Internet pranksters apparently are heavily in favor of sending Canadian singer Justin Bieber on tour to North Korea, his Twitter tour page indicates.
The BBC reported Monday nearly a half million votes were logged in favor of seeing the teen sensation singing in the communist nation, even though Internet access is highly restricted there. The fast-growing tally apparently got a viral worldwide push from Web site 4Chan.
Bieber’s My World Tour page asked people to weigh in on which country he should visit next. There were no restrictions on what countries could be nominated, the British network said.
North Korea churned into first place, several thousand votes ahead of Israel.
The contest ends at 8 p.m. Wednesday.
The BBC reported that a spokesman for the North Korean Embassy in London said any visa application for Bieber would be handled by its diplomatic corps at the United Nations with officials in Pyongyang kept apprised.
It’s not the first time Bieber has been the subject of Internet jokesters. This past weekend, hackers attached messages saying Bieber had died to videos on YouTube. Hackers also installed pop-ups redirecting users to porn sites.
Last month, 4Chan urged voters to search for the term “Justin Bieber Syphilis” and it hit No. 1 on Google Trend’s Hot Searches list.
Other past false rumors were that he had joined a cult, and that his mother was offered $50,000 to pose topless in Playboy magazine.