# Was Edward Snowden in a boy band

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [January 9, 2014, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-edward-snowden-in-a-boy-band/678402 "2014-01-09T23:00:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2014, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-edward-snowden-in-a-boy-band/678402/1 "2014-01-09T23:00:08Z")

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I read a cracked article a few days ago that seemed to mention Edward Snowden was part of a boy band in the 90s and was known as ‘the weird one’.

Does anyone know what article that was, or if it was true?

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**Author:** ![Fubaya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@Fubaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fubaya)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2014, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-edward-snowden-in-a-boy-band/678402/2 "2014-01-09T23:15:18Z")

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I saw that too and did a quick search of the comments of the article to find someone saying that he wasn’t in a band, the image was a joke that he made for his internet friends who said he looked like a boy band member. And if it’s in the [Cracked.com](http://Cracked.com) comment section then, by gum, you know it’s true.

[Here’s the link](http://www.cracked.com/photoplasty_755_14-images-that-powerful-people-dont-want-you-to-see/), it was a photoplasty contest rather than a regular article.