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Muslim Massacre (video game)

Wikipedia's first sentence called it “controversial 2008 amateur computer game by something awful forum member eric vaughn under the screen name "sig”. Today it says “controversial 2008 amateur video game by former something awful forum member eric vaughn under the screen name”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “2008 video game”. It now reads “2008 video game 2008 video game”.
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Muslim Massacre: The Game of Modern Religious Genocide is a controversial 2008 amateur computer game by Something Awful forum member Eric Vaughn under the screen name "Sigvatr." It is a top-down shoot 'em up video game. The aim of the game is to kill all Muslims that appear on the screen.1 The developer's website is down, however the game can still be downloaded via torrent.2

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Today
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “controversial 2008 amateur computer game by something awful forum member eric vaughn under the screen name "sig”. Today it says “controversial 2008 amateur video game by former something awful forum member eric vaughn under the screen name”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “2008 video game”. It now reads “2008 video game 2008 video game”. Read the current article and compare.
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Then

controversial 2008 amateur computer game by something awful forum member eric vaughn under the screen name "sig

Now

controversial 2008 amateur video game by former something awful forum member eric vaughn under the screen name

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