Friends vandalVandalism on articles related to the television show Friends. Persistently introduces factual errors regarding the relationship statuses of the characters.
Brad Watson, MiamiOnce spammed pseudoscience on talk pages, now adds cryptic rants centered around the number 7 to pages related to the Bible and ancient Egypt.
HENRY APPLEGATECross-wiki sockpuppeteer known for writing nonsense attack pages in userspace, alluding to Philippine celebrities or local insurgent and/or organised crime groups.
BrianmagallanoIntroduces false information in video game-related articles and templates, as well as Philippine media related pages. Active for years, hundreds of suspected IP socks.
Christian2941Known for adding deliberate factual errors on Philippine-related articles, and for persistent sockpuppetry. Usernames typically follow a predictable pattern, such as RMxxxx or Southern Wear 201.
JB196Prolific sock-puppeteer (over 500 known or suspected socks) whose focus is on professional wrestling figures. Frequently nominates articles for deletion, and tag-bombs articles with speedy deletion and notability warnings.
Bambifan101Focuses on Disney articles. Claims to be a young boy in the southern United States (possibly in the Mobile, Alabama area) with a professed love of juvenile-themed movies (usually Disney animated features) and books.
TV5Ozamiz2nd Massive Vandalism of the media Philippines at Municipalities of Misamis Occidental, Creating Hoax in other stations of the media and etc. 1st Massive Vandalism by Bertrand101 is the official media added hoax retail related article.
Ron liebmanA vandal operating primarily out of the New York City public library open computer terminals, this user has impersonated members of baseball statistics organizations and inserted unsourced and false information into numerous baseball-related articles.
Schwabacher vandalSpams articles on digital wallet products with text like “Electronic Wallet, Digital Wallet, Mobile Wallet, intellectual property of Gaston Schwabacher, the number of patent PI 9500345.” Major targets include Osaifu-Keitai, Lemon Wallet, Google Wallet, and digital wallet.
David BealsInserts random images of ceiling fans into any articles, and even links to videos of them. He also has a tendency to randomly thank certain Wikipedia users. At the same time, while on Commons, he will load a ventilator/ceiling fan image over any medium or high use image that he targets.
German reference desk trollFrequents reference desks as an anonymous user from 84.* or 88.* range (geolocated in Essen and Bochum, Germany), and asks fairly difficult open-ended questions, targeted to waste other people’s time. Also, creates or requests creation of implausible redirects, usually with vulgar or double entendre meanings.
Teenage Fairytale Dropouts vandalA frequent vandaliser of Wikipedia for several years. Most of their edits involve adding false, unsourced and/or dubious information about the Children’s television program, Teenage Fairytale Dropouts. They predominantly target the articles, So Fresh and So Random! as well as the associated pages of these articles.
Richard DaftPersonal attacks, harassment, legal threats, vandalism to WP:CRICKET, prolific sockpuppetry with 120 socks to date. Modus operandi:- targeting mostly cricket articles edited primarily by three members of the cricket project, often vandalising the page with personal attacks or replacing words with immature alternatives. Often has several socks set up at once, with many more in reserve. In 2012 Daft became the subject of a site ban, having been causing disruption since 2008.
Messenger2010This user is the sockpuppeteer of a huge number of sockpuppets who claims they are part of a group of over 50 whose purpose is to spread (mostly false) anti-soy bean propeganda through various articles on Wikipedia using strongarm tactics and sockpuppets to stop any other editors from disputing the statements. See Talk:Soy protein and Talk:Biological value as one example. Favorite targets include articles on soy, soy protein, biological value, whey protein, PDCAAS, Sodium dodecyl sulfate and articles related to vegan dieting.
Supreme Genghis KhanImage vandalism, vandalism to Mongolia related articles (inserting images of Genghis Khan, spamming to the point it can crash one’s browser), obscene usernames and attack pages, malicious page moves as well as unblock requests which are very obscene. This user is also known to change celebrity pictures to Osama Bin Laden. Supreme Genghis Khan also constantly changes IP addresses (but never directly edits from them) and so it is impossible to do any sort of CheckUser block. Has at least 200+ confirmed sockpuppets.
RuntshitThis User is a vandal who stalks User:RolandR Typically, this vandal places childish taunts, often with scatological reference, on articles related to the Middle East and Marxism. However, the vandal has also engaged in less obvious, POV-pushing edits, defending certain notable commentators on Israel and Palestine and smearing others; Runtshit has established more than 1000 sockpuppets, as well as at least three at Simple English Wikipedia. Runtshit frequently uses open proxies whether logged in or not, which may be the reason why his edits often cause problems with formatting even aside from the vandalism.
