Yesterday ThisIsWhyImBroke stood alongside Google, Wikipedia, Reddit, Craigslist, and countless other websites protesting against the horribly written internet censorship/”anti-piracy” legislative bills known as SOPA and PIPA. We greeted users with a video on what these bills will do, why they need to be stopped, and info on what they can do about it. We’d like to say thanks for the support from our readers, and also say that we were overwhelmed with how positive of a response we received on our Facebook page when we notified our readers about our actions – we received nearly 1,000 ‘likes’ and dozens of comments supporting this.

We wanted to answer all the questions we’ve been getting asked recently about how the website works, so we created an IAmA on Reddit where users can ask us questions directly. Check it out:

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/nb8gs/i_am_the_creator_of_thisiswhyimbroke_amaa/

Credit: gnotalex

With the early success of ThisIsWhyImBroke, we’ve begun work on our first official in-house created item that will be for sale on our soon to be created Amazon merchant page. As time goes on we plan to continue making more cool products, but ThisIsWhyImBroke will stay an aggregator site as we are not interested in handling the logistics of being our own internet shop such as ThinkGeek or iWoot (in other words, we don’t want to worry about credit cards, shopping cart security, legal issues). Stay posted for more information on our first product… it’s going to be hot, literally!

Thank you all for your status updates, “Likes”, tweets, stumbles, diggs, reddits, +1s, and other social networking actions that have helped ThisIsWhyImBroke become an overnight hit! Our site is receiving a very high amount of traffic, to the point that we are now upgrading to a powerful dedicated server to handle all the page requests! Please keep spreading the word and we’ll keep posting high quality awesome items you can buy on the web!