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Favorite internet trainwrecks?

[khronos_keeper]

So, I'm in the mood for extensive recapping, expostulating, and any otherwise extensively documented reading about Internet dysfunctional groups.

What are some of your guy's favorites?

Some of the ones that are fascinating but scare the hell out of me are: Andy Blake, the FFVII cult, and that one tumblr driven con with the shitastic ballpit thing.

If you really want to get the shit scared out of you, check out Junko Junsui, and Catherine Brandenburg. (Be very careful around the former, because there's actually some amount of weird post-Soviet maneuvering in there, and there's some evidence to suggest the Junsui are in some way connected to the Black Widows of Dagestan.)

Re: Favorite internet trainwrecks?

[(Anonymous)]

Msscribe FOR SURE. Absolute gold star reading http://www.journalfen.net/users/charlottelennox/784.html

Re: Favorite internet trainwrecks?

[shortysc22]

That and Andy Blake are my favorite trainwrecks.

Re: Favorite internet trainwrecks?

[iceyred]

That's a classic.

Re: Favorite internet trainwrecks?

[lb_lee]

OH GOD MSSCRIBE. I plowed through that a month or two ago, it felt like I was shotgunning liquid sugarcrack. I probably had psychedelic dreams for a week straight.

--Rogan

Re: Favorite internet trainwrecks?

[(Anonymous)]

That was a great read, thanks anon. Andy Blake was kinda scary.

Re: Favorite internet trainwrecks?

[(Anonymous)]

"the FFVII cult"

Care to catch an anon up?

Re: Favorite internet trainwrecks?

[khronos_keeper]

Most of it is found here: http://www.demon-sushi.com/warning/

Re: Favorite internet trainwrecks?

[(Anonymous)]

The Rat Patrol sock puppet debate is one: http://fanlore.org/wiki/The_Rat_Patrol_Sockpuppet_Debacle

Basically, think Msscribe, but with even more batshit stuff thrown in (with a dose of 9/11 involved for good measure). It never became as well known of a kerfluffle as, well, Msscribe for one reason or another, but it's nuts.

Re: Favorite internet trainwrecks?

[fingalsanteater]

I read that one a month or so ago and it was so interesting!

Re: Favorite internet trainwrecks?

[(Anonymous)]

The Sarah Saga!

Someone linked it to me the other day and I'm just a bit sad that the author deleted the ending as I'm curious about what happened.

(I get it, of course, with it being legal reasons and all, but still.)

http://z3.invisionfree.com/ffo/ar/t8592.htm

Link also contains part of the FFVII cult house story, as 'Sarah' was partly involved in that too (as Aeris), but just search for "The Sarah Saga" to get to that part of this shit.

Re: Favorite internet trainwrecks?

[(Anonymous)]

Did the people who had to cough up extra money for that Tumblr con disaster ever get their money back?

Re: Favorite internet trainwrecks?

[(Anonymous)]

There was epic Mark Watches trouble around the Buffy episode Seeing Red (pretty sure it originated from an episode or two prior) that spilled over into Mark Spoils, which had its own drama a couple years later when a mod proclaimed that some long-timers had always been shitty people and banned them after what was clearly a big misunderstanding on the parts of the offended.

Maybe I can find links later.

Re: Favorite internet trainwrecks?

[(Anonymous)]

The more I read people talk about Mark Reads/Watches, the more fortunate I feel that I was only ever a casual reader of his blogs back when he was blogging about reading the Twilight books.

Re: Favorite internet trainwrecks?

[iceyred]

Harry Potter's Snapes on an Astral Plane.

Re: Favorite internet trainwrecks?

[diet_poison]

I keep hearing about this but have never actually seen it. Would you happen to have any links on hand?

Re: Favorite internet trainwrecks?

[diet_poison]

the ballpit thing was hilarious.

Andy Blake is indeed creepy as hell.

The Chris-chan stuff sort of fascinates me. He's also pretty creepy but in a different was from Andy Blake I think...

Re: Favorite internet trainwrecks?

[iceyred]

Chris-chan will hurt someone someday. Or himself. :/

Isn't Blake a cult leader or something?

Re: Favorite internet trainwrecks?

[asecretchord]

This article lists ten of the best internet trainwrecks ever documented. Enjoy!

Re: Favorite internet trainwrecks?

[cenobitic_anchorite]

YES. "His wife? A horse" is represented on that list. That was hands down my favorite wreck.

Re: Favorite internet trainwrecks?

[lb_lee]

Oh Jesus, that's a tough one. Andy Blake is up there, but so are a bunch of other more minor league multi cults that I mostly know about only through hearsay and veiled references in locked posts. Neo, Swampy, threedog... it's the circle of crackpots, and it moves us all.

--Rogan

Re: Favorite internet trainwrecks?

[(Anonymous)]

DashCon
Miss Officer and Mr Truffles

Watching Tumblr eat it's own and show it's ass all over the internet for everyone to see? Please, sir, I want some more!

Re: Favorite internet trainwrecks?

[(Anonymous)]

I vaguely remember something about a really popular series of Harry Potter fics about Draco that turned out to involve a lot of plagiarism where much of the supposedly original world building concepts (and possibly also significant chunks of the plot) were basically copied from a somewhat obscure series of fantasy novels and a bunch of the dialogue had been lifted nearly wholesale from episodes of Buffy (and probably other TV shows, too) and the author was trying to pass all of this off as her own original work (albeit still HP fanfic, so no claims to have invented the stuff that was from HP). I think there was some strife about this, because the fic had a lot of fans.

Re: Favorite internet trainwrecks?

[(Anonymous)]

What is the Brandenburg one? Google is giving me nothing.

Re: Favorite internet trainwrecks?

[khronos_keeper]

A brief editor's note to my original comment. Catherine Brandenburg is actually meant to be Catherine Waldegrave.

It can't be really boiled down into a succinct summary, really. Basically, a highly intelligent, successful young woman starts posting non-stop about bizarre conspiracy theories. The fucked up part is not knowing if she's having an acute episode of mental illness (she was not mentally ill before), or if any of what she's talking about could be true, or if her mental health was in some way precipitated by her work.

http://cotton-wastrel.blogspot.com/2011/05/mystery-of-karin-catherine-waldegrave.html