so not gonna happen

l0u15 j@gger can't melt steel beams

i almost requested they slip a "ban l0u15 j@gger" in to the credits but decided it was best not to

i seem to remember you giving me an incredulous "no" when i asked to be listed that way in your photo zine credits

i stand by that decision.

it was the right decision

also, i researched PJ's life and today is his birthday.

happy birthday, PJ!

listening to freewheelin' cuts by famed author bob dylan as i read through gr8080's recap and then the injokes afterward from the last hour, i got a weird wave of nostalgia

like it feels like the morning after the last party, and now half the crew is going off to college and it's pretty far away. or, gandalf and friends are sailing away across the sea to the West

i probably just need to get outside for a minute

for real though, it's nice to get some verified, real closure on wayne.

not until the carter V drops

i am surprised, amazed and heart-warmed. i love that tommy didn't care about the internet :)

I can add that gr8080's voice is not only simply great but that based on the Chicago trip I did last week he is also an excellent docent for tours at the Robie House, which I encourage you all to do.

^^ he has a wonderful voice

that was good. its funny when some perceived big ilx event happens and you can be reading the borad casually and have no clue.

also never fell for the "prank". guess i'm a cool skeptic.

<3 gr80

also never fell for the "prank". guess i'm a cool skeptic.

yeah this always seemed really transparently false to me too

honestly, when Thomas/Wayne finally got on the phone, I had trouble believing his initial confusion

Listened to the episode and really enjoyed it, it was such a weird sense of worlds colliding (although I do wish I had listened on the way to work before seeing jaymc mention on Twitter & this thread revival, just for the dawning realization of what they were talking about).

Also I was a little surprised that I never posted on this thread, as I definitely remember following it at the time and whenever it popped up.

honestly, when Thomas/Wayne finally got on the phone, I had trouble believing his initial confusion

Yeah, my first reaction was that his friends must have told him to play along and avoid the reporters.

also never fell for the "prank". guess i'm a cool skeptic.

yeah this always seemed really transparently false to me too

― Οὖτις, Friday, October 14, 2016 5:10 PM (six minutes ago)

I didn't think it was transparently false, but nor did I think that it was definitely true. Kind of thought that trutherism without evidence was very insensitive *if* he had actually died, but now it is clear that they were gathering evidence, they were just waiting to unleash it. Also I love a story and I love ambiguity, so the truth values of the story being told are always slightly less important to me.

ILX: Ha, look at this poor dude and his asshole friends!

AHF: WTF? Who are these conts? Let's fuck with them and tell them dude's dead!

RA: Omg, these internet kids and the jocks who hate them. Let's drive to their bar and podcast 'em.

LOFTUS: Haha, whatever to all of you.

I expressed my condolences on the thread and was genuinely crestfallen at the report, but had inner doubts.

xp: perfect.

Idk why Reply All is getting so much hate. They solved the damn mystery.

i'm a little dubious about Tommy's professed indifference to the whole thing

A lot of people loved the podcast, me included. I think most of the people who didn't weren't actually involved in the initial obsession so just find the whole thing gross, from the ilx beginnings to the podcast ending. Oh, and Whiney, who just has a superiority complex.

xp

I don't really mind that they explored this or whatever but the tone/style of it is just not for me. I just don't like the whole sub-NPR cadences (for ex. stating a thing and then following it up immediately with a pseudo-incredulous leading question, ie, "but wait... what if [thing I just said] was totally wrong?! WHAT IF...") arggh just get me out of here I think that's shitty storytelling, the faux naif narrator leading the listener by the hand. It's not for me. Give me Paul Harvey's bizarre pauses and clipped delivery any day.

Maybe it's just because I'm an "outsider". I didn't know about this until I heard it from reply all. So many layers.

I guess I do agree w whiney that applying that tone to a relatively insignificant catfishing sorta story was off-putting

xp

Hey guys. We knew the whole time.....well at least after the first week. More fun to come. Also....R.I.P. Wayne

http://i.imgur.com/IKgaWgM.png

― WaynesCrew610, Saturday, January 24, 2015 3:26 PM (one year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Wayne never existed, just a legend of Wayne, which being false = that's what "R.I.P. Wayne" meant.

Or ILX got punk'd.

But I listened self-reflectively. As a on-and-off again ilxor, I've embarrassed myself by obsessing over trolls (Wagemannnnn, etc.) and harassment (hi dere bela fleck), so the a lot of my cringe effect was me looking at younger version of myself and "what if a small group of ilxors I've annoyed over the years took aim at my life."

Web 1.0 analysis = self analysis, for me. Anything to become less of a dick, and if Thomas is happy being in the limelight, then :-)

<3 Wayne/Tommy, good to get an update

hope the podcast bringing the mystery to a new audience doesn't cause any problems though; although I spent this thread's original appearance F5ing and Googling (even if not posting) I have felt a bit bad about that over the years

(though I suppose in its current state it's not all that enticing for anyone new to hit the internet detective trail on and there are many podcasts and blog posts and news stories every day with just as much information about people in)

everyone's focused on proving Ken Bone is an edgelord now, I think Tommy will be okay

shakey mo, good day.

id just like to say id contribute to a kickstarter if some web reporter wants to track down and interview luriqua

lol gr8080

Thanks for elaborating gr8080! I think y'all did really well on the podcast. (Good to hear they thoroughly researched it w/ fact checks and follow up interviews too)

It is strange, seeing something so quintessentially ilx outside of the board and in the ~real world~ like this. I would probably have had the same epiphany gr8080 had when he was contacted by the show, or so I'd like to believe. That, mixed with quite some embarrassment. Which is not a bad thing. Rather a mirror being held up that could not possibly have happened within the ilx universe.

Thomas being ok and well is teh raddest.

Just to give everybody a heads up here, we have a Pending Registration from a user with a Display Name of Waynescrew610 with a lowercase C. It should be noted that we already have a user WaynesCrew610 with a capital C. I don't know if they forgot their password or if this is the same user or what. I'm going to go ahead and let them in though.

Waynescrew1 through Waynescrew609 sadly already taken

Welcome, WayneScrew610 !

610 obviously their area code

i would like a podcast about de subjectivisten

^^ consider it done brb

podcast about the history of epic jay-z vs. nas throwdown threads

'Garu G Who He?"

"We all know Leonard Nimoy's Spock. His logical nature and imperturbable calm defined cool to a generation of sci-fi fans. But what if there was a different kind of Spock? And what if that Spock... were Nude? Megyn Kelly has the story."

Is no one frustrated that 10 years were wasted on a hoax?

I mean, we were doing other things too...

xp welcome to ILX!

we were so sure it wasn't gonna happen

The hoax itself is only about two years old isn't it?

Is no one frustrated that 10 years were wasted on a hoax?

― whtkrkid

Not me. The thread wasn't a hoax. The spirit of 'so not gonna happen' wasn't a hoax.

xp Matt DC otm