Understand the Brody Ruckus Hoax

Hoax

Note this is still here for historical context, but definitely a hoax. See the discussion on wikipedia.

The question, though, is if we should revile Brody Ruckus as a hoax, or revere him for bringing needed attention to threesome's. Santa Claus is a Hoax, but we love what he stands for.

There doesn't seem to be a Brody Ruckus in the Georgia Tech directory.

• The Brody Ruckus in question is Facebook member number 12822071. It says he is part of the Atlanta, GA network, but his member number begins with 128, which is Georgia Tech's school prefix. (least significant 5 digits are the user number unique to the school, most significant 2-4 digits are the school ID). Not sure why he isn't part of the Georgia Tech's network. Cheesy
  • He WAS part of the Georgia Tech network, until people noticed that there was no such person at Georgia Tech. This is all a big scam, a publicity stunt for a new college music downloading company called Ruckus Music, which has a partnership with Georgia Tech. 159.178.251.46 11:02, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
  • 128 means he registered under Georgia Tech, and 22071 means he was the 22070th person to register a facebook account at Tech. Though Brody deleted this information from his feed, the person before him (Matt Fogel registering under the pseudonym Rockefeller Q. Einstein) registered at 11:39am on September 5th, 2006. I can't see the person after him, but the person after that (Dr. Phillip Thompson) registered at 3:39pm on that same day. That day was also the day that Brody created the facebook group (at 2:45pm). This means that "Brody" created his facebook account less than three hours before the creation of the group. This leads to the conclusion that he either never had a facebook account to begin with and decided finally to join facebook after making this bet with his girlfriend, or he created a new (fake) account to pull this hoax. Given his familiarity with facebook it would seem that the latter is more likely. This also explains the complete lack of information on his profile and why nobody at Tech has ever seen or heard of this guy. Whether or not this is a hoax, however, clearly the phenomenon alone is worthy of a wikipedia article. Jaardon 12:52, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

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Group founder for the Facebook group known as "If this group reaches 100,000 my girlfriend will have a threesome."

Created group after making a bet with his girlfriend Holly on September 4, 2006. After discussion about Facebook popularity and Facebook groups such as "Largest group on Facebook" having difficulties getting people together, as well as the dream of Brody's threesome, the bet was created that Brody could reach 100,000 by the end of the term (December 31, 2006), and if he did so, she would have a threesome with any girl of his liking. On the 4th day of the group's existence, the group had attained more than 100,000 members.

After achieving what he had thought was the ultimate prize, Holly agreed to allow pictures of the threesome to be taken - with the new number of 300,000. Also, ' 'if hell froze over" or this became the "largest group on Facebook" ', only then would she agree to video footage of the event.

Brody, because of the help of Facebook members, thought it only fair to allow those same members to vote for the 3rd of the threesome our a few finalists have been selected. SO, the website where you CAN vote on Brody's third girl is: http://www.brodyruckusthreesome.com

There are many who have complained on the site's "Wall Postings", Forums, and even by creating other groups, but one thing remains: Brody Ruckus will have that threesome. And at least 100,000 people know that they've helped him do just that.

Web pages:

Actual Facebook Group -
http://ucsd.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2207756044 note: this group is now deleted.

Voting Page LIVE): http://www.brodyruckusthreesome.com (site where people can vote on the third girl to be in Brody's threesome)

Clothing -
http://www.cafepress.com/brodyruckus/ (this seems to be the official site, as it is linked to from Brody's website) http://www.brodyruckuswear.com/

Support -
Fans of Brody Ruckus -
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2207631387

Media -
VH1's Best Week Ever -
http://www.bestweekever.tv/ble/story/1475/