NEW YORK – Only six months old and already challenging New Media titans like BuzzFeed and the Huffington Post, the viral media website Stufftaker is overtaking social networks with original content taken right from the locked houses of random strangers.
“We break into your home and steal things that are your property. Then we put them on our website,” said Stufftaker CEO, Josiah Soren. “We get revenue and you get exposure, so it’s a mutual benefit thing.”
Although Stufftaker does not ask permission to use the contents of people’s drawers, rooms and cupboards, the company has a strict citation policy. Every piece shown on the website includes the full name of the original owner, as well as their address, daily routine, and the code to their home security system.
“Stufftaker is really changing the paradigm, and showing that content can be anything,” said tech blogger Yolanda Evon. “Sure, you can watch videos of people’s cats. But now you can have people’s cats.”
“Look at this one. Used to belong to a woman named Michelle. He was all she had. Now he’s yours. Eight bucks, check the website.”
Although critics have accused Stufftaker of plagiarism, Soren has defended his actions, saying he only ever stole from people who couldn’t afford to sue him, like writers, artists, musicians, and the congenitally poor.
Several pieces of Stufftaker’s ‘secondhand content’ have already gathered over twenty million hits each. Among them are:
‘He thought nobody would break into his house, steal the manuscript he’s been working on for 20 years, and publish it on their website under someone else’s name. What happens next, you won’t believe.’
‘Unbelievable! Someone had already robbed this place when we got there. Not!’
‘Check out this dumb kid sleep while we take his shit.’
‘The ten reactions every one of our millions of readers has when they read Linda’s confidential and deeply personal mental health records.’
‘Beautiful: deaf man listens to gunshots for the first time during a B&E gone wrong.’
At press time, Stufftaker was being sued for plagiarism by Elite Daily, after it robbed a doctor’s house and published several diagrams of the human asshole.
