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Josefbugman:
I'd say so, either that or Bowie has somehow managed to split alvin stardust off from himself and it has possessed someone else.

KvP:
It's sad, seeing unstable people go mad on the internet. A few weeks ago Khar was talking Meebo about a certain krautrock-era musician who has gone completely paranoid and whose inability to understand how the internet fundamentally works has clearly caused him no small amount of internal torment.

But yeah, conspiracy kids. When 7 or 8 years ago I took up residence on a Nine Inch Nails board, and when Year Zero, a concept album about a hodgepodge of Orwellian NWO / religious conspiracy theories (being turned into an HBO series soon, I hear), dropped we got flooded with those people. Nine Inch Nails fans are generally pretty unstable but it was even worse when you had conspiracy nutters who believed Trent Reznor was being earnest and prescient and speaking directly to them, and they invaded the news-and-discussion areas of the forum to talk about flouride and MJ12.

I'm also reminded of this dude who used to hang out on Gawker. The way the Gawker system works is that there are three tiers of commenter profiles - The starred, who are selected by the editors and writers of the site as being notable, the approved, who have been cleared by a starred commenter and whose comments, if good, can be "promoted" to featured status by said starred commenters, and the unapproved, who don't show up to third-party observers on the site until a starred commenter okays one of their comments. This usually keeps out the explicit trolls and crazies. But there was a guy who had a couple of accounts that he worked pretty hard on so that they got starred, and then he started making dozens (perhaps hundreds) of other accounts that he would use his starred accounts to approve, and he would have conversations with himself. Long conversations, in character as different people, whether praising or arguing or flaming (though his writing style never changed much, which is what tipped us off). We only figured it out when we got a writer to check the IPs. Before Gawker kind of imploded community-wise we made sport of sniffing out his many, many aliases. He must have spent dozens of hours a week building these elaborate simulacra.

Tom:
If MJ12 is the year of Our Lord Michael Jackson's resurrection, then I don't want to be sane.

KvP:
No no, the Majestic 12 are the twelve administrators of Area 51 who went rogue with alien technology and are now some sort of all-powerful shadow government.

Josefbugman:
They are also the "new" faction in the illumanti in Deus Ex.

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