How to prank a Telemarketer
| How to prank a Telemarketer | |
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| Creator: | Sphonix |
| Created on: | October 14, 2006 |
| Sound origin: | Bob and Tom Show |
| Image origin: | Made by Sphonix |
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"How to prank a Telemarketer" is a YTMND similar to the crazy telemarketer site. The audio is a phone call played on the Bob and Tom radio show accompanied by text narration. The call was a prank recorded by comedian Tom Mabe when a telemarketer called his home. When the telemarketer asked to speak to Mabe, Mabe impersonated a police officer conducting a homicide investigation. Mabe badly scares the telemarketer by making him a suspect in the investigation and asking for his personal whereabouts on the night of the alleged murder.
A link to the site appeared on many very popular forums resulting in a steady increase of views from the time of the site's creation on October 14th, 2006. It has been the Top Viewed YTMND of every day since then, at its peak receiving over 100,000 views per day.
The site has incited anger in many users due to its enormous number of views and lack of original content. Others said that sites like this should only be hosted on eBaum's World. Additionally, many believe that this site may have brought in a huge number of NARVs to YTMND.
The YTMND populace soon became aware that due to massive amounts of views, How to prank a Telemarketer would soon pass the Blue Ball machine in terms of views, the site which had held the honor of top viewed site of all time for over a year. On November 29th, user Ochobobo created Approaching Blue Ball Machine, bringing this fact to the attention of the public. Many viewers became enraged by this and demanded that the site be removed for alleged viewhacking. max added the site to the Hall of Fame on November 30th, much to the dismay of many YTMNDers.
On December 21, 2006, the site finally passed Blue Ball Machine as YTMND's new top viewed site. Many predicted this event would happen this very day. Since then, the amount of views per day on the site has begun dropping.
Additionally, since January 1, 2007, it also became the site with the largest amount of comments, passing even DR-1337's site.
