A Wikipedia troll has edited the article about an iconic Australian pop song by Alex Lloyd.
The edit of Lloyd’s 2001 hit song “Amazing” came to the attention of fans when a social media user on X (formerly Twitter) shared a screenshot of the online encyclopedia, which relies on users to edit the information it contains.
The article begins with the song’s release date and notes that it is a single from Lloyd’s second studio album. The song also won the Triple J Hottest 100 of 2001.
But at the end of the first paragraph, things went completely wrong.
“It’s also the song from the Woolworths advert that makes everyone want to commit suicide,” the Wiki said, referring to the supermarket’s use of the song in its recent Olympic campaign in Paris.
The X user wrote in the caption of the screenshot: ‘Can someone please fix the Wikipedia page for Alex Lloyd’s hit single ‘Amazing’? I nearly choked on my dinner.’
The original poster then alerted the Wikipedia editor who made the change.
“Wikipedia user JbMaslenMw, you will pay for your crimes,” they wrote.
A fan has discovered a troll edit on Wikipedia that changed the entry for an iconic Australian pop song by Alex Lloyd. Pictured: Lloyd at the 2016 Brownlow Medal Ceremony
The piece starts off fairly normally, detailing the song’s release date, that it was a single from Lloyd’s second studio album and that it won the Triple J Hottest 100 of 2001, but things took a turn for the worse at the very end of the first paragraph
However, not all X users agreed. Many found the responses to the tweet funny and appreciated its humor.
“Why fix something that isn’t broken,” read one comment, while another wrote, “No, that’s 100% true.”
“Real people know it’s actually from the early 2000s Ford Territory ad,” wrote another X user.
“Can they add: ‘this was the worst thing that happened that month’?” asked another critic of Alex Lloyd.
The X user who saw the edit wrote in the caption of the screenshot: ‘Can someone please fix the Wikipedia page for Alex Lloyd’s hit single ‘Amazing’? I nearly choked on my dinner’
The original poster followed this up with a warning to the Wikipedia editor who made the change. “Wikipedia user JbMaslenMw, you will pay for your crimes,” they wrote
“I work at Woolies, this is a fact,” wrote someone else, while another commented: “Overrated song, Triple J Hottest 100 winner or not. Wikipedia is right.”
The lyrics for the song have since been reworked. The comment about the song’s effect on the will to live has been removed.
Lloyd’s song was nominated for Single of the Year at the 2002 ARIA Awards, but lost to Kylie Minogue’s dance hit Can’t Get You Out Of My Head.
‘Amazing’ has been used in several advertising campaigns over the years and has reportedly earned Lloyd hundreds and thousands of dollars.
In 2008, Lloyd was sued by truck driver Mark O’Keefe for royalties from the song. He claimed they had written the song together and that it had been printed on some beer mats in a hotel in 1991.
Lloyd, who was 16 in 1991 and O’Keefe was 29, denies ever meeting the truck driver.