Found this one via LRB Forums. It’s a Japanese viral spoofing “The Ring” for Asus computers. Normally I wouldn’t post a Japanese viral, but this was found on China’s Youku, and has managed to garner 620k views in about one month, as well as a slew of commentary from China’s netizens ranging from date requests to the “ghost”, to helpful pointers on how the ghost can defeat Asus computers.
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