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The website, 1998 Webby winner for best weird site, featured manipulated images of the puppet consorting with nefarious figures including Adolf Hitler and Jerry Springer, and present at tragedies such as the Hindenburg crash, humorously offered as "proof" that Bert was no mere innocent children's television character. The "Evil Bert" phenomenon was picked up by other humorists, who created their own images linking Bert to current and historical atrocities. 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... Presented by The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, the Webby Awards are a set of awards presented to the worlds best websites. The awards have been given out since 1996. ... Hitler redirects here. ... Talk show host Jerry Springer :This article is about the talk show host. ... LZ 129 Hindenburg was a German zeppelin that was destroyed by fire while landing at Lakehurst Naval Air Station in New Jersey on May 6, 1937. ...

In 2001, an undoctored Reuters news photograph was published^[1] showing a pro-Osama bin Laden protest rally in Bangladesh. One protester is seen holding a large collage-style poster of bin Laden with a small image of Bert over his right shoulder, which prompted much confusion and joking among Western audiences. The original image of Osama bin Laden and Bert had been created using an image editing tool by humorist J-roen earlier and placed on a website, and the person who made the poster in Bangladesh copied it from the World Wide Web, leaving the image of Bert in his collage.^[2] However, the image did not come from Bert is Evil, as the site had been idle since 1998.^[3] 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... There are persons that have the name Reuter: Ernst Reuter, mayor of Berlin, Germany from 1948-1953 Edzard Reuter, Industrialist (1928) Paul Reuter, founder of Reuters news service Wolfgang Reuter, mayor of Offenbach, Germany from 1986-1994 See also: Reuters This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which... Osama bin Muhammad bin Awad bin Laden (Arabic: ‎; born March 10, 1957 [1]), most commonly known as Osama bin Laden is a militant Islamist and one of the founders of al-Qaeda. ... Demonstrators march in the street while protesting the World Bank and International Monetary Fund on April 16, 2005. ... A man carries a sign at the September 24, 2005 anti-war protest, a demonstration in Washington, D.C. American Civil Rights March on Washington, leaders marching from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial, August 28, 1963. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

After this photo was released on the news wires, Ignacio took down the "Bert is Evil" section of his website, stating that he doesn't want to undermine the character in the eyes of children who watch Sesame Street. "I am doing this because I feel this has gotten too close to reality," he said. Despite Ignacio's request that no "mirrored" versions of the site remain on the Internet, copies of Bert is Evil can still be found online.

See also

• Internet humor
• Photo manipulation
• Photoshopping
• Internet phenomenon

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References

1. ^ http://www.mlcsmith.com/humor/bertsama/
2. ^ For a detailed account of the use of the image, in South Asia as well as by Western news agencies, see [1]. This also argues against the notion that inclusion of the Bert image is some kind of coded communication. It is more likely that the protester did not know who Bert is.
3. ^ http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,36218,00.html

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External links

• Bert is Evil at the Open Directory Project
• BBC article with pictures.
• Bertsama bin Laden humor
• Snopes article about bin Laden and Bert appearance
• CNN article
• San Francisco Chronicle article
• New York Times article