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In the last few summer months of 2015 I have been getting a lot of friend requests on Facebook from people who show their home city to be my city, but have no other friends in common with me. One thing I have noticed in common among them is that many have a profile pic (usually needs to be viewed full screen) that has “RASIMLAR.CN” down in the bottom corner or bottom center, which looks like it might be Chinese dating site or similar to instagram.

I had initially begun accepting them without looking, because I am an admin for a large Korean Pop fan club (~20,000 members) on Facebook and many of the members like to friend me despite a pretty significant language barrier, and I don’t mind. However, after accepting a few of them, I started getting a lot of messages from real-life friends asking if I knew someone who showed me to be a mutual friend. It turned out a lot of them had profile pics with this particular website watermark or tag in the bottom right corner. After reporting most of them for possible fraudulent accounts, few of them seem to even exist anymore.

It looks to me like whoever runs Rasimlar.CN is engaging in some kind of social engineering trick to advertise their site or some other mysterious purpose (which I am perhaps playing into their ploy to further identify), perhaps with origins in China since “CN” is the Chinese domain extension similar to how “.co.uk” addresses are generally for British sites. I don’t find any articles that pop up about it yet, so I figured I’d just throw this out there to see if anyone else was getting them or if it was just me.

Are you getting these, and what region of the world are you from? I’m from northern Texas in the US.

Popular today among the people who couldn’t figure out how to google if it were the only ransom required to save their own mother: “already over 800,000 bikers on the road to confront 1 million Muslims in Washington.”

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1502495590042670&set=a.1382209548737942.1073741829.100008467290973&type=1
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Original Digital Art Post @ DeviantArt:
http://dashadee.deviantart.com/art/Cthulhu-rising-488263710

For some reason, someone who didn’t do their research, or a prankster perhaps, decided to post a digital artwork called “Cthulhu Rising” by artist DaShadeE from DeviantArt, as if it were a photograph of tornadoes in the distance on a road. The reason that it looks fake is because it is fake. Those are tentacles, not tornadoes.. and the bumps at the top are wings. And yet, the forwarding of this, as if it were an amazing storm system continues to get circulated. Also, Inola Oklahoma is flatland, not mountainous.

The actual location, according to the artist, is a highway near Sophia Bulgaria (which is in Europe, not even in the US). The artist used a photograph of the roadway found on Google, and painted the Cthulhu above it. The artist has stated that it’s okay to share, but does not offer it commercially or sell it.

The artist submitted the work to an FB page about HP Lovecraft, and is credited properly.
https://www.facebook.com/tomslovecraftpage/photos/pb.355297411206297.-2207520000.1424679096./706697726066262/

Biggest propagators so far:
“This group of tornadoes was around Inola, Oklahoma last night!! Unbelievable…I have never seen anything like it!” 9,461 shares as of April 6, 2015.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=810486668986385

“Thiw was taken on I-40 headed towards Pigeon Forge!!!! Wth!” 96,962 shares as of May 17, 2015
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=906332632731311

3015 upvotes, 285 comments as of April 6, 2015:

Ladies and gentlemen….Cthulhu!!! from pics

https://www.facebook.com/BestFunnyVideos2013/posts/1541996885850922

https://www.facebook.com/GeoGIF/posts/464925260371310

https://www.facebook.com/GeoGIF/posts/465975353599634

https://www.facebook.com/dean0official/posts/1554779161499200

https://www.facebook.com/GeoGIF/posts/466145153582654

https://www.facebook.com/dean0official/posts/1556634941313622

An unrelated Facebook page I Like, JustGirlyThings, mentioned randomly today about desiring a relationship like Jared and Savannah, and several commenters had no idea who they were, including me. I did a little hunting, and it appears Jared Yarnall and Savannah Montano are just two people in a highly photographed and public relationship, unconnected to any TV shows or films, just regular people, possibly still in high school. There is one Facebook group, Jared and Savannah that has 255,000 Likes (as of this moment), for instance.

The gent is fairly handsome, and the gal is rather cute, but that (and their dozens of pictures showing them kissing) seem to be the only particularly fame-attracting features of the two. There is an official YouTube channel, youtube.com/1savannah3 with around 98,000 subscribers. One source suggests they became “tumblr famous” simply from posting photos and videos about themselves, and people liked them enough to make them viral simply from sharing and reblogging their otherwise ordinary posts. Savannah’s twitter, @savmontano, suggests they are from south Florida in the US, and have an official tumblr and instagram also.

Some report that their relationship has been somewhat chaotic, with a handful of breakups, stirring jealousy by kissing mutual friends, and getting back together.

If you have any more information about the two, such as official tumblrs or really popular sites about them, please link below in the comments..