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maccadoleGood day, random readers of my LJ. Most of you know about this already, but some of you don't. Especially not my Shankses (aka Subscribers) at YouTube. So it's really time I explain this to them.
This is the the story of "The Tard"!
My mini-stalker from YouTube.
Don't Forget To Be Awesome!
/Mac
This is the the story of "The Tard"!
My mini-stalker from YouTube.
Enjoy!
A guy approached me via a YouTube private message and asked for my MSN address. I eventually gave it to him.
In our first conversation, over Messenger, he starts out by hinting that he should get a girlfriend, and that I seem really nice (i.e: I should be his girlfriend), and then asks me questions about Sweden since he's apparently going to study here later.
A day (or so) later I am added by another person, and I figured, hey, he must be from one of my favorite sites where I actually have my email publicly shown. This person quickly turned out to be an Internet Tard; extremely bad grammar; asks weird things; tells obvious lies.
He claims to be a 15-year old fisherman from Sweden, which, of course, ruined it all. I am from Sweden. Obviously I could tell he wasn't from around here. When asked about the Swedish language, he tries to save it by explaining that he used to live in Finland, and that, therefor his Swedish isn't so good. Then, as it turns out, much later, his family is originally from Scotland. Imagine that!
His name is Borris.
Borris McClan. And he, I quote, "catch big fish and feed family of 5 for ten days!"
It was mildly hilarious at first. Fake as he was, it was still very amusing to see somebody act like a complete nutcase. I mean, GOD, what's the frecken' point?
Then I start noticing weird coincidences between the Tard and Charlie. Eventually I had a theory that they were one and the same. "Borris" then claims to be - first, one of my closest friends - and then one of my Shankses, and says that he's been pranking me. Says that he was only acting like Tard, as a practical joke, and will now make a video about this event.
I thought that was that, although I highly doubted that he was whom he said he was. But nonetheless - he'd outed himself as one immature little prankster - and I thought it was over. But next time I met him online, he started going on about his fish again. I eventually confronted "both" Charlie and Borris individually. They both denied being the same person. Borris, instead, started saying he was other people I know on YouTube, and refused to say who he really was at a later occasion as well, and Charlie was simply shocked by my theory! He said it was all coincidences.
Need I say that the fun was over long ago?
When you start involving other people as well... That's really crossing the line. This so called "prank" was getting extremely.... Well, god, I can't even find the right word to describe it! Now... Due to the first, original amusement of it all... I'd saved all my conversations with this "Borris."
In the end, that's what I got him with. He fell - and yes - he fell hard! He'd gotten so twisted up in his own little "prank" that he'd lost control of it. I went back several days in the message history and I found my first conversation with Borris. And, indeed, the name Charlie has just used in one of his stories...? Was the same one as Borris used when he spoke of his ex girlfriend: Lubna. ("Borris and Lubna" ... it really has a ring to it, doncha think?)
That pretty much settled that.
I'd busted him, and I'd outed him for real this time. Charlie was horrified! "Wtf", he said. It was just a coincidence again! I was wrong! Because he would never do that to me!
I whatever-ed him and then signed off.
I later received an email from Charlie. It stated that he, and his friend, has used his old Messenger account to prank me. That's how he could be online as himself and Borris at the same time.
He said he's really sorry, that it went too far, and that he never wanted it to get so out of hand. He never meant to offend, or hurt me. ...Apparently pretending to be somebody else, lying about everything, and throwing direct insults, isn't offending. That's called "a friendly joke", apparently. Huh. Imagine that! How could I ever have thought something else? So silly of me!
He goes on saying that he was pranked once, and therefor he wanted to try it himself. But he knows it was wrong, and he's reeeeally sorry! He thinks I'm a wonderful person, and, again, he never meant to hurt me. Everything else he's told me is completely true! He's 18, lives in England, he's really coming to study in Sweden later, and those two and a half times he almost froze to death were true! As were all his other over-the-top stories: such as almost cracking his head open when he slipped on the ground once! ... ...Wait for it! ... But amazingly enough, some people were playing soccer right there when it happened...! And this one kid kicked the ball - at that moment - and it happened to fly over and land RIGHT between the ground and his head - just as he was about to hit the ground! So his head remained whole. Thankfully he was just left with a traumatic experience. Would you fucking imagine that!
And he'll NEVER lie to me again! Ever! He's soooo sorry!
I ignored his email at first, thinking I'd reply to it eventually. Maybe in a few days at the very least? During this short period, he keept spamming me on MSN. He - among other things - made a bad blending of several pictures of Daniel Jackson... and - er - sent to me. It made me laugh. (\o/ Daniel with a sleeveless shirt!)
