Pronounced YAK-you-luss
The shootings definitely happened. That was some bad shit.
Here's a summary of his long and inglorious career, plus links.
edited 19th Jan '15 5:09:23 PM by Iaculus
What's precedent ever done for us?
Thank you for linking those, but... I probably should have read that news version first, because I don't even know what to make of the blog version. The references listed on that wiki page aren't helping.
Jordan Wood works for a while as a "Hollywood Ambassador" (http://www.theambassadorsofhollywood.com/) (person in costume on Hollywood Blvd in LA taking pictures with tourists for tips) and working the channeling up to a full-blown cult involving several other former LOTR fans. With one of them he attempts to move to Canada by walking across a bridge in Buffalo and asking for political asylum.
The f'ck did I just read? It's like if Catch Me If You Can and Fight Club had sex and gave birth to a creepypasta. I don't use Livejournal or Twitter or wordpress all that often, so the number of outgoing links used to explain all of this makes it even more disorienting.
Suffice to say, all of this is really messed up. All of this from a fandom.
edited 19th Jan '15 5:24:47 PM by FOFD
Akira Toriyama (April 5 1955 - March 1, 2024).
Pronounced YAK-you-luss
Basically, Blake's a pathological liar and narcissist who uses fandoms as recruitment grounds for his cults in order to bathe in the approval he needs. He goes through identities and bizarre Tumblr-derived mythologies like most people change underwear, staying one step ahead of the trail of destruction he leaves in his wake. He's a bad, bad dude. Another useful news article on his time in the Lord of the Rings fandom.
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This X 1000.
The reason he's not in jail yet? A couple of them, actually. He somehow manages to stay just a cat's whisker on the side of legality, or at worst just a cat's whisker across the line. He's very very good at making excuses and getting other people to believe and support them. And who wants to drag all of that rampant insanity into court and admit they bought into it hook line and sinker?
edited 27th Jan '15 9:55:06 PM by Maven
There was a book about the Tentmoot debacle. "When the Fan hits the Shit" or something?
Until further notice
DAYD page has been revised, and the comments I referred to were "commented out" because "no content". (!?)
So I put the whole mess, including the original outline posted by Thatf***er (as he is known on FailFandomAnon), on the main Discussion page. Fair game, I hope.
edited 4th May '15 10:09:18 PM by Maven
I'm rather curious about this mess, but... that blog seems a little too personal for my tastes. Now, "shootings"? Or was that a joke? With the various victims coming out of the shadows, and reactions ranging from disgust to outright shock, all I'm getting is that "a cult formed out of a fanfic's popularity, people were harmed, and now we talk about it in whispers".
And now people are "staying away from even following this [Andy] person's madness".
I'm afraid that's still terribly vague.
I'm sorry, but this is the first I've even heard about this. This sounds like the opening to a novel, it's making me read further, but it's not really explaining anything.
The wikifandom page in the opening post isn't available. Is there a more objective summation, or an official record of these events?
edited 19th Jan '15 5:06:15 PM by FOFD
Akira Toriyama (April 5 1955 - March 1, 2024).