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→‎Trivia: Source or it didn't happen. Also, "for the hell of it" is pretty far from encyclopedic.

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 ==Trivia==
+*Soon after ''i love bees'' became popular, someone bought the domain name '''www.ilovepees.com''' and auctioned it on eBay. The person claimed that whoever made it a redirect to their own site would receive a large amount of search traffic from players who typed the address incorrectly.<ref>[http://nikon.bungie.org/news.html?item=10131 '''halo.bungie.org''': ''How Stupid ARE People, Anyway?'']</ref>
+*A player tried to answer a live call in the middle of [[wikipedia:Hurricane Ivan|Hurricane Ivan]]. The Puppet Master (Puppetmaster 2) broke character to tell him to run to safety: "Dude, it's a hurricane. Put the phone down."<ref>[http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,65365-1.html?tw=wn_story_page_next1 '''Wired''': ''I Love Bees Game a Surprise Hit'']</ref>
 *[[Yuri Lowenthal]], voice of [[Kamal Zaman]], is also the voice of the Prince in the [[wikipedia:Prince of Persia|Prince of Persia]] series, and Sasuke in the Naruto series. A piece of Kamal's dialog, "People think time is a river that flows in one direction, but time is an ocean." seems to be a deliberate reference to the Prince's "Some say time is like a river that flows swift and sure in one direction, but I have seen the face of time and I can tell you they are wrong. Time is an ocean in a storm."
-*Soon after ILB became popular, someone bought the domain name '''www.ilovepees.com''' and auctioned it on eBay. The person claimed whoever made it a redirect to their own site would get tons of traffic from ILB fans who would type in the address incorrectly.<ref>[http://nikon.bungie.org/news.html?item=10131 '''halo.bungie.org''': ''How Stupid ARE People, Anyway?'']</ref> Their starting bid was $1,000, but when it failed to sell, they made two more auctions, each lowering the price. It was finally sold for a price close to $40.
+*In the website's source code, the following search engine keywords are included: "honey, bees, Margaret, small busines, beekeeping, hives, retail, market, Operator, bug, buggy, virus, infestation, WTF is going on with this damn thing, parasite, strong intrusive inclination, medium, messages, shipwreck, network throttling, SOS, hoax, game, bee hoax, bee game, survivor, survive, evade, resist, escape, a little help would be appreciated, thanks and tip your waitress, sleep, is, good, install, reinstall, re-reinstall, re-re-reinstall, I, love, bees".<ref name="website"/> Though in-universe Dana put them in for her own amusement,<ref name="damage"/> some of the keywords explain that it is a work of fiction, such as "bee hoax".
-*The "Walk-away Girl" storyline from [[Axon Clips Chapter 1]] went through 56 revisions before it was final.
-*The game was re-written in midstream in order to accommodate players who wanted to see more puzzles. Since the radio play was pre-recorded, the rewrite was what brought the live calls.
-*There were 7 hours worth of script written in 5 months.
-*The lack of ability to beta-test meant that 5 hours before the phone calls went live, the [[4orty2wo Entertainment|Puppet Masters]] were still trying to see if the payphones would ring.
-*The [[4orty2wo Entertainment|Puppet Masters]] had not expected [[Weephun]] to rat out the Sleeping Princess so easily and had to do quite a bit of rewriting in order to deal with it.
-*When they went live in week 1, week 8 was still unwritten.
-*4orty2wo Entertainment was very careful not to mention who the client was because the players would get turned off if the advertising was too overt.
-*A player tried to answer a live call in the middle of [[wikipedia:Hurricane Ivan|Hurricane Ivan]]. The Puppet Master (Puppetmaster 2) broke character to tell him to run to safety: "Dude, it's a hurricane. Put the phone down."<ref>[http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,65365-1.html?tw=wn_story_page_next1 '''Wired''': ''I Love Bees Game a Surprise Hit'']</ref>
-*The countdown does not appear for [[wikipedia:Mozilla Firefox|Mozilla Firefox]] users.
-*''i love bees'' is mentioned in a [[Wikipedia:Cracked.com|Cracked.com]] article called ''The 5 Most Insane Alternate Reality Games''.<ref>[http://www.cracked.com/article_19346_the-5-most-insane-alternate-reality-games.html '''Cracked.com''': ''The 5 Most Insane Alternate Reality Games]</ref>
-*In the website's source code, the following search engine keywords are included: "honey, bees, Margaret, small busines, beekeeping, hives, retail, market, Operator, bug, buggy, virus, infestation, WTF is going on with this damn thing, parasite, strong intrusive inclination, medium, messages, shipwreck, network throttling, SOS, hoax, game, bee hoax, bee game, survivor, survive, evade, resist, escape, a little help would be appreciated, thanks and tip your waitress, sleep, is, good, install, reinstall, re-reinstall, re-re-reinstall, I, love, bees".<ref name="website"/> Though the in-universe story is Dana put them in for the hell of it,<ref name="damage"/> some of the keywords explain that it's a work of fiction, such as "bee hoax".
 ==Gallery==