Danny - the way to get to Mac's heart! LOL!
When I didn't reply to his email, he sent me a second one. In this he starts out by saying that he has something important to tell me. Something that is really hard for him to say. So... I don't know? I'm supposed to respect him for saying this? What?
Apparently - gasp! - he has a crush on me! No, really? I hadn't noticed! I just thought he was calling me amazing, cute, a bit more amazing, and that he was randomly fishing (...irony noted!) for a girlfriend. But imagine that! He fancies me!
This wonderful second email goes on, contradicting the first email, by saying, (and I do apologize for acting immature myself now, and attacking him like this, but I am cranky, and, still, sadly enough, the information is very much true. It is compiled by all the knowledge I have gained through talking to him. It is just portrayed in a stupid way:)
"Oi! My first email was complete and utter B-fucking-S! Here's the real truth: I made that account ESPECIALLY for the means to add you and act like a 'tard! Here are the clever reasons why: A) PRANK :D B) I just generally wanted to see how someone would react when approached by a retard. I like fucking with people like that! Think of it as a fun little experiment. 'Cause I'm insane like that! WOO!
"C) Errrm, we didn't have much to talk about. Sooo, I figured, like, we could talk about how silly Borris was! Great way to break the ice, don't you think? D) Gosh, this is so hard for me to say... I didn't want to say it like this, but, I like you. I have a crush on you! I've watched about thirty of your two minute videos so far, and I'll have watched them all soon!! And I read a few months old LJ entries by you. In one you were talking about things you remember from the past, and how you missed it. And that really got to me! It really meant something! That's when I realized I liked you. Yes, I am that brilliant. I developed a crush because of a random, months old, LJ entry. Thank you for brightening my life! (And thank u LJ!!)
"So, anyways, then I figured that I could act like a mean retard as Borris... and say stupid things, and the real me could go 'Oi! don't be mean to Mac! She deserves better!" and I'd stand up for you, and be all manly and amazing, and we could BOND! And you'd like me! And then we'd fall in love and have little 'tard babies!"
I finally replied to that - telling him off - and asking him to give me some space. I do appreciate the explanation, and I do realize that he is sorry. At times he's almost decent, and I'm sure he actually didn't mean it to go that far. But to even get that idea in the first place?! Just. God. What? Way to lose points of respect!
After this he stopped spamming me with text for a few short days, but sent me more pictures instead. More Danny manips, with a downloaded Stargate font (that isn't even a language within the fandom! ...Fail!), saying "im sorry!" in encrypted messages. Some also included my screenname "Maccadole". He also emailed me a file, with the title "please look this took me hours" ... and it turns out to be a picture of me. (And.... I'm sorry, mate, but you don't really have a lot of skills when it comes to art, and drawing. You say that drawing took you hours? Well, practice makes perfect, right? Keep practicing!)
...Stalkerish, much?
He also kept going through my friends, asking questions about me; how I'm doing; if I hate him; if I'll ever speak to him again, and my friend![[info]](https://stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif)
frejasanne even told him, at one point, to give me some time - like I'd written to him - and that he should AT LEAST wait a few days before he sends his new "please forgive me" picture to me. ...He waited approximately 1.4 days.
"A few" my ass!
As of now, I am speaking to him on MSN Messenger again. He's still acting weird. Not as weird as Borris, mind you. But weird. He keeps expecting us to bond. I've told him directly that - hey - maybe... maybe we can work on being friends, if he stops acting like an immature, idiotic, stalker-tard. (And I have pretty much been THAT rude and called him an immature tard, yes. ...He's still talking to me. Imagine that. He really MUST like me, eh?)
But it didn't really have much of an effect. He is planning to come to Sweden, and he keeps asking me to meet him, so he can grovel. He has also asked to live with me. But - of course - he understands that I'd have to ask Mother about that. He is convinced she'd let him stay.
"Oh, hey, mom? There's this English guy I "know" on the internet. Except he pretended to be somebody else half of the time I spent talking to him, and has been lying a lot. And I've only "known" him for a few short weeks. But he can stay here, in this two bedroom apartment, right? Because I know we so have room for that. Oh, and he said to say that he's really polite, and that he can bring alcohol (Sorry! I meant "elegant wine" ...that is Strawberry Hill...!) and do the dishes as well!"
...God. No, really.
I know I could have done better when talking to him, and I don't really know why I didn't block him, and I'm aware that I said a few weird things myself. But if you want to read the Message History I've saved from my time with Borris and Charlie, and see the pictures, and all that jazz... You can download the complete Tard Chronicles zip here:
[DOWNLOAD LINK]
Thank you - feel free to leave a comment - and please come again.
