FreakingNews was a news-oriented Photoshop contest website that came online August 2, 2002 and officially opened on October 23, 2003, as a sister site of Worth1000.

The virtual community of 17,000+ digital artists and members featured free daily Photoshop contests that were fueled by global news and events.

Taylor's news based parody[12] and satire images[13] have been circulated and often thought to be real[14] by Internet users that had received them, primarily via email or posted in online forums.

During one subsequent conversation, Taylor mentioned to Golunov that he wished there existed a community of Photoshoppers that would create, or "chop" images based on current news stories.

[17] Three months earlier, aviation news site Plane Nation, featured the same hoax image as a real photo in their article about the Google Jet Boeing 767.