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All may not be lost...
A "web friend" of mine sent an email of complaint to MTV about Cassie's deletion and received this reply:
Unfortunately there are people in the internet world that would like to make this competition seem rigged by us. The truth is, they themselves are screwing it with a series of hacks and scripts in attempt to vote people up. This is not fair to the rest of the population on the site who are gaining votes through promotion and from people who truly think they would be a good candidate for Paris. SassyCassie86 was unaware of this happening, we have contacted her and explained the situation. She has only been removed temporarily. She should be back shortly.
Best,
MTV
So it appears that Cassie has only been removed temporarily!
Voting fingers at the ready guys, she's got a lot of catching up to do... legitimately of course!
So what can you do apart from giving Cassie your one vote per day? Spread the word, tell your friends, tell your enemies, tell anything that has an ear or an email address...
VOTE FOR CASSIE ONCE A DAY,
HELP GET RID OF STERN'S DJ!
Man, with lyrics like that i should be a ghost writer for Snoop Dogg or something!
Heres what happened yesterday.
Basically, someone found Cassie's profile and saw that she was a genuine person who deserved to win.
Sure, she's not size zero, she doesn't have a radio show or a contract with a modelling agency but she did have one thing... she was a genuine fan who showed a modest but real desire to meet her hero.
Emails started to circulate, forums and message boards were introduced to her page, and bit by bit, Cassie's following developed. Some of the biggest, most influential web communities joined the fight, including ebaumsworld forums, somethingawful forums, and b3ta.com to name a few.
By this time Cassie was gaining a steady stream of genuine votes, around 1000-2000 per hour.
...and then... the chans joined in!
Unfortunately, The chans mostly consist of 12 year olds and older people who like to act like 12 year olds. They only wanted the instant gratification of watching a few small digits on Cassie's page increase in value. They decided to join the cause not by voting once per day but by using hackers tools to constantly submit multiple votes.
By this time Cassie was gaining around 10,000 votes every 15 minutes.
And then... and then...
And then MTV showed their hand. Their hand was clad in the slimiest, most cynical cloth... the cloth is called "we-dont-give-a-f!@#".
So what do we make of all this?
Well, MTV have shown themselves for who they really are. They claim to be the voice of youth, they claim to be a stage for new ideas... but only if you're a wannabe model/media whore with perfect teeth and a wardrobe full of D&G.
They don't care who the winner is as long as they're attractive, as long as they have a face for advertising.
And the saddest thing is, for girls and young women especially, the pressure to look perfect in an imperfect world - full of Photoshopped stars on magazine covers, pop singers who would fit through a letter box - is immense. Just how can any young lady compete with celebrities with digitally reduced cellulite and digitally enhanced whiter-than-white teeth?
They can't.
All MTV has done over the past 24 hours is added to this weight of synthetic rubbish pushing down on the shoulders of young women. They don't care if teenage girls are driven half way to insanity while trying fruitlessly to emulate their celebrity heroes.
MTV wants us to be intelligent, individual people with our own personal quirks and imperfections... just not on their godforsaken channel.
Shame on you MTV.
The page you were looking for doesn't exist.
They have removed Cassie's page.
http://parisbff.com/people/sassycassie86
I sense an internet outrage.
We don't cheat.
Despite what some people may think, me, and others like me do not cheat.
As of this moment I have voted exactly twice, once yesterday and once today, and have set up exactly one account... this one.
What I have done however is campaigned on many forums I am a member of and got lots of other people to vote. Some disagreed and voted for Tay Zonday or Benjy, but lots agreed and are voting for the one person who seems like a totally genuine person, sassycassie86. Everybody else just seems like the all too familiar attention whore we see almost everyday on TV on shows like Big Brother. I want to get to know and love a REAL person, a person like Cassie.
At the end of the day, MTV will have the IP records and will see that my voting has been completely within the rules. All you are seeing now is internet power, the Mr Splashy Pants effect, a moment of unity and collective realisation. If you don't like it... that's a shame, you're way outnumbered.
All thats left to be said, is...
GO CASSIE GO!
