A website that was created in three hours is bigger than the site it took Barack Obama and his team of lefty whizzes years to build.
Since its launch three weeks ago, What the Fuck Has Obama Done So Far has pulled in over 4 million pageviews, according to Slate. Not too shabby especially considering how much time went into building BarackObama.org and My.BarackObama.Org.
At its peak, in October 2008, BarackObama.org drew about 8.5 million unique visitors, which was roughly the size of Huffington Post at the time, if not bigger. Its social-networking side, My.BarackObama.Org (an eerily possessive URL and a symbol that, yes, we definitely claimed him as quickly as we’ve disowned him) drew over 4 million unique visitors. Nowadays BarackObama.org pulls in around 660,000 unique visitors, while it’s social-networking arm pulls in about 550,000.
As traffic went off a cliff for the Obama sites, What the Fuck Has Obama Done So Far — the site literally lists off Obama’s accomplishments — has become to one of the most popular sites on the web. Why? Probably because of the word fuck.
You may recall that in late 2008 George W. Bush was still president and college kids and teenagers hated him. Unlike say, Dukakis or Gore, Barack Obama was the rare countercultural choice. Then he bailed out Wall Street without prosecuting any of its leaders. Shortly thereafter he sent more troops to Afghanistan in the face of a war-weary public. The message is clear: Barack Obama is through being cool.
What the Fuck Has Obama Done doesn’t have any information you can’t find anywhere else, but the creators did two clever things: They neatly compiled said information and they added the word fuck in the title. It’s not just information, it’s zany information.
So can Obama rekindle those fickle yet passionate kids that voted him into office? Easily, with a new campaign slogan: Yes We Fucking Can.
[Newsweek]
November 12, 2010 at 3:28 am, John q said:
People all over this planet had The Audacity of Hope(ing) minus the e, that Oh-BLAH-ma spoke from his heart while campaigning. We have not been so lucky. He simply said what our hearts and souls yearned to hear after eight years of Bushshit. HE – not McCain, turned out to be George Bush 111. We are all fucked.