🪦 Deceased Joe Winko - THE GAYMASTER/Lol-Bvll / Self admitted Gay Hawaiian Ricardo Milos Cosplayer/Uploaded his consciousness to the Sims/Ed Wood of Machinima

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Unfortunately his death with be the focal point but he seemed to well understand that and revel in it. watching a guy plan his death and his digital afterlife will certainly interest a lot of ppl, well beyond us weirdo connoisseurs at KF. It’s definitely something the performance art niche in the artworld would be crazy about.
Surprised it's been contained to here as of now. Hope someone's writing up a 3 hour video on Joe Winko so I can truly understand this man. He's definitely worthy of it.
On a side note, who is this Rolf character? I looked on the wiki and it's one of his made up characters/cartoon character from a creepypasta, but he dresses Rolf up as some sort of Rishi Sunak look alike. I found a video that somewhat explains it, but it is insane. This shit is so mind boggling. Did he not say he was gonna be with Rolf in heaven too? This guy is more and more insane the more I look into him.

I'm starting to wonder if this is some long winded hoax (unlikely), or if this guy was schizophrenic and genuinely wanted to die to be in heaven with Rolf and other ghosts whom speak to him. Either way, this is like one of those ARG things you have to unravel to understand, but with a real person.
 
Vinluv not archiving any of the videos he reposted on here over the years, despite being told to do so in the literally 7th post of the thread, 4 years ago, should be a criminal offence. Half of the videos are gone by now, and not accessible through the YouTube-links provided anymore.
He uploaded all his stuff on the internet archives and
His loyal fans have been backing it up trust and believe trole.

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I almost want an airbrushed “fly high Joe Winko” in neon calligraphy with a grainy b&w photo on a t-shirt.
You gotta make that shirt a reality. You must do it for Joe Winko.
DO IT!
 
Surprised it's been contained to here as of now. Hope someone's writing up a 3 hour video on Joe Winko so I can truly understand this man. He's definitely worthy of it.
It’s not a neat, clean narrative and the media has been warned not to give attention to people who live stream or record their suicide. Joe was to messy and odd for tragedy clickbait.

If Joe had claimed to be bullied to suicide for being a gay autistic POC they’d be all over the story: One of the unusual, and likable things about Joe is the lack of pity or victimhood. He could have leaned into that shit hard if he simply wanted attention, many do, but he wasn’t interested in that.

I don’t think he was schizophrenic. He comes across as a genuine autistic dude who went down the internet rabbit hole as an adolescent and it had big impact. Autistic ppl tend to find fixations that last a lifetime between 6-12. Joe seemed to have found horror movies and then later true crime. Him desperately wanting a crazy boyfriend who was obsessed with him seems born from this. I honestly wonder if he settled for suicide since he couldn’t find a serial killer boyfriend who would give him blow jobs all day and eventually murder him.
 
Just a tourist here from the post on the front page, but I have to say, that Joe Winko is absolutely fascinating. Having gone through the entire thread, leading up to the last few pages where the mystery of Joe Winko’s real identity are being uncovered is almost surreal. This very much reminds me of an internet serial (think a slender man series or something like that), where every day you get a new clip or post or something to add a little to the mystery or reveal some small truth pointing to a bigger picture. I don’t know if that’s intentional on his part, but it almost seems that way.

In any case, fly high Joe Winko. In death you’re spreading even farther than before, and I think you knew that
Joe Winko is the Laura Palmer of the Internet era,blending reality and fiction,tragedy and comedy,light and dark. Through his death, he will live on forever. Enjoy the garmonbozia,and Enjoy the Ments.
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I was one of those whose first/only experience of Joe was the suicide video, and wondering why he was a lolcow, however figured it out.
What gave it away? The monotone voice? The pointy bandana hat?
Wow, guys, great job on your internet sleuthing!
I met Joe Winko in 2020, my landlord at the time got him a bus ticket to visit Orlando. He brought him downtown while he worked and let Joe roam Lake Eola, the Orlando Weekly wrote an article about it. I always thought it was funny that Winko described my landlord as a stranger in the video.

He arrived in civilian clothes and gladly changed to his iconic look when I asked him why he wasn’t sporting it. I talked to him a little bit, he had a hard time with understanding humor, so I had to be plainspoken. What I remember most was him talking about tornados and how he scientifically proven he could use fat people to save himself if he was in the path of one. Joe Winko was no scientist.

Eventually they retired to his room. I’ve tried many times to ask him what happened in there but the most I got out of him was “It was too odd. I couldn’t wait to get rid of him.” He dropped off Winko at the bus station the next day.

I’ve been following Winko ever since.
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I was surprised you guys were able to figure out his real name, I found it out through connections. I know that they even called the bomb squad in.

