Mack “John Cheese” Leighty sends me this link, with the instructions, “This is fucking awesome, but you have to read the whole thing. You’ll want to stop, because you’ll think you know what the story is about, but you have to keep reading.”
In print journalism they talk about the inverted pyramid structure, where you put the important facts at the top of the story because 1) you know many people will not read very far and 2) if the editors need to cut for space, they can just lop of the less important facts at the end. That’s why newspaper stories seem to just peter out rather than building up to some kind of conclusion.
I personally believe that this reporter just started making shit up and sticking it on at the end, just to see if anyone was reading that far. And I believe that he is a genius.
That’s part of a ring of guys claiming calling themselves the TFL movement (True Forced Loneliness) where they believe they have been forced to live lonely sexless lives due to a vast conspiracy of females who are intentionally shutting them out to make them miserable. See the related videos for more.
It’s either the most depressing thing I’ve ever seen, or one of the most awesome internet hoaxes of all time. There’s this whole ongoing plot where the movement has split into factions and then the guy in the above-linked video got ousted because I believe he had sex with a woman, thus undermining the entire movement.
There’s something really profound to be said here, about the nature of humanity at its lowest and how self-centered we become when we’re desperate, believing the whole world revolves around our failures. But the whole thing is bumming me out to the point that thinking about it makes me sleepy.
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