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MX FAQ: What is a faux website?

Tribune Entertainment's Faux Mutant X Websites

In September 2001, Tribune Interactive (a subsidiary of Tribune Entertainment) created four fake websites in order to supplement the information from the television series. Two more, Mutant X Lives and My Friend's Bookstore, were created in 2002. These sites were added as part of the Mutant X official site, and featured a great wealth of background material about the Mutant X characters and plot's storylines.

From a 2001 article in Comics2Film:

Has the MutantX.net website has been hacked by a conspiracy nut known as TAGC? No. Not really. Visitors at the Mutant X site are invited to try the MX Gateway, which takes us into the world of the show. However, after entering the gateway, our uplink gets hijacked by TAGC and rerouted to his own site, hosted at GenomeCities. There, we learn TAGC is an acronym for There's A Genetic Conspiracy. The website details the genetic manipulation of the human race and the involvement of the shady Breedlove Foundation. TAGC even links to the official site for the Breedlove foundation. It's all good fun, and reminiscent of the X-Men movie website. That site also linked to the mock website for one mutant-hating Senator Kelly. Fans of the movie will remember that Kelly's own website was also "hacked" by a mutant liberation group. Of course, Mutant X is not related to X-Men.

No longer updated after 2003, the faux websites suddenly disappeared in early 2005. Happily, archives of the original sites can be found on The Internet Archive, and I've managed to save much of the material from the faux websites here:

The Breedlove Foundation: The official website for Genomex's parent company.

Genomex.net: The official Genomex website.

The Midnight Press: A local newspaper, akin to Proxy Blue.

Mutant X Lives: The covert website of the new mutant underground.

My Friend's Bookstore: A website for the new mutant safehouse behind Ruby Bishop's bookstore

TAGC: There's a Genetic Conspiracy: A reactionary newsletter about Genomex's secrets.