Nickelback

The winner

Nickelback is a garden variety mope-rock band from Canada that, in 2010, was owned by a pickle.

Background

File:CHAD KROEGER.jpg

Cock goes where?

In 2010, comparison of the popularity of ordinary objects to the popularity of awful musicians was already a trend on Facebook, and some hipster chick set up a Facebook fan page to see if an ordinary pickle could gain more fans than the somehow enormously popular band.

This fan page was based on the theme of an existing fan page Can this onion ring get more fans than Justin Bieber. Within weeks, the pickle had more fans than Nickelback. This caused extreme butthurt in the band's leader, Chad Kroeger.

	“	your page will be closing in 2 weeks	„
	—Chad Kroeger

Removal of the fan page

As promised by Kroeger, the fan page was removed from Facebook. Hipsters everywhere didn't notice. Several replacement pages were created and exist today, but none has more than 2,000 fans.

Revenge

Revenge of the pickle

See also

• Pickles
• Grunge

External links

• Chad Kroeger is butthurt by a pickle
• The Guardian
• The Examiner
• A blog post
• Another blog post

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