Remember fake wheelchair chick? Yeah, here’s another one.
WTF is up with people who desire internet troll fame so badly?
Also, anyone read the Reddit troll reveal? It’s a good read, but the guy is scary. Unmasking Reddit's Violentacrez, The Biggest Troll on the Web
WHO is so messed up that fake fame is so important?
Apparantly, the answer is “Lots of people.” And that makes me sad.
HA. One of my friends on a deaf forum was all" this sounds fishy"… Guess I gotta tell her there was another faker (our forum seems to attract deaf fakers)
As linked on the HuffPo: Dave On Wheels Hoax: David Rose, Deaf Paraplegic Twitter Sensation, Exposed As Elaborate Fraud | HuffPost Impact
Diasabled person using technology to post online. Folks admiring their pluck and spirit - gets more attention. Some folks question the person’s veracity - person is announced as dead…then a hoax.
Sound familiar?
I figured he/she would keep going. It’s the expected result, IMHO.
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The internet is an amazing place.
It certainly could be the same person, although I have a little trouble imagining her admitting she made it up. This persona was also different in some ways and is much older, and the “death” thing played out differently here. But yes, the internet is big and weird.
Argh! I’ll report this to the mods in case they want to merge the threads…
Threads merged.
Thanks for merging; I should have worded the title better. Mea culpa.
In fact, it is really, really neat.
Just when the wounds from **umkay **had healed…
LOL.
KYM notes that this person’s blog started in August.
You may recall that our favorite Munchie’s previous appearance, on Savage Love, was in late July.
I do not think this is a coincidence.
How the hell is this guy a “troll”? Even if he is one, how is he a troll in a bad way?
To me the kind of bad trolling is when you go around causing distress to people. This is just someone with a weird sense of humour.
A troll, to me, is someone like the guy who caused that poor kid to kill herself last week. His identity is out too, and /b/ is out for blood.
But this bloke ain’t done nothing wrong. Just offended the weak skinned.
(er, the above post is to do with the reddit “troll”. I agree the troll the subject is about which somehow I missed on the first read is just bizarre. Not sure if they’ve caused harm or not but I would assume so given the sensitive subject matter)
Pretty sure that’s not the same person - I believe the Umkay, Sezyoo, G.I.M.P. troll is a woman in real life. Age 21, from Canada.
I think the reporter on the Reddit interview was just getting his own internet fame by outing the guy. It’s ridiculous, if it’s an anonymous board the posters should stay that way. Yes, the guys stuff was sick but it’s like he said, if they don’t want to read it, they shouldn’t open it. If the administrators had a problem with it(which looks like they didn’t) they should have banned him. Kind of a jackass move of the reporter to ruin the guys real life. It most likely will hurt his chances of getting a job.
People are sure fucking stupid with some of the stuff they post online.
California, same as the faker in this story.
Yeah, they are. The guy did lose his job over it. I don’t know why he thought he wouldn’t. Actually, he didn’t think he wouldn’t; he told his boss about it as soon as it happened and bam, two days later, fired.
So…he did something anonymously he knew would have consequences if found out, which is why he did it anonymously. He has no reason to bitch about the consequences.
