If there’s one prank that we do welcome on Internet Annoyance Day it’s one like SlideShare tried to pull. Some programmer somewhere must have been coding late at night when they realized it was almost Internet Annoyance Day. Not having any creativity, energy, or time to invest in a suitable prank, they took the easy road like many are doing today. They decided to add *100 to their code and increase the views on all the PowerPoint presentations users uploaded. On top of that they sent out an email to let everyone know “omg you’re getting views, your e-peen is huge!” Of course new media douchebags ate it up. I guess we should have expected something like this from a company that builds a “business model” around PowerPoint presentations.
So here’s to you SlideShare. Kudos for pissing off your users to the point where they jump ship to your competitors. This just means that next year we won’t be seeing your lame attempts at humor anymore.