Anonymous is pissed.

The denizen’s of 4Chan’s /b/ board demonstrated the power of the web to create its own reality tonight with a “raid” on Disney darling Ashley Tisdale. The original thread organizing the attack was deleted by 4chan, but I can summerize it for you.

Apparently, Miss Tisdale angered the /b/ mob by covering Rick Astley’s “Never Gonna Give You Up,” a song that has regained popularity thanks to the 4chan “Rickroll” meme. As I write this, scores of anonymous 4chan lurkers are flooding Wikipedia, Digg and Tisdale fan sites with a manufactured story of Tisdale contracting AIDS during a Nov. 2007 nose job…as well as several vile images and pictures of pornlets with Tisdale’s face Photoshopped onto them.

The problem with these uncoordinated and unplanned “raids” is that they have far too many “newfags” (/b/’s term) going feral and posting dumb shit like this before the lie can catch traction in the mainstream media. The raid has had one success so far, as attested to by this screenshot from Hollywood.com:

Yes, why am I wasting your time with this? Well, I find it fascinating. If a random group of loosely allied people can cause this much havoc in the rumor-whoring celebrity media, then what would it actually take for a trained and coordinated team to ratfuck the mainstream media about a major issue? Of course, it wouldn’t last long, and reality would definitely catch up. But it might work long enough to sow confusion and doubt about a complex issue.

Would it work long enough to win an election?