so not gonna happen

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xxp no don't you see it's v aesthetic to make a thread about how someone looks kinda like a loser and find out where they live and work and harrass them to talk about it via someone rehearsing for a career as an important "i talk like this, with this cadence" person

Who are you sneering at?

all of you? i mean i know classic ilx or whatever but you don't find any of the language, stalking or making contact that happened itt/'podcast' creepy or distasteful?

Yes, and I expressed that to PJ when he interviewed me.

i must have fast forwarded through that part, apologies. don't doxx me bro. <3

Yeah, the podcast guys made it pretty clear that the whole thing was weird and creepy. But then they got sucked in too.

...& took the weird + creepy thing further, and published it on a monetized platform... but it's all cool, no harm really and nothing any of us wouldn't mind being on the other end of, right?

Kinda creepy knowing there's all these people out there reading this thread now, looking in.

j/k like, whatever, man. Do whatever you want.

were neither grady nor emily gonna update the thread?

― seafaring funnyman Jacques Custos (rip van wanko), Thursday, October 13, 2016 7:51 PM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah see previous posts and give jaymc credit

when they said something about "john" I only very briefly thought "which... who?" until the voice clip rolled and I knew who it was

also what is up with s1ocki getting credit in the regards at the end but no other acknowledgment?

did s1ocki point these guys to it or gr80, because they both definitely had some role

Kinda creepy knowing there's all these people out there reading this thread now, looking in.

that's true of pretty much every thread to varying degrees, though

life is kinda creepy in general

did s1ocki point these guys to it or gr80, because they both definitely had some role

iirc s1ocki pointed them to it and told them they should talk to gr8080. gr8080 then looped in me and roxy.

jesus the future is fucking weirder and weirder the longer you stick around

Can someone post the podcast link?

Here you are Mark. https://gimletmedia.com/episode/79-boy-in-photo/

Fuck I really enjoyed the shit out of this podcast and hearing gr80 and jaymc was a fucking delight. Only complaint is that it follows the This American Life format/aesthetic to a t and yo I guess that this is growing up. I love you guys I love ilx.

^ same :)

a curious sensation hearing these young podcast voices covering this thread (and calling us 'kids'!)

also..... of course the RIP pic was real. v surprising the podcasters didn't think it was! but it's great that it spurred them to go to the bar

lol just got to the next twist... :o

Maybe the likes of Catfish have made me overly cynical, but the narrative with the twist seems a little too neat to be entirely genuine.

Wish they'd done it as a written article rather than a podcast. Their voices really started to grate on me after a while. Doesn't anyone write articles anymore?

Dumb complaint they do a podcast cmon

Loved the podcast! The twists! The turns! It's now like just one step away from someone writing their dissertation and becoming a Doctor of Sociology about this thread.

nobel prize for everyone itt (except whiney)

Completely floored! I subscribe to Reply All and when the episode came on I had no idea that the kids of ILX figured in.

nobel prize for everyone itt (except whiney)

^ came here to post that!

(SPOILERS FOR THE PODCAST FOLLOW, BE WARNED!)

To be honest, I found the whole justfication for faking "Wayne's" death to be a bit suspect. I mean, according to the podcast guy, his friends did it so ILX would stop cyber-harassing him or something... But if you actually look at this thread, the discussion around "Wayne" mostly dies around 2007, and after that most of the thread revivals are about totally different pics, with only a handful of "Wayne" posts (mostly by Gr8080) in the next 8 years.

And then "WayneCrew610" posts the news about his "death" in January 2015, even though no one in this thread has even mentioned him since 2013. So unless there was some stalking going on outside the thread (which I guess is possible), the idea that they'd nobly fake their friend's death to protect him from harassment, even though it had actually stopped years ago, seems suspect.

And then you have Jaymc saying he was interviewed for the podcast in February 2015 (i.e. soon after the first post by "WaynesCrew"), and someone else says it has been on the works for "years". So maybe "WaynesCrew" only came to post here only after the podcast folks had contacted them... Which means that they created the story for their podcast themselves.

starring tuomas as columbo

Podcast to follow.

Just one more Finn

were they trying to stop jerks from stalking their friend or were they just trying to fuck with the jerks who stalked their friend

To be clear, I didn't mean to imply the podcast folks actually told "Wayne's" friends to fake his death, just that maybe the friends decided to do that after the some weird people had tried to contact them so that they could find "Wayne" and interview him.

(xpost)

Nice try... Tuomas Loftus! (dun dun DUNNNN!)

can't wait to read this thread and listen to the podcast with a nice glass of wine.

were they trying to stop jerks from stalking their friend or were they just trying to fuck with the jerks who stalked their friend

The podcast implies it's the former, but of course it could actually be the latter, and they just tried to come up with justification that'd make them look better.

Still, the whole idea that a bunch of people would lie about their friend having died, even in real life face-to-face conversation, just because some cyber-stalking happened many years ago, seems pretty weird. I can't imagine anyone I know doing that.

*pictures what everyone tuomas knows would be doing instead*

Posted on the Reddit thread for this episode

[–]panphobia 11 points 16 hours ago
This is so weird. I've never seen this picture - but I know the girl to the right. I worked with her for 3 years, and dated her roommate for a long time, but didn't recognize any of the other people mentioned in the podcast. The name they gave for her in the show is her legal name, but not the name she goes by (at least not when I knew her).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMIfoutZiho

Is Tommy in that video? I always have a weird fellow feeling for my fellow Thomases, I can't explain it.

My name is actually the Finnish variant of Thomas.

I think we already guessed that.

"just one more thing… "

I'm beginning to feel like Robert Culp here.

One minor detail that bugged me in the podcast: they use the Nolan Painting ad as proof that "Wayne" is still alive. But the ad was put to Youtube September 2014, and "Wayne" was supposed to have died in March of that year... The ad uses a lot of different photos, and "Wayne" only appears very briefly in one of them, on the far edge of one large group shot. That photo could've easily been taken before March; with a crew of that size, it's perfectly possible no one even noticed the pic includes someone who later died, or they wanted to use the shot anyway. So it's not really a proof of anything, their big CSI moment feel unearned.

"feels unearned"

my favorite chuck mangione b-side

OK, I see him, yay Tommy!

Tuomas, you obviously didn't listen that hard, because *by the end* the podcast people do think WaynesCrew were just fucking with us. They say this explicitly, more than once.

True that it could have been the podcast guys but I doubt it - waynetruther obviously was one of them.

Ya. I think it's pretty obvious they saw a chance to fuck with some people.