so not gonna happen

Literally for the past 10 years, this thread keeps ILX a part of my Internets

"a guy named gr80 told me about it."

^^

Would've had a heart attack had the other host said, "there's a grady now?"

i would like a podcast about pplains and sunny and their children and arbitrary geographical borders and surviving cancer and english dialects and bobby petrino and david berman (but not his dad)

Finished listening a few minutes ago, and now I've been going back over the thread. I was still strictly ILM-only in 2006, so I missed the original frenzy, but I got up to speed later on.

I agree with someone upthread who said you don't have to know anything about the thread or even ILX to think that was a remarkable podcast episode. I applaud the considerable amount of work they put into it.

My wife knows Roxy and Nijoli casually IRL but has never been an ilxor. I have occasionally shown her ILX classix, like Bloomps and this thread. She is also a Reply All fan and likes to listen while doing her morning yoga, which she was doing this morning when this came on. She came into the bedroom to tell me and I said "You mean the photo [Roxy IRL] posted?" She hadn't realized that connection, so now she's all worlds-colliding.

Wow. Familiar with the thread and photo but must've missed all the other photos that were found but long since not showing itt, and the ensuing sherlocking of it all. Great, if slightly unnerving, podcast.

lol the @replyall twitter blocked me pre-emptively. feel like a cyber bully :(

This may be common ILX knowledge but the image info in the disappeared follow-up pics upthread have little titles like 'laureljealous' 'hugz' 'takeitalloff' and 'johnfirco_loftus'

oh wait I'm just getting to that bit of the thread.

Just listened to the podcast, I think I would've enjoyed it even without the ILX angle. But having followed the thread for 10 years it's pretty weird to have it exist now in another arena.

The transcript is a rich lode of board descriptions, but this is my favorite: " Just picture pages and pages of black text on a white background; everybody’s trying to outdo each other."

(oh i was blocked because one of the reply all dudes is the husband in 'my husband's stupid record collection' and he didn't take kindly to my criticisms. oh well!)

(we made up.)

./~ I was lurking, Wayne was there, two worlds collided... ./~

wait one of them is that guy? plot thickens!

Ew, god, I loathed that blog.

this was a good podcast but i can totally picture that.

I totally refer to gatefolds as openies now.

I love this reddit comment so much

jjm7000 8 points 3 days ago

Here's a link to the entire message board, if anyone was curious to see. They seem to be freaking out a bit over the podcast release haha.

...because it implies that the So Not Gonna Happen thread is a self-contained, niche-interest message board entirely devoted to that one photo. Wayne's whereabouts have never been far from our minds, but over the past 10 years we've forged friendships and marriages, written SNGH fanfics, indulged in semi-off-topic chitchat to pass the time ("Wayne would definitely be a Trump backer!") and organized meetups complete with SMDH tableau vivants and King of Prussia Hooters pilgrimages. but now we're in a state of turmoil because the Reply All podcast has not only solved the one mystery that made our community worth sustaining, it has also forced us to engage with Reddit and Twitter for the first time, thus spoiling the purity of one of the last isolated pockets of uncontacted Web 1.0 holdouts. sad!

I also wonder if all these 19-year-old Redditors (and even the producers of the podcast) have any real concept of message board culture apart from what they've picked up from off-topic Roblox and Club Penguin forums. I guess ilx is as alien to them as Usenet was to me when I was that age.

tbf ILX is pretty alien

true

no reddit is the one with the mascot

Tough listen because the main host has a voice like a Daniel Clowes character (mouth-breath-y, slack jaw, excessive saliva?)... not to mention the Arnold Horschack machine-gun laugh.

It's a voice that made me pine for Starly Kine's if you can believe that.

pplains otm

i'd rather saw one of my legs off than listen to a podcast that isn't sports related. cheerio!

^so not gonna listen

whoa @ the revelation that alex goldman is the husband of my husband's stupid record collection

I didn't know you could marry a record collection? And someone else's to boot! High infidelity, I guess.

How's your husband dealing with it?

Starting a blog

I was wondering if the podcast was going to be revenge for the stuff we wrote on the worst music writing thread

Yeah, they should have done a hoax episode in which it turned out Wayne had killed himself because of this thread.

podcast about the rap battle thread pls

On this episode...we tracked down every New Jersey

http://i.imgur.com/mnbQ3Va.png

they kinda blew it with the episode number but that reddit comment count is rrrright

Can't believe PJ didn't ask Wayne if it actually happened.

Did he even ask him about this thread?

i like how this has become a local-interest story:
http://www.phillyvoice.com/listen-podcast-uncovers-twisting-mystery-local-boy-photo/

finally the written-through news story about the podcast about the message board post about the photo

Soon to be a major motion picture.

obviously Leo DiCaps needs to play gr80.

REPLY ALL/GIMLETMEDIA.COM

One of my biggest pet peeves in online media is when the photo credits say something like this.

finally listened to this. was dreading it a bit. but was quickly drawn in, on the edge of my seat with each development. found myself oddly touched by the very end though. wayne sounds like a for-real okay dude. i'm glad his life has gone well, and i'm glad this thread didn't like, give him a complex or something. seems like it maybe even gave him a couple of laughs to the extent that he thought about it at all.

i think when i very first saw the thread i was laughing at wayne while kidding myself that it wasn't. i'm about his age though and i have some bleak dorm-room-era photos from disposable cameras, that probably would strike some similar notes to strangers. now i think, hey, y'know, i'm trying to make improvements on my life, i look back fondly to college times even though i think i'm a bit happier and wiser now. me and wayne, we're doing the best we can and life is basically okay. in that sense, it "happened" for us all.

fwiw though, i was always very skeptical of the WaynesCrew RIP posts. but since i somehow missed out on this thread in its original stages (i think i was mostly an ILMer still at that point) i didn't feel super invested in that development one way or the other.

http://i975.photobucket.com/albums/ae232/daggerlee/8F00348F-0307-4036-AA88-0EB60C6A2D73_zps851fko6w.jpg

still my best 'too much time on ilx' post

"Loftus, party of one!"

a++

there's a picture of me in college that is on a couch but otherwise nearly identical to the original picture. I've always kind of sighed and then laughed at this thread because i look at it and think "it me"