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There have also been fake pre-release leaks over the years. A handful of songs claiming to be new NIN tracks were leaked during the summer of 1999, ahead of the release of ''[[The Fragile (halo)|The Fragile]]''.
In the mid-2020s, with the advent of AI-generated music, images, video, and voice replacement, fake songs attributed to famous artists began to appear on the Internet. In the run-up to the [[Peel It Back Tour]], when fans were wondering if any new NIN material was forthcoming, someone going by Sunday Morning Heretic claimed to have gotten potential NIN demo files from a hacked server from an LA recording studio. They released them on Soundcloud, with some tracks containing AI voice replacement for [[Trent Reznor]]-sounding vocals. They also released video snippets on Instagram with AI-generated imagery. They admitted via DM that they had used AI voice replacement over their own original music tracks. [https://www.echoingthesound.org/community/threads/6898-NIN-Spotting-2025?p=599360#post599360]
==Fake ARG videos==
''See main article: [[Strobe Light]]''
As an April Fools joke in 2009, [[Trent Reznor]] announced an album called ''Strobe Light'', which was replete with humorous song titles and guest collaborators.
Ten years later, as a new April Fools Joke, a fan-made mashup album was released by mash-up artist extraordinaire, ToToM, under the same title. It was posted to Bandcamp and archive.org.
==''With Teeth'' "Tentative Sequence" CD upload==
In January 2020, a five-track ''[[With Teeth (halo)#Possible_pre-release_CDs|''With Teeth]]'' "Tentative Sequence" CD ]] (marked as being from late 2004) was sold on eBay by Amoeba Records. Tracks claiming to be from the CD were posted to archive.org the same month , and while the existence of such a CD was verified by [[Rob Sheridan]], the posted tracks were found to be elaborate fakes.[https://www.echoingthesound.org/community/threads/5831-With-Teeth-Tentative-Sequence]
==nin.com Memorial Day sale==
[[Image:Reptilecassette.jpg|thumb|"Reptile" cassette]]
[[Image:Closurelaserdisc.jpg|thumb|''Closure'' LaserDisc]]
In May 2021, a Memorial Day weekend sale was advertised in the nin.com store, with a note that some new old stock media items had been located and placed up for sale. While there were legitimate media items, two joke items were added and shown as being "sold out": a LaserDisc of "''[[Closure#LaserDisc|Closure]]"'', and a cassette single of "[[Reptile]]". The cassette was even touted as containing the long-fabled unreleased song "[[Just Do It]]". The LaserDisc was, in reality, available for pre-order in 1997 through Trimark, but was canceled.[https://store.nin.com/collections/music][https://www.theninhotline.com/features/news.nin.net/monthly_041998.html]
==thninchnails Releases==
===Saigon 1995 recording===
Another ''Watchmen'' score universe joke came in the form of a fake recording of a 1995 "The Nine Inch Nails" show in Saigon, which was "surfaced" and posted to ninlive.comthe [[NIN Live Archive]]. This was a reference to the storyline of "The Nine Inch Nails" as told in the liner notes of ''The Manhattan Project'' vinyl, with the Saigon show being the last show ever performed. The recording was a file of pure noise, but also contained a folder with a real soundboard recording of the [[2005/12/10_Los_Angeles,_CA|Almost Acoustic Christmas 2005 show]] as a consolation.[https://www.reddit.com/r/nin/comments/ei6bsd/the_nine_inch_nails_live_archive_tnin_april_28/]
==Blue Sunday==