Net users annoyed by Justin Bieber’s online ubiquity can now breathe simple courtesy of a program that censors each mention and photograph of the 16-year-old Canadian frontman.
Bieber’s massive and vociferous online fan base have made it all but not possible to surf the web without stumbling across references to the teen pop star.
But now a website designer has announced war on “unwelcome Bieber touches on ” by developing a tool that blacks out his name wherever it would appear online.
The Shaved Bieber application, which users can add to their browser by saving it as a bookmark, covers up all examples of the words “Justin Bieber ” and “Bieber” alongside any photos that include Bieber in their file names.
The tool is sure to prove especially preferred on Twitter, where the constant tweeting of his teen fans makes sure that Bieber’s name isn’t absent from inventories of trending subjects, which reflect the most talked-about subjects on the site. Shaved Bieber, which may also be downloaded as Firefox add-on, is the work of web site designer Greg Leuch, an affiliate of the Free Art and Technology online creative collective.
He has traditionally created an add on that converts text from higher case to lower case, in reaction to the caps lock-heavy blog entries of rapper Kanye West.
Bieber entered the public eye 2 years back after his mummy posted videos of his performances at non-professional singing competitions onto YouTube.
He earned a dedicated underground following and was quickly joined up by major US label Island Records. His latest album My World 2.0 went to number 1 in the States charts and No three in the United Kingdom. Bieber’s domination of Twitter’s trending topics took another blow earlier in the month when the micro-blogging site modified the procedure is uses to work out the most up to date subjects being debated by users.
It now gives concern to words and word phrases that enjoy a spike of renown, at the cost of terms like Bieber, Justin Bieber music videos which are tweeted in massive volumes more regularly.