I’m really curious about what parts of his life story was true, I believe that he wasn’t actually adopted, never lived in Hawaii, and that his uncle was made up.
Here’s the article and video you mentioned
But yeah like many others have said,Joe Winko’s Weird life and weirder death is basically like an ARG without the “Alternate” in Alternate Reality Game,he turned his entire life into an elaborare lost episode creepy pasta/true crime drama. He planned it all out. Perfectly. I just hope his memory lives on for centuries or more. FLY HIGH JOE WINKO
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Wow, guys, great job on your internet sleuthing!
I met Joe Winko in 2020, my landlord at the time got him a bus ticket to visit Orlando. He brought him downtown while he worked and let Joe roam Lake Eola, the Orlando Weekly wrote an article about it. I always thought it was funny that Winko described my landlord as a stranger in the video.

He arrived in civilian clothes and gladly changed to his iconic look when I asked him why he wasn’t sporting it. I talked to him a little bit, he had a hard time with understanding humor, so I had to be plainspoken. What I remember most was him talking about tornados and how he scientifically proven he could use fat people to save himself if he was in the path of one. Joe Winko was no scientist.

Eventually they retired to his room. I’ve tried many times to ask him what happened in there but the most I got out of him was “It was too odd. I couldn’t wait to get rid of him.” He dropped off Winko at the bus station the next day.

I’ve been following Winko ever since.
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I was surprised you guys were able to figure out his real name, I found it out through connections. I know that they even called the bomb squad in.

I’m really curious about what parts of his life story was true, I believe that he wasn’t actually adopted, never lived in Hawaii, and that his uncle was made up.
It's not letting me quote @MirnaMinkoff , but this is my reply to the above comment:

I can 100% confirm the "twin brother named Crystal Winko" is entirely fake and made up by him. The whole character of Crystal Winko originated in one of his Sims movies in 2011, and from then on he LARPed about it being real, and that Crystal's spirt is always with him despite the fact that he never met Crystal and he has no memories of him. His evidence for Crystal existing was that Crystal appeared to him in his dreams.

He also says that Crystal was named that because he had bright blue eyes, which is pretty unlikely given Joe's genetics.
Seeing that Joe called his own landlord who drove him to Orlando “A stranger” in order to keep him anonymous might be the Rosetta Stone to this mystery. I do believe maybe Joe did have a twin sibling who died in infancy,but he made up the “crystal” persona in order to hide the identity. "Uncle Romario" might be real,but because Joe fictionized his character we would have to scan through Joe's reletives to find a man who died in the early 2000s close enough to the description Joe has gave. Maybe his "first lover" who died of brain cancer was Romario's true identity and he loved him so much he was like an uncle? I don't know but Joe's true story will hopefully be discovered shortly.
 
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Seeing that Joe called his own landlord who drove him to Orlando “A stranger” in order to keep him anonymous might be the Rosetta Stone to this mystery.
Oh no, it was my old landlord and he got him a bus ticket. This isn’t the Rosetta. Joe lived in an apartment with a family member that he hated, I doubt he even talked to his landlord.

I was going to wait for one of you guys to pick up this from the dispatch photo, but did anybody find it interesting that the dispatch said there was 5 gallons of chloroform on the scene?
 
His fixation on true crime might explain the origin story he came up with. It’s like a perfect serial killer origin story.
Looking at it, the true crime interest seems to have come as a consequence of his fixation with death. There's some of those people that died by suicide that he fixated on.

If anything, it seems like he got pre-occupied with making up stories for his Sims and that eventually melded into his own life. It's very Chris Chan in a sense where Sonichu and CWCville started becoming part of his reality. The first Sims game would've been released when he was five years old and it was very "sandbox"-y in the sense you'd have to come up with your own origin stories for your sims and just use your fantasy. Later Sims games furthered that component.
 
ive been simmering on this for the past week, and I've gotten around to finishing his post-death videos, and i don't think I've ever had a suicide force me to ask some uncomfortable questions about death. it's weird seeing someone (especially Joe) be so enthralled with death, the afterlife, and other notable deaths that have occurred. i believe everyone has had a suicidal thought or period in their life, but strong people fight through that and become resilient. it does make me wonder, "what if death were like how joe believes? what if when we die, we get all the divine blessings we could've ever wanted? if you were overweight, you ended up being a 6ft gigachad?" what if you were a weeb and you could have all the lolicon in the w---, nah i'm kidding, you're going to hell.
 
I was going to wait for one of you guys to pick up this from the dispatch photo, but did anybody find it interesting that the dispatch said there was 5 gallons of chloroform on the scene?
Interesting… The guy he was interested in at around the end of his journey committed suicide by chloroform, and judging by his obsession with this dead guy and how he claimed they were in love and that their love transcended even death (even though they never knew each other)… he probably wanted to try dying the same way even by adding the Sodium Nitrite to the equation.

That being said, I still can’t believe he was just posting this random guy’s corpse pictures all over this thread, and seemed serious about them being a thing.

Joe posted this of how the guy committed suicide:
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Either way, I’m mind-blown by how unique Joe Winko was. What an odd, morbidly interesting goofball. Makes me wish I followed his thread before his death.
 
