The 2016 presidential election is truly becoming one marked by "URL activism," which is when a person purchases a domain name and has it redirect to a page about a candidate--which can be either negative or positive. The latest victim of this is GOP frontrunner Donald Trump, whose Wikipedia page loads after a person attempts to access the URL "Loser.com."
Users on Twitter were quite amused by this development:
The schadenfreude is real when someone redirects https://t.co/ZLJDffFvNK to Trump's Wikipedia page. https://t.co/oZBgih8L5l
— Bryan Logan (@BWLogan) February 2, 2016
Gotta love the internet. Just type www . Loser . Com into your adress bar for a laugh (no spaces obviously)
— Luke ???? (@SpursSmify) February 2, 2016
sometimes the internet is just great https://t.co/N69H6iS1kW
— Nicole Morley (@NicoleMorleyPet) February 2, 2016
Dear whoever owns the domain https://t.co/ysjtX6veqs ...you just became my #hero #loser.com #epic #funny
— Soprano Charisma (@sopranocharisma) February 2, 2016
Do yourself a favor. Go to https://t.co/uaic3ydUFF. #Trump2016 #trump #TedCruz #Cruz
— Rick. (@RdubHall) February 2, 2016
https://t.co/3jNYVNtXrm whoever did this, I love you
— Sergio Bernabéu (@ssbernabeu) February 2, 2016
Trump is hardly the first victim of Loser.com. Previous redirects of Loser.com include references to Kanye West, Barack Obama, Wikileaks, and Al Gore.