It's called "Digital Frustration" (digitalfrustration.blogspot.com) and it's run by a previous Joystiq blogger I'll call the Bully BCC. I think he's employed by Joystiq or maybe a contract writer for them. And boy is he mad. Possibly in love with me. You can see his very angry Twitter account here. He's only sharing it with his WoW Guild members (for certain specific reasons which you'll understand later), but I wanted to share it with all of you too.
I had to do a Google search to find out who this person was. Apparently, I made an off-hand comment about him back in November of 2011. Yes, that far back. The one and only time I have ever mentioned his name and he's been obsessed (Twitter, comments, blogs, forum posts, etc.) with me ever since. He's also oddly obsessed with the letter Q, and he uses it in all of his character names and online aliases.
The Joystiq Connection
You see, a lot of this drama came out of Joystiq it appears. BBCC is a professional victim and frequent troll on forums like 4chan and reddit. He's also very good friends with Michael Sacco and they have shared comments about this blog many times in the past. Remember him? I'm surprised he hasn't been terminated for stealing content, toxic chauvinism, or his deplorable antics. He's just like The Bully BCC.
Much of his jealous streak was made quite evident around the time of the Joystiq layoff rumor which I had used to discover major layoffs happening within Blizzard (everyone forgot that it was eventually confirmed and that mass layoffs really did occur.) This particularly made Sacco quite cross.
And, to top things off, the first thing he addresses "coincidentally" in his new blog are in regards to really old Sacco-specific blog posts. He calls them "a series of conspiracy theories." Sacco, by the way, is the person who claimed that "Blizzard's internal security has never been compromised" and that authenticators cannot be bypassed among many others. A real turd.
The Delicious Irony
Remember, this is a guy who tried to create some major hoax in the past but he was quickly caught lying to everyone and was ridiculed for it. He trolls people, lies, works from the shadows, and has been manipulating his guild through Twitter to harass this blog and myself.
The absolute best part of all of this is the posting in which he was first mentioned here; it was entitled "I Smell Fraud." :)
In this post, a reader commented that [BBCC] tweeted that in my post I claimed that "Blizzard steals credit card info from wine enthusiasts to artificially inflate subscriber numbers..."
Obvious lies. In reality, I wrote "They all probably use the same wine (or related) online ordering site, and their credit card numbers have been compromised."
So, he was lying to his Twitter followers, working them up into a frenzy, and it definitely wasn't his first time. After reading his other posts, I responded with:
I've never heard of this guy before. Based on his most recent posts though, it appears that he just attacks everyone. I detect a lot of anger, jealousy and judgment.. so he probably just hates everyone.Apparently, my discernment of his anger and jealousy towards me were spot on as made even more evident over the past few days.
I've been called worse things by better people. :)
He's spent months and months monitoring and reading the blog. He claims to hate the blog, but loves to read it and even steal content from it.
So, we've got a known fraud who commits fraud for attention, commits more fraud for more attention, gets mad because he's caught being a fraud, obsesses over it for 6 months, then decides to commit more fraud trying to expose something he thinks is fraud so that he can fraudulently get more attention.
Love Is Blind
The problem with being a celebrity stalker is that these obsessions can seriously affect sound judgement. Apparently I'm a "celebrity". And this sad individual fits all of the psychological criteria of being a classic celebrity stalker.
1. [BBCC] has been obsessed with me for at least 6 months. 6 months! And that's 6 months of planning of who knows what. Holding a grudge over petty matters for over half a year is very concerning.
2. He uses the word "conspiracy theory" a lot, and if you go over his scribbles he writes about his own paranoid feelings and claims a real actual conspiracy taking place that involves many people.
3. The blog was obsesively written like a manifesto and it's a hilarious read which is why I'm publicly sharing it.
4. He tweaked a lot of comments, reinterpreted things to fit his narrative, and has even fabricated a lot of posts and information desperately trying to give himself some legitimacy.