JoehazeltonHas been stalking User:Goethean and other users since 2006 when he was involved in a conflict over the articles Peter Roskam and Tammy Duckworth. Recently, he has been nominating for deletion articles that User:Goethean created. He generally edits, from a pro-Republican viewpoint, articles relating to far west suburban Chicago politicians. He has a poor command of the English language, and speaks Polish. If his efforts are undermined, he will appear to explode with child-like, semi-coherent rage, often riddled with obscenities and with references to homosexuality, Marxism, the Chicago Outfit, Barack Obama, etc.
SnuffereetModus operandi is hard to describe, but obvious when found. Fond of nonsense made-up words, such as “ba-limp” and various attempts at onomatopoeia. Edits an extremely eclectic but relatively limited array of articles such as The Portsmouth Herald, Joel Gertner, Emilio Delgado, Bert (Sesame Street), Candlepin bowling, Losin’ Myself, Jon Bauman. Only consistent area of focus is National Wrestling Federation and various wrestlers’ articles, especially Andre the Giant. Vandalism is low-volume but very persistent. Often gets verbally aggressive when discovered or reverted, but gives up fairly quickly—until the next time. Often blanks his socks’ user talk pages to remove warnings and block notices.
ItsLassieTimeThis user has been banned from editing wikipedia, with over 125 sockpuppet accounts and a CCI that encompassed over 700 articles. Edits a wide range of articles, but ones on children’s literature and TV shows of the 1950s and 1960s in particular. Also has an interest in topics related to the American West. Has a penchant for being quick to attack anyone who disagrees with his/her edits and editing pattern is a problem due to frequent copyvio, close-paraphrasing and other misuse of source material. Tends to create usernames related to topics that account is editing and claim a different, often sympathy-invoking, persona for each. Recent socking has focused on making dozens of accounts with a few edits each. Sockpuppets have been blocked in 2009-2016.
All of these are SCPs
wiki block logs are one of the most tragically overlooked forms of entertainment
I feel we talk about signs of abuse from the victims standpoint but not from the abusers standpoint. In order to stop emotional abuse and recognize when we engage in unhealthy behaviors I made this list.
Do you react to important people in your life by ignoring them completely and not acknowledging their presence? Especially if they do something you don’t like?
Do you feel that your partner/friends/family members are the cause of your bad moods or frustration?
Does your partner/etc “do things the wrong way”?
Do criticize your partner/etc for being unreliable or a bad person?
Do you feel you have to constantly overlook your partners flaws in order to be around them?
Are you frequently accused of being “moody” or “hard to please”?
Do your partners complain that “nothing they do is good enough?
Do your partners appear to avoid you when you are angry or upset rather then comfort you?
Do you negatively comment on their intelligence or appearence? Either in private or in front of others.
Do you blame them when someone goes wrong?
Do you ever use phrases like “I could just hit you right now” or “I”m so mad I could punch something”?
Do you ever punch walls/throw things in front of your partner/etc?
Do you leave during fights and not inform of where you are going and when you will be back?
Do you behave the same alone with your partner that you do if you were in front of your friends or in public?
Have you frequently accused your partner of being too sensitive?
How often is your partner praised and complimented by yourself?
Do you think your partner spends too much time with friends and family?
Do you feel your partners friends and family are trying to drive you apart?
Do you actively comfort your partner when they are upset or angry even if you don’t really understand why they feel the way they do?
If your partner brings up a behavior that bothers them do you respond by discussing how to change it or do you respond defensively?
Do you have difficulty apologizing?
All of these things are abuse tactics. Obviously even the healthiest of us will do these sometimes but if any one becomes a regular habit that’s when the problem starts.
this is super important, i feel like this website makes it easy to put yourself in the role of the victim but never the abuser. It’s also important to note that being a victim does not preclude you from being an abuser.
I find this esp. important. I’ve exhibited some of these behaviors. I know abuse perpetuates abuse and that victims of abuse learn abusive behavior. I also know that having mental illness can make reacting and dealing with feelings even more difficult. That being said: being mentally ill does not mean you cannot be held accountable for your actions. Nor does being a survivor of abuse. I gotta take care of myself & heal and recognize how trauma and mental illness plays a role in how I treat others. Being a victim doesn’t mean you cannot be an abuser too.
this is the most important post on this website.
