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Four Loko is a caffeinated malt beverage which myself and many of my friends enjoy. Recent legislation has threatened the sale of Four Loko in New York State. We ask Dennis Rosen, chairman of the NYS Liquor Authority, to rethink his stance under the belief that Four Loko is essential to New York City's well being and part of a balanced drink menu.8-bit rockers Anamanaguchi (whose new song we debuted a little over a month earlier) stood up and fought for our rights as free American beverage consumers by organizing (along with Ryder Ripps), and playing a stripped down set at, an outdoor Four Loko rally, as described above, in Union Square last night (11/17). Part vigil, part outdoor concert, part rally, and all crazy, onlookers were treated to an acoustic set from the band, as well as their fair share of public (or should I say pubic?) nudity. Leia was on hand for the action, and her very NSFW pictures (possibly disturbing), and some video testimonials to the power of the beverage, (you've been warned) are below...It is my personal belief that New Yorker and American Forefather, Alexander Hamilt...on, would have enjoyed Four Loko and made it his drink of choice during the grueling Battle of Yorktown - as it is a drink which can keep you awake and warm - perfect for when Hamilton and General George Washington led the remaining 2000 soldiers of the Continental Army across the Hudson to Brooklyn in pure silence under the dark New York City moon - a maneuver which saved the army, won back New York and ultimately America from the taxing hand of the British.
Please join us on the steps of Union Square at 7pm on November 17th for this candle light vigil - share your voice, bring a sign, light a candle and lets UNITE AS ONE to stand for FREEDOM and something greater than the individual .. AS ONE WE CAN BE FOUR. -[Four Loko Supporters]
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what the hell?
Posted by Anonymous | November 18, 2010 1:40 PM
What about Four Loko hummus?
Posted by Anonymous | November 18, 2010 1:41 PM
first world problems.
this is pathetic
Posted by Anonymous | November 18, 2010 1:42 PM
no place to bring children...
like people need another reason to act like complete d-bags..
Posted by Anonymous | November 18, 2010 1:45 PM
me and my friends like to call them "white people problems". but, yea, ugh.
Posted by sloweducation | November 18, 2010 1:46 PM
well that's pretty awesome
Posted by Anonymous | November 18, 2010 1:47 PM
Ryder!
Posted by Anonymous | November 18, 2010 1:47 PM
This is stupid but I think they're just goofing around so who cares? Let people have their fun.
...and first world problems = white people problems? So only white people live in the first world?
Posted by Anonymous | November 18, 2010 1:48 PM
Man, you commenters sure do hate fun.
Posted by Anonymous | November 18, 2010 1:48 PM
@1:42 and 1:46, this event was clearly done ironically. I mean, c'mon.
Posted by Anonymous | November 18, 2010 1:48 PM
That girl really wants people to see her vagina.
Posted by Anonymous | November 18, 2010 1:48 PM
Four Loko sucks. There, I said it.
Posted by Anonymous | November 18, 2010 1:48 PM
Yes, let's bring our offspring to the Four Loko rally. Trash.
Posted by Anonymous | November 18, 2010 1:54 PM
FUCK YEAH DUDE!!
Posted by Anonymous | November 18, 2010 1:54 PM
"And the pitch, a slow changeup right down the middle of the plate, Carles swings and it's back, back, way back...."
Posted by Anonymous | November 18, 2010 1:55 PM
That Vagina sucks. There, I said it.
Posted by Anonymous | November 18, 2010 1:58 PM
Is that K-Fed?
Posted by Anonymous | November 18, 2010 1:58 PM
It was way better before she turned around.
Left something to the imagination rather than going straight to nightmare mode.
Posted by Anonymous | November 18, 2010 1:59 PM
those trustfund kids are so wacky! And, she looks like she's underage; that crackhead dude was in heaven.
Posted by Anonymous | November 18, 2010 2:00 PM
yikes
Posted by Anonymous | November 18, 2010 2:01 PM
im blushing
Posted by Anonymous | November 18, 2010 2:07 PM
huh?
Posted by Anonymous | November 18, 2010 2:10 PM
this event was made by people who have trust funds!!! infact they were giving money to people to come!! thats how trust funded they are!!! white people ruin the world!!! i hate trust funds!!!
Posted by Anonymous | November 18, 2010 2:14 PM
Two black people were there. And one of them showed her snatch.
What a fucking pathetic piece of shit group of people.
Posted by Anonymous | November 18, 2010 2:16 PM
i used my entire trust fund on 4loko
Posted by Anonymous | November 18, 2010 2:16 PM
i was at the "rally"
no one knew what the fuck was up with that chick who kept showing her twat. that guy who kept taking pictures of her was just some guy who walked by who wanted to film this girl.
oh yeah, anamanaguchi played. that was pretty fun.
Posted by Anonymous | November 18, 2010 2:17 PM
hipsters are so mean these days.
