Feb 17
What began life as a small Tumblr blog roughly a year ago has blossomed into the latest Internet phenomenon this week, spending a good chunk of the day offline, due to traffic. People of Walmart is a collection of some of the um, less visually appealing folks who frequent the mega-retail chain. It’s a great place to go if you love to check out the butt cleavage of overweight people pushing shopping carts.
Of course, with a site built around poking fun at regular people, controversy isn’t far behind success. The Long Island Press is reporting one woman’s fight to have unapproved pictures (which, let’s be honest, is almost certainly all of them) taken off the site after the blog referred to her mother as, “a Canadian member of the division of the trench coat mafia.” Yeah, that’s a pretty rough one.
Having public photos removed from the Internet is a lot easier said than done, of course.
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