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If there's one thing the internet is The Hitman: Blood Smells Like Rosesgood for, its disrupting normal proceedings.

So nobody should have been surprised when a number of cheeky social media users piled on the "Hottest 100," an annual tradition hosted by Australian indie radio station Triple J.

A public poll that's been around since 1993, the countdown is announced in real time online as well as over the radio, setting it up as the perfect fodder for "sh*tposters."

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So, while the station counted backwards from 100, merry pranksters like Ben Lawson and Jack Taylor showed off their trolling skills.

Taylor's route was to make an occasionally NSFW pun based on each song's title, resulting a host of wordy gems. Highlights include his comment on the placement of Milky Chance's "Cocoon."

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And his excellently lame response to "Ultralight Beam":

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Plus his Avalanches-themed takedown, a burn posted after "Frankie Sinatra" hit the countdown.

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Fellow troll Ben Lawson had a less complicated approach, making the joke...

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...over and over.

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And over.

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And again.

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Soon, his staple response became a meme, as everyone's attention began to get diverted away from the list and onto Lawson.

After 99 claims that the song in question should have ranked higher, he finally dropped his comment on the number one track, Flume's "Never Be Like You".

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Darryl Braithwaite's "The Horses" is Australia's version of "Never Gonna Give You Up." It's a perpetual punchline of a tune that people both love and cringe at.

Think we know who the real winners of the competition were. Well played, boys.

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