LJ Idol - Topic 3 - Mistaken Identity

[aggienaut]

June 23rd, 2006 - mythunderstood, in a comment to someone else:

Otimus,
   This is a bazzare [sic] post, but I wanted to give you a heads up, and PLEASE pass the word around your friends list. You friended me sometime last year during a picspam troll attack [!?], and now this same virulent troll (the other account was a sockpuppet) has created a NEW sockpuppet ...
   I know exactly who the person is son_of_art, aka ruis_draiocht, and his brand-spanking new sockpuppet is emo_snal (complete with a bunch of backdated entries to make the journal look legit) ...[blah blah blah] ... and he thinks this will somehow (1) hurt my feelings because we're LJ friends ... [blah blah blah blah blah] ...the thing to do, I think, is to warn your friends list about emo_snal ... [blah blah blah ad infinitum] ...

   And otimus did indeed post a dire warning the next day I believe (which unfortunately he has since deleted, so we can no longer relive the lulz). Anyway, I can assure you I am not "Son of Art" and have never interacted with him/her/it in any form, nor have I ever been involved in anything that could remotely be likened to "a picspam troll attack."


   Sometime last year someone added me to a list of sockpuppets on Encyclopedia Dramatica (warning ED is often alarming NSFW). While I'm a bit amused to have been found important enough to list on a site I have nothing to do with, it also really makes me cringe to be in any way associated with that wretched hive of scum and villiany. (edit: Another example I just found of it coming up)


   And then there was the first of several times people got myself, emo_snal and emosnail confused. More recently, this June, we amused ourselves by accusing one another of both being the sockpuppet of the other.


   Consider also, that exactly 0.00% of my friends list has met me in person. How can anyone be sure, then, that I AM real and not an ethereal sockpuppet. Am I real or are my sockspirations and sockdreams just a meaningless imitation of life some incorporeal internet sludge has learned to make? Where do you draw the line between sockpuppet and sockhuman? Where do you draw the line between mistaken identity and perception being reality (ie mistake or not what is identified is what is).


Picture of the Day

A large troll I came across yesterday in Seattle
(or perhaps another picture taken of ME?)

Comments

[lilmissmagic71.livejournal.com]

wow... that's the suck.

Excellent take on the topic, tho! *grin*

Shinanigans

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

I think its all mostly hysterical. Am verrrry close (making a decision - wise) to creating an lj of emo_SNL to add another dimension tothe shinanigans. ...but afraid doing so will cast more credence to the claims that I'm already involved in sockfarming.

a poem

[memeworrywort.livejournal.com]

LOL

and that ALL

Re: a poem

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

Seriously. I had such a good laugh at otimus and mythunderstood's expense. I wish I had saved a screencap of his post about it. Too funny.

Re: a poem

[memeworrywort.livejournal.com]

It took me half an hour (since I'm dumb at searching) to find the list of sockpuppets. They don't have anything on you. Just that you're a sockpuppet of Son of Art. Just that is creepy enough. I wouldn't want to be associated with anything of what I read of that.

Why would anyone, seeing the photos that you've posted, the stories you tell, and the language that you've used, assume that you are not who you say you are? Seems like they don't know a thing or they're very good at tangential thinking. They must feel offended by your prescence and status as an internet person and unbelieving of everything you claim to be. Hell, they are so far off, they probably think the sky is falling. I am convinced that this is true because clearly, it is the most logical and most true of anything I have ever experienced in my entire life. Yea, my life values that much. Humm.

Re: a poem

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

Dude I just poked at mythunderstood's LJ to see what their deal was and it appears they are completely obsessed with this son_of_art character. AND they have a lengthy ED entry themself. So yeah, they clearly are Not A Winner

Having never met you...

[giographix.livejournal.com]

For all I know, having never met you in-person, I believe you are actually a 113,000 year old mollusk-like creature that enjoys feasting on underprivileged inner-city youths.

Re: Having never met you...

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

Damn! I've been found out!!

Re: Having never met you...

[furzicle.livejournal.com]

As his maternal unit I can vouch that this is absolute truth, however, the passing of genetic material didn't happen, hence the moluscness of it all. And you should see the dingy cave of guano that he lives in.

Re: Having never met you...

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

Such sauce!

Re: Having never met you...

[furzicle.livejournal.com]

muah ah ah

Re: Having never met you...

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

Just added a picture to this entry. Keep an eye out for more pictures hopefully going up within the hour.

Re: Having never met you...

[furzicle.livejournal.com]

Ironic that this reply series is titled "Having never met you..."

[baxaphobia.livejournal.com]

Wow! Good thing you thought most of this was funny because if you didn't...Whew!

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

Yeah like I said I find it mostly hysterical. The encyclopedia dramatica reference was a bit scary but other than that ... people think I'm not real, thats hilarious!

