4chan is responsible for disturbing #CuttingForBieber prank
Legions of Justin Bieber fans desperately want the pop singer to stop smoking marijuana and are willing to injure themselves to prove the point, or so some users at the message board 4chan.org would have you believe.

A message posted on their site read: ”Tweet a bunch of pics of people cutting themselves and claim we did it because Bieber was smoking weed.”

What followed were images of self mutulation attached to fake accounts made to look like they were being posted by teenagers.

The perverse hoax gained massive attention with sites such as Hip Hop Wired being tricked into posting the story as a real piece of news, complete with a gallery of the images.

However, they weren’t the only ones to be fooled.

Today on Twitter, the hashtags #CuttingForBieber and #CutForBieber began to trend with some Tweets being attached to horrifying photos of blood soaked arms. Others were outraged, posting comments about the obvious insanity of the actions.

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http://o.canada.com/2013/01/07/cuttingforbieber-is-fake-just-another-sick-4chan-joke/