Not in the highlights but I assume the white face and red lips might just be him trying to be a white person. Especially as a minority in his area, a Victorian pale white schoolboy makes sense. He's autistic enough to know a huge black nigga in a school uniform doesn't fit right
Perhaps the suspicion that it's an 'ARG' comes from how it was presented all at once by a bunch of zoomies who think VHS degradation is scary.
The thing that makes me question it is A.Its presented as this guy has been a lolcow for decades B. You only just learned about him.
It has that sort of weird vibe of someone trying to create a legacy whole cloth. "What do you mean you don't remember X? It was a beloved TV show we all grew up watching as a kid"
Only instead of that it's some lolcow from long ago. "you don't remember X? Everyone was talking about him, he was a massive joke, also all the Info about him seems to have just arrived this week"
Um, this guy ABSOLUTELY deserves a thread here, my skin hasn't crawled this hard in a very long time. People saying 'why hasn't anyone taken photos of him before' need to realize that when you grow up with these freaks in the background you don't think anything of them, they're just part of the flavor of where you live. I could start a thread on our local weirdo, pigtails baby doll stroller man except there's not one single photo of him online. Dude has been around for over 35 years rocking curly pigtails, a tattered tutu and a burnt up baby doll in a stroller. Scary motherfucker, everyone here knows of him- not ine person knows his name or has ever taken a photo.
That's not true though, literally Chris Chan had tons of appearances online from people in the Charlottesville area going "look at this freak" before people doxxed and started trolling him.
Pretty much any forum in the late 2000s that had a thread about local weirdos had someone talking about the "boyfriend free girl" sign. If anything, especially with the "stranger danger" era of the UK in the early 2000s a guy like this should at least have had local news reports about him. This is literally the sort of creep inside edition and other tabloids made their mark making fun of in the 90s.
You really telling me every teenager wouldn't have been posting about a middle aged creep in make up online?
David Firth has been involved in this nearly from the start
This confirms for me its real. That and articles are a lot harder to retroactively fake.
I found a
Digitalspy thread from years ago where someone felt compelled to mention a preacher in Doncaster town centre as a local freak,
Exactly, people forget pre-reddit the internet had thousands of found and each one would have a "thread with hot naked chicks" and "local weirdos" and "yearbook thread" and "political thread" and other standards. And we all know how annoying British people are. So you'd assume they'd all talk about this guy like he's their neighbor.
Him being a nigger is also a huge sus part. This guy was literally an entirely different color from 99% of people in the area, that alone should have had people thinking he's off. Or at minimum talking about him. "you're black? That's crazy. Do you also love schoolboy uniforms and little boys? Oh I'm sorry the only other black guy I know was into that, and latex"
this is some old dude who probably got noticed online because of the instagram algorithm
You're probably right. Considering how people are just learning about Patrick Melton despite him being the comedy podcast king of the late 2000s. As a semi fan of ARGe especially of the VHS kind. The latest you can really set things is the late 2000s, and just bullshit about forums/Myspace pages closing. But there are archives of Usernet too so if anything is too weird it would have popped on their radar.
Here's a Usenet post from 1999 describing a man in Doncaster who fits SSB's description.
Yep it's real.
Real horror story pedo men around that all the kids knew about, but there never any lynch mobs by parents or arrests
This is literally why Elms st was created, a bunch of dudes realized they all had the same story of a "type of guy" and parents going full lynch mob and thought "imagine if he got revenge" and that's how it started.