everybody on ilx complains about reddit

it was never really supposed to be a "news bomb" -- the reddit Freak Out has kind of changed the whole story, which was always supposed to be the sort of TAL-tone, "profile of weird internet guy"

Education
First Baptist Church School

between the accumulation of power through inter-mod battles / aggressive usefulness to admins and the immediate offer to gawker to "do anything" as a "spy" within reddit (no idea what he thinks gawker might want to know about reddit) this is some successful-sociopath shit (or i guess not really all that successful)

not really sociopath either; dude just didn't want his extracurriculars to cost him his job (you could in fact argue that his reaction is the epitome of being highly socialized)

https://twitter.com/ryanhatesthis/status/256874822578081792

smacked of gender

two other choice tweets from this clown

✞Ry★n Br❤d€r♪ck✞ ‏@ryanhatesthis
.@PUREIDEOLOGY @AdrianChen i dont think its a rofling matter, the rights of men in this country are dying as the matriarchy takes over.

✞Ry★n Br❤d€r♪ck✞ ‏@ryanhatesthis
I am so completely down with this record. ♫ The Heist – Macklemore & Ryan Lewis http://spoti.fi/OkDfTS #Spotify

h8 men tbh

do sociopaths not care if they lose their jobs

anyway of course i am not diagnosing and "shit" there was supposed to mean "behavior" as opposed to "character"; charming and bargaining and making yourself indispensable; people w capacity for empathy do that kind of stuff all the time too of course but they don't necc also devote all their free time to publicizing sexy pictures of children; it's just interesting to try and think your way into people like this

let's not give ira glass credit for inventing the profile

guys that guy is cool. hes joking.

i laughed at

They would say the fact that he created a subreddit dedicated to Hitler meant he was anti-Semitic, when really it was just trolling.

the great distinction of our times

guys that guy is cool. hes joking.

MACKLEMORE IS NO LAUGHING MATTER

guys that guy is cool. hes joking.

― max, Friday, October 12, 2012 5:03 PM (23 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ohhhhh

i mean i dont know about the macklemore thing

hes "trolling," like hitler was

Surprised he didn't say "lol it was all a psychological experiment and reddit failed"

awesomethread and terrific work by pplains earlier with potential reddit frontpage stuff

max's comment about redditors being the future of the GOP was pretty eerie imo

reddit is truly America's Wandervogel.

I dunno why anyone expected this dude to NOT be a techie in his 40s, tbh

― The Owls of Ja Rule (DJP), Friday, October 12, 2012 5:23 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

feels like the big reveal at the end of 8mm

They were mad that their buddy was going to be outed for simply, in their mind, exercising his free speech—his unalienable right to anonymously post stalker shots of women.

booming

I dunno why anyone expected this dude to NOT be a techie in his 40s, tbh

Also that he's from "Occupied Northern Mexico".

Surprised he didn't say "lol it was all a psychological experiment and reddit failed"

― stet, Friday, October 12, 2012 6:29 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ya feel like these so called professional trolls should have some back up rolls planned out, trolls w/in trolls

anyway fascinating story, he shouldve taken up the guy on his offer to be his sock tho and made him post feminism all day

then outed him

so was releasing this after work on a Friday a small gesture of ... kindness? towards violentacrez

the cozy tone of the article makes me suspicious this whole thing isn't a combined troll for pageviews for both respective sites.

eh I think it was the right tone to strike

lol, nunez

reddit be needin them page views

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2217109/Michael-Brutsch-Internet-troll-Reddit-Creepshot-forum-unmasked-grandfather-Texas.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

epic url

i'm gonna brew a hot oolong tea and get lost in the comment section of the gawker article all weekend

You don't think "other races" can be racist too? I've had my face pounded in the sidewalk by a group of blacks because I was white and dating one of their sisters back in the late 90's which he and his crew didn't like.

hahah whiney

my favorite part of the whole article is the TWO times Chen basically sneak disses Obama's campaign team on some "These DC power-players thought it was a savvy tactic to send the leader of the free world into a den of pedophiles vigorously masturbating to pictures of 14-year-olds"

dying @ this one

Mr Adrian, keep in mind that posting this article will have real world repercussions on that man. If he really cracks and gets a gun, who know what might happen. He might as well take his life and you'll have that in your track record. You can do in fact kill a person with words.

He might be a sad person, bad and all the bad adjectives you want, but this is not justice served, you are just as bad as him for posting this story for money. A different kind of bad, if you want, but bad at the end.

Just by telling him you already know who he is and showed proof, it could have ended there, but money. You sold that man to the internet, Mr Adrian.

Hope you can live with that if that man dies.

Cheers.

dont know what reddit is.

pvic

*pvmic, I'm tired

#gawkerpulitzer

After a decade that saw re-branding (Seth Cohen from the O.C., Peter Parker, Rivers Cuomo's second act) nerds are getting re-stigmatized thanks to websites like reddit and films like "The Social Network"

from my hypothetical Time Magazine article on all this.

honestly, anyone who still self-identifies as a "nerd" in 2012, there's like an 85% chance that person is a screeching misogynist or a full-on kid-toucher

or a chick who says "im such a nerd, lol" all the time

Whiney and Ass sadly otm.

Nowhere quite as reliably, screechingly misogynist as the gamer "community" and its house organs

http://nerdking.net/

bad and all the bad adjectives you want

my new goto pejorative

'Revenge of the Nerds' is such a pitch-perfect touchstone for "contemporary nerd culture" because the HERO of the film spends 90 minutes stroking a persecution complex and then literally rapes a woman at the end

sorry if i'm being to free with that word, but that's actually the plot of that movie

one thing tho is it goes w/the nerds as sweet likable feebs stereotype when mostly irl theyre just arrogant jerks