Since the dawn of 2009, there has been only one source for farts, instantly. That was instantfart.com. instantfart.com was truly a game-changer. It used modern web technologies like websockets and HTML5 audio before they even became standards.

We all celebrated when instantfart.com hit one million farts.

BUT WERE WE CELEBRATING A LIE?!

However in the past few hours, it has come to light that instantfart.com creator Alex Crawford has lost the fart counter data MULTIPLE TIMES and has MADE UP the number each time he's redeployed the site.

These lies have COMPOUNDED over time. Have we hit a million farts? Or did we only hit a few hundred thousand? Or maybe EVEN SIX?! WHO KNOWS.

Alex Crawford needs to reset the fart counter, and put measures into place to prevent this kind of book cooking in the future. WE WON'T BE SATISFIED UNTIL HE COMPLIES!!!

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