Har har har...
Anti-Spice
from C4 Teletext - 12th Aug 97

If you wanna be their lovers... you'd better get to the back of the queue.

Yes, a year after the release of Wannabe, the Spice Girls have sold squillions of records, been No.1 just about everywhere, and have conclusively proved that we all love a bit of Spice.

Or do we? Take a gander at the Internet and you'll find many Spice hate sites devoted to bizarre deadly fantasies involving the gals. But is this sick, or a satirical reaction to the hype?

Needle, the person behind anti-Spice Girls Internet Site How To Kill The Spice Girls, says that he is often on the receiving end of hate-mail himself.
"Most hate mail is from girls aged between eight and fifteen, or guys of all ages who basically fancy the Girls.
"Most can't spell, write entirely in capitals and exclamation marks are everywhere. Some try to scare me by saying they'll start up a How To Kill A Needle site - but I've yet to see one.

Net-surfer Paul Holden has upped the ante of internet invective with his site The Voodoo Assassination Project.
Says Paul: "It's a spoof offer of free assassinations, but despite newspapers calling me a cyber sicko, I don't want to harm anyone - Spice Girls included.
"I don't consider the assassination fantasies people send in particularly nasty. You have to laugh. Most are so far-fetched they echo those crackpot death traps used by Batman villains!"

The perverse murder fantasies seen on the Voodoo Assassination Project site are more hurl power than Girl Power - but, says its creator Paul Holden: "Internet people love to hate."
Maybe it's something to do with the radiation from the monitors! For some reason I've built up a reputation as a die hard Spice hater, but I'm not.
"I don't dislike them any more that Eurovision or Hollyoaks. The group are just one of many targets on the site.

My site satirises the public for buying stuff just because the media tells them to," says Malky, the man behind anti-Spice Net site Spice Wars.
"People also believe the Girls are attractive for the same reason - but let's face it, they're hardly megababes.
"I wouldn't want to hurt them. They'll die out soon of their own accord, never to be heard again. I don't think they have the talent for solo careers. This time next year it'll be "Spice WHO??"

Like most who've set up Spice Girl hate sites on the Internet, Malky from Spice Wars sees the group as manufactured popsters peddling a plastic version of feminism through a hyped-up media.
As with other anti-Spice surfers, he also receives "a lot of death threats."
"Most fans seem to be homophobes who accuse me of being gay," he adds. "I ignore them, but the bigotry is scary. Sometimes I wonder if there are hidden backwards messages on the Spice album!"