Porn star paid $500,000 to have an RMT site’s logo and URL engraved on her assets.
I mean… really. Come on. I know it’s Monday, but… really. I see terabytes of “pics or it didn’t happen” in our future. And it’s an ugly, cold future.
But as always when gold farming is involved, THERE ARE SHENANIGANS.
I have done the unthinkable and actually researched this mindblowingly retarded press release, and apparently “Anna Morgan” hasn’t appeared in any films, pornographic or otherwise. The IAFD, the porn version of the IMDB, returns no hits. Googling “Anna Morgan porn” returns… pages of entries about this press release.
I really hate to point out the stupidly obvious here, but if I was going to spend $500,000 on body modification advertising, I would spend it on a nubile starlet who had actually, you know, some notoriety. Heck, I’m pretty sure Paris Hilton would be down.
But really, if you want to know what’s going on… go to the source.
So, to recap:
- The porn industry is probably not branching out into WoW gold sales
- One RMT web site has discovered a new way to gain tons of publicity through exploiting both the credulity of the media and, most likely, his girlfriend.
- The Easter Bunny doesn’t exist, either.
#1 by J. on June 8th, 2009
pics or it didn’t happen
this is the primary rule of the intarwubz
Also, wearing a t-shirt does not count as “engraving”.
#2 by pharniel on June 8th, 2009
this is the end…my only friend…
maybe the down market and the maturity of the market means the end of the ‘easy money’ days.
#3 by Freakazoid on June 8th, 2009
I’d like to engrave something on her assets, if you know what I mean.
#4 by Daniel on June 8th, 2009
Oh COME ON people, you know you’d hit that.
#5 by geldonyetich on June 8th, 2009
Like any good lie, it does have a core of plausability to it: if you’re paying third parties to slate your instant gratification for sex without grinding relationships, maybe you’d also pay third parties to slate your instant gratification for virtual spoils without grinding MMORPGs.
#6 by Vetarnias on June 8th, 2009
As Geld said, it seems plausible. After all, I can remember a case where a certain online casino paid an insultingly small amount for a woman (living in poverty, if I remember) to have the casino’s name permanently tattooed on her forehead.
Here it goes, and it was for $15,000:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/07/01/casino_tattoos_womans_face/
About this story, what bothers me is that people didn’t bother checking it out before reproducing it all over the Internet.
#7 by Gx1080 on June 8th, 2009
The issue is that you need at least twice as much money for getting a real porno star to do that. Or other things. So they went cheap. I cannot be surprised considering that this people are the ones that are perfectly happy destroying the MMO industry and treating the people of third-world countrys as slaves for a profit, so its not surprising that they are greedy bastards.
Or perhaps its my distaste for the gold mining industry and its public face: Jonathan Fucker.
#8 by chabuhi on June 8th, 2009
@Daniel
Correction: They know they’d LIKE to hit that.
Just sayin’
#9 by Mark Asher on June 8th, 2009
It’s cheap and easy to write a press release. I remember years ago for awhile Interplay was into crazy press releases. One time they had some TB strat title coming out that was about aliens invading our planet, and they put out a press release saying they’d offered the US Military 200,000 free copies of the game so they could train for an alien attack and be ready.
#10 by IainC on June 8th, 2009
The photoshop work on grafting that girl’s head onto a significantly bustier torso is pretty well done though.
#11 by Paks on June 8th, 2009
THE EASTER BUNNY DOES SO EXIST!!!
*runs off crying*
#12 by TPRJones on June 8th, 2009
She looks so much better ont he right.
#13 by Jeremy Preacher on June 8th, 2009
That doesn’t have to be a ’shop, given how she’s got her arms positioned in the left hand pic. It’s not all that hard to generate copious cleavage by a little judicious compression.
That said, a) she does look much better on the right and b) the older I get, the more grossed out I am by the knee-jerk “I’d hit that” comments. Not that y’all *think* it (I certainly thought it) but that you *post* it. Boys are icky.
#14 by IainC on June 8th, 2009
Pics or … wait, I’m going to get thumped aren’t I?
#15 by Chris F on June 8th, 2009
The real depressing part is that gold farms are making enough money to be able to afford that kind of advertising (if it is indeed true. I mean, it’s on the interwebs so it must be right?)
#16 by Arkenor on June 8th, 2009
Ferraro has a new gig then… Maybe even two of the Ferraros.
#17 by morphene on June 8th, 2009
Heh, nice find on the picture. It’s amusing to google the “media relations” contact for mymmoblahblah.com. Just a few months ago apparently the company was bought out of the blue for US$10M (see a… uh, trend here?) but just before that Hunter was responsible for such hard hitting journalism as “Learn To Start A Pet Photography Business”, “Role of The Druid WOW”, “Where Is The Female G-spot” and who can forget the classic: “How To Make Money Playing The Lottery”. I swear I’m not making any of these up.
