Lots of clues in the question. This image shows the people involved in a certain controversy. What was it?

Cracked by Raghuvansh, Aditya S, wanderlust, Siddarth Pai, Rahulk, raklodramA, Jayaprakash B R, Rogi, KK, mankuTimma, Muthu sundaresan, Amarendra Kumar, Ananth, Manish Achuth, jowens, Thejas V R, Sumanth Patlolla, badideabear, Anjul, finkle, shrik, Dibyo, shivathilak, Bipin Banavalikar, Sanjeet Dash, Logik, Bharath, Mo, Shwetha Maiya, Prabhu DC, vkamath, Vishwas B Sharma, Sujoy and rickde

Identify this unfortunate traveller.

Cracked by jowens, Sumanth Patlolla, Manish Achuth, Amarendra Kumar, finkle, Bharath, Rogi, KK, Sanjeet Dash, Aditya S, raklodramA, Rahulk, badideabear, Ananth, Thejas V R, shrik, Bipin Banavalikar, mankuTimma, Shwetha Maiya, Prabhu DC, Vishwas B Sharma, Sri Krishna and rickde

Sitters ahoy! Cover art for what album?

Cracked by: jowens, badideabear, Bharath, Sumanth Patlolla, Manish Achuth, Amarendra Kumar, Rogi, Thejas V R, shrik, Siddarth Pai, KK, Aditya S, raklodramA, Rahulk, mankuTimma, Ananth, shivathilak and Bipin Banavalikar

Plain text question. Very obviously searchable but pliss to refrain from searching to answer this, plzkthx.

This description led to something. What?

“Give your service away for free, possibly ad supported but maybe not, acquire a lot of customers very efficiently through word of mouth, referral networks, organic search marketing, etc, then offer premium priced value added services or an enhanced version of your service to your customer base.”

Cracked by jowens, badideabear, Bharath, Sumanth Patlolla, Manish Achuth, Amarendra Kumar, vkamath, Rogi, Thejas V R, finkle, KK, Ananth, Dibyo, Sanjeet Dash, Aditya S, raklodramA, Rahulk, Siddarth Pai, Jayaprakash B R, mankuTimma, shivathilak, Bipin Banavalikar, Logik, Godzilla101, Shwetha Maiya, Vishwas B Sharma, shrik and rickde

(1) was named after (2) and at one time was considered one of the hottest ranking systems on the internet. Identify, please.

Cracked by jowens, badideabear, Bharath, Sumanth Patlolla, Manish Achuth, Amarendra Kumar, Godzilla101, Rogi, thiru d gr8, Thejas V R, shrik, Siddarth Pai, finkle, KK, Sanjeet Dash, Dibyo, Aditya S, raklodramA, Jayaprakash B R, Ananth, Rahulk, mankuTimma, Bipin Banavalikar, shivathilak, Logik, Swarun, Shwetha Maiya, Vishwas B Sharma, Sujoy, Sri Krishna and rickde

What is this, and what did it lead to?

Cracked by cracked_by_

jowens, badideabear, Bharath, Sumanth Patlolla, Manish Achuth, Amarendra Kumar, Rogi, Thejas V R, shrik, Siddarth Pai, KK, Dibyo, Aditya S, raklodramA, Rahulk, Ananth, Bipin Banavalikar, shivathilak, mankuTimma, Shwetha Maiya and rickde

What is this?

Cracked by jowens, badideabear, Bharath, Sumanth Patlolla, Manish Achuth, Amarendra Kumar, Rogi, Thejas V R, shrik, Siddarth Pai, finkle, KK, Dibyo, Aditya S, raklodramA, mankuTimma, Rahulk, Ananth, Bipin Banavalikar, Shwetha Maiya, shivathilak, Vishwas B Sharma, Sri Krishna, Sujoy and rickde

This technique - what is it?

Cracked by jowens, badideabear, Bharath, Anonymous, Sumanth Patlolla, Manish Achuth, Amarendra Kumar, Rogi, Thejas V R, shrik, Siddarth Pai, KK, Dibyo, Aditya S, raklodramA, Rahulk, Ananth, Bipin Banavalikar, Logik, Shwetha Maiya, shivathilak, mankuTimma, Vishwas B Sharma and rickde

This guy was probably the most famous weirdo on the net ever. Identify:

Cracked by jowens, badideabear, Rogi, Bharath, Anonymous, Sumanth Patlolla, Manish Achuth, Amarendra Kumar, finkle, Thejas V R, shrik, Siddarth Pai, KK, Dibyo, Sanjeet Dash, Aditya S, raklodramA, mankuTimma, Rahulk, Ananth, Bipin Banavalikar, Shwetha Maiya, shivathilak, Vishwas B Sharma and rickde

What’s “special” about these lightning strikes?

Cracked by badideabear, Sumanth Patlolla, Rogi, jowens, shrik, SV, Manish Achuth, KK, Dibyo, raklodramA, shivathilak, Siddarth Pai, Bharath, Rahulk, Thejas V R, Aditya S, finkle, mankuTimma, Vishwas B Sharma, Muthu sundaresan, Ananth and Amarendra Kumar