Woodkirk Stone
- Loser.com has found a new target: Russian President Vladimir Putin.
- In recent years, Loser.com has redirected visitors to the Wikipedia pages of various celebrities and politicians.
- Previous targets include former Presidents Donald Trump and Barack Obama, as well as Kanye West.
Visitors to Loser.com are now redirected to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s Wikipedia page.
Putin is the latest target of Loser.com owner Brian Connelly, who has used the site in recent years to troll and shame politicians and celebrities.
In 2016, after then-presidential candidate Donald Trump placed second in the Iowa caucus, Loser.com was redirected to Trump’s Wikipedia page. Trump came in second behind Texas Senator Ted Cruz, who was also a 2016 presidential candidate.
A year earlier, Connelly targeted Kanye West, now known as Ye.
Connelly said he was inspired to redirect users to Ye’s Wikipedia page after seeing the rapper take the stage at the 2015 Grammy Awards when Beck won album of the year. Ye issued a public apology in 2017, but the moment stuck with Connelly.
“Watching this man bully Taylor Swift on national television? It was awful,” Connelly told The Daily Beast. “And seeing it happen a second time at the Grammys, I thought it was a scripted part of the show. When I realized it wasn’t, I was like, ‘Oh, that motherfucker.”
Loser.com has been a registered domain since 1997, the Washington Post reported.
Connelly has previously said he also uses the webpage to raise awareness.
When Barack Obama, for example, ran for office in 2008, Connelly redirected Loser.com to his Wikipedia page to encourage people to register to vote, he said.
“It was not against Obama’s election! he said, according to The Hill.
Other targets include former presidential candidate Al Gore and Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina.
While it’s unclear when the site first started redirecting visitors to Putin’s Wikipedia page, it likely happened sometime after Russia launched an unprovoked invasion of Ukraine on February 24. Since the attacks began, more than 3.3 million Ukrainians have fled the country, according to data from the UN Refugee Agency.