Sad Puppies 4 is now slot machine spam…but in Italian?

I was checking some broken links and found myself back at the Sad Puppies 4 website. People may recall that the domain name hosting had briefly expired but then the site reappeared but with the promise of a Sad Puppies 5 removed. https://camestrosfelapton.wordpress.com/2017/12/23/sad-puppy-watch-update/

I’m not going to link to the website (you’ll see why) but it hasn’t changed much since my last visit. The main difference is that the last blog post (an update from March 2016) now has an initial sentence in Italian. That sentence contains a link to a new page which is an advert (in Italian) for online slot machines.

I assume spammers have bought the domain and copied the content – thus ensuring the numerous links to the site still exist, creating a site that looks less like spamverts? (Speculation welcome.)

I think it was Puppy Bysshe Shelley who said it best:

“I met a book reader in an antique shop,

Who said—“A vast and senseless blog of books

Sits on my browser. . . . Near it, in a post,

A half sunk shattered visage lies, whose frown,

And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,

Tell that its writer well those passions held

Which yet survive, stamped on some other “gate”,

The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;

And on the editorial, these words appear:

My name is Puppymandis, Fourth of Four;

Look on my Works, ye fandom, and despair!

Nothing beside remains round the decay

Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare

Except slot machine adverts in Italian.”