Thank you for this.
“Obviously even the healthiest of us will do these sometimes but if any one becomes a regular habit that’s when the problem starts.“
This is an important fact that I think gets lost in tumblr’s fixation with moral purity/absolutism. It’s normal to have graceless moments sometimes, when you react badly or say something insensitive/thoughtless/ignorant. When you do, apologize if you can, and move on. But there is a big difference between failing to be perfect, and having an ongoing pattern of mistreating others and refusing to change.
Abuse often comes up in the belief that you have a right to be cruel, shaming, violent, belittling, or otherwise punitive to others if you don’t like their behavior. And by this, I’m not referring to being curt/impolite to gnarly bigots on tumblr and IRL, or holding someone accountable when they hurt you, even if they find it upsetting to be told they messed up. I mean, when the people you love displease you, do you think you have the right to punish them and make them feel self-loathing or afraid? Do you act to make them feel miserable too if you feel bad? Do you go beyond just expressing your feelings/boundaries and push to control others so you no longer have to feel anything you dislike?
Self-reflection of this type can be even harder to parse when you’ve been abused, because it’s natural to retaliate against your abuser, or to want to. Self-defense/self-protection against abuse is not the same as abuse, but abuse makes that distinction really confusing from the inside. It’s natural to hate your abuser, to want them to suffer for what they’re doing/did to you, to struggle to tolerate their harmful behavior, etc. This does not make you abusive. But just because you have been abused doesn’t mean that everything you do/did – even to your abuser – is ok, or that it was all just self-defense.
I don’t have a reliable way to help anyone distinguish between self-defense and abusive patterns. I wish I did. It’s confusing and complex to figure out, especially in relationships between people who are both marginalized or are both survivors.
And tumblr’s absolutism makes it hard for people to self-reflect, because it makes the emotional cost of doing so incredibly high – often intolerably high. If we believe that all people who are or have been abusive are irredeemable garbage who should die/be killed/be isolated from others forever, what is someone supposed to do when they recognize abusiveness in theirself? If the cost of self-reflection is death or losing everyone you love, self-reflection will be avoided. Instead of protecting survivors, this absolutism teaches people (many of whom are survivors) who recognize their own abusiveness to either go into denial (thus prolonging the abuse) or to self-destruct via self-harm or suicide, rather than trying to change.
I am not saying anyone should be forced to manage their abuser’s behavior, share spaces with their abuser, or feel empathy for those who hurt them. But I am saying that conversations about abuse, survivors, marginalization, and accountability are often much more complex than most of us like to admit.
Back in the summer of 2006, exciting things were on the horizon for Nintendo fans. Nintendo’s new console, the Wii, was just a few months away, and with it would come The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. On the more immediate horizon, however, was the Japanese release of Pokemon Diamond and Pearl.
Munchlax and Bonsly had appeared in the anime and the side game Pokemon XD: Gale of Darkness, and rumor had it that for the first time the starters would deviate from the Grass/Fire/Water formula. There were a few minor leaks, such as Lickitung and Magmar getting evolutions, which a few people drew their own interpretations of. These images being used in hoaxes such as fake leaks ultimately lead to what those who were there call The Summer of Fakemon.
It felt like new fake leaks were appearing every day. It was pretty easy to recognize most as being fake, but for some it was hard to be sure, while others were completely convincing. At that point, I’d been drawing and editing sprites for a Sailor Moon web comic for about two years, so I was mostly interested in the pixel art aspect of all the fakes. Granted, I wasn’t very GOOD with pixel art, but I still enjoyed it. When I threw my hat into the hoaxing ring, it was with something that I thought would fall into the “obviously fake” category.
It was picked up by several major Pokemon fan sites, particularly Spanish-language ones for some reason, and got around enough that Serebii added it to their Fake Pokemon page. I think the reason a lot of people believed it was real might have been because it was just too ugly. If someone were trying to pass off a fakemon as real, they would make it cute or cool, not ugly and weird, right?
My fondest memory of people reacting to it was one person, who seemed to believe that it was real, referring to it as “Cthulhu’s dog”.
I didn’t bother making it look convincing, since I didn’t think anyone would buy it and it was going to be in a small distorted image anyway. As you can see, it’s crudely cobbled together… but what exactly are we looking at here? As luck would have it, I never delete my working files.
The head is actually that of a Beautifly, with a single smoothed-out Articuno wing mirrored to serve as both ears (…or whatever those things are), which also seems to be where I got the blue color palette.
