[sirchtruth]

The Octsurprise.com site tweets this document release is about Trumps announcement.

I call B.S. on them both, but hope to be wrong.

[Right Ahead]

For crying in the night. This is getting ridiculous!

[kabar]

The Octber surprise website has already been proven a fraud. It was a marketing gimmick.

A reverse IP search shows that the website belongs to Anthony Maro of Chicago, Illinois. The person who posted the website’s link on BuzzFeed is Jeff Hopwood, one of Maro’s coworkers at Discovery Communications, the company that encompasses the Discovery Channel, Animal Planet, TLC, and other brands.

Hopwood and Maro didn’t respond to requests for comment.

Internet forums hold another clue to the pair’s history: “The Greatest Rickroll Ever,” a prank in 2007 in which Maro and Hopwood are rumored to have been behind a site called Radioheadlp7.com and started a similar countdown, promising new information on that year’s much-hyped Radiohead album when the timer ran out.

When the timer ran out, users were rickrolled — a popular Internet prank at the time that involves putting a video of Rick Astley behind a link purporting to be something else. Radiohead denied being a part of the stunt.