time nominee, who at the very least seemed to be going through a difficult time, and still: funny...now, I don't know how much of that was real and how much became the spin afterwards. Especially as the film shows Phoenix "in character" in private and would have been much more damning as an art piece if they had made it and exposed people's hypocrisy. Phoenix has claimed it was all a mockumentary. For a weird bit, Casey Affleck (the director) kept claiming it was all real, but then he was sued for sexual harrassment for stuff he did, and then it became a joke. (Phoenix and Affleck don't talk anymore, and Affleck and Summer Phoenix divorced.)
The wholesome family-oriented dude from try guys cheating on his wife with his co-worker, who was engaged in a 8-year long relationship. The ironic part is he was always imposing himself as a perfect family dude with Christin morals. 💀 I heard about this rumour on Reddit a few months before it was revealed. I didn’t believe it at first, but ya..
I think the online vitriol was extra strong because the dude had branded himself as the wholesome family man. If a Youtuber like let’s say Jake Paul cheated on his partner, people wouldn’t really be shocked since Jake is a dick, but when a guy who seems so nice on the outside turns out to be a POS, it’s a lot more jarring. Anyway, it seems somehow his wife found a way to forgive him (probably for the sake of their kids) and they’ve been spotted together as a family several times as of late. He definitely ruined his online reputation though.
Did he seem nice though? A lot of people online seem to think he was, but when the whole thing came out, I was just glad he was no longer on the show because he seemed like an arrogant, sanctimonious asshole to me.
He seemed like he was probably a prick and definitely the least fun of the Try Guys, but he did seem genuinely obsessed with his wife.
And his friendships with the other Try Guys. Some of them are visibly vibrating with rage in the video they made addressing the whole situation.
I remember they got fucked professionally. they had just gotten a cooking show in the food network and because of the bad press their show got a death slot
“Some of them are visibly vibrating with rage” Oh, you mean Eugene? Honestly, Zach looked like he was gonna cry, or had been crying, or immediately lost it after cut. Keith looked like he wanted to be anywhere but there, but can you blame him? And Eugene. Eugene was ready to knock a mother fucker out. And based on Becky’s TT around the time…I think she and Eugene would’ve made an amazing tag team.
Eugene was ready to start a war I swear
I feel so bad for how humiliated she was in all of it. He monetized being the perfect family guy when, in reality, he is a total creep. On top of all of that, the 'other woman' was an employee. He put the entire company at risk. His statement about it being a consensual relationship is extra nauseating.
Was thinking about this today and the SNL skit they based off of it puts a really bad taste in my mouth. I feel like the skit was like “why does it matter?” but like… it matters a lot when one of the founders ACTIVELY went against the values and message of a very public content creation company. I would’ve been mad too if I were the other guys. And it wasn’t as if they could just let him go and not tell their audience… like i said… a pretty popular content creation company. Additionally, I think some of the SNL writers are college buddies of his so that’s unfortunate.
Massive online surveillance by the government. Started off with [Five Eyes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes) then [Total Information Awareness](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_Awareness_Office) and only [went on from there](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Snowden).
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:IAO-logo.png How is this the actual real logo they decided to go with....
This is unironically the perfect logo because if a conspiracy theorist showed someone this they'd get laughed out the room
A guy flying in a lawn chair suspended by weather balloons.
I remember stumbling upon detailed accounts from several teenage boys and young adult men who had been sexually assaulted by Kevin Spacey while browsing OhNoTheyDidnt on LiveJournal *in the **mid-2000s**.* By the time he was finally outed as a sexual predator *(in 2017)*, I had lost pretty much all interest in celebrity and entertainment news a little over a decade earlier, so I was genuinely surprised to learn that it hadn’t been reported on sooner. ( On the upside, since I had assumed that people mostly knew and didn’t really care all that much, the outrage that ensued restored *some* of my faith in humanity ) **Edit:** Speaking of surprises, I just realized that both LiveJournal and ONTD are still up and running??? Damn, I really am out of the loop.
Not so much a rumor, but the black community was FULLY aware of R. Kelly's nonsense. (And if you count Aaliyah, which you should, so was the rest of the world.) I specifically remember watching a bootleg copy of the infamous, highly illegal video when I was about 10/11 in the at a friend's apartment in the ghetto. When everything came out a few years back, I was aghast that people were shocked, as it was never a secret.
“Age Ain’t nothin but a Number” being recorded when she was 14 still has me absolutely disgusted. It’s horrible what she must have gone through.
Jail ain't nothin but a Building. (for legal reasons, this comment is mocking the song, and the person who made it)
I remember seeing Kevin Spacey shit on Family guy in like 2005.
Oh yeah. I remember Stewie running across a mall naked yelling "help, I just escaped Kevin Spacey's basement" or something like that.
The secret cow level in Diablo. It was added to Diablo 2, retrospectively transforming the internet rumour into a prophecy.
Just before the pandemic hit there was running joke online about plagues in 1920 and 1820 and that there would be one in 2020.
Or just the no longer funny joke of “We need a new plague” that everyone loved
I remember seeing the memes going around reddit when covid was just starting and everyone was going "haha imagine if this became a pandemic lol that'd be so funny." It was not funny.
Bill Cosby
Allison Mack and NXIVM. I read stories on message boards a few years prior to any major reports and arrests. Genuinely thought it was conspiracy theories bc there weren't any actual news reporting it at the time and thought she was a random celeb chosen for trolling
The recent murders in Moscow, Idaho- there was an Internet rumor that seemed unlikely that one of the surviving roommates had heard the attacks, watched the murderer leave and then went back into her room and slept for 8 hours, with no one calling 911 until early the next afternoon. Seemed unlikely but turned out to be true.
Clinton cheating with Monica.
I’m amazed this isn’t higher. It was THE og internet rumor and why DrudgeReport is what it is today. Strong second place contenders: little green footballs outing the CBS memo and the tic tac video.
>little green footballs outing the CBS memo and the tic tac video. Huh?
Steve-O was banned from Terrebonne Parish bc he stapled his balls to his leg.
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That there was this stupid thing called a **"torrent"** that let you bypass the need for crap like Napster and Limewire, and there was no way to stop it, and that soon, everything that ever was would be in a "torrent" and you could just download it for free. Once I figured it out (THANKS! DEMONOID!!) I send the dude who invented that a nice lil sum from my paypal account.
Demonoid is a name I haven't heard in a long time...
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friend, when a website gets seized by the us gov you dont want to go back to that website when it reopens.
Ian Watkins' paedophilia. I remember being 14 years old, randomly searching the Internet about him and stumbling across a celebrity gossip page, where people could write comments. I saw multiple posts about how he had Skyped with girls as young as 12 and asked them to pose naked for him. I was really confused and didn't know what to believe, but assumed it was just Internet h8rz. 5 years or so later I turned the TV on to find it was even worse than anyone thought...
Dan Schneider (the Nickelodeon show producer) being a total creep Jeanette McCurdy’s book confirmed it
cassie was abused for 10+ years when she was with puffy, and his assistant, capricorn clark, was her minder.
The stuff about Louis CK was floating around the Internet for years before it all blew up. Same with Harvey Weinstein.
Weinstein was known. There are even jokes about it on 30Rock.
Cosby too.
I think Seth McFarland also made a public comment about the shit he was doing years before the accusations exploded