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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Must try harder.
Seems that Chow got you, so I think we tried hard enough :).
Yup, he got me - but he lost a reader in the process.
I think if you asked him, he’d still say it’s worth it haha.
I would say that! LOL. People with no humor = Boring
And this is what we can read there now “Removed because my lawyer shit his pants.” :D
thats an old one dude… didn’t get me!
yeah man i love rick astley, i’m an 80’s child, nice Aprils fool!!!! :)
You suck, you know that? I just had to restart my browser and lost work. Ass!!!
lol you don’t have to do that. Just let it play out and it stops jumping around after like 15 seconds.
You fucking asshole. You closed my fucking cart session by forcing me to kill the process. Tabs were not switchable. Go hang yourself. Idiot.
not even an april fool’s joke. follow the xkcdloop or your random newspaper’s. that is an april fool’s.
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bwhahaha. I think this is what makes this so hilarious.
hhahhahaa, i know, right?
Same here. Lost another subscriber.
Think one sucked dude!!
Lot of bad pranks tdy!
Firefox never stops playing it. It stops jumping, but you still cannot close it without Ctrl Alt Delete. How mature.
Why don’t you try shutting of your JavaScript idiot.
bwhahah. You can def close it out by letting it play through all the lyrics with the space bar. Get over it.
maybe ur just too slow. Gotta work on your mouse-eye coordination…
Ok great, guess every blog I read today is going to have something, I better wait till tomorrow.
You fools!
You can kill it, you just have to keep clicking through all the little pop-ups. It takes a while, but they stop eventually.
Good one, though.
I just deleted this subscription - see ya around.
Why don’t you test in browsers other than IE?
I had to reset my browser in FireFox to stop your looping site.
I thought only people that are new to computers and the Internet use IE as their primary Internet Browser.
I use FireFox and I can close out of it fine.
“looping site” lmao….
you suck at the internet…
Thats a lot of heat for a rick roll people. Take the damn joke ppl.
But seriously Paul. Fuck YOu!!! Im at work dammit
mohahahahahahaha yea fuck you paul glad i never clicked:d lol
It feels like Wikipedia in here with all these people who can’t take a joke.
good thing I have safari… I just hold enter and it scrolls through all of the alerts and i’m out in like two seconds.
dammit. Got me.
well shit. good one. wasn’t even thinking
Yea, no kidding. I’ve been caught twice in as many days. By the cow too.
Good try! Can’t fool me three times! I’ve already been had twice on this damn trick!
Yes, it will close, but only after you click for was seems like an endless amount of times on the javascript pop ups after you try to close. Just keep click “close” and it will eventually close.
the best is when peoples speakers are up…you hear ppl litterally clearing their desk trying to turn down/unplug shit….hilarious…..the negative comments would have to be ppl 04 01ing you back because if they are seriously pissed…they are no strangers to lovvve…they know the rules and so do i….
if they cant figure out ff/ie oh my thats a whole ‘nother blog in itself…
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I am in a fair amount of emotional distress after clicking on that link…I don’t think I can handle this blog anymore, I’m heading over to WickedFire, I hear they are sensitive…
That’s a good idea. I hear they’re having a group therapy session on April 2nd to help with all the Rickroll emotional distress.
First John, then you… I have a lot of unsubscribing to do today!
Wow, you suck. Didn’t your blog used to have real content?
At least is wasn’t a dickroll this time…
I hate you.
see a lot of people are saying they are unsubscribing but the number of readers keeps going up
That Rick Ashley is great. For the money, I don’t think it gets any better than “never gonna give you up”. I celebrate the guy’s entire collection.
“I celebrate the guy’s entire collection.”
ROFL! Best comment so far! :)
DOUCHE. BAG.
Third time this year YOU ALONE have gotten me. I will never click another one of your links again. LOL.
And I thought John Chow was never gonna give me up nor let me down..
That was weak man. Whoever fell for that is a fucking retard, sorry.
Well aren’t you just the smartest and coolest guy on the interweb.
Putting up a video as joke, ok maybe funny..
Crashing people’s browsers with an endless loop of a stupid JS error message (firefox) not so much..
Just cancelled my sub. go somewhere and poke your eyes out.
fucking shit…LOL
The reason this isn’t cool, Sup3r, is because you’re fucking with your own readers. Also because we all have been rickrolled several times already on other sites…so by this time, it’s not funny, not interesting, not new.
Be a man. Take it down.
Completely stolen from nickycakes and his IRC channel. OLD AND VERY mature.
Yep, because nickycakes invented the rickroll right?
Every other blogger is posting some sort of prank today. I don;t take half the posts seriously lol
This post is one of the ingredients in weaksauce.
Congrats on being the first April fools joke I fell for…
Damn RSS reader doesn’t show comments before I click on links, lol.
All you have to do is hold the “Enter” button down until the page closes. I can’t believe it is April already. I look forward to reading your interesting posts.
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.
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 hate those things…. Lol. Made me loose 10 seconds of my day!! I’ll never get that back!
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.
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
That is not what I said….try reading it then comment
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?
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.