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Perhaps started by spammers, many websites contain customer reviews that are falsified in a Trolling or parody manner. These false reviews are often hyperbolic at best and usually meant to inspire humor rather than backing the actual usefulness of the product they are critiquing.
Spread
These reviews have been noted on sites such as Amazon,[1] iMBD, Craigslist,[2] as well as many others. Though there is no exact origin of this meme, it is thought to have propagated in a manner such as Infomercial Fails where a few positive reviews about a mediocre product soon evolve into paragraph long reviews about how a product “saved someone’s life.”
Below are several already documented phony reviews.
Banana Slicer Reviews
Banana Slicer is a product that
Three Wolf Moon Shirts
Bic “For Her” Pens
My Little Pony: The Princess Promenade
The My Little Pony: Princess Promenade
Sources
[2]Best of CL – Craigslist