Second Life millionaire pummeled with penises
by Ross Miller 
{ Dec 20th 2006 at 6:10PM }
Anshe Chung, the avatar for Second Life millionaire (in real money, not Linden Bucks) Ailin Graef, was giving an interview to CNET at their virtual offices when a griefer sent "animated flying penises" at the building for 15 minutes. After relocating to Chung's own theater, the Prick Assault followed and managed to crash the server.While the perpetrator's intentions are unknown, the article speculates that Chung, who has turned virtual real estate into an extremely profitable venture, has made many enemies in her rise.
We don't have any images from the incident, nor do we know the identity of the griefer, but here's an idea. We could put up wanted posters all over Second Life: Have you seen this prick? Report immediately to CNET's Daniel Terdiman . Do not attempt to apprehend this prick, as it is armed and dangerous. It was last seen hanging out at Anshe Chung's theater.
[Update 1: SomethingAwful has more on the event, including -- drum roll please -- pictures and video!]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Simon @ Dec 20th 2006 6:21PM
BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA. This might be the funniest Joystiq article ever. The mental image of that moment...brilliant.
serb @ Dec 20th 2006 6:37PM
hahahahahahahhahahahahhahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahhahaha
laf
trujillo @ Dec 20th 2006 6:33PM
ROTFLMAO!!!!!
RGD86 @ Dec 20th 2006 6:32PM
Here's where it all started: http://www.somethingawful.com/index.php?a=4336
Digg this!
tittergrrl @ Dec 20th 2006 6:36PM
Cocky bastard.
copa @ Dec 20th 2006 6:46PM
"Anshe Chung, the avatar for Second Life millionaire (in real money, not Linden Bucks)"
Nope, not in real money, in estimated value of virtual real estate. I am very skeptical that if she wanted to turn this into a million dollars in cash today, that she actually could.
This reminds me when all my friends and I had a million dollars worth of dot-com stock options 7 years ago. If any of us had actually referred to ourselves as millionaires, we'd be looking pretty stupid right now.
Jackson Pritt @ Dec 20th 2006 6:57PM
Why is this news?
Why is anything that happens in Second Life news?
It has an active user base of roughly 10,000 users and yet it gets incredible press coverage.
The only thing I can think of that's similar is Burning Man, which draws maybe 5,000-8,000 people and yet gets national news attention. But at least Burning Man has naked chicks.
Stop posting about Second Life.
It's a miserable piece of programming.
Stop giving it the attention it craves until it actually does something to DESERVE it.
Sploog @ Dec 20th 2006 7:08PM
LOL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExXltE_JVgs
Keil Joy @ Dec 21st 2006 1:39PM
wow. that guy's a real dick!
NoBullet @ Dec 20th 2006 7:28PM
*throws purple penises at Jackson Pritt*
You're a moron. Joystiq isnt a news site.
Scott @ Dec 20th 2006 11:36PM
GOOOOOONN RUUUUSHHHHHHHH
reppy @ Dec 20th 2006 7:34PM
It was Peewee.
Spore @ Dec 20th 2006 8:00PM
GENIUS! A dildo attack!
Kspraydad @ Dec 20th 2006 9:12PM
I don't 'get' the whole Second Life thing but that was hilarious...worrisome for the Second Life 'company' or whatever runs it but funny to an outsider.
I call for equal time for penises of all colours not just pink ones.
Kato @ Dec 20th 2006 8:47PM
Dipshit, Second Life reached 2 million users a few days ago.
Doomstalk @ Dec 20th 2006 9:06PM
That cracked me up.
Roll3r @ Dec 20th 2006 9:13PM
@ 13: Yeah, and I was one of those users who, like 1,000,000+ others, signed in once, got bored after 5 minutes, and never signed in again.
Dipshit.
Josh @ Dec 20th 2006 9:53PM
I don't understand Second Life...How can you just create anything? It doesn't make sense to me. What are the tools like to do this?
Vince @ Dec 20th 2006 10:32PM
@15: Yeah, and you quoted the wrong person too. I bet you feel smart.
Dipshit.
Anywhos - thats freaking hilarious. The way they moved... priceless.
Ryan @ Dec 20th 2006 11:46PM
I went to her site and decided to see if there was any mention of the incident on the forums. Instead, the forum had been spammed with links to porn sites, each written as a new topic. I also found a topic called "Website down?", written before the spamming. I wonder if the guys who griefed the interview also spammed the site after crashing it for a few hours?
Prokofy Neva @ Dec 21st 2006 12:13AM
The attack was perpetrated by the lastest alt of Plastic Duck of W-HAT, the group that somethingawful.com supports as a griefing group in SL. Dozens of their members have been banned for crashing the whole grid and perpetrating the most outrageous griefing on residents.
vectorelement @ Dec 21st 2006 1:22AM
@ 16:
http://secondlife.com/whatis/create.php
I was wondering the same thing. Seems like there are tools in the program, like tools in a 3d program, to create pretty much anything you want.
Dansk @ Dec 21st 2006 4:46AM
There had been either 400k or 600k users active in the last 60 days...
Dave Smith @ Dec 21st 2006 8:00AM
This is the funniest thing I've seen in months. What a creative way to attack someone, manipulate the SL system and get global attention for your deeds. Brilliant. Wrong, but brilliant.
Patrick @ Dec 21st 2006 11:05AM
No idea what any of this means but the video made me lol.
G3K @ Dec 22nd 2006 3:44PM
BAHAHAHA. I was actually there for this, didn't figure it would actually make the "news"...
The best part was the host's reaction - sitting there helpless shouting "would you PLEASE stop that".
Ronin @ Dec 21st 2006 12:58PM
Thank you for that Porky's Reference...I now have to go home and watch that tonight.
They call her Lassie...