For the second time in just over a month, an online contest promising a celebrity concert as a prize looks to have been hijacked by a group of determined Internet pranksters.
The target this time? Taylor Swift, who could very well end up performing for an audience made up entirely of students from Massachusetts' Horace Mann School for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing. The 22-year-old songstress has partnered with Papa John's and textbook company Chegg for a promotion that will award a live concert to the school with the highest online vote total.
Thanks to an effort among Reddit, 4chan and other Internet users, the country's oldest school for the deaf holds a commanding lead over the second-place school. Even the Horace Mann School's Wikipedia page has been edited to include mention of the Reddit-led initiative.
But according to the contest's official rules, Swift could still opt out of the performance.
"If Music Event details cannot be agreed upon with Taylor Swift and the Grand Prize Winning School, Chegg may award the Music Event to another school," is one of the stipulations, the New York Daily News reports.
Regardless of the Internet community's intentions, the school could have the last laugh.
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