This will probably get taken down because I’ll probably get a C&D sent to me for this, but I did some snooping around John Chow’s servers the other day. What I found was an Adsense check for January of 2008 totaling $98,574, you can see it here.
Maybe Chow was sick of everybody calling him out for running such an enormously popular make money online blog but never posted a picture of what he actually makes. I have no idea when he actually planned on posting about it…but I’m sure the process will be, well, expedited once he sees this. Sorry John.
What are your thoughts? Call me bold, but I’d actually call him out on the fact that he faked those screenshots. Is he really this rich? Perhaps it’s another retarded April Fool’s antic, but it’s a pretty good Photoshop job I will admit.
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ROFLMBO!!!! These comments are too funny…
“We’ve all been rickrolled several times on other sites…”
“Third time this year YOU ALONE have gotten me.”
“Nickycakes invented the rickroll, right?”
“weaksauce.”
This is just too funny. Some of these comments are hilarious!
I gotta admit, I was pissed at first. But I let it play through, all the alerts and everything and it stopped. Or else I managed to stop it somehow. Not a happy-maker, but fun. Once.
The funniest part is that you say chow got an adsense check…
You’ve made a couple of stupid fucking posts lately. . .
you may think it was funny – but it was unprofessional and you can go F yourself. Prank or not this thing resizes your browser and bounces around your screen and the bazillion alerts before it quits – I had 50 tabs open in firefox and you really screwed up my browser and hours and hours of work.
This was my first visit to this blog – and the first post of yours I’ve read. F-U, I will not be back. It’s not as if I’d know if you respond to this anyway, you don’t even have subscribe to comments installed.
Ha-ha, I clicked the link on both this site and Johns, but because NoScript is blocking the scripts, I got only the “You got rickrolled” message.
mohahahahahahaha yea fuck you paul glad i never clicked:d lol
you know, the funniest part is that many of us always want to see big checks and stats screenshots thats why everyones clicking clicking…hahahaha sweet one though but Paul you are a goat..i love the previous post of you closing down the blog! hahahaha :D
LOL
I love it.
I hate those damn Rickroll gags, I also had to close out FF while in the middle of a bunch of open tabs/work.
I don’t mind an April Fool’s joke, (hell, I ran one on my site today) but it didn’t cause anyone to need to close out their damned browser.
Not funny IMO.
Vic
if words were guns online some people would have shot you dead since Paul! hahahaha i like the sound of a shot gun! lol:D
Seen the movie on your page before. hehe. Cool joke.
That video is classic! Nice trick…the pop ups were a bit annoying, but it’s all in good fun. Looking over these comments though, you’ve got some angry blog readers!
-Ryan
I would say that! LOL. People with no humor = Boring
I hate those things…. Lol. Made me loose 10 seconds of my day!! I’ll never get that back!
hhahhahaa, i know, right?
should have seen this one coming…
I cop it from wickedfire a few times. I think it’s shit too
Lol keep up the good work, 10k rss by jan 1st 2009.
maybe ur just too slow. Gotta work on your mouse-eye coordination…
“looping site” lmao….
you suck at the internet…
To all you fags crying about the rickroll:
If you don’t know what a rickRoll is, you should not be in affiliate marketing. Don’t waste another penny and go back to your day job.
Paul, time to stop posting your tips on everything else and just talk about ricjrolls until these noobs get it…
“Yup, he got me – but he lost a reader in the process.”
“You fucking asshole. You closed my fucking cart session by forcing me to kill the process. Tabs were not switchable. Go hang yourself. Idiot.”
“I just deleted this subscription – see ya around.”
What’s with all the asshole comments?
Uber has posted at least $100,000 worth of money-making advice in the past 3 months alone, and you seriously have the nerve to post comments like this?
Ha Ha
I love the comments of people saying they lost work. Work so important they are spending their valuable time looking at supposed images of checks written to other people.
Thought it was cool. Double subscribe to help balance out the unsubscribers. Whether signed up or not you know they will be back.
Thanks for the good blog.
It’s only funny til lunch time on the 1st April. If you leave it hanging around any longer, the joke will turn on YOU! :-) Could be worse, the BBC’s april fool was flying penguins!
Good one, you got me bad.
Well, this was my first time checking out your site. Thanks alot for way too much hassle. I won’t be returning again.
Old…lame as well, especially for a blog that I USED to read. -1 reader for you.
Think before you post something like that in future – you go on about building up your business, then do something like this which is painfully obvious is going to piss people off and damage your very own business – nice one, very clever.
On top of that you then get the idiots like Tevin Anderson and Ross for thinking this was actually clever and defending it – you are not clever for laughing at an idiotic prank from an immature kid that happens to be good at internet marketing, he has the excuse of being immature, you have no excuse and obviously no talent in this area…..and before you writing something along the lines of ‘it was only a joke get over it’ this is simply more proof of the above. If you can’t see this was a bad idea, then you really should be the ones looking for another career
So I should quit affiliate marketing because you fell for a Rickroll?
haha
Same here. Lost another subscriber.
Taking over my frigging browser with that stupid shit was ridiculous..grow up
I loved it! there sure are too many cry babies with no sense of humor here.
can you hold my hand and teach me affiliate marketing?
That is not what I said….try reading it then comment
might have been funny like a year ago when rickroll was actually new. Can’t wait to see what next years April fools prank is…oh wait, I’ve probably already seen it and this end of the interwebs will just be hearing of the new latest thing lol.
this was the lamest joke ever, I lost hours of work in my browser when it crashed because of this pathetic attempt at an april fools joke.. I’m unsubscribing again!
hahaha you and john chow owned so many people.. but fuck I loved JC’s apology! hahaha i’ve watched that a few times.
And this is what we can read there now “Removed because my lawyer shit his pants.” :D
The Link to John Chow’s Blog Post is Dead. Well not exactly…
“Removed because my lawyer shit his pants.” John Chow