Originally, I think it was the good blogger folks at Macromedia who had this idea. Far too many people in the world have cracked versions of Flash, yes. So the clever idea was to put the words 'Flash' and 'crack' all over their blogs, then people looking for that type of thing would go there and read about why that is a dumb thing to do (which it is).

So anyway, this has caught on in the Flash blogging world it seems, I mean really caught on in a bad way, like that time I jumped over the barbed wire fence. I know everyone sees it as the morally right thing to do, for sure, regardless of the fact that the majority have forgotten to include any form of anti-piracy message. Could it be that most people do this just to increase their hit count? My gosh! Kind of like the way people used to slip porn words into invisible text before the search engines caught on? Well I guess when you need a hit, you need a hit - doesn't matter what you have to do to get it, doesn't matter who gives it to you.

In and of itself, this is not a bad thing. Really. A hit of crack can bring great satisfation to some after all. The only real problem is we don't have a name for this type of blogger. So may I humbly suggest "crack whore"? As long as nobody reads that in a negative way, I think it works quite well.

Actually, why stop at a name, what we really need a contest with prizes! How about this, whoever comes up #1 in a google search for "flash 2004 crack blog" on the last day of each month will be emailed an authentic gif replica of this fabulous t-shirt, custom designed right here in our studios:



The other upside is this is the personal correspondence - it will be a great way for me to get to know my fellow bloggers! Its such a great feeling to be able to give something back like this : ). And hey, I have to tell you the businessman in me has a cautious hunch that this could grow right into full blown google sponsorship. They are flush with cash these days, and have just bought blogger.com, so its a perfect fit!

How does 50 bucks of google ads for "flash 2004 crack whore" sound? Holy shit, now we are talking traffic! And not just more of those bored employees at 2pm -- real, flush-with-cash, bought and paid for traffic!

Cheers,
Robin

PS. Some of you who claim to be astute have written in to mention that this post

1) makes me a double, or perhaps triple crack whore, and

2) gives me an unfair advantage for September.

To prove this isn't true, please notice: the title of this blog entry begins with "RFC" and yet clearly this blog doesn't allow comments. Astute people would have noticed this, and immediately closed the window to continue with the next google entry for "flash 2004 crack blog" (or was it "flash 2004 blog crack"?). This clearly didn't happen, which therefore, is proof that the 'astute' claim was false. (Editor's note: This blog originally didn't have comments) (Robin's note: quit pretending you have an editor).