Back in the early 2000s (think early Metafilter days!), there was a blog/site, back when there were only like a few thousand blogs, that featured fake/darkly-comic/OTT letters to companies. Of particular note, one such letter invited a company to help the writer commit suicide in a mysterious manner... ...a manner so mysterious, in fact, that their children would always believe there was something deeper to the writer's death (perhaps a self-storage manifest would unravel an unusual coincidence, implying the writer was part of some larger conspiracy and perhaps even gave their life for their country). Unfortunately the real-life recipient of the letter (rightly!) alerted the authorities to this 'suicidal' person and all further letters were never actually sent out to the companies.
[It was culturally adjacent to Metafilter, Boing Boing, blogroll sidebars, Uber.nu, WhyGodWhy, Fireland, Sweet Fancy Moses, etc]
[Fun B question: same question type, same era, but this blog invited people to write in with letters they'd never 'actually' send to the real recipient. It was a bit PostSecret-y.]
[It was culturally adjacent to Metafilter, Boing Boing, blogroll sidebars, Uber.nu, WhyGodWhy, Fireland, Sweet Fancy Moses, etc]
[Fun B question: same question type, same era, but this blog invited people to write in with letters they'd never 'actually' send to the real recipient. It was a bit PostSecret-y.]