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What, and I can't stress this enough, THE FUCK
Lol, it's actually pretty funny.
Love these kinds of protests. The fact that no one even bothered to verify anything and still listened without much resistance says a lot about these corpos. The candle thing is just the delicious cherry on top.
Oh my god that is hilarious! Thank you for explaining it
LOL, I actually went looking for more about this specific prank and it gets better. The "janitor" was fucking Reggie Watts and they played this tribute during their "presentation" while people were confusingly looking at these strange candles.
I really need to check out the rest of their work. I'm very glad I learned about this group today.
Apparently there's a free documentary on their exploits https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Yes_Men_Fix_the_World
These kind of protests are almost exclusively what the Yes Men do! They got their start when they were making a parody website of the WTO (Then GATT) and suddenly had a bunch of serious industry people mistaking their parody site for the real one and sending them emails inviting them to conferences. Thus Andy Bichlbaum and the Yes Men were born! They always go way beyond absurd to try to capture people's attention, but most often with groups of "experts" everyone takes them all to seriously.
Thank you so much for introducing me to them! I wish I'd known about them sooner.
Some of this stuff is hilarious and the fact that they've been consistently doing this for so long is impressive.
I also love that he claimed it was a "hacker group" that added the code, and then it was "revealed" that he was "the leader" of the group.
The sheer creativity in fucking with people like that is admirable.