So this “blog” Equalizer Mag ran this sensationalist story about a vinyl purist murdering a Traktor DJ. It was filled with a whole bunch of wtf.
See a few snippets below:
BERLIN – Police have identified 36-year-old Johannes Van der Burgh as the primary suspect in Friday night’s gruesome nightclub slaying of 22-year-old Polish DJ Mark Borowski.
Van der Burgh — who was apprehended after police received several key leads from eyewitness testimony — confessed to the murder. He added to the confession by telling police that he was simply doing what “any vinyl purist would have done.”
While this certainly reads like it could have come from an official source, if you search for any of the names and keyword related you can’t find ANYTHING online.
If there really was a “gruesome” nightclub slaying of any kind, there would be a ton of related coverage.
But if you kept reading you would come across quotes like this;
“[Borowski’s] simplistic dynamics and preset loops would drag for 16, 32, or even 64 bars at a time,” says clubber Daniel Hirsch.
“It’s doesn’t really surprise me that he was murdered.”
The simplistic dynamics and preset loops lead to this guys murder? Come on.
While we applaud the viral marketing stunt (the post has 22k likes), it’s concerning that people could get trolled so easy.
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