Metafilter reports on a new Internet community of “Greenlighters”, people who wear green polo shirts with the collars turned up as a signal of sexual interest. Not surprisingly this “community” has a website, which for now is down, but I can verify earlier today that it did have some postings on it. The site, which was registered yesterday, is in the name of [redacted], a University of Michigan student.
I can’t help (as some other MeFiers were as well), be reminded of the “toothing” hoax of 2004, which Wired News, among other publications, fell for.
Update (8:03 pm): The forums are back. Screen grab here.
Also [redacted] replied to my email. Apparently it’s a site that he did for someone who hired him.
Cyrus,
Don’t ask me. Here’s what I posted when the local blogosphere attacked me:
“Fine, fine. I’ll admit it. I own greenlighter.org. I did their logo
and bought the domain thinking they’d like the concept.”
I’m just a designer. I designed their logo and made a mockup of the
color scheme, and they took off with it. The greenlighter.org domain
and “cool” CEL-shade thing was my idea, but aside from that I don’t
know. Hell, I didn’t even look at the site to see what its content was
until everyone on the planet asked me wtf my name was doing on the
WHOIS.
[rest of email redacted]
[name redacted]
