curled around these images

God, I hate pseudocides. They sicken me. I had it happen to a good friend of mine - someone who was supposedly her best friend "died" and "her brother" posted to her journal sharing the news, and my friend was devastated for weeks. Until she found her friend posting on another site, alive and well. I was kind of friends with her too, but not so close, so it didn't affect me as much.

But still. It's a terrible thing to do to people.

Yeah, after I got poking around LJ (and seeing what other folks had to say about him), I realized I HAD heard of him before as this enormous fraud. The amount of energy he devotes to fabricating stuff indicates some serious dysfunction.

I'm super-skeptical of people on the internet. Before I buy anyone's sob story about anything, I research as much as I can and listen to my instincts about them.

Actually, I have a friend on-line who I met 15 years ago in a White Wolf vampire-themed rpg chat, and she faked being a 'he' for ages, to really sell the idea that her character was male. She was also trying to protect her real-life identity; back then, it wasn't nearly so accepted to live RPG chat stuff. I caught onto it early on and asked her point-blank, and she admitted it to me. Eventually, she admitted it to all the rp folks she actually cared about. We're still friends today, but she never tried to milk anyone for sympathy or attention or money. We had a mutual friend in this same circle who got taken for a lot of money (and hand-made gifts) by a guy claiming to be Italian and in love with her. We tracked his IP to Florida. SO not Italy. And there were other things too, but fact is, people do this crap to each other all the stinkin' time.

You're a good soul, Ash. He (or she) took advantage of a lot of good souls. Don't stop being kind-hearted! Just do a quick google if someone's life seems so fraught with misfortune, it's the stuff of soap operas. :)

I heard about this maybe a couple of years ago and I thought, hmmmm? Really?

But then I remembered that about 15 years ago I was a moderator on a pretty big social forum and 2 of the people on the forum, a younger boy and an older women were having an online romance, then when the younger boy went to meet this "women" it turned about he was a 30's man. So after investigating it as best I could, the IP addresses showed that neither were where they said they lived. I banned them because no one needs that drama.

The internet is awesome for being anonymous and you can make up whatever you want about yourself.

I didn't know that Mica was stealing stories and art. I read a couple of his stories and thought they were pretty good. I was sad when he got beaten up, etc. But then I saw the post about his "death" so yeah, people can be weird and dramatic, wanting to be interesting instead of interested.

Yeah, I think I heard something about him - there was a couple of others years back, one named Marie something (who when she got caught created another lj saying she was hacked to keep the drama going- turns out it was all fake fake fake).

Idk, I have too much on my own plate to pay too much attention.

I love and adore fandom/LJ community and had the pleasure of going to cons to meet rl fen. And as much as I love fen it still turns out, people are still people and just as batshit crazy as the next person! Judgment call via my own experience rooming with a few said crazies o.O

This happened several years ago in the Queer As Folk fandom. A writer passed himself off as polyamorous, at that time living with another man and raising a baby daughter, courtesy of a friend who donated her eggs and carried the baby for them. He also bravely dealt with the aftereffects of a traumatic head injury he sustained while playing on an ice hockey team. He wrote original M/M fiction and had a pretty big following in the QaF fandom (I don't specifically remember his name, Christian something) and he especially had a very intense internet relationship with one of the women on my flist. Over the years he posted pics of his daughter, but never himself or his partner. When it eventually came out that "he" was a "she" playing an elaborate hoax on the internet, the aforementioned fan was devastated and publicly humiliated. After many posts about how she didn't know and never suspected, she deleted her journal and quietly went away. Turns out that a lot of people knew of the sham, they just kept it to themselves, or played along, because they assumed everyone else knew. I had never friended him, so I watched this play out in journals of other on my flist.

Some people are seriously fucked up and with the internet, it's so easy to lie and take advantage of others. It's one of the reasons why I keep my flist so small. I blab all the time about my personal life, and I like to know who I'm blabbing to :)

Yeah, he's/she or whoever has been exposed for quite some time now. What was funny is the supposed sketches of him/self-portraits down by his boyfriends were actually art done by different people of the lead singer of HIM Ville Vallo.

The pseudosuicide is simply because he/she has been found out and they need to ditch this journal so they can start up a new one and partake in a new identity.

Ugh, my head hurts when I see such things... Yeah, it's weird, I totally agree. Also, not fair. I come to Internet to find friends and just for sharing my thoughts with each others. And when it turns out someone has been cheating... If one lies about one's identity, then how do I know whether this person's thoughts and views were true? And if they weren't, then what's the point in talking? Yeah, I get that one wants to keep anonymity, I do as well, I tend to be paranoical about it, actually. But anonymity is one thing, and fake personality quite another. Not to mention it has an awful side effect of spreading general distrust around. And plagiarism is a whole next level of dickiness. I'd feed plagiarists to sharks. *growls* Plagiarists don't just fake identity; they steal someone other's!

Back a few years, maybe 2007-8, there was a rash of plagiarized stories. Authors started prefacing their work with notes to let them know if their work was found on another site. That was back when communities just started and mods routinely took stories that fit their taste and linked them without notifying the author, but credited them.

It was around the time LJ's started locking down(for another reason). I think there was even a site or sticky where guilty usernames were listed.

Rock On!
Alley

What I'm about to say makes me feel like a giant, giant shit heel, and I hope like crazy that I'm wrong about this, but....

For a long time I've suspected that someone on my flist is a fake. This is someone that, if they are real, is a total complete angel, and I am probably going to go to hell for doubting them.

I go back and forth on it all the time. The details about their personal life are so extensive, and contain a lot of what appears to be authentic emotions, but on the other hand... really? Can all that stuff happen to one person? Can someone's spouse really be that completely perfect?

The awful part is, I know this person considers me a friend. I keep up my end of the friendship, because if they are real, then they truly are a wondersful person, and I figure, it doesn't hurt to be kind.

I wish I could outright ask any of their other f-list if they have suspicions, but like I said, I feel like a giant jerk about the whole thing.

???? what to do ????

So sock puppet is doing it again... very obstinate, but I'm not really surprised, after all, you know.
*nods**nods*

But I'm a little bit shocked that he/she/they still are able to get LJ user cought into their false and fake net.
*shakes head in disbelieve*

FYI, my dear, poor friend, this all [the fake LJ ID's + the plagiarism] already started in 2010 and it would fill pages to show you how much bad came from that corner since then.

So, I'll give you two links, instead, wich should explain the whole case(s) and meanwhile, we're sure that, at least, it had to be two of them sock puppets.

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Here are the links:

Stop Plagiarism from Jul. 7, 2011

Followed by:

Supernatural Warnings

The last link is a community where the owner - Thx Heavens - still has an eye on *coughs* highly unpleasant incidents like that.
*thumbs up*

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So if you want a cronology of the sock puppet(s) most inglorious doings, please scroll down said com a little bit and I bet you'll be surprised, how long this already is lasting...
*huggles*

P.S. You're not the first one who fell for their line, trust me, m'dear. Moi, for example, had to learn it the hard way too, back in the day...
*sighs + nods*

If this sock is Andythanfiction (as the post you linked to seems to say), I'd unfollow him and get any mates you have to do the same thing. He's a sociopathic, mentally unstable cult leader and has been around since LotR days. Very dangerous individual now lurking in the SPN fandom and trying to dip into other fandoms.