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As he got older, Spector became known as the kid who could rip R-rated comedy CDs for you. Spector was a brilliant kid, so savvy with computers that he taught an internet class for senior citizens when he was in third grade. There was something inherently hilarious about following the movie's example of juxtaposing Diesel's manliness with over-the-top 'facts.' And on computers around the world, snarky teenaged rabble-rousers loved piling on Diesel.

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His new movie, 'The Pacifier,' featured him attempting to turn his muscular masculinity on its head by playing a monotoned Navy Seal who had to go undercover as a babysitter to protect a family.Ĭritics hated the movie but it grossed $200 million worldwide. The idea was a half-homage, half-goof on Diesel, who was having an internet moment at the time. They were absurdist jokes, like 'Vin Diesel counted to infinity - twice' and 'Superman wears Vin Diesel pajamas to bed.' Some had funny pictures of Diesel that amplified the joke. He was even more intrigued when he began scrolling through and realized that they weren't actual facts about Diesel. It was titled 'Facts about Vin Diesel,' and he was intrigued that there were eight pages of comments. 'But they did want to hang out there.'Īs Spector scrolled through the constant stream of new forums and new comments on old forums, he was struck by one particular thread. 'It was a group of people who probably wouldn't ever want to hang out in person in real life,' Spector says.

Believe it or not, the site is still active. They were memes, even if people didn't commonly use that word at the time. That night, he logged onto, a kind of pre-Reddit Reddit full of high school and college-aged hell-raisers who'd grown up stealing music on Napster, listening to the Jerky Boys make prank phone calls and matching funny photos with one-liners to goof around. Ian Spector was about to become one of the internet's first meme kingmakers. What happened next is the internet equivalent of Marie Curie discovering radium, or Thomas Edison inventing the telegraph. So, the high school senior eventually got antsy and decided to connect with his virtual friends instead. ON A BORING FRIDAY night in 2005, Ian Spector was sitting at his computer, unable to get ahold of any of his real-life friends.

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