After 18 days of protests, riots, and general discontent in Egypt, President Mubarak was forced to step down. Nations all over the world were watching, and came away with an obvious moral: NEVER turn off the Internet. Serious Business. If people got this angry over blocked access to Twitter and Facebook, imagine how much angrier those people would be when they realized that porn access was also blocked.
Never mess with a man’s spank stash.
How does one turn this into indie cred? Well, when someone talks to you about Egypt, tout it as “old news” and “so last week.” Then, mention some other country currently trying to overthrow their government, the smaller the population, the better. The object of the exercise is to try and pick an obscure country to get you those precious hipster points. (Although, with the average American’s tenuous grasp on geography and world events, this actually won’t be too hard.)
The best thing to come out of the Egyptian revolt so far? This website, proclaiming the presidency to be “under development and reconstruction.” Love the flag .gif, Honsi. You’d think that he could have sprung for some better HTML coders before he skipped town. Oh wait, they were all in Tahrir Square getting their shit kicked in and being firebombed. I forgot.
