- Joined
- Jun 27, 2014
We're already off to a great start with this image. Let it set the tone.
Aliases: Endomorphosis, Swissproxy, Starworks5
We're dealing with a winner here, folks.
Normally GG-related lolcows fall into a few pre-set categories. Anti-GG cows tend to be complete maniacs with delusions of grandeur, whereas the Pro-GG spergs just tend to be horrifyingly autistic. But there are ones that go above and beyond both sides - into a realm of craziness where both sides will begin to make fun of you for being pants-on-head retarded. Normally, GG-related cows are confined to the Rat King subforum or the Loveshy board, but this one's so crazy that it graduates to its own thread.
Behold, Kiwis, the sort of individual that even Homer and Dan Olson can claim some level of moral authority over. He first entered GG for a sort of weird reason: He believed he could get an internet server into space for a few thousand dollars, and attached himself to Gamergate to try to milk donations. It didn't fucking work, and one might think given this that Benjamin would have skulked off.
No such luck.
Benjamin himself is a bit of an odd duck, with views a bit too retrograde and extreme for the norm, and though he identified a bit with Gamergate, it seemed to solely be out of hate for Social Justice warriors and while he was initially relatively well-recieved, he inevitably got drawn into the /ggrevolt/ crowd when it was began as a honeypot to catch GG supporters. Unfortunately, Benjamin was a great example of the sort of Autist /ggrevolt/ would attract, and, ultimately, overwhelm the tard wranglers through sheer Autism and ultimately out /ggrevolt/ for being a honeypot started by Anti-GGers. He would later go on to make his own subreddit, presumably because /ggrevolt/ had been shown to be insufficiently TRUE and HONEST. In reality, even /ggrevolt/ didn't want him.
Benjamin took it further, however, by pulling a Greta and going to conventions to threaten people:
Based Blue lays down the law.
This was later confirmed when he went to a Men's Rights subreddit and proceeded to sperg for fucking pages about Feminism. It was this first taste that would show us that Benjamin Barber was no mere Autist, but something special, Kiwis. Something magical. Soon it emerged that not only had he stalked Randi Harper, he also flew to Malaysia in order to try to accost Ian Miles Cheong. He also threatened suicide on 8chan once.
Suffice to say when this happened he was mocked by GG supporters about as hard as he was by GG opponents, and Benjamin did not take this very gracefully at all, and began going after "mainline" GG supporters with bizarre legalistic arguments that made no sense, ultimately leading to him having some kind of insane skirmish with Ayyteam, the details of which are still becoming known because Benjamin completely deleted his Social Media accounts and forced us to do a bunch of digging from scratch. He wasn't exactly great in covering his tracks, however, and we also have it that he wanted to sue Reddit itself for violating anti-discrimination statutes.
He's an MRA? But he looks so well-adjusted!
Suffice to say with a background like his, several groups, including /cow/, started looking into his behavior as well, and it was quickly revealed that GG was only the tip of the iceberg for this particular nutjob. He had actually run for office at one point. He also had a rather hostile relationship with his wife, which segues into our next segment.
Benjamin here has some.... interesting criminal behavior, and quite a bit of it. Hell: he has a criminal record which includes a conviction for Revenge Porn of his wife. A condition of his probational sentence was being unable to use the internet, so you know we're dealing with some amazing shit here. Humorously, he attempted to defend himself in court as opposed to getting a lawyer, and when this failed, attempted to sue the prosecutor for prosecuting him. Humorously, it was Gamergate supporters that actually turned him over to the FBI, after he proceeded to run from this and escalated six months of what was essentially a slap on the wrist to around 5 years probation.
Further investigation yielded prior convictions for buying booze for minors:
Suffice to say, we're in a special place with this one, Kiwis: Someplace where neither dignity nor proper treatment of Amblyopia exist. And even better - despite his attempt to go dark, there's tons of information still available, and all evidence is that this is just the tip of the iceberg with this guy. This kind of crazy doesn't come along often, and when it does, it's always to be savored.
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