sockpuppet gone too far
OMG, this is so sick:
Over in Doctor Who fandom, it seems like Doctor/Rose fic writer jeprdyfrndly (aka Victoria Lane-Lyton), BFF of fellow Doctor/Rose fic writer amberfocus, has a serendipitous life. She met her gorgeous husband, also a Doctor Who fan, when he saw her reading a Doctor Who book in a cafe. They had a lovely wedding (the groom's cake even had a Doctor and Rose on it!), went on a European honeymoon that included several Doctor Who-themed locations (London, Cardiff, and Barcelona), and settled into domestic bliss and financial security (he owns a coffee shop; she has access to a trust). Then she got pregnant despite two kinds of birth control, and had twin girls (she herself is a twin, and there's a history of twins in her family). She's a stay-at-home mum now, but her husband hired a high-school girl to help out by coming in for three hours every day after school to cook, clean, and mind the twins.
A few days ago, she posted a picture of her adorable babies.
The only problem? Those aren't her kids. (According to the metadata, the picture is from 2006. In fact, the girls in that picture are two years old; Victoria says her twins are less than ten months old and are small for their age.)
Huh. That's weird. Why would she post a picture of someone else's kids and claim them as hers?
And for that matter, why would aforementioned BFF amberfocus leave a positive comment if they're someone else's kids, considering she probably knows what they look like, since she met them several months before?
On closer inspection, amberfocus is involved in a lot of the major events of jeprdyfrndly's life. They beta (and even rec!) each other's fic. amberfocus introduced her to LJ. She went to Victoria's wedding (but oh no, she forgot her camera, and Victoria's awful private about pictures on the internet, so you'll never see that Doctor/Rose cake topper, sorry :(). She made Victoria take that fateful pregnancy test, and went to an ultrasound with her.
Victoria and her husband even have their own Facebook profiles. (Isn't it amazing how much they look like Billie Piper and Kellan Lutz?)
All evidence points towards jeprdyfrndly and her entire backstory (and her fic, too) being the work of amberfocus (something that some people have suspected but before now had no proof of). http://www.journalfen.net/community/fandom_wank/1283185.html
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This seriously borderlines on schizophrenia. You develop a whole new personality for everyone to be friends with and talk to and enjoy fic with...
Why do people DO that? It's sick and you're just pathetically screaming for attention. You really, really, seriously NEED TO GET HELP if you created this sockpuppet and have been using it for years, even making up pretend weddings and then pretend to have children.
I'm sorry, if I ever became friends with someone who took their sockpuppet this far, I'd have to block that person and spread the word. Holy shit.
Is this stuff common? Does it happen often? I never heard of this but apparently fandom_wank makes it seem like it's more like some stupid weekly thing. I can understand creating a sockpuppet to get into something that one wouldn't normally be allowed in, such as a closed community or whatever, but to create this whole new person with pretend marriages and children and deceive other people like this... that's just sick.
Also posted to Dreamwidth.
Over in Doctor Who fandom, it seems like Doctor/Rose fic writer jeprdyfrndly (aka Victoria Lane-Lyton), BFF of fellow Doctor/Rose fic writer amberfocus, has a serendipitous life. She met her gorgeous husband, also a Doctor Who fan, when he saw her reading a Doctor Who book in a cafe. They had a lovely wedding (the groom's cake even had a Doctor and Rose on it!), went on a European honeymoon that included several Doctor Who-themed locations (London, Cardiff, and Barcelona), and settled into domestic bliss and financial security (he owns a coffee shop; she has access to a trust). Then she got pregnant despite two kinds of birth control, and had twin girls (she herself is a twin, and there's a history of twins in her family). She's a stay-at-home mum now, but her husband hired a high-school girl to help out by coming in for three hours every day after school to cook, clean, and mind the twins.
A few days ago, she posted a picture of her adorable babies.
The only problem? Those aren't her kids. (According to the metadata, the picture is from 2006. In fact, the girls in that picture are two years old; Victoria says her twins are less than ten months old and are small for their age.)
Huh. That's weird. Why would she post a picture of someone else's kids and claim them as hers?
And for that matter, why would aforementioned BFF amberfocus leave a positive comment if they're someone else's kids, considering she probably knows what they look like, since she met them several months before?
On closer inspection, amberfocus is involved in a lot of the major events of jeprdyfrndly's life. They beta (and even rec!) each other's fic. amberfocus introduced her to LJ. She went to Victoria's wedding (but oh no, she forgot her camera, and Victoria's awful private about pictures on the internet, so you'll never see that Doctor/Rose cake topper, sorry :(). She made Victoria take that fateful pregnancy test, and went to an ultrasound with her.
Victoria and her husband even have their own Facebook profiles. (Isn't it amazing how much they look like Billie Piper and Kellan Lutz?)
All evidence points towards jeprdyfrndly and her entire backstory (and her fic, too) being the work of amberfocus (something that some people have suspected but before now had no proof of). http://www.journalfen.net/community/fandom_wank/1283185.html
(Link to original post contains links; there were too many for me to copy/paste, sorry.)
This seriously borderlines on schizophrenia. You develop a whole new personality for everyone to be friends with and talk to and enjoy fic with...
Why do people DO that? It's sick and you're just pathetically screaming for attention. You really, really, seriously NEED TO GET HELP if you created this sockpuppet and have been using it for years, even making up pretend weddings and then pretend to have children.
I'm sorry, if I ever became friends with someone who took their sockpuppet this far, I'd have to block that person and spread the word. Holy shit.
Is this stuff common? Does it happen often? I never heard of this but apparently fandom_wank makes it seem like it's more like some stupid weekly thing. I can understand creating a sockpuppet to get into something that one wouldn't normally be allowed in, such as a closed community or whatever, but to create this whole new person with pretend marriages and children and deceive other people like this... that's just sick.
Also posted to Dreamwidth.