DarkSpear

The wee hours of February 19, 2007, will be forever etched in my memory. I call it the "Troll Attack" night. It was that night when the people I dissed in my Know Your Jologs article (which owes a lot to Mike’s Atrocities of Friendster) finally found it and started to flame me.

It all started in this thread in PhilMusic, which was promptly locked after Steel
and I made short work of the thread. Well, since the thread was locked,
a flamer decided to take his angst somewhere else. Guess where he took
it.

So started a three-hour torturous ordeal where I called on my fellow Man Blog Forum monkeys and
tried to STFU that flamer, who called himself "tonio", an undeniably
porn star-ish name. Ok, it was fun making short work of that asshole,
but trying to shut him up and coming up with witty replies to his
increasingly retarded attacks was tiring. He was really convinced that
he was dealing with some elitist scum who did not care at all about the
poor and the masses.

A few points:

• I am not an elitist, nor do I consider myself to be anywhere near the elite
• I never called the people I dissed poor. He assumed right away that I was dissing the poor. Who’s elitist now, asshole?
• The guy spent three hours attacking a blogger who uses the tagline "Your Daily Dose of Retard". That says volumes already.
   
• That article was satire. I know some people will never find it funny,
  but the logical thing to do would be to just close the browser and find
  another blog to read, because that’s what I do when I find something
  that pisses me off.
• The article was never a personal attack. The article, and the
  entire series that I planned, is a social commentary on the decay of
  decency. Seriously.
   

Me? Asshole? The people who know me personally know that I am anything but. Just like fellow TMB editor Squid,
I project this web persona who is basically my inner jerk which I
repressed after years of being picked on in grade and high school. I
refuse to call it my "Internet Asshole" persona, because Squid already
lays claim to the title.

But reading the stuff I churned out a year ago, I’m surprised at how
mild my articles were. I realized that I’ve been pushing the envelope
everytime, seeing at how much I can go. And today was payback time.

I do not regret using the internet to let out my inner jerk. There are
people who did that before me and people who will be jerks after me,
and I’m not gonna stop just because I pissed off some people. I will write what I want (I will, of course, draw the line at libel) and if I upset some people’s narrow-minded sensibilities, then boo-fucking-hoo.

So you can expect a Know Your Jologs Part 2 one of these days.
I’m also planning to create a webzine which will be hard-hitting,
uncompromising, and less retarded than The Man Blog. But I won’t leave
TMB of course. I love being a retard. And I also love unleasing my
inner jerk on unsuspecting people.

So if one day an angry mob finds me and lynches me to death, don’t ask.