And, most important of all (which is definitely what he needs to remember:)
A guy approached me via a YouTube private message and asked for my MSN address. I eventually gave it to him.
In our first conversation, over Messenger, he starts out by hinting that he should get a girlfriend, and that I seem really nice (i.e: I should be his girlfriend), and then asks me questions about Sweden since he's apparently going to study here later.
A day (or so) later I am added by another person, and I figured, hey, he must be from one of my favorite sites where I actually have my email publicly shown. This person quickly turned out to be an Internet Tard; extremely bad grammar; asks weird things; tells obvious lies.
He claims to be a 15-year old fisherman from Sweden, which, of course, ruined it all. I am from Sweden. Obviously I could tell he wasn't from around here. When asked about the Swedish language, he tries to save it by explaining that he used to live in Finland, and that, therefor his Swedish isn't so good. Then, as it turns out, much later, his family is originally from Scotland. Imagine that!
His name is Borris.
Borris McClan. And he, I quote, "catch big fish and feed family of 5 for ten days!"
It was mildly hilarious at first. Fake as he was, it was still very amusing to see somebody act like a complete nutcase. I mean, GOD, what's the frecken' point?
Then I start noticing weird coincidences between the Tard and Charlie. Eventually I had a theory that they were one and the same. "Borris" then claims to be - first, one of my closest friends - and then one of my Shankses, and says that he's been pranking me. Says that he was only acting like Tard, as a practical joke, and will now make a video about this event.
I thought that was that, although I highly doubted that he was whom he said he was. But nonetheless - he'd outed himself as one immature little prankster - and I thought it was over. But next time I met him online, he started going on about his fish again. I eventually confronted "both" Charlie and Borris individually. They both denied being the same person. Borris, instead, started saying he was other people I know on YouTube, and refused to say who he really was at a later occasion as well, and Charlie was simply shocked by my theory! He said it was all coincidences.
Need I say that the fun was over long ago?
When you start involving other people as well... That's really crossing the line. This so called "prank" was getting extremely.... Well, god, I can't even find the right word to describe it! Now... Due to the first, original amusement of it all... I'd saved all my conversations with this "Borris."
In the end, that's what I got him with. He fell - and yes - he fell hard! He'd gotten so twisted up in his own little "prank" that he'd lost control of it. I went back several days in the message history and I found my first conversation with Borris. And, indeed, the name Charlie has just used in one of his stories...? Was the same one as Borris used when he spoke of his ex girlfriend: Lubna. ("Borris and Lubna" ... it really has a ring to it, doncha think?)
That pretty much settled that.
I'd busted him, and I'd outed him for real this time. Charlie was horrified! "Wtf", he said. It was just a coincidence again! I was wrong! Because he would never do that to me!
I whatever-ed him and then signed off.
I later received an email from Charlie. It stated that he, and his friend, has used his old Messenger account to prank me. That's how he could be online as himself and Borris at the same time.
He said he's really sorry, that it went too far, and that he never wanted it to get so out of hand. He never meant to offend, or hurt me. ...Apparently pretending to be somebody else, lying about everything, and throwing direct insults, isn't offending. That's called "a friendly joke", apparently. Huh. Imagine that! How could I ever have thought something else? So silly of me!
He goes on saying that he was pranked once, and therefor he wanted to try it himself. But he knows it was wrong, and he's reeeeally sorry! He thinks I'm a wonderful person, and, again, he never meant to hurt me. Everything else he's told me is completely true! He's 18, lives in England, he's really coming to study in Sweden later, and those two and a half times he almost froze to death were true! As were all his other over-the-top stories: such as almost cracking his head open when he slipped on the ground once! ... ...Wait for it! ... But amazingly enough, some people were playing soccer right there when it happened...! And this one kid kicked the ball - at that moment - and it happened to fly over and land RIGHT between the ground and his head - just as he was about to hit the ground! So his head remained whole. Thankfully he was just left with a traumatic experience. Would you fucking imagine that!
And he'll NEVER lie to me again! Ever! He's soooo sorry!
I ignored his email at first, thinking I'd reply to it eventually. Maybe in a few days at the very least? During this short period, he keept spamming me on MSN. He - among other things - made a bad blending of several pictures of Daniel Jackson... and - er - sent to me. It made me laugh. (\o/ Daniel with a sleeveless shirt!)
Danny - the way to get to Mac's heart! LOL!
