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Kai, the Coolie Island Boi One of my Riku imagesone of my very large Riku imageswas getting an amazing amount of traffic. I brushed it off as one of the vagaries of the web... until an unusual referrer link led me to the homepage of Kai, the coolie island boi. He'd direct-linked the image as his background. This offended me for several reasons. One, direct-linking is one of the great no-nos of the web: It steals the bandwidth which the image's owner paid for. Two, my image was now direct-linked to the homepage of a 17-year-old teriyaki gangsta playboy football captain who dislikes "people who ack stupid." Shudder. And three, it was a bad choice of backgrounds. Even with the text blown up, bolded, and turned light blue, everything on the page was completely illegible. People, if you must violate netiquette, do it right! So I spent a few minutes with Photoshop and a penis-enhancement ad and then swapped image names around. Kai's page now sported this image as a background. I was pleased with myself. It was easier to read Kai's page against that background than against the original background. Over the next few days, Kai's page got a rush of hits. Most of them were probably people going to his page through my livejournal, where I was chronicling everything. I had been expecting to get an irate email from Kai, then a quick unlinking, but each time checked the page, nothing changed. Four days passed. Kai's page had gotten over three hundred hits. They couldn't all be from my livejournal. So I changed the image again, just in case. I was especially proud of this one. It was a lovely photograph from Minotaur's Sex Tips for Slash Writers, guaranteed to set any straight boy's anus on edge. Five more days passed. Kai's page had gotten almost six hundred hits. Enough was enough. On September 14th, I sent him this email:
I have heard nothing back yet. As of this writing, Kai has four more days to save his homepage. (My apologies to those people whose images have been used in the pursuit of Our Imperial discipline. If you object, please email me and I will be happy to remove the images.)
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