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So, a friend of mine informed me about this dude, and after hearing about him, I thought he would warrant a thread.
Brian Michael Depaul is allegedly an anime, video games and tech journalist based in New York, and for the past four years or more, he's been showing up at cons claiming he's press to get free admission. And while I'm sure there are plenty of tech journalists who only get in on it so they can get exclusive access to con events, those guys at least have, you know... articles. And websites.
Depaul currently uses the Twitter handle TheGeekGamer76, and on his bio, he says this:
thegeekgamer.com redirects to https://geekgamer7688.wordpress.com/, which currently looks like this:
The only link you can click is the About page, which looks like this:
His previous Twitter account (again this is the Twitter account of a man who wants people to think he is a legitimate journalist) looks to be mostly just spam.
It's not all spam, though. Some of it is sucking up to try and get into E3!
But Twitter isn't the only place that he pimps out his website that doesn't exist. He does it on Facebook too!
As well as his personal Facebook, which includes many groan-worthy memes and pictures of him standing next to very attractive and important ladies (and sometimes not ladies).
Now surely, you must be thinking "c'mon, if this dude manages to get press badges when he gets into cons, well, he must have at least written some articles? Right?"
Well, kind of. There was another Geek Gamer blog he had, but this one hasn't been updated since 2010. And most of the articles look like this:
Yeah, the image was broken for the Brawl one because he hotlinked it from Kotaku. And notice that many of these articles are only a single paragraph long. Some are even shorter, leading to YouTube videos that he did not even make... like this:
Okay, so he's a lazy piece of shit who's clearly putting up a front of being a journalist so he can con people into letting him in cons for free. But that doesn't mean his pride isn't hurt when people see through his shit:
What makes this especially hilarious is that nowhere on any of his sites are there any interviews, video, text or otherwise. Not a one. The only kind of journalism the dude actually even attempts is photography.
And then there's this tweet, which was in response to a Facebook post calling him out on being a huge conman.
The only thing sadder than being employed as a video game journalist is pretending to be employed as a video game journalist.
Brian Michael Depaul is allegedly an anime, video games and tech journalist based in New York, and for the past four years or more, he's been showing up at cons claiming he's press to get free admission. And while I'm sure there are plenty of tech journalists who only get in on it so they can get exclusive access to con events, those guys at least have, you know... articles. And websites.
Depaul currently uses the Twitter handle TheGeekGamer76, and on his bio, he says this:
Depaul said:
thegeekgamer.com redirects to https://geekgamer7688.wordpress.com/, which currently looks like this:
The only link you can click is the About page, which looks like this:
His previous Twitter account (again this is the Twitter account of a man who wants people to think he is a legitimate journalist) looks to be mostly just spam.
It's not all spam, though. Some of it is sucking up to try and get into E3!
But Twitter isn't the only place that he pimps out his website that doesn't exist. He does it on Facebook too!
As well as his personal Facebook, which includes many groan-worthy memes and pictures of him standing next to very attractive and important ladies (and sometimes not ladies).
Now surely, you must be thinking "c'mon, if this dude manages to get press badges when he gets into cons, well, he must have at least written some articles? Right?"
Well, kind of. There was another Geek Gamer blog he had, but this one hasn't been updated since 2010. And most of the articles look like this:
Yeah, the image was broken for the Brawl one because he hotlinked it from Kotaku. And notice that many of these articles are only a single paragraph long. Some are even shorter, leading to YouTube videos that he did not even make... like this:
Okay, so he's a lazy piece of shit who's clearly putting up a front of being a journalist so he can con people into letting him in cons for free. But that doesn't mean his pride isn't hurt when people see through his shit:
What makes this especially hilarious is that nowhere on any of his sites are there any interviews, video, text or otherwise. Not a one. The only kind of journalism the dude actually even attempts is photography.
And then there's this tweet, which was in response to a Facebook post calling him out on being a huge conman.
The only thing sadder than being employed as a video game journalist is pretending to be employed as a video game journalist.
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