Bert is Evil is the name of a heavily mirrored web site, founded by Dino Ignacio, which featured Bert, a Muppet character on the American children’s television program Sesame Street. In 1998 Dino Ignacio, Wout J Reinders and Jasper Hulshoff Pol accepted the Webby Award and the People’s Voice Award for Best Weird Website at the Palace of Fine Arts auditorium in San Francisco.
The website featured manipulated images of the puppet consorting with nefarious figures including Adolf Hitler[1], Osama bin Laden, and Jerry Springer,[2] and present at tragedies such as the JFK assassination,[3] humorously offered as “proof” that Bert was no mere innocent children’s television character. The “Evil Bert” phenomenon was picked up by other humorists, who created their own images linking Bert to current and historical atrocities.
In 2001, an undoctored Reuters news photograph was published showing a pro-Osama bin Laden protest rally in Bangladesh.[8] One protester is seen holding a large collage-style poster of bin Laden with a small image of Bert over his right shoulder – the same image posted to the Bert mirror in 1998 – which prompted much confusion and joking among Western audiences. The person who made the poster in Bangladesh copied it from the World Wide Web, leaving the image of Bert in his collage.
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