Invisible Goat
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Post by Invisible Goat on Feb 10, 2017 15:26:42 GMT -5
I don't have all the information on this but it's huge news so Snape thought it should be out on the boards and not just in the Shoutbox. I found this out from Hat/The Hero of Akron Canton from the old AVC days linking this on twitter, I don't even know who compiled it. docs.google.com/document/d/1ohKDsB_xvX_qL1naHHAvKLkcaZGBnKUhEovUWLItBKQ/editBut the upshot is that these people never existed - or maybe one of them did? I'm still figuring it all out. But no one killed themselves, so now we can joke about it again. |
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Post by Liz n Dicksgiving on Feb 10, 2017 15:30:37 GMT -5
Okay, I can't seem to open that doc, and I'm DYING to see it all, but I want it stated for the record that I SUSPECTED THIS FOR YEARS.
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SLOW
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Post by SLOW on Feb 10, 2017 15:35:39 GMT -5
Okay, I can't seem to open that doc, and I'm DYING to see it all, but I want it stated for the record that I SUSPECTED THIS FOR YEARS. Really?! Do tell... |
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Post by Bedroom Pastrami on Feb 10, 2017 15:42:44 GMT -5
This is some pretty fascinating stuff.
I HAVE PEOPLE THAT VOUCH FOR MY REALNESS ON THIS BOARD, AVC, AND TWITTER.
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Post by Pedantic Editor Type on Feb 10, 2017 15:43:19 GMT -5
I saw the link via SLOW on twitter and ... yeaaaah. Wow. Mind splodey.
Edit: haha, I too have non-Wilford people who can vouch for my existence. And his.
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Post by Ben Grimm on Feb 10, 2017 15:44:30 GMT -5
All of the sudden I feel the need to drive over to someone's house and prove I exist. At least Celebith knows I'm real. |
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Post by songstarliner on Feb 10, 2017 15:49:43 GMT -5
Invisible Goat should we meet up to prove we're real? No, too awkward - tell you what, let's pick a time and place where we can walk past each other on the street, nod curtly to one another, and move along.
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Invisible Goat
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Post by Invisible Goat on Feb 10, 2017 15:50:41 GMT -5
Remember when he called us all jackanapes? So someone who didn't even exist didn't like us. That stings.
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Post by Ben Grimm on Feb 10, 2017 15:50:54 GMT -5
Edit: haha, I too have non-Wilford people who can vouch for my existence. And his. But how can we know that they exist? |
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Post by Pedantic Editor Type on Feb 10, 2017 15:53:07 GMT -5
Edit: haha, I too have non-Wilford people who can vouch for my existence. And his. But how can we know that they exist? Mrs Langdon Alger and Iffy have met many others... and I have an instagram of my dog for pete's sake, feel free to reverse image search it  |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2017 15:53:22 GMT -5
Holy shit - that's insane. I admit to not knowing a lot of the past of this whole tale other than seeing him comment on the AVC and reading the obituary, but even from that, this is just a buffet of craziness.
(Also PEOPLE HERE HAVE MET ME AND KNOW I EXIST, just for the record.)
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Post by Ben Grimm on Feb 10, 2017 15:54:38 GMT -5
But how can we know that they exist? Mrs Langdon Alger and Iffy have met many others... and I have an instagram of my dog for pete's sake, feel free to reverse image search it (I think you realize this, but I meant that as a joke) |
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Dellarigg
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Post by Dellarigg on Feb 10, 2017 15:55:46 GMT -5
I'll prove I exist for $500. I mean £500.
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LazBro
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Post by LazBro on Feb 10, 2017 15:56:23 GMT -5
Poor Mrs. Snape, because now she'll be subjected to this at dinner:
"Okay, I know this isn't going to make any sense, and I have to catch you up on about a decade of backstory, but I have to tell someone."
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Post by Pedantic Editor Type on Feb 10, 2017 15:56:56 GMT -5
Mrs Langdon Alger and Iffy have met many others... and I have an instagram of my dog for pete's sake, feel free to reverse image search it (I think you realize this, but I meant that as a joke) Maybe we're all in the Matrix. Or Dark City, where aliens implant us with new memories every night. Or Westworld. Sure.  |
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Post by Ben Grimm on Feb 10, 2017 15:58:59 GMT -5
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Post by songstarliner on Feb 10, 2017 15:59:33 GMT -5
When was the so-called suicide? I want to look back on something.