Oh man if people would get it I'd say I should be a sockpuppet for halloween. I need to find a super nerdy party.

[caersidi.livejournal.com]

Very cool entry.

Mythstaken Identity

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

Yeah as soon as I read the prompt this week I was stoked and immediately knew what I was going to write about. I was like "'mistaken identity'?!, thats my middle name!!" =D

[lordrexfear.livejournal.com]

Wow man... to be called a sockpuppet. I can relate to the ED pain though, I'm a lesion of evil and hated by the world, so I am on there.

I must say... troll photo? Amazing!

Troll

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

Hmm dang a search of your name on ED didn't bring up any results .. hints on what you're under? (though I'd completely understand if you don't want to direct any attention to it, being on ED is pretty much the opposite of the most glamourous place you can be)

Yeah the troll is neat. I wanted to get out and have my picture taken with it but we couldn't find parking near it ... so I just got that one through the windshield. d=

[nocturneprime.livejournal.com]

Dude...it's LJ.

To some extent, we're all sock puppets.

Real life

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

In real life I'm just a sockpuppet of my lj personality =D

Re: Real life

[xo-kizzy-xo.livejournal.com]

LOLOLOL!!!

:trying not to spit ice water all over the keyboard:

Ahem. You just might have to copyright that phrase.

Re: Real life

[sosoclever.livejournal.com]

That needs to go on a t-shirt.

[boxsofrain.livejournal.com]

We can be sockpuppet buddies if you would like.

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

Hellz yeah! (= ::high five:: <3

[theafaye.livejournal.com]

I have never heard of ED and got sick of the porn pop ups before I looked around the site, but I bet my husband's on there somewhere (he had a yahoo group dedicated to hating him).

I must admit, I'd think this was hilarious too. Some people just need to get a life. Mind, I'm the last person that could do any sockpuppetry - I've been completely open about setting up a second LJ account for Idol and I still lose track of which account I'm posting from, where.

Ah, the internet. Where even molluscs get to have LJs. :oP

That Wretched Hive of Scum and Villiany

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

I'll admit I'm not above making another account as a prank, for example I thought about creating a "emo-SNL" and referencing it in this entry to add another dimension to the uncertainty, but decided that would give too much credence to the other claims.

But I definitely think the people who are preoccupied with "picspam troll attacks" need to get a life. And thats part of whats really hilarious about the "mythunderstood" case of mistaken identity -- he admits that either he or Otimus (its unclear which) had been up to such a thing and thats how they met.

[ewok-626.livejournal.com]

Isn't that troll from "10 Things I Hate About You?" *will have to go and watch the movie now!*

10 Things I Hate About You

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

Hmm I dunno does the movie take place in Seattle?

[witless-nerd.livejournal.com]

An awesome photo.
What is the difference between emo_snal and emo_snail?

Emo-snail

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

There is no emo_snail (=

[guabili.livejournal.com]

0.0%, eh?

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[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

You've met emosnail, but have you met emo_snal? Do you know for certain? o_O

[jnel.livejournal.com]

AHSKAJFHASHFAHHH!! I WENT TO THE GIANT TROLL LAST SPRING!!! THAT WAS LIKE ONE OF THE HAPPIEST MOMENTS OF MY LIFE@!!! hahaha. we trolled with the troll it was awesome.

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

Yeah I'm really kinda bummed we didn't get a chance to park and poke around it. /=

[shadowwolf13]

Can't say that I've ever heard of Encyclopedia Dreamatica ... though I do agree that the whole sock puppet thing was funny. :)

[brightflashes.livejournal.com]

wow! Great take on the topic. I love it! : )

[sleepwalkdance.livejournal.com]

Oh e-shenanigans! Sometimes I wish I was "more known" and could enjoy the lulz, but then I see friends of mine that go through it and I'm glad I'm an e-nobody!

[bodlon.livejournal.com]

Ah, the Internet. Land of new and exciting kinds of confusion.

[animamea.livejournal.com]

Yeah, you can backdate entries, but you would have to be a srs l33t h4x0r to make the LJ server think you've been a member since 2006. So, you're either the best sock EVAR or just some dude.

So... I'm paranoid of random friendings. What's up with you?

Random Friendings

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

Friending people at random is a piece of performance art to accompany this entry =D

[casimiera.livejournal.com]

Hi. I just noticed you had added me. And then deleted me. (I wonder if that might be the effect of me not checking my lj on a regular basis...)

And that person up there spelled bizarre wrong.

BAZZARE!! ;D

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

Ah. Sorry about that, was doing some Spring Fall Cleaning of the friends list last week. I've readded you.

Yeah they really butchered "bizarre," they also missed a lot of commas and stuff. Altogether I was very unimpressed with their show of intelligence. (=