Spam

[[File:Spam 2.jpg|thumb|right|200px|The original, which is content to taste terrible and isn't out to steal your personal information]]
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{{cquote|For some algorithmic reason beyond my ability to understand or control, I cannot escape Dr. [[Ron Paul]]. I did something inadvertently that led Dr. Ron Paul and his business partners to believe that I wanted to sample his loon-ness and perhaps pay for it. Nothing could be less true. He might as well be Dr. Spam who also visits my email addresses regularly.|||David Rutter<ref>[http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/lake-county-news-sun/opinion/ct-lns-rutter-dr-ron-paul-st-0203-20160203-column.html Rutter: He's trying to escape what Dr. Paul sells]</ref>}}
[[File:Mobile phone spam Vi.jpg|thumb|left|165px|Mobile phone-based spam in Vietnamese]]

'''Spam''' is unsolicited commercial email, commercial phone text message, or inappropriately added commercial text in a [[wiki]] page usually sent out in bulk to an indiscriminate recipient list. From the perpetrator's perspective, it is the art of forcing everyone else to look at the perp's stupid [[Advertising|advertisement]] and hoping some of them are stupid enough to reply to it or follow the call to action provided such as "click the link."

Spam tends to help promote political [[conspiracy theories]] ("OBAMA FAKES ASSASSINATION, [[Gun nut|COMING FOR YOUR GUNS]]?!") and marketable [[pseudoscience]] ("NEW HERB [[Penis enlargement|INCRESES PENIS]] BY 
8
 
10
 15 INCHES?!").

==The food==
Most spam is loathsome, but the original Spam®{{efn|Which doesn't appear to be an acronym of anything, contrary to popular belief, but there are rumors it's short for "spice and ham", "shoulder of pork and ham", or "scientifically processed animal matter"<ref>[https://www.eater.com/2014/7/9/6191681/a-brief-history-of-spam-an-american-meat-icon A Brief History of Spam, an American Meat Icon], Erin DeJesus, ''Eater'' 9 July 2014</ref>}} is highly prized in some places such as [[Hawaii]], where it is now regularly stolen by low-level criminals.<ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/10/19/spam-heists-in-hawaii-prompt-retailers-to-put-the-wildly-popular-mystery-meat-in-locked-cases/ Spam heists in Hawaii prompt retailers to put the wildly popular ‘mystery meat’ in locked cases] by Fred Barbash (October 19, 2017 at 4:47 AM) ''The Washington Post''.</ref> There's an [[urban legend]] that Spam is popular among [[cannibalism|cannibals]] because it supposedly tastes like [[human]] flesh, but this appears to be a [[hoax]] originating from a joke by writer {{wpl|Paul Theroux||.}}<ref>[https://www.huffpost.com/entry/hawaiis-dubious-food-dist_b_4378612 Hawaii's Dubious Food Distinction], Denby Fawcett, ''Huffington Post'' 3 December 2013</ref>

==See also==
*[[Clickbait]] — the webpage-based form of spam
*[[Monty Python]] — the source of the term
*[[Gish Gallop]] — debate tactic that works like spam
*[[NaturalNews]] and [[List of websites owned by Mike Adams|mirror sites]] — banned on [[Facebook]] and blacklisted from [[Wikipedia]] due to spamming
*[[Search engine optimization]]
*[[Fun:Clickbait]]
*[[Fun:Spam generator]]

==External links==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXGjwf6zUWY A history of spam on the internet], We're in Hell

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