Firefox Mascot Hoax – Alexandra Ansgar

June 16, 2006 | In: General

Hoax

A couple of days ago I found a photo of a hot chick wearing a Firefox shirt, after 30 seconds of admiration and examination I thought to myself: I can’t be selfish, need to share this with someone… wouldn’t it be cool to write about this on Gadgetizer? Maybe proclaim this beauty the Firefox mascot? I’ll make this out of pure fun and hopefully no one will believe it.

So, I made up a name for the girl and decided to call her Alexandra Ansgar, also had to give her a nationality and picked up Scandinavian. With this in mind, I wrote the good news and published them with a cool title: New Firefox Mascot – Alexandra Ansgar . I didn’t want the story to seem too rightful, so at the end of the post, I wrote:

Can this be true? I’ll let you decide.

One day after writing the post, here are some of the sites that picked up the story:

Ubergizmo
IdeaGrove
Jaggle
FrazPC
GeekIsland
MalDevBlog

Some people thought it was true, others found out it was false very quickly because of another photo (not suitble to view at work or near children).

For those that still have any doubts, it is indeed a hoax that I created.

Hope you liked it ;P

[tags]firefox mascot, hoax, alexandra ansgar[/tags]

6 Responses to Firefox Mascot Hoax – Alexandra Ansgar

scott

June 16th, 2006 at 9:50 am

I wasn’t fooled, sir….just liked the shirt

Tiago

June 16th, 2006 at 2:02 pm

Well, I’m glad you liked it. It’s kind of hard not to, ehe.

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June 16th, 2006 at 10:26 pm

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