Online audition website peaks traffic

2008-05-03 22:40:50 - ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA - Online audition MyRockStarDream.com has reportedly found its server temporarily offline after a stream of visits filling its guestbook which has now been disabled.

The website, which is attracting record-number views, features the protagonist, Jeremy Shum, who is described as "your typical style and behavior-dictating plastic: an inappropriately-happy, always-smiling, anorexic, superficial, self-absorbed, back-stabbing, dirty, organic-green-eating corporate law professional who thinks life is the O.C., and doesn't associate with any of the other cliques", who wishes to fulfill his "ultimate dream": become the biggest rock star in this big big planet known as Earth before the retirement age of 20, through three steps, namely (1) winning Australian Idol; (2) dating Miley Cyrus, and (3) gaining #1 ratings on YouTube.

The website has been condemned by various women's support groups, with the National's Womens Health Institution stating "a positive or healthy body image [is] a woman has a real perception of her size and shape". The site calls for young girls to see any size greater than 10 as "social suicide" and encourages supporters to skip meals so the "[user's] body can feed of its fat stores".

The site has also reportedly received a response from Miley Cyrus, who commented on Jeremy's MySpace which has received over 10,000 hits, naming Shum a "hottie".