Bert is Evil

Bert is Evil was the title of a website often mirrored by Dino Ignacio, which dealt with Bert, a character from the children's program Sesame Street.

The website, the Webby Award won for the craziest site in 1998, was mounted photos of the doll with infamous people of history like Adolf Hitler or Jerry Springer or pictures of Bert, the event of major disasters, such as the crash of the Hindenburg is present when humorous "proof" of the debt of Bert, who had just not merely an innocent figure of children's television. The Evil Bert motif was adopted by many comedians who own pictures of Bert started linking him with current or historical horror in conjunction.

2001 an unprocessed photo from Reuters has been released, a demonstration in Bangladesh per Osama bin Laden showed. One of the protesters carried a large poster with a photo collage of images of bin Laden. In the collage also a small image that Bert 'm behind the left shoulder Laden was revealed. The Reuters picture made ​​by Western observers for confusion, and it made ​​a lot of jokes about it. The original image of bin Laden and Bert had been previously created by comedian J- roen with an image editing program and published on the web. The creator of the demo poster had copied it and Bert are not removed from the image.

Following the publication of the demonstration image Ignacio took the Bert is Evil range from the network, and stated that he did not continue to undermine the positive view of children on the character Bert on Sesame Street. He wrote: "I'm doing this because I have the feeling that this thing has come too close to reality ." Despite Ignacio's request to take all copies of Bert is Evil also from the network are still some online.

A detailed statement on the use of the image of the demonstration in South Asia and in the Western media is online. This also speaks against the assumption that the use of Bert on the poster is some form of encrypted communication. It is more likely that the protester the figure Bert did not know, and therefore easy Reserve left him in the picture.