One of those interviewed recalled that, in 1868, he (then twelve years old) and his father had been invited to Smith's farm to inspect a chance seedling that had sprung near a creek. In that year, Farmer and Settler published the account of a local historian who had interviewed two men who had known Smith. The first description of the origin of the Granny Smith apple was not published until 1924. Granny Smith has a round shape with light green colour The US Apple Association reported in 2019 that the Granny Smith was the third most popular apple in the United States of America. The apple goes from being completely green to turning yellow when overripe. It remains firm when baked, making it a very popular cooking apple used in pies, where it can be sweetened. The fruit is hard, firm and with a light green skin and crisp, juicy flesh. The tree is thought to be a hybrid of Malus sylvestris, the European wild apple, with the domesticated apple Malus domestica as the polleniser. It is named after Maria Ann Smith, who propagated the cultivar from a chance seedling. The Granny Smith, also known as a green apple or sour apple, is a tip-bearing apple cultivar which originated in Australia in 1868. On August 14th, 2012, Mountain Dew responded to a tweet by about the contest, admitting it had 'lost to The Internet' and the contest was only a local customer program.For other uses, see Granny Smith (disambiguation).

On the following day, the advertising news blog Ad Week published a post titled 'Mountain Dew's Soda-Naming Contest Crashed by Pranksters', comparing the raid to Something Awful's successful prank involving Walmart Energy Sheets promotion with the rapper Pitbull.

Also on August 13th, the story was reblogged by The Huffington Post, Geekosystem and Mashable. The same day, Gawker writer Neetzan Zimmerman wrote an article titled 'Mountain Dew Asks Internet to Name Its New Drink, 4chan Happily Obliges', reporting that Mountain Dew took down the contest page after discovering it had been hacked.

The day of the raid on August 13th, the Internet news blog HyperVocal published an article titled '4chan Trolls Take Over Mountain Dew 'Dub the Dew' Campaign', which compared the raid to other 4chan operations such as the Race Guy Hot Topic online smear campaign.

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