And it worked - for the kids who are really invested in Gorillaz, who went on the website, played the video games, and collected all the interviews, it became a whole world for them.' There are, of course, animated pop precedents, from one-hit wonders the Archies to synth-pop darlings ABC.
Mr Ahmad's alleged website played a key role in the late 1990s onwards in creating and providing support for Mujahideen fighters across the world.
During the 1990s and early 2000s the English-language website played a key role in encouraging young Muslims in the West to support Mujahideen causes in Bosnia, Chechnya and Afghanistan.
The Ahwahnee's website plays down its connection to Kubrick's film, making no mention of the terrifying horror classic on its homepage.
These can appear on the home screen, or while the owner is reading a website, playing a game or watching a video.
The band's anti-fascist track If You Tolerate This, Your Children Will Be Next had appeared on the BNP website playing over clips of an article which, according to the far-right group, revealed the "violence, hatred, fragmentation and despair" wrought on London by the "great multicultural experiment".
They're self-publicists, in a sense, with a chaotic sense of humour – the group's website plays the theme tune from 1970s series Love Boat, and their tweets are peppered with references to piracy (of the nautical rather than software kind).
The Welsh band might have been surprised, then, to find the song on the British National party's website, playing over clips of an article which, according to the far-right group, reveals the "violence, hatred, fragmentation and despair" wrought on London by the "great multicultural experiment".
Mick Deacon, who lives opposite the field, said: "It's used by a lot of local people and, as the council has said on their own website, playing fields are more than just sports pitches.
Their website plays music videos too, but Semsix is more convenient than Viacom's TV station that tortures with crappy tunes and annoying ads while you have to wait for one good song.
We hear from good friends *cough* that the website plays host to hundreds of the show's sex scenes, with the most popular featuring Nathalie Emmanuel's Missandei, Emilia Clarke's Daenerys Targaryen and Natalie Dormer's Margaery Tyrell.
