stuminus3 said:Aargh damnit Amir0x, it can be so frustrating sometimes reading your posts when you get the right thought in your head, what the heck is this? :lol
Look, I agree on nearly all fronts, JBaird is batshit insane and one way or another this has just been a wild rollercoaster ride of non-stop bullshit. He's permabanned and the world's a better place for it. But it's not out of any realm of possibility that the genesis of this whole thing is some equally attention starved bimbo on Myspace. It happens, I have seen it happen so many times since online chat got popular in the mid 1990s (even posted a story of my own that's gotta be a good 12 years old), by the exact same token as you're saying that most of the crazy shit on GAF is posted by nothing but attention whores (which I agree with, by the way), there are crazy women ('?') pulling the same attention whoring shit on poor suckers on everything from the OG AOL to Myspace, if one group exists there's no reason the other shouldn't. "Unfriend/Ignore/Move On" only applies when you're talking about regular internet people in a regular situation, and you yourself agree that not everyone posting on the internet is "regular"... this is two sides of the same coin we're talking about here.
There are several extremely simple logical reasons why I don't believe the GF was the one behind this. One, you can only "attention whore" if you do something where you can suck up the attention. She cannot suck up any attention if she has to pretend she is dead/missing. Secondly, if she wanted to simply break up with him (to avoid a "breakdown", as one GAFer suggested), then she would not have invented the idea that her own sister was raped/killed. Because that is beyond crazy to even joke about something like that with your own flesh and blood. But three, because it makes the lie even more unsustainable. Then, she has to find a way to cover all the tracks her sister might make, which is completely unrealistic.
Remember, they're all on myspace. The only thing that ever had to happen to disprove this entire bullshit was she had to come online. Which she did. What purpose was there to invent a story about her going missing/her sister being raped and killed (which by itself raised a billion questions) if she was just going to go on her myspace account later in the day and end all that?
Actually working out these scenarios in your head is what leads me to my simple rational truths.
JBaird simply didn't think Detective GAF was as vigilante as it was. As dave_is_ok pointed out, he literally said he got the information about this shit FROM THE POLICE THEMSELVES. There is no way anybody else was involved in the hoax at that point. If it was all true then the information he got post police contact would have also been true, or at least true-ish: but it wasn't. It was all lies upon bigger lies. And we still have seen not a shred of news about this event, even though though the "mysterious friend posting from Bri's myspace" says she is still missing after FIVE DAYS.
stuminus3 said:The thing is now that none of us will ever actually know the truth, unless there's GAFfers out there that are even creepier and go find the dude in real life and inject him with a truth serum or something (please don't, GAF). We'll never know for sure. The absolute most important thing is that nobody actually got murdered or raped or went missing here, that's something we can all agree on for sure, it's really all just been about the lulz since yesterday afternoon.
We do know the truth. Some people are just in denial about it.