SmashMyViper.com – The Next Million Dollar Homepage? Ah, No...
I ran across SmashMyViper.com on Adrants the other day. It looks like the Million Dollar Homepage clones are coming full force.
The premise of SmashMyViper is that you buy a pixel on this guy’s Web page, and for every 10 x 10 pixel you buy you can put an image, link, and you can do varying degrees of damage to his Viper. Anything from “keying” the car to throwing a brick to smashing the car with a baseball bat.
Great idea, right? I mean not only do you get an ad on his page but you get to break stuff. That has to be a better value proposition than the Million Dollar Homepage.
Well, actually this is one of the most half-baked versions of the Million Dollar concept I have seen so far.
First off, it is not like you are helping out a college kid trying to get through school when you put an ad on SmashMyViper. Who you are helping is some jackass (we will call him Richard Jones) who already has an expensive car and is willing to wreck it to make some money. Yeah, the Web site says that Richard is flat broke, but for some reason I do not get the feeling that Richard really deserves my hard earned money. Call me crazy.
Even better, Richard has decided that the best way to promote his site is to make a short video of him doing burn-outs with a original rap soundtrack song about keying his Viper. I crap you not. Watch the video for yourself and see. If he was going to spend the time filming something he should have taken out the Viper and made his own version of Girls Gone Wild.
Oh, and speaking of Girls Gone Wild, Mr. Jones has also decided that a good way to make his site “sticky” is to band together a group of “Smash My Viper Girls.” My guess is that the girls are either his cousins or were roofied some time this summer on the Jersey shore and convinced that being a “model” for the site is a fabulous career move.
Anyway, looks like the site has raked in a total of $600 so far. I hope Richard keeps his day job. I have a feeling at the end of this he will have a beat up Viper, a few bucks in his pocket to cover costs, and possibly a love child with a “Viper Girl.”
Of course, maybe he will make a million bucks and prove me wrong. I kind of hope he does.
