Talk:Mahir Çağrı

Was this guy the inspiration for Borat?
Was this guy the inspiration for Borat? -R. fiend 00:18, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * The Borat page claims so. Tempshill 05:26, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)


 * Mahir thinks so, and says he is talking to lawyers in London to evaluate his legal options against Sacha Baron Cohen. This is spelled out in the Borat section, which is very up to date (as I write this on Nov. 7). --Spiff666 16:41, 7 November 2006 (UTC)


 * According to http://celebs.electronicnewsnetwork.com/sacha-cohen/index.php, Cohen's Borat character was around for years before Mahir's site showed up.


 * It's fairly obvious that he was the inspiration for Borat. I know I recognized the debt to the Mahir site as soon as I saw Borat for the first time.19:05, 3 February 2011 (UTC)

from Vfd
On 3 Mar 2005, this article was nominated for deletion. The result was keep. See Votes for deletion/Mahir Cagri for a record of the discussion. &mdash;Korath (Talk) 15:47, Mar 17, 2005 (UTC)
 * Yay, the system works! Tempshill 05:26, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * It could do with some work, though. There's almost nothing about Mr Cagri himself - his webpage said that he was a professional journalist, music and sport teacher, and doctor of psychology, which could of course be nonsense, but if true would probably make him notable in his own right, even without the cult craze. -Ashley Pomeroy 14:15, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
 * This is historically relevant article, because the I Kiss You website was one of the very first viral webpages on the internet. Landroo (talk) 16:09, 4 May 2018 (UTC)

ESC
When Sweden was arranging the Eurovision Song Contest, they had the Mahir Cagri webpage as an introduction to Turkey, (mostly to show that Sweden was a high-tech country with a lot of computerization.)

Meta-web?
At the San Francisco appearance, Mahir was led through a meta-web of scenes from his webpage...

What is a meta-web? Could there be some confusion with the San Francisco based company named Metaweb? -- Peter 16:44, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

I LIEK MILK
There's a webpage that's been around for years which is like a Japanese version of this -. They're suspiciously similar in style.--h i s  s p a c e   r e s e a r c h 05:57, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
 * It just looks like the I LIEK MILK thing was another early internet meme of the same kind, but not a notable one.--h i s  s p a c e   r e s e a r c h 05:59, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
 * That link died, but there are probably many more ! eg http://i.imgur.com/5g3AH.jpg
 * --195.137.93.171 (talk) 04:43, 27 June 2010 (UTC)

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"...a typical Turkish creep" seems a bit editorial. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.98.85.88 (talk) 20:20, 3 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Cagri himself tried to refute the hacked webpage as not his own, but I believe those articles no longer exist on the internet. I have a vivid memory of that story, but I have nothing to cite beyond my first-hand anecdotal experience. Landroo (talk) 16:12, 4 May 2018 (UTC)

"I Kiss You"
Is there some reason that his music career, such as it was, is not mentioned? I cannot find anything about it now, but I distinctly remember the one-off dance track "I Kiss You" actually charted somewhere, like Canada maybe?, which seems worth mentioning. 97.126.56.236 (talk) 10:21, 4 December 2011 (UTC)
 * The music came much later, and it wasn't a career. He appeared in at least one music video that I remember, building on the fame that the I Kiss You website had generated. Landroo (talk) 16:14, 4 May 2018 (UTC)

ikissyou.org is malware infected
I have added a note as the url redirects to a malware infected website. -- A Certain White Cat chi? 13:10, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
 * One of many thousands of clones of the original I Kiss You website. Landroo (talk) 16:15, 4 May 2018 (UTC)

Original webpage.
I remember being familiar with Mahir Cagri's original webpage before it was hacked and changed into something that made him look ridiculous, uneducated and sexually inappropriate. The original webpage had imperfect English, but it was quite acceptable for a Turkish teacher. I read his responses online, in which he tried to explain himself, and explain what had happened, but the fame of the hacked webpage gained a life of it's own, and he acquiesced to it, and later claimed it as his own.

I have tried to find some original source material on the Wayback machine, but nothing seems to remain of it any more. I can't include this first-hand anecdotal material in the article, because Wikipedia will ruthlessly have it deleted for being improperly cited, even though I am the source. Therefore this will have to remain as a talking point only.Landroo (talk) 16:03, 4 May 2018 (UTC)