Posted by Anonymous | November 18, 2010 2:25 PM
Ah Ryder Ripps, the greatest net art self promoter ever
Posted by Anonymous | November 18, 2010 2:26 PM
our society should just be nuked at this point.
i wonder how many four loko protests are going on in shanghai and mumbai.
Posted by Anonymous | November 18, 2010 2:28 PM
This is one of the f*cking lamest things I've ever seen posted on this site. Could all of these people try any harder? And that's really crazy - a chick showing her thong off. Crazy. Thanks for posting that six times. Especially the one of Vanilla Ica posing next to her. Thanks for posting this. Can't wait for the report on the Sparks rally in WillamsGreenPointParkSlopeBerg. Maybe next week you can head to the Upper West Side, host a 'D-Bag' party sponsored by Grey Goose and head in for pictures. Exacty same thing, just different costumes.
Posted by ohmygodwhoarethesefuckingtextbookwannabehipsters | November 18, 2010 2:29 PM
u mad
Posted by Anonymous | November 18, 2010 2:30 PM
"Maybe next week you can head to the Upper West Side, host a 'D-Bag' party sponsored by Grey Goose and head in for pictures. "
dude thats a great idea
Posted by Anonymous | November 18, 2010 2:31 PM
why is vanilla ice posing with the bare assed chick?
Posted by Anonymehous | November 18, 2010 2:38 PM
In a raspy, elder gentleman's voice:
"The fight for the 'Great White Privilege' was long and hard, but we stood our ground. Ne'er were they going to take away our caffeinated alcoholic beverages after they made Sparks alter their recipe. We knew America was on the edge of collapse...but that, if Four Loko could maintain it's visibility and gas stations and convenience stores abound, we would then being to propel this once great country back to such."
Posted by Anonymous | November 18, 2010 2:44 PM
i also agree with 1;59s assessment
Posted by Anonymous | November 18, 2010 2:48 PM
those blonde white girls need to leave new york and go back to their freshmen dorms.
Posted by me | November 18, 2010 3:02 PM
I just lost all faith in humanity
Posted by Anonymous | November 18, 2010 3:06 PM
what an ugly group of nobodies
Posted by Anonymous | November 18, 2010 3:12 PM
that vadge makes me wanna vomit more than blue raz 4loko
Posted by Anonymous | November 18, 2010 3:31 PM
interesting that people are being racist with the "white person problems" remarks but no one made a racial comment about the girl bizarrely exposing herself. i guess that's progress.
Posted by Anonymous | November 18, 2010 3:34 PM
2:29 nailed it on the head
Posted by Anonymous | November 18, 2010 3:37 PM
That shit looks like it fell off the short bus.
Posted by Anonymous | November 18, 2010 3:54 PM
drivenbyboredom.com
that black chick is always at random NY events naked. It's her thing I guess. Bunch of shit of her on that site.
Posted by Anonymous | November 18, 2010 4:14 PM
ryder ripps is famous
Posted by Anonymous | November 18, 2010 4:16 PM
ryder ripps is the new andy warhol
Posted by Anonymous | November 18, 2010 4:16 PM
NOT the new warhol but cool like andy
Posted by Anonymous | November 18, 2010 4:20 PM
Ruined a already ruined thong.
Posted by Anonymous | November 18, 2010 4:21 PM
Again, that dude Pete from that band SUCKS. This is stupid.
Posted by Anonymous | November 18, 2010 4:27 PM
God this is worse than when Freelance Whales "busked."
You idiots give the rest of us whites a bad name.
Posted by Anonymous | November 18, 2010 4:49 PM
@3:34 - Perhaps you missed the first 2:16's stupid ass racist comment.
Posted by anonypus | November 18, 2010 4:55 PM
the only reason people do these things is to get on blogs. and have a big ironic laugh at how they actually, like, did that. to stare at the anonymous commenters getting all riled up. something to demarcate the meaninglessness stream that is your (apparently my) life. it's all oh so funny and so smart. just a way to kill time before you hit you're mid-30's and get a serious job and some kiddos. then you can kick back and remember the good ole days - when you ripped it up in nyc... by staging 4Loko protests.
Posted by ishithummus | November 18, 2010 4:56 PM
So they tried to convince lawmakers to rethink their ban on the stuff... by making a drunken ruckus in a public place?
Wow, to think I admired these guys. Ugh.
Posted by Supakitsune | November 18, 2010 5:11 PM
Wow this is completely pathetic. That Loko garbage probably has wood alcohol in it along with the array of different stimulants.
And they could couldn't think of a better issue to seriously protest about. Maybe they all should have had four or six or those vomit juices in one hour.
Posted by Anonymous | November 18, 2010 5:27 PM
too bad that chick from tinsel teeth was not there.
Posted by Anonymous | November 18, 2010 5:29 PM
Union Square is for squares.
Posted by Anonymous | November 18, 2010 5:55 PM
Four Loko street team are sooo, sooo craaaazy...
