A Peek Behind the Spammy Curtain

by sj

Wow, you guys.

I thought I had seen it all as far as spam comments went.

Yeah, that was before I found the THREE THOUSAND WORD comment caught in my spam filter.

Yes, you read that right – 3,000 words.  3,202 words to be precise.

It is, like, the master spam comment.  It has every single spam comment you’ve ever received ALL IN ONE COMMENT, ZOMG.

Let’s take a look, shall we?

Aw, Leon!  You ARE awesome!  Thanks for ones marvelous comment!

WOW!  Your blog roll AND your RSS?  I am SO FLATTERED!

Wait, Leon.  I thought you’d just found me?  But now you’ve been stalking following for a while?  Which is it?   I think you really need to get your act together.

OH.  MY.  GAWD.  SO META!

I WILL!  Thanks so much for all the fantastic comments, Leon!  You’re my new favourite spammer, for suresies.

Oh, but…I guess he wasn’t done yet?  He wrapped up the most epic comment in all of spamdom with this:

I know it is, Leon.  I know it is.  But thank you for saying so.  It really means a lot.

If you’re interested in seeing ALL of leonisawesome.com’s spam comment to end all spam comments, you can click on page two!  (I just learned how to do that, I feel so fancy.)

Have any of you had this happen to you?  I am so confused.  Poor Leon is probably going to lose his job as a dirty spammer after this.  [sadface]

ps.  If you like this post, you can thank Susie for making me write it.

ps².  I went looking for spammy/meat curtains for this post.  DO NOT DO THAT GOOGLE SEARCH WITHOUT SAFE SEARCH ON.  I am serious.  And if you do it, DON’T BLAME ME because I warned you.

38 Responses to “A Peek Behind the Spammy Curtain”

  1. Oh, sj…the price of stardom…

  2. Wow. Now I wonder why Leon doesn’t like my blog. I guess he’s been busy reading yours.

  3. That is so much better than my Scottish escort spam. I feel like the Scottish escorts aren’t even trying, now. Dammit.

  4. I do love that he will be back eventually. Eventually. It really does encourage one.

    This is a fine specimen of comment-constipation He’s held it in for so long that it all came out in one big log.

  5. And here I was thinking the spammy one-paragraph comments I get are impressive. Damn!

  6. Wow. It’s like six different spammers got together and said, “Y’know, our individual spams just aren’t getting across to our potential victims clients… but what if we combined our super tacky powers into one epic spam message of doom awesomeness!!?!”

    By your powers combined, I AM CAPTAIN SPAM-IT!

    P.S. And these guys aren’t just meta, they’re ironic, too! They extol(?) the virtues of non-rehashed material at the same time as they give us this epically rehashed canned ham. My mind is blown.

  7. It takes a great blog to receive such great spam.

  8. Holy cats. I’m jealous…I only get offers to enlarge my penis.

  9. I am going to do a five thousand word general purposes comment, and start pasting it into every comment box just for the fun of it. Thank you for this tremendous idea, and I apologize in advance for when I do it to you… ha!

  10. And that penis enlarging thing is a complete rip off… uhhhh… I mean… never mind.

  11. I love this because Leon sounds a little bit like he has just a few personalities! :) A little Sybil in him, I guess!

  12. This post inspired me to check my spam folder. I got a real asshole spammer. He wrote “certainly like your website however you need to check the spelling on several of your posts. Many of them are rife with spelling problems and I find it very bothersome to tell the truth nevertheless I¡¦ll definitely come again again.” What a dick.

  13. I sometimes get bogus pingbacks and the odd generic “love your site” but nothing like this. In fact I hardly get any spam comments since moving to WordPress.org. JEALOUS. All I get for weirdness is people searching for parts of Eric Burdon’s anatomy. Well, just one part. Over and over again.

  14. Catching up late, here, and wouldn’t comment except that was truly epic. Thank you for breaking it down for us, much as you do for other word-licious stuff.

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