5. There are several fatal flaws in his theories. Some are because his timelines are completely mixed up and he couldn't keep track of the blog posts. This is either accidental, or more likely intentional, due to the other overwhelming evidence of what he's trying to do. For example, he "forgot" that I was already communicating with TOD during the first week of August and he forgot that I update posts with * UPDATE. One in particular that was crucial and damning to his theory was noted to have been updated "3 weeks" later, which destroys most of his claims.
6. The other problem is his lack of knowledge. He's not familiar with imgur and reddit, he doesn't know that editing features weren't added until SEVERAL MONTHS later which I had to find out myself, and he doesn't know that editing is time restricted and that everything is Google cached (which is something I use all of the time to find resume changes and be certain that nothing was tampered with).
Intentionally misleading, twisting the timeline, and desperately attempting to bend facts to his own personal narrative? I mean, what's more to say? It's foolish buffoonery and clearly a biased attack without any supporting evidence or even an investigation.
Whatever I've done or continue to do, he'll always be very upset with me. It's the nature of these kinds of stalkers. Celebrity stalkers are also erotomanics, and it won't matter if I deny feelings for [BBCC], since he'll still see my denying of his love as a sign of affirmation. Every gesture I make, like this blog post, is just another sign of affirmation to him.
Why Is He Doing This?
My guess is plain old envy and he's bitter about something specific. You see, about 3 days before Blizzcon he posted a hoax "Pandaren Brewmaster" screenshot. He obviously spent A LOT of time working on it.. probably for months only for it to be flushed down the toilet when it was outed as an obvious hoax very quickly (since he used stolen copyright material.)
During this same time, I also posted Daeity's image 3 days before Blizzcon and it quickly stole his thunder. Rather than blaming himself for trying to deceive everyone, he's looking for someone else to blame because he didn't get his wanted attention like a petty child. He's been obsessed ever since I starved him of attention.
Internet Pranks Don't Work
Frankly, internet pranks/believable hoaxes just don't work. I can't think of any successful internet prank and no one ever does them because they just never work or they involve too many people. There are just too many variables and things that can go wrong, making them impossible. This is something that he experienced first hand, but he didn't learn anything from it.
He's spent MONTHS investigating and researching the Blizzcon posts and he still couldn't find out how it was possible. His best guess involves a significant number of coincidences happening, a group of people assisting me (this is called a "conspiracy" by the way), using internet magic, somehow silencing people who could easily expose me, and doing activities that would have taken years of preparation and precognition, as well as some crazy multipronged internet attack. His explanation gets really complicated and elaborate (which should tell you something right away.)
And even though he spent months working on it, he still couldn't reproduce it. Although he claims it's easy to do, he actually said that the reason he couldn't reproduce it is because, "I had less motivation to work longer on it." Come on, really? Did you see the sheer amount of work he put into the blog and all of the research he did into this huge project?
"Yeah, I uh.. spent 6 months researching something, but the one critical piece of my theory I just threw together and I uh.. didn't spend any time on it at all."
Unfortunately, much of his theories are predicated on the "fact" that I'm superhuman. Although I'm flattered, this is not a good basis for a theory. This entire blog, and my firm beliefs, are actually based on the complete opposite; people make mistakes. That's how I have discovered so much information online from different employees.
This is simply an example of occam's razor. Things are way more simple than he's making things out to be.
So, what's next?
Next up for Digital Frustration, he'll be refuting my blog post about the major layoffs that have, and were to, happen within Blizzard and he'll prove irrefutably that the 600-person mass layoff never happened.
He'll also call my "In-Game Ads Planned For Titan" post into question, because there's no way I could have ever posted that 2 months before Gamespot, Neogaf, IGN, and his favorite Joystiq among many others. Oh, and those unreleased games and official pitch documents from Swingin' Ape Studios.. yeah, those were all fabricated apparently. Everything on the blog is all conspiracy theory.
Sure, he's lying to his "followers", but this will be good for both of us. His followers will increase and drive traffic to his blogs, and I'll have something fun to write about to stave off boredom and entertain you. It's mutually beneficial after all.