Posted by Anonymous | November 18, 2010 5:57 PM
gotta love how everyone loves to throw racism into everything
Posted by Anonymous | November 18, 2010 6:02 PM
because this is completely sincere, guys. peter berkman doesn't even drink.
Posted by Anonymous | November 18, 2010 6:23 PM
@4:56 - hit the nail on the head
Best,
Ryder
Posted by Anonymous | November 18, 2010 6:28 PM
why is everyone commenting so fucking retarded
this shit wasn't even serious, anybody taking this seriously is fucking garbage
Posted by idiots, all of you | November 18, 2010 6:29 PM
2:16 wasn't racist. He was first responding to claims that its a "white" person event by pointing out the blacks in attendance.
He then called the group of people stupid but he didn't mean blacks, just the group of people in the pictures.
Posted by Anonymous | November 18, 2010 7:03 PM
this 4loko is 4you 4yder 4ipps
Posted by Anonymous | November 18, 2010 7:05 PM
camehl toe.
Posted by Anonymous | November 18, 2010 7:50 PM
Check out the cameltoe website.
Posted by Anonymous | November 18, 2010 8:10 PM
that's one classy bitch
Posted by Anonymous | November 18, 2010 11:00 PM
I want to go to NYU & protest something
Posted by Anonymous | November 18, 2010 11:39 PM
When I read the intro, I was expecting way more from these photos - those didn't even make one loko
Posted by Anonymous | November 18, 2010 11:41 PM
Of all the world's problems, THIS is what is getting kids interested in politics and wanting to get out and protest again?! This new generation of kids really saddens me
Posted by Anonymous | November 18, 2010 11:46 PM
RYDER IS A GOD
Posted by Anonymous | November 19, 2010 12:08 AM
This is gross, stupid and sad! I was sort of against the ban till I saw this. Now I say cut it off and get it out of the city!
Posted by Anonymous | November 19, 2010 12:55 AM
gotta love ny
Posted by b rabbit | November 19, 2010 2:17 AM
"Anamanaguchi doesn't care about black people" - Kanye West
Posted by isfet | November 19, 2010 7:53 AM
understand why they are doing this, but this is four loko. people are aware of poverty and famine in this world, right?
Posted by Anonymous | November 19, 2010 1:17 PM
I hear people don't have food or clean water in Port au Prince Haiti. Maybe you fucking obnoxious hipster dickholes should go over there and bitch about how you can't even drink Four Loko where you come from! I'm sure they'll shed a tear for you. I never thought there was such a thing as too much freedom till I saw this. God damnit.
Posted by Anonymous | November 19, 2010 3:44 PM
maybe u shouldnt spend your time hating on people who are having a good time and making a JOKE out of four loko and spend the money u spend on cable internet to make these stupid comments and go to Port au Prince Haiti and help them.
Posted by Anonymous | November 19, 2010 4:33 PM
Why does Vanilla Ice look like James Carville now? Anyway Anamanaguchi is amazing live.
Posted by Jacob | November 19, 2010 5:11 PM
This is not a joke. I love that you people think this a joke. It's irony. Irony is like a joke that isn't funny!
Posted by Anonymous | November 19, 2010 5:31 PM
ugly attention whore is utterly disgusting.
HEY MORE PHOTOS LETS GO.
Lame
Posted by Anonymous | November 22, 2010 1:22 PM
Great or Greatest event ever? BRB, making those magitic "Nervah Forget" ribbons for people to place on their SUVs in remembrance of the heroes of last night.
Posted by Xander | November 22, 2010 1:33 PM
4:43.... Very well spoken. Thank you all for giving in and making this the entertainment that you can't understand, but we love to see.
Posted by Anonymous | December 4, 2010 8:46 PM
This was seriously just a party. If they'd called it the "Four Loko casual get-together that won't achieve anything besides a good time" nobody on here would be upset.
Posted by Anonymous | December 9, 2010 1:27 AM
Finally, something I can wank to on this shit site.
Posted by Anonymous | December 19, 2010 12:57 AM
Sharon Jones certainly lost some weight...and apparently her vision too.
Posted by Anonymous | December 20, 2010 1:02 AM
Am i the only one that see this as a fake protest with the intention of mocking four loko, as should never have existed in the first place?
Posted by Liam | January 22, 2011 12:29 AM
Wonderful post and the location is beautiful and elegant in design and information and everything>>> to Favorites
Amazing is an enormous understatement. One of the best electronic shows I've ever been to and I've seen well over a thousand concerts. I had no idea Vladislav Delay was as good a drummer & percussionist as he is- fabulous and he kept everything swinging with a very unique style of playing. If you missed this you missed out big time...
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Posted by يوتيوب القمة | March 2, 2011 2:30 AM
to Liam, who commented on january 22nd, 2011:
LOL @ YOU. if you had actually been to the protest you would have known for wayyy sure that we were not faking a damned thing.
Posted by M#TT | July 12, 2011 11:48 AM