Meatspin
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About
Meatspin is a shock site featuring a clip from an adult film set to the 1985 Dead or Alive song "You Spin Me Round".
Origin
According to BMX Board[5] user ruthlessrobbie, the original clip was taken from the transexual adult film TSBitches starring Cristina Bianchini. The clip was used in a YTMND page titled "Ridin Spinnaz"[1] created on May 5th, 2004, which featured the 2003 rap song "Ridin Spinnaz" by Three 6 Mafia.
Spread
On March 10th, 2005, the single serving site Meatspin.com[35] was launched, which hosted a larger version of the video clip paired with Dead or Alive's 1984 synth-pop hit "You Spin Me Round." On December 1st, the term "meatspin" was defined on Urban Dictionary.[6] On February 5th, 2006, the Meatspin.com domain name was sold on the auction site eBay[27] for $2100.[18] On March 1st, 2006, the earliest known reaction video was uploaded to YouTube by user nicktendo (shown below).
On July 30th, Meatspin was named the "Awful Link of the Day" on Something Awful.[31] On February 19th, 2007, the Meatspin Network[19] was launched, which consists of 15 different shock sites as of March 2013. The network maintains a blog[20], Twitter[21], YouTube channel[22] and Reddit[23] account. On March 22nd, the first Meatspin related question was submitted to Yahoo! Answers.[28]
Between 2007 and 2009, nearly 100 derivative YTMND sites[7] were created, many of which featured spinning pieces of actual meat.[8] In addition, the Meatspin website has been referenced on many discussion forums, including gaming board Illusory Studios,[24] the Snopes forums,[25] the music board AbsolutePunk[29] and the MMA forum Bullshido.[30]
Leekspin
On May 3rd, 2006, Leekspin.com[3] was created as an alternative to Meatspin, pairing the character Orihime from the anime Bleach with a cover of traditional Finnish folk song "Levan Polkka" by the band Loituma.[4]
Domain Expiration
On March 10th, 2012, the domain name Meatspin.com expired and the image was replaced with a parked domain advertisement. On March 12th, news of the site's removal was picked up by The Daily What[12], the Daily Dot[13], Guyism[14], pop culture blog I Heart Chaos[15] and the General Mayhem forums.[16] By 12 a.m. (ET) on March 13th, the site was back up.[17] On March 10th, 2013, the domain expired a second time and as of March 12th, has not been renewed.
University Wifi Hack
On March 1st, 2013, Benjamin Blouin (pictured below), a computer engineering student at the Florida State University's Panama City campus, hacked the school's wireless network to redirect all Internet users to the Meatspin website. Upon discovery, Blouin was suspended by the school's administration and arrested on third-degree felony charge of offenses against computer users.
In an interview with The News Herald[36] on March 11th, Blouin defended his action by claiming to have performed the hack in order to make school officials improve the network’s security, while asserting that he did not specifically choose Meatspin, as it was the default website on the application he used to administer the hack. The school's network security was upgraded immediately after the incident. On the following day, the story was picked up by several news sites, including Gawker,[32] BetaBeat[33] and The Daily Dot.[34]
Search Interest
Search for Meatspin began to pick up in June 2005, hitting an all-time high in December 2007.
External References
[1] YTMND – Ridin Spinnaz
[2] YTMND – Search results for "Spinnas"
[5] BMX Board (via Wayback Machine) – Meatspin is Everywhere.
[6] Urban Dictionary – Meatspin
[7] YTMND – Search results for "Meatspin"
[8] YTMND – Meatspin Dot Com
[9] Livejorunal – Meatspin reference
[10] YouTube – Nicktendo's channel
[11] YouTube – Search results for "meatspin reaction"
[12] The Daily What (via Wayback Machine) – End Of An Era of the Day
[13] The Daily Dot – Pranksters bid farewell to Internet shock site Meatspin
[14] BroBible (formerly Guyism – via Wayback Machine) – Meatspin.com Has Been Shut Down
[15] I Heart Chaos (via Wayback Machine) – A piece of the internet died today as Meatspin.com goes down
[16] General Mayhem Forums – Oh noes. No more meat spin!!!
[17] Tumblr – Meatspin is back up! (unavailable)
[18] YTMND – Meatspin.com Sale Screenshot
[20] Meatspin (via Wayback Machine) – Blog / screenshot August 25 2010
[21] Twitter – @meatspincom
[22] YouTube – meatspinvid's channel
[23] Reddit – Profile for meatspincom
[24] Faldon forums (formerly Illusory Studios) – So, uhh… what the fuck is meatspin?
[25] Snopes – Truth behind 'Meatspin'? (unavailable)
[26] WebArchive – Meatspin Forums
[27] WebArchive – Meatspin.com Auction
[28] Yahoo! Answers – Is MeatSpin a virus?
[29] Absolute Punk – Meatspin.com
[30] Bullshido – Prank links (eg meatspin) NSFW links (login necessary)
[31] SomethingAwful – Meatspin (NOT SAFE FOR WORK)
[32] Gawker – Florida State Student Faces Felony Charges For Redirecting School Wifi
[33] BetaBeat (via Wayback Machine) – Student hacks college wifi network redirects all traffic to meatspin
[34] The Daily Dot – Florida State student hacks wifi sends entire campus to meatspin
[35] Meatspin.com (via Wayback Machine) – Meatspin
[36] News Herald – Student redirected FSU wifi
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