fortniteburger.net

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fortniteburger.net is a shock site that refers the user to a Rule 34 image of Wreck-It Ralph titular character Ralph. The site gained online notoriety in September 2019.

Origin

On December 20th, 2018, an unknown user registered fortniteburger.net domain.^[1]^[2] At an unknown date prior to September 16th, 2019, the site was set to refer to an imgbb.com-hosted Rule 34 image of Wrech-It Ralph character Ralph based on a promo art for the film, with Ralph edited to have a large erect penis (censored image and original art shown below). The author of the edited image is currently unconfirmed. The name of the site is based on the Fortnite Burger.

The site did not gain online notoriety prior to September 2019. Starting on September 16th, a series of posts baiting users to go to the site was made on /r/okbuddyretard subreddit and on Instagram, with the earliest known post made by Redditor Radiation69 (shown below, left).^[3]^[4]^[5]

GUYS DONT DONT GOOGLE FORTNITEBURGER.NET seriously dont I'm not joking

GO TO FORTNITEBURGER.NET JUST TRUST ME DO IT

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In the following days, more posts hoaxing users to go to the site were posted on Reddit, Instagram and Twitter. For example, a post by Twitter user @SourceLocator made on September 21st, 2019, received over 340 retweets and 1,400 likes.^[6] A September 23rd post by Twitter user @datonestarfox2 received over 80 retweets and 490 likes (shown below).^[7]

Oscar @datonestarfox2 just searched up fortniteburger dot net Daily Raimi Spider-Man @EARTH_96283 Sep 22 Spider-Man 3 (2007) Theatrical poster 2:13 AM Sep 23, 2019 Twitter for Android Kil

On September 25th, 2019, the image on the website was briefly changed to a photograph of a promposal (shown below).^[8] The photograph was changed back to a more cropped version of the Rule 34 Ralph image prior to October 16th, 2019.^[9]