Saturday, May 17, 2025



Definitive WeGame Coverage at the Columbia Spectator

So my new friend Armin Rosen at the Spectator has provided the world with a much needed essay on the wegame debacle. While we here at the Blargus enjoyed being the only outlet on the web covering the wegame scandal, it’s about time that someone did an in-depth piece with data, interviews, and the whole she-bang. Good work, Armin. Here’s a delightful little taste:

“(Your friend) wants to show you a picture,” the e-mail assured me. It was 1:30 a.m., hardly a time for cogent decision making. And I was jarred by a notoriously unstable acquaintance even wanting to show me something online. Date of birth? Whatever. E-mail address? Just take me to the goddamn picture. Gmail password? Now why didn’t that set off a red flag or ten? Google and Twitter both know my Gmail password, so I must have decided that Wegame—whatever the hell Wegame was—wasn’t any less deserving. Reflex overwhelmed reason. Even at the time, Wegame sounded less like the name of a photo-hosting Web site than a total obscurity looking for a viral push.

More: http://www.columbiaspectator.com/2009/09/20/spammed

Comments

3 responses to “Definitive WeGame Coverage at the Columbia Spectator”

  1. Burt Avatar
    Burt

    Good reporting. I’ve been conducting a campaign against WeGame for this egregious marketing/spamming ploy. Here’s a tip to other companies considering taking advantage of people and hijacking their contact lists (which on Gmail is everyone you’ve ever emailed with) —- Don’t do it. We know exactly who you are, who funds you, and who to report you to.

    Perhaps WeGame assumed that the contact lists they would phish would only be gamers – and these people would be too busy to care.

    But unfortunately their campaign included me…and just like how gamers spend their every waking hour shooting zombie teletubbies, I am spending every waking hour thinking about how to make WeGame pay for these flagrant abuses and exploitation of the connectivity of the Web.

    They fucked with the wrong guy.

  2. BORKBORK Avatar
    BORKBORK

    Hey Burt, you’re a real INTERNET TOUGH GUY. I hope you’re not one of those HACKERS ON STEROIDS.

  3. Burt Avatar
    Burt

    I’m not a hacker, nor am I on steroids. I’m just an old-fashioned guy who has adopted the power of new media in my fight against injustice and rogue start-ups.

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