Fans of teenybopper Avril Lavigne are gaming YouTube in an attempt to bump the Canadian rocker into the site's top-ranked video spot. Web-savvy followers of the punk popstress have devised a constantly refreshing website that adds one pageview every 15 seconds to Lavigne's music video "
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The coveted top-ranking position is currently held by Judson Laipply's "
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Forum administrator Staticrebelle on the fan site
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"Avril Lavigne's 'Girlfriend' music video is less than 1 million views away from becoming the most watched video of all time on YouTube.... So what we're attempting won't be easy but ... Bahh who am I kidding? Of course it will be easy because we have a secret weapon."
The Avril Bandaids YouTube auto-refresher shows more than
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At time of posting, Wired.com has requested comments from YouTube, Judson Lappily and Avril Bandaids.
While YouTube's policy
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Our guess is the system will self-regulate. Either YouTube will remove the video from the top slot, as was the
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