I'm fairly certainly he's a real person. His username means he went to Yale and graduated in 1988 (a 1998 Eli, Eli being slang for someone attending Yale). He

I'm fairly certainly he's a real person. His username means he went to Yale and graduated in 1988 (a 1998 Eli, Eli being slang for someone attending Yale). He posted a video of his daughter singing a song on YouTube about 9 months ago. And the most heartbreaking is his post about what its like to date someone vastly richer than you, which is to say, pretty awful.