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In 2004, Lerner's first famous work was first surfaced, with his site's Google bomb for French military victories. Between then and 2006, the site had been growing in popularity, receiving about 1.50 million pageviews per day. | In 2004, Lerner's first famous work was first surfaced, with his site's Google bomb for French military victories. Between then and 2006, the site had been growing in popularity, receiving about 1.50 million pageviews per day. | ||
Albino Blacksheep is also famous for being a major portal for Flash animation and animutation (a Flash animation style created by Neil Cicierega in 2001). The popular Web game Musical Lantern can be found on this site.<ref>albinoblacksheep.com/flash/lantern</ref> The website also helped the band Tally Hall achieve some notability after posting their music video Banana Man. | Albino Blacksheep is also famous for being a major portal for Flash animation and animutation (a Flash animation style created by Neil Cicierega in 2001). The popular Web game Musical Lantern can be found on this site.<ref>albinoblacksheep.com/flash/lantern</ref> The website also helped the band [[Wikipedia:Tally Hall|Tally Hall]] achieve some notability after posting their music video [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yModCU1OVHY Banana Man]. | ||
On April 1, 2007, Lerner changed the site as a joke homepage, it was designed to trick people think that the site had been bought and turned into "Google Animations". The joke was reinforced by a fake blog stating that "Albino Blacksheep has been acquired by Google Inc. for roughly $32 million in stock options. The deal was discussed over a casual breakfast in Mountain View, California between the Canadian-born founder of Albino Blacksheep and the Google co-founders and CEO. Plans are underway for Google Inc. to tie its services and software into the former Albino Blacksheep website which will go by the new name Google Animation." | On April 1, 2007, Lerner changed the site as a joke homepage, it was designed to trick people think that the site had been bought and turned into "Google Animations". The joke was reinforced by a fake blog stating that "''Albino Blacksheep has been acquired by Google Inc. for roughly $32 million in stock options. The deal was discussed over a casual breakfast in Mountain View, California between the Canadian-born founder of Albino Blacksheep and the Google co-founders and CEO. Plans are underway for Google Inc. to tie its services and software into the former Albino Blacksheep website which will go by the new name [http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/archive/aprilfools2007 Google Animation].''" | ||
As of March 2020, the site changed the logo with the same sheep but wearing a face mask. | As of March 2020, the site changed the logo with the same sheep but wearing a face mask. | ||
