Internet Drama Report For 1/16

As you may know, the Internet was slowed to a crawl yesterday due to geeks hitting F5 to reload their browsers to hear about the new MacBook they will then complain is too expensive. But that doesn’t mean there wasn’t big Internet news going on!

First off, Sweeney entertainingly tells us the Salt messageboard has been taken over by ultimate fighters. If that previous sentence doesn’t make much sense to you, it’s okay.

As of this morning, we’ve heard from several longtime posters: One who has definitively quit, and others who are just wondering where their old board went. But maybe poster Somo said it best; when asked for a quote, he sighed heavily, thought on it for a moment, and said, “I just hope everyone can be cool, man.”

If that isn’t enough, the Fox 29 American Idol chatroom was invaded by IRC bots last night and all hell broke loose. If that sentence doesn’t make any sense to you, just go to after the jump, where Internet drama leaks into the real world!

Yesterday, Dan Gross (pictured in an old photo I found online) wrote an item about a girl at PR Newswire who was fired for titling a mental health rally a “loony bin rally.” Apparently, he also called the tip in himself, though it’s not like somebody wouldn’t have brought it to the company’s attention anyway.

Also, Dan Gross writes Men United for a Better Philadelphia miss Beanie Sigel, who Dan Gross put in a halfway house. I would say something bad, but I’m kind of afraid to cross him right now; he puts Beanie in jail and got another girl fired. If I end up dead, you all know who to blame.