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INTEREST: Guinness Certifies Attack on Titan's World Record for Largest Comic Book Published

This is amusing, although I can't imagine too many people would want to read the manga in this format.

Having a "record" from Guinness isn't all that cracked up to be nowadays. Since you can outright buy one to get it "certified." Also doesn't help there are plenty of existing "records" which when looked at an objective eye can't hold up to scrutiny (better record exists).

Bisuketto wrote:

Having a "record" from Guinness isn't all that cracked up to be nowadays. Since you can outright buy one to get it "certified." Also doesn't help there are plenty of existing "records" which when looked at an objective eye can't hold up to scrutiny (better record exists).

Pretty much. Guinness only made their record book in the first place so that barflies could resolve drunken disputes over sports records - almost a gag gift, you could say. But then it started to be actually pretty useful for anyone interested in world records as it made all of that information easily accessible.

Then the internet and most people's 24/7 access to it happened, and suddenly Guinness's only real purpose - making records accessible - was gone. Why trust a beer company to tell you what the lifetime record of total interceptions is when you can go straight to the website of the official entity that tracks and interprets that information?

Which just leaves Guinness publishing the dumbass records that nobody cares about, like the most hugs in a minute. And whaddya know, there's plenty of people wiling to pay through the nose to have an official Guinness judge come out and verify their stupid crap record so that they can see their name published.