The body is an Espeon’s. You can actually see those lines, left over from the legs, in the final design.
The fins are the leg-wing-things of a Crobat, recolored but otherwise unedited.
Needless to say, when I started I just thought that Beautifly’s head would look interesting, and had no clear idea what direction I was going with the design.
Next up was a Gorebyss tail, and this is where things went a little… experimental. I knew that I didn’t want that purple fan on the end, but I really didn’t know what the end of the tail SHOULD look like.
I ultimately settled on the tail in the bottom-right, which is actually the feathers from the top of a Swablu’s head. I considered leaving it like that, but felt like it was still a little too simple. I decided to add part of a Magikarp tail, to make it more similar to the Kingdra design in the top-right.
From there, for whatever reason, I had the idea to shape the tail into a fishing net, hence the creature’s name, Tsurigu (Japanese for fishing tackle). I honestly have no idea if anyone but me ever saw the tail as a fishing net.
Finally, the adornments! I used the rear part of Lanturn’s antenna, editing it just enough so that the ball portion looked like it was in the foreground. I removed the bottom (earlobe?) parts of the modified Articuno wings, and drew on some gold rings just to add a few points of visual interest.
There you have it! Eleven years later, the full truth of Tsurigu’s creation. It’s hard to say how far it spread or how many people saw it, considering it’s been so long and most of the sites that posted it have disappeared. Over the years I’ve seen the design used in a few different ways, including things like reinterpretations and a creature made in Spore that I can no longer find.
It was never that well-known, and at this point has been almost entirely forgotten, but the terrible amalgamation once called Cthulhu’s dog is a highlight of The Summer of Fakemon, and one of my favorite memories of 2006.
oh my god I can’t believe the person who made that is right here
Clowns are creatures that need to clown. They were not meant to be
domesticated and profited from as pets. They are highly active creatures
that will self harm from stress in such confined spaces. Circus Clowns are
delightful to keep in groups, though they are fine on their own, but
every 1 clown adds 30 square feet to the space needed. They need multiple props and performance areas in order to replicate their natural environment. These are examples of proper Circus Clown or other basic clown enclosures.
Candee Fluff is a horrible brand of cotton candy, I used to feed it to my
clowns and they would just throw it back up. The sugar is all unprocessed, when clowns need highly refined white sugar, just because
it’s cheaper. Which is something they don’t list on the packaging to fool clown owners. Ideally you should only feed your clown freshly whipped cotton candy. Large mixers may be expensive but a simple childrens make-your-own candy floss machine will suffice if your budget is tight.
Clowns shouldn’t be confined to a car. (Especially a childrens
car..?) Clowns are curious creatures that need to jump, tumble, honk and
play to be healthy. Keeping them locked in a car 24/7 as a toy for your
kids will stress them out in much the same way as a hamster in a ball. Clowns do enjoy having access to a clown car, especially in groups, but their car should provide 1 square foot per clown and their enjoyment comes primarily from exiting the vehicle in large numbers. Keeping them locked inside can reduce their lifespan by up to 10 years. A small human-sized compact car may be suitable for larger groups of clowns.
I’m cringing at that rainbow collection of “my mommy got me a cute clown” balloon sticks. These are creatures that need to run around with helium balloons.They need to bounce and float away when released.Air-filled balloons on sticks are not a suitable replacement.This is the proper set up for a clown or more modern jesters.
Clownsget stressed from any foot confinement under size 16. Clown shoes are the worst item for being sold to kids as “accessories” in human foot sizes. When kept like that the clown will die a horribly stressed
life within a year when they can live for 60 or more. They need colourful shoes or boots with plenty of toe-space and loud squeakers. Clowns are so intelligent that they
actually play with you, and they need podiatric stimulation to live
healthy. These are proper clown shoes.
Never change the natural markings of a clown. This should go without saying, but I see people buying halloween store ‘clown makeup’ and attempting to alter their clown’s faces. Clowns use their facial markings to identify one another, and altering it may cause stress, and even endager the clown if you keep several in the same tent.
Who the fuck would even feed an omnivorous clown pellet food…?
Do they want a sick clown? If clown stores even bothered to care about the
keeping of clowns, they would know that shit is bad for them. If
you can’t feed fresh peanuts and hot dogs then you shouldn’t own a clown in the first place. Pellet food isn’t even real food, it’s
chemically made with preservatives.
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