I never found out who this person was, but they seemed to think I was some rich guy or something.
Heres an underground hip hop forum where they pretended to be me trying to get people to listen to my band. There are like a hundred pages of the fake me arguing with them but these were all I could still find:
Some of my favorite quotes from this are:
"prolly thought about cucumbers when you thunked up that one you little rock fagit"
"wutz it liek balding in your mid 20s you mid 20s balding faggat you"
"One can assume that with a user name like Mathew Teardrop and and band with a name like Manhattan Murder Mystery MMM, that you are some sort of indy rock christian emo hipsters."
"i just want to say, from the bottom of my heart. you look like a pedophile."
I think this thread went on for a couple weeks. The people on the board started posting weird photoshop pictures of people in the band naked and stuff (I think the pictures got removed because they're not there anymore.) That was when I decided to anonymously post as my rap alter ego MC Gainey and try to get them to stop.
Here are some of my favorite quotes from this section:
"Id like to hear your views on life, love and utter faggotness"
"i wanna suck a fart out of yer assoul"
"lmfao sh1t had me lolin like a lil fgt"
"bask in the faggotry that is MMM"
"your names should Fat Neck Beard and the Chinese Thing"
I figured I'm obviously supposed to be "Fat Neck Beard," but I haven't been able to figure out which band member is supposed to be the "Chinese Thing."
When the underground hip hop message board died down, they started posting comments on random articles around the internet about what a faggot I was/am.
Like this random terrible article about hipster culture. Most of the pictures and stuff are gone, but this guy basically just pulled a bunch of pictures off of http://lookatthisfuckinghipster.tumblr.com and posted a couple Animal Collective videos.
I didn't even live in Silverlake at the time, I lived in Little Armenia.
Also it started to seem like the same person was posting a couple times under different names agreeing with themselves.
Even the people who said the liked the band on the comments I don't buy because we were even less popular than we are now back then. We were literally playing to just the bartenders at Relax Bar around that time. Who remembers?
Also they posted a couple comments on random videos of us, like this old video where they literally copy and pasted their comment from the above article onto one of our old youtube videos, which didn't make much sense because they started a comment on a video by saying, "haha great article." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_H_Ya8g3lj0
And then there was silence.
I couldn't find anything from this person for like a year.
But then, one day. someone Rebecca Balin reviewed a show we played at for L.A. Record and all hell broke loose.
The commenter came out of retirement and it was a doozy.
They started out posting as enraged everyman misogynist "Terry Johnson," then "Terry's #1 Fan" jumped in the mix, followed by "Vinda," "massive," "Tami," "Dina," and "Cord."
I never actually found out who this was but I do have one potential suspect.
There was this band we played with this one time who got really mad at us for some reason in the middle of our set and tried to start a fight with the other bands who were playing.
I walked to the liquor store with them at one point and bought a big bottle of whiskey for us to share and I pulled out a check card to pay with(I had a job at the time) and the one dude in the band gave me this evil look and said "you're the devil."
So it might have been somebody in that band those are the only people I remember ever really being pissed off at me.
Boy, I sure wish someone was interested enough in me these days to call me a faggot.
That's a very interesting story. I read the whole thing. I also wonder who it was. You'll probably never know. Maybe it was me. It wasn't, but maybe, you know?
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