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Post by songstarliner on Feb 10, 2017 15:59:58 GMT -5
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Post by Liz n Dicksgiving on Feb 10, 2017 16:01:24 GMT -5
Okay, I can't seem to open that doc, and I'm DYING to see it all, but I want it stated for the record that I SUSPECTED THIS FOR YEARS. Really?! Do tell... Well, I can't get the google doc to open (aside: GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! I want to read these details SO BADLY, and I keep getting a dead link from it! This is the worst pain on earth!!!!), so I have no idea what's actually going on here, but Buzz always pinged my bullshit detector on AVC, from the first time I visited there. Hugs and I used to run a blog that had a hopping little comments community, and one of the regulars there was one of those "making up florid stories on the internet" kinda people. She was sloppy about it, so it was very easy to recognize what she was doing, but she was also benign (lots of easily ignored shit about famous people she claimed to know and minor health issues she'd suggest she and her family had). I think my experience with her sort of piqued my interest about that sort of behavior -- she hadn't done anything to hurt me, so it wasn't like a crusading hatred of catfish bullshittery, just a morbid fascination. And as soon as I "met" Buzz I was like, "Aha! Another one!" I mean, the florid way he was always swanning around AVC looking for attention and presenting his internal dramas... it didn't pass my stink test. Opera Punk's appearance sealed it. The trajectory of their relationship as reported by Buzz, the way her posts read... again, I can't specifically explain any of it, but I never once believed they were two people. And I never believed in the suicide. If it does ever turn out that there was a real Buzz, and he did kill himself, well... that's a terrible shame, but I stand by my cynicism. (And if anyone doubts that I was on to this, I told AVC's LJo all about it when we met in person -- BECAUSE I AM A REAL PERSON, AND SO IS HUGS, I SWEAR IT WE ARE NOT THE SAME PERSON DREAMED UP BY A MIDDLE-AGED DUDE IN A CINDERBLOCK BASEMENT SOMEWHERE -- what was it, four years ago?) |
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Post by Murray the Demonic Skull on Feb 10, 2017 16:01:42 GMT -5
Poor Mrs. Snape, because now she'll be subjected to this at dinner: "Okay, I know this isn't going to make any sense, and I have to catch you up on about a decade of backstory, but I have to tell someone." haha I've done the same with Skullette : "...why are you talking to these strangers again?" |
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Post by Liz n Dicksgiving on Feb 10, 2017 16:02:12 GMT -5
Holy shit - that's insane. I admit to not knowing a lot of the past of this whole tale other than seeing him comment on the AVC and reading the obituary, but even from that, this is just a buffet of craziness. (Also PEOPLE HERE HAVE MET ME AND KNOW I EXIST, just for the record.) Are you SURE that was you and not someone you hired from Central Casting? |
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Post by ganews on Feb 10, 2017 16:05:00 GMT -5
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ayatollahcm
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Post by ayatollahcm on Feb 10, 2017 16:05:13 GMT -5
This is awful.
To the TOC article, I can confirm that Miss Anthropy was a real person. Apart from any possibility that her death was faked, too (which, given that she had a very, very common name, would be hard to find), I'm confident she wasn't a catfisher.
And the people who have met me from here no that I'm too real.
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ayatollahcm
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Post by ayatollahcm on Feb 10, 2017 16:11:12 GMT -5
Also, do we know *who* wrote this?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2017 16:11:19 GMT -5
I'd like to confess that I don't physically exist either.
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LazBro
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Post by LazBro on Feb 10, 2017 16:14:04 GMT -5
(And if anyone doubts that I was on to this, I told AVC's LJo all about it when we met in person -- BECAUSE I AM A REAL PERSON, AND SO IS HUGS, I SWEAR IT WE ARE NOT THE SAME PERSON DREAMED UP BY A MIDDLE-AGED DUDE IN A CINDERBLOCK BASEMENT SOMEWHERE -- what was it, four years ago?) I have met Liz and am prepared to confirm .... she is duplicitous and a liar. Don't trust anything she says. Hugs is awesome. |
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Post by ComradePig on Feb 10, 2017 16:17:40 GMT -5
That is some next-level shit. I don't know why you'd put that much effort in, or I suppose I do, and the answer is that they are very cruel, very unwell, or both. Yeesh.
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heroboy
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Post by heroboy on Feb 10, 2017 16:22:12 GMT -5
Also, do we know *who* wrote this? Yeah, after skimming through it, all I can think of now is if this is some kind of a catfish-in-a-catfish situation.
Though we do know that "John" wrote it. They also forgot to censor Angela's full handle in one screenshot.
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Post by Dr. Dastardly on Feb 10, 2017 16:24:51 GMT -5
What the helllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll
So just to confirm here: E. Buzz is fake, Opera Punk is fake, Miss Anthropy was real?
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monodrone
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Post by monodrone on Feb 10, 2017 16:25:15 GMT -5
For the record: I'm real and I'm spectacular.
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