When I didn't reply to his email, he sent me a second one. In this he starts out by saying that he has something important to tell me. Something that is really hard for him to say. So... I don't know? I'm supposed to respect him for saying this? What?
Apparently - gasp! - he has a crush on me! No, really? I hadn't noticed! I just thought he was calling me amazing, cute, a bit more amazing, and that he was randomly fishing (...irony noted!) for a girlfriend. But imagine that! He fancies me!
This wonderful second email goes on, contradicting the first email, by saying, (and I do apologize for acting immature myself now, and attacking him like this, but I am cranky, and, still, sadly enough, the information is very much true. It is compiled by all the knowledge I have gained through talking to him. It is just portrayed in a stupid way:)
"Oi! My first email was complete and utter B-fucking-S! Here's the real truth: I made that account ESPECIALLY for the means to add you and act like a 'tard! Here are the clever reasons why: A) PRANK :D B) I just generally wanted to see how someone would react when approached by a retard. I like fucking with people like that! Think of it as a fun little experiment. 'Cause I'm insane like that! WOO!
"C) Errrm, we didn't have much to talk about. Sooo, I figured, like, we could talk about how silly Borris was! Great way to break the ice, don't you think? D) Gosh, this is so hard for me to say... I didn't want to say it like this, but, I like you. I have a crush on you! I've watched about thirty of your two minute videos so far, and I'll have watched them all soon!! And I read a few months old LJ entries by you. In one you were talking about things you remember from the past, and how you missed it. And that really got to me! It really meant something! That's when I realized I liked you. Yes, I am that brilliant. I developed a crush because of a random, months old, LJ entry. Thank you for brightening my life! (And thank u LJ!!)
"So, anyways, then I figured that I could act like a mean retard as Borris... and say stupid things, and the real me could go 'Oi! don't be mean to Mac! She deserves better!" and I'd stand up for you, and be all manly and amazing, and we could BOND! And you'd like me! And then we'd fall in love and have little 'tard babies!"
I finally replied to that - telling him off - and asking him to give me some space. I do appreciate the explanation, and I do realize that he is sorry. At times he's almost decent, and I'm sure he actually didn't mean it to go that far. But to even get that idea in the first place?! Just. God. What? Way to lose points of respect!
After this he stopped spamming me with text for a few short days, but sent me more pictures instead. More Danny manips, with a downloaded Stargate font (that isn't even a language within the fandom! ...Fail!), saying "im sorry!" in encrypted messages. Some also included my screenname "Maccadole". He also emailed me a file, with the title "please look this took me hours" ... and it turns out to be a picture of me. (And.... I'm sorry, mate, but you don't really have a lot of skills when it comes to art, and drawing. You say that drawing took you hours? Well, practice makes perfect, right? Keep practicing!)
...Stalkerish, much?
He also kept going through my friends, asking questions about me; how I'm doing; if I hate him; if I'll ever speak to him again, and my friend
frejasanne even told him, at one point, to give me some time - like I'd written to him - and that he should AT LEAST wait a few days before he sends his new "please forgive me" picture to me. ...He waited approximately 1.4 days."A few" my ass!
As of now, I am speaking to him on MSN Messenger again. He's still acting weird. Not as weird as Borris, mind you. But weird. He keeps expecting us to bond. I've told him directly that - hey - maybe... maybe we can work on being friends, if he stops acting like an immature, idiotic, stalker-tard. (And I have pretty much been THAT rude and called him an immature tard, yes. ...He's still talking to me. Imagine that. He really MUST like me, eh?)
But it didn't really have much of an effect. He is planning to come to Sweden, and he keeps asking me to meet him, so he can grovel. He has also asked to live with me. But - of course - he understands that I'd have to ask Mother about that. He is convinced she'd let him stay.
"Oh, hey, mom? There's this English guy I "know" on the internet. Except he pretended to be somebody else half of the time I spent talking to him, and has been lying a lot. And I've only "known" him for a few short weeks. But he can stay here, in this two bedroom apartment, right? Because I know we so have room for that. Oh, and he said to say that he's really polite, and that he can bring alcohol (Sorry! I meant "elegant wine" ...that is Strawberry Hill...!) and do the dishes as well!"
...God. No, really.
I know I could have done better when talking to him, and I don't really know why I didn't block him, and I'm aware that I said a few weird things myself. But if you want to read the Message History I've saved from my time with Borris and Charlie, and see the pictures, and all that jazz... You can download the complete Tard Chronicles zip here:
[DOWNLOAD LINK]
Thank you - feel free to leave a comment - and please come again.
And, most important of all (which is definitely what he needs to remember:)
Don't Forget To Be Awesome!
/Mac
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