kalpurna

OKAY. So the last couple of days have been confusing, in terms of viral marketing, but here's basically what happened (with deepest of thanks to my ♥Wily Girl Detectives♥).

Part 1

First, AP.net posted a link that claimed to be to CitizensForOurBetterment.com, and the text for the link did read that - but the link was actually to CitizensFourOurBetterment.com. This site was a near-mirror of the original CFOB, but it linked directly to RunRightBackToTheStart.com, which claimed to be a "maze". If you spent enough time clicking around inside this website, through links and options and interesting art and lyrics, you ended up at YouAreMySunshineAlbum.com, with a picture and a date - October 14th.

HOWEVER. If you googled the lyrics that were on Run Right Back to the Start, you found that they were from a band called Copeland. I'm not going to get into the details of Copeland's viral marketing, but it's really complicated and REALLY fucking cool. I'm kind of impressed and I kiiind of want to buy their shit.

So then the issue became trying to figure out whether Copeland and FOB were connected - was CFOB supposed to stand for Copeland Fall Out Boy? Were they being signed to Decaydance? Was there a joint tour coming up? Pete posted on MeeLikey and made it clear that he knew about C4OB, but not whether the connection was intentional on his part. An article came out on MTV.com that may be the final word (although it could also be a red herring).

WHEW. OKAY. Meanwhile on the REAL CFOB:

Yesterday the "media" link, which had been forbidden, was opened and now links to a picture of someone (Gabe?) in a Midtown shirt, with a cryptic message about it being the "end" underneath. This links through to let you actually buy a Midtown shirt. The post and number also updated, as it's been doing every night at midnight. It still mentions November 4th. The name of the poster has, at various times, been "Anton Djamoos" (the AP.net employee), Joe Biden, and Kill Time Web Cat, which unscrambles to William Beckett. The word "cat" now links to Beckett's blog, although it didn't originally.

Also yesterday, a link was posted on AP.net to a picture of a girl standing in front of the Scientology propaganda museum about psychiatry, covering her face, holding a bunch of pamphlets from CFOB.

Pete updated his blogspot several times, you can check icecreamhdaches for the full updates. I'm really wondering about this in particular:

there is a code of words when inputed in the right order that will make sense:

Control Feral Obsessed Blackout,

sadly that is not it. alone.

ALSO, he's been stupidly fucking emo lately. MAN UP, PETE WENTZ. YOU HAVE A HOT WIFE. YOU HAVE A BABY. YOU HAVE PEOPLE WILLING TO FOLLOW YOUR DAMN ANTICS. I AM TIRED OF WORRYING ABOUT YOU. GO TO BED.

Ummmmm I don't know. What am I forgetting? Help me out, flist! I will edit this post. I just want it all in one damn place!

ETA: Okay, and I just remembered: for a while there was a link on CFOB to the Wikipedia page for folie a deux, which is presumably a reference to the C4OB shenanigans.

And there was a post up on...somewhere, Jesus, I don't remember, that mentioned a right wing blogger? Or something? I HAVEN'T HAD MUCH SLEEP. (Buzznet, and the site mentioned was frontpagemag.com, which had an ad for CFOB.)

ETA2: Now there's a link up on Beckett's blog, here, to this site: http://runrightbacktotheart.com/ which links right back to CFOB.

The "data" link is working, and leads to a name/address input field.

ALSO, AND HILARIOUSLY: the words "Exposes! Scandals!" on the CFOB site now link to that look-alike picture that went the rounds ages ago of "Ryan and Brendon" making out. That makes Cobra, TAI, and Panic. (And Copeland.) Thanks, everybody! ♥

ETA3: Midtown sent out a MySpace bulletin with the title of the media page on CFOB. And there have been hints about tomorrow's episode of FNMTV; a girl on FBRT briefly posted that she had been at the taping and heard a 30 second clip of a new song, but quickly deleted.