Relating to the girl, though, you can find her as Hunter’s avatar placed last year on a number of article spamming sites including here: http://www.lookuppage.com/users/huntercrowell/ . Girlfriend? The author? I don’t know but clearly not a Russian porn star. Pretty amusing example over all of better living through press releases.
#18 by Syncaine on June 8th, 2009
Eurogamer knows this is not only legit, but swears by their statement.
Honestly though, this might be a new low for press.
#19 by Mercury on June 8th, 2009
Lum,
I contend that you only Googled her name in order to see the boobies. Sure, it turned into an innocent research mission, but that was only after you came up empty-handed (so to speak).
#20 by Moorgard on June 8th, 2009
Clearly the only way I can validate or debunk this story is to watch hours and hours of Russian porn.
In other words, my usual Monday.
#21 by Freakazoid on June 8th, 2009
@TPRJones
I disagree. The right screams out “I’m a total bitch who doesn’t put out.” Plus her breasts don’t appear as big and those must be big in order to attract a sexy male such as myself.
@Mercury
There was nothing empty in his left hand while he searched, if you know what I mean.
#22 by J. on June 8th, 2009
I’d think engravings on boobies would be a professional hazard for porn stars.
Of course you can technically be a “porn star” by having sex on camera and having the video distributed … somehow.
#23 by TPRJones on June 8th, 2009
No way, that picture on the right screams out “I’m the girl next door that publically appears to be a nice girl, but am secretly a total slutty freak in the sack with anyone but Freakazoid.”
#24 by IainC on June 8th, 2009
I see what you did there.
#25 by Raad on June 8th, 2009
Come on Scott, there are much more weirder things on the internet, this is like really tame and I’m surprised it didn’t already happen. I THOUGHT YOU HAD A TASTE OF SECOND LIFE MAAAAAN
#26 by Boanerges on June 8th, 2009
This brings a whole new meaning to “I’d buy that for a dollar”
#27 by Iggep on June 8th, 2009
What do you mean the Easter Bunny doesn’t exist?!?!?!
#28 by UnSub on June 8th, 2009
I look forward to Darkfall copying this media stunt.
Only with actual engraving, because they are, y’know, hardcore.
#29 by geldonyetich on June 9th, 2009
Adventurine pays male prostitute to tattoo Darkfall Online on testicles.
Unexpected side effect of impotence.
#30 by Stabs on June 9th, 2009
She’s Ferraro really.
#31 by Dan Gray on June 9th, 2009
@geldonyetich
It would take some serious balls to do that.
*kapow*
#32 by Hatch on June 9th, 2009
so this was a titoo?
#33 by Syncaine on June 9th, 2009
Hatch wins the thread.
#34 by Zuzax on June 9th, 2009
Remove the commas from the title and you pretty much have the porn industry in a nutshell…
#35 by Raad on June 9th, 2009
@Zuzax
hahahahahaha
#36 by LabRat on June 9th, 2009
So you’ve just paid some russian porn star $500,000US . . .
What makes you think she’s EVER going to make another porn film with that in the bank?
#37 by Axecleaver on June 9th, 2009
For those struggling with the dollar figure, I think the point of the thread is that there is no porn star, there is no $500k, and you can’t believe everything you read on the Internet. Especially press releases.
#38 by dragonblade629 on June 11th, 2009
WRONG
Intraweb is different then the internet. To totally opposite prefixes.
#39 by Cedia on June 11th, 2009
Isn’t this called fraud? And can’t these “journalists” get fined for doing stuff like that?
#40 by TPRJones on June 11th, 2009
Fined by whom? You can print whatever you want, there’s no Accuracy Authority to fine you if you print wrong things. Perhaps there could be a lawsuit, but only the named “Anna Morgan” would have any sort of standing.
#41 by Zuzax on June 12th, 2009
OK, I will write them a letter telling them they better knock this stuff off if they know what’s good for them. Otherwise, I shall fine them $10. And a picture of Anna Morgan’s boobies.
#42 by geldonyetich on June 12th, 2009
A couple days ago, I came across the works of a Steve Pavlina. Seems like a great guy with so much awesome advice that he’s regularly featured on lifehacker.
Then you look into him a little deeper and, oh my, what’s going on here or with Ferraro is small potatoes.
The method is the same: say something is happening that is not and cash in on people’s ability to discern the truth for themselves. However, the scale is much greater, and Pavlina’s cunning enough to pull it off in such a way that it’s indistinguishable from he’s trying to help.