Tuesday, February 25, 2025

Ex-Girlfriend Wins Breakup With Google

Ha. Some kid called Jack Weppler broke up with his girlfriend, so she put a truckload of embarassing Lolcat-style photos of him online - and tweaked it so that they'd all show up if somebody tried to Google him. So hey, that's something new to worry about.

Ha. Some kid called Jack Weppler broke up with his girlfriend, so she put a truckload of embarassing Lolcat-style photos of him online – and tweaked it so that they’d all show up if somebody tried to Google him. So hey, that’s something new to worry about.

Oh but it gets better! Because not only has this kid attracted the unblinking attention of The Internet, but his mom wrote to Google’s help forum to get the images removed from the search results. Which is like getting your mom to talk to talk to the teacher about bullies, except a million times less effective.

I’m frightened for you, Jack Weppler.

[BuzzFeed]