Interesting… The guy he was interested in at around the end of his journey committed suicide by chloroform, and judging by his obsession with this dead guy and how he claimed they were in love and that their love transcended even death (even though they never knew each other)… he probably wanted to try dying the same way even by adding the Sodium Nitrite to the equation.

That being said, I still can’t believe he was just posting this random guy’s corpse pictures all over this thread, and seemed serious about them being a thing.

Joe posted this of how the guy committed suicide:
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Either way, I’m mind-blown by how unique Joe Winko was. What an odd, morbidly interesting goofball. Makes me wish I followed his thread before his death.
The whole thing with constant references to dreams makes me think he must've had extreme sleep disturbances? I know that's a common hallmark of child abuse and PTSD but not sure if he suffered from those things specifically but the constant references to people coming to him in his dreams is either just fantasy or he wasn't sleeping/thinking right?
 
What a wild ride. I’m going to miss this autistic Hawaiian man. I went through just some of his videos to try and find some more wholesome ones to share. Might do more later.

Joe Winko interacts with nice people in Ohio, which makes him very happy.

Joe Winko’s grandmother bought him a Death Note aka the death curse book. Naturally, he uses it to summon a category 5 hurricane to strike Houston Texas.

Joe Winko reviews the aimor digital photo frame. Joe Winko wants to write the idiot who designed it into his death curse book because it is quote “stupid, fucking sucks, PIECE OF SHIT designed, damn, pisses-me-off, fucking hate it”.

Joe Winko likes birds and has a very wholesome giggle. He states that parrots always end up cussing him out for some reason.

Joe Winko describes his AUTISM MIND and how he would play with barbie dolls as a young boy around 4/5 years old.

Joe Winko casts a magic runestone spell. Less wholesome but something about him repeating his gay Hawaiian latin while holding up a smiley face rock is just pure kino.

Joe Winko charms pretty girls by telling them stay away from the sharks and that he WON’T write them into his Death Note.
 
I was going to wait for one of you guys to pick up this from the dispatch photo, but did anybody find it interesting that the dispatch said there was 5 gallons of chloroform on the scene?
Yes. It's why I wondered what the photo was connected to. Stop speaking in riddles, nigga!
That being said, I still can’t believe he was just posting this random guy’s corpse pictures all over this thread, and seemed serious about them being a thing.
Oh my god, it's Rolf. Wonder why he didn't follow the same route?
I know that's a common hallmark of child abuse and PTSD but not sure if he suffered from those things specifically but the constant references to people coming to him in his dreams is either just fantasy or he wasn't sleeping/thinking right?
I have a really hard time sleeping and often just hallucinate in bed from being in between a sleep state and still being awake. He could have the same thing. Don't know if this is a known medical condition or what, but it's quite debilitating.
 
Interesting… The guy he was interested in at around the end of his journey committed suicide by chloroform, and judging by his obsession with this dead guy and how he claimed they were in love and that their love transcended even death (even though they never knew each other)… he probably wanted to try dying the same way even by adding the Sodium Nitrite to the equation.

That being said, I still can’t believe he was just posting this random guy’s corpse pictures all over this thread, and seemed serious about them being a thing.

Joe posted this of how the guy committed suicide:
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Either way, I’m mind-blown by how unique Joe Winko was. What an odd, morbidly interesting goofball. Makes me wish I followed his thread before his death.
What a wild ride. I’m going to miss this autistic Hawaiian man. I went through just some of his videos to try and find some more wholesome ones to share. Might do more later.

Joe Winko interacts with nice people in Ohio, which makes him very happy.

Joe Winko’s grandmother bought him a Death Note aka the death curse book. Naturally, he uses it to summon a category 5 hurricane to strike Houston Texas.

Joe Winko reviews the aimor digital photo frame. Joe Winko wants to write the idiot who designed it into his death curse book because it is quote “stupid, fucking sucks, PIECE OF SHIT designed, damn, pisses-me-off, fucking hate it”.

Joe Winko likes birds and has a very wholesome giggle. He states that parrots always end up cussing him out for some reason.

Joe Winko describes his AUTISM MIND and how he would play with barbie dolls as a young boy around 4/5 years old.

Joe Winko casts a magic runestone spell. Less wholesome but something about him repeating his gay Hawaiian latin while holding up a smiley face rock is just pure kino.

Joe Winko charms pretty girls by telling them stay away from the sharks and that he WON’T write them into his Death Note.
I do sometimes wonder how his life would've turned out if he maintained his early success or greater,how the greater internet would've effected him. Maybe he would've found a gay equivalent poof NAL or something lol. Truly a haunting what if.IMG_1725.webp
 
I do sometimes wonder how his life would've turned out if he maintained his early success or greater,how the greater internet would've effected him. Maybe he would've found a gay equivalent poof NAL or something lol. Truly a haunting what if.
He seemed most happy when his video game movies were gaining traction. I wonder why he stopped making them.
 
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