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A particular facet I love of the internet era is journalists reporting serious events while having to use the completely absurd usernames... "A Facebook engine

A particular facet I love of the internet era is journalists reporting serious events while having to use the completely absurd usernames... "A Facebook engineer in the response team, ramenporn..."

noir_lord 5y ago
I got quoted as noir_lord in the press. My bbs handle from 30 years ago.
- Apocryphon 5y ago
  Immortality.
ivanmontillam 5y ago
"Discussed in Hacker News, the user that goes by the 'huevosabio' handle, stated as a fact that..."
- runawaybottle 5y ago
  ‘He was then subsequently attacked by “OverTheCounterIvermectin” for his tweets on transgender bathrooms from several months ago’.
  - hdjjhhvvhga 5y ago
    The problem with tweets on transgender bathrooms is that you can be attacked for them by either side at any point in the future, so the user OverTheCounterIvermectin should have known better.
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sharkweek 5y ago
This felt like something straight out of a post modern novel during the whole WSB press rodeo, where some user names being used on TV were somewhere between absurd to repulsive. Loved it.
- jupp0r 5y ago
  Exactly, I'm having deja vues from Vernor Vinge's Rainbow's End constantly lately.
- myself248 5y ago
  I believe that's the exact reason behind the pattern of horrifying usernames on reddit and imgur. It's magnificent in its surrealness.
Scarblac 5y ago
I remember some huge DDOS attacks like a decade ago, and people were speculating who could be behind it. The three top theories were Russian intelligence, the Mossad, and this guy on 4chan who claimed to have a Botnet doing it. That was the start of living in the future for me.
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- chasd00 5y ago
  4chan is disturbingly resourceful at times. I have heard them described as weaponized autism.
  - abhiminator 5y ago
    That's a pretty accurate description of the site, lol. On a side-note, I think you'll enjoy some of the videos by the YouTube 'Internet Historian' on 4chan: * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvjwXhCNZcU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvjwXhCNZcU * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiTqIyx6tBU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiTqIyx6tBU
  - Y_Y 5y ago
    Ya, on hn it's merely productized.
WillPostForFood 5y ago
>journalists reporting serious events A facet I don't love is journalism devolving to reposting unverified, anonymous reddit posts.
RankingMember 5y ago
My favorite example of this is when I saw references to "Goatse Security" on the front page of the Wall Street Journal

A particular facet I love of the internet era is journalists reporting serious events while having to use the completely absurd usernames... "A Facebook engineer in the response team, ramenporn..."

noir_lord 5y ago

I got quoted as noir_lord in the press. My bbs handle from 30 years ago.

Apocryphon 5y ago
Immortality.

ivanmontillam 5y ago

"Discussed in Hacker News, the user that goes by the 'huevosabio' handle, stated as a fact that..."

runawaybottle 5y ago
‘He was then subsequently attacked by “OverTheCounterIvermectin” for his tweets on transgender bathrooms from several months ago’.
- hdjjhhvvhga 5y ago
  The problem with tweets on transgender bathrooms is that you can be attacked for them by either side at any point in the future, so the user OverTheCounterIvermectin should have known better.

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sharkweek 5y ago

This felt like something straight out of a post modern novel during the whole WSB press rodeo, where some user names being used on TV were somewhere between absurd to repulsive. Loved it.

jupp0r 5y ago
Exactly, I'm having deja vues from Vernor Vinge's Rainbow's End constantly lately.
myself248 5y ago
I believe that's the exact reason behind the pattern of horrifying usernames on reddit and imgur. It's magnificent in its surrealness.

Scarblac 5y ago

I remember some huge DDOS attacks like a decade ago, and people were speculating who could be behind it. The three top theories were Russian intelligence, the Mossad, and this guy on 4chan who claimed to have a Botnet doing it. That was the start of living in the future for me.

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chasd00 5y ago
4chan is disturbingly resourceful at times. I have heard them described as weaponized autism.
- abhiminator 5y ago
  That's a pretty accurate description of the site, lol. On a side-note, I think you'll enjoy some of the videos by the YouTube 'Internet Historian' on 4chan: * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvjwXhCNZcU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvjwXhCNZcU * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiTqIyx6tBU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiTqIyx6tBU
- Y_Y 5y ago
  Ya, on hn it's merely productized.

WillPostForFood 5y ago

>journalists reporting serious events A facet I don't love is journalism devolving to reposting unverified, anonymous reddit posts.

RankingMember 5y ago

My favorite example of this is when I saw references to "Goatse Security" on the front page of the Wall Street Journal