Lycan was a dipshit on a toy collecting forum of which I was a member. She started out as your average internet annoyance: terrible spelling and grammar skills, tried real hard to be ~dark and edgy~, unwarranted self importance, you know the type. She would try to backseat mod the forums, hilariously, by lecturing other people on their spelling and grammar. (This girl spelled "wrong" with an E, just to give you an idea of how much she couldn't English.)
People would post their latest toy acquisitions, as toy collectors are wont to do among others of their kind, and Lycan was no exception. She would claim to have obtained some really rare, expensive, highly sought after model in this toyline, but she couldn't provide pictures, because she didn't have a digital camera. (This was in the days before camera phones became ubiquitous.) She did this over and over, saying that she'd found one kit on eBay, another at a flea market, another at a foreign imports store in her hometown, etc. Some of the members began to suspect that just maybe she was lying to earn herself some geek cred and bask in the admiration and envy of others on the board: why couldn't she provide any proof? Why couldn't she take a photo and scan it to show everyone? Why couldn't she ever provide links to the eBay auctions she'd won? When confronted Lycan would get extremely huffy and defensive and start bitching about how we were just jealous and she didn't have to prove anything to us, bluhbluhbluh. She would get so nasty about this that the mods gave her a warning for her attitude, on top of suggesting that they didn't take kindly to liars.
I think at one point to throw off suspicion she said that her apartment had caught fire and all her models had been destroyed. "So no pictures of Super Rare Expensive Model, ARE YOU GUYS HAPPY NOW? Also sell me moar models plz ;_;"
At one point one of the members made a thread about the cheapest price we'd ever paid for a model kit. There were a lot of accounts of people buying kits on clearance for 33 cents or getting job lots on eBay for five bucks or whatever, but Lycan prefaced her contribution with this: "Not counting the ones I got for free by slipping them into bags with my other purchases..."
Naturally, a lot of people came down on her. Some of the more prominent board members scolded her for not just stealing, but then bragging about it. Lycan was apparently dumbfounded that anyone would take offense to this casual admission of petty theft, and reacted with snotty condescension. "Not all of us can afford to buy the things we want in life. I'm not rich and spoiled like you guys, so I need to steal those toys. Anyway, I don't really care what you think. *dismissive wave*" (Because pretending to RP your actions shows just how much you don't care.) This only made people jump on her even more, because 1)if she was so broke she had to shoplift a $3.99 model kit, how was she affording to drop three hundred bucks on a much rarer kit on eBay; 2)if she couldn't afford luxuries, she needed to learn to do without them, like most people did; and 3)she needed to start caring about what people thought, because she was acting like an asshole. The mods gave her a suspension, which was much more leniency than she probably deserved.
Lycan's crowning moment of dickshittery came when she made a thread about the baby turtle she'd found. For starters, she couldn't afford a proper habitat for it, so she kept it in a shoebox, which she stepped on at one point because she forgot the turtle was in it. She was amazed the turtle had survived, but this didn't clue her in to take better care of it. After she'd crushed her impromptu turtle habitat, she'd had her boyfriend over to smoke some weed and had let the turtle out "for exercise" in the bathroom. While stoned out of her gourd, killing off some of her already scarce braincells, she noticed that the turtle was bleeding from its mouth. She deduced that the turtle had ingested some cleaning powder residue left on the bathroom floor, but since she was stoned and also an idiot, she thought this was hilarious rather than disturbing and just decided to keep an eye on the thing rather than seek veterinary attention. The turtle survived, albeit no doubt plotting Lycan's slow, agonizing demise.
People didn't quite know how to respond to this. There was some mild disapproval and suggestions that she should have taken the poor animal to a vet. Since I was tactless and thoroughly disgusted with Lycan's behavior, I told her she was a fucking choad that didn't know shit about caring for animals, and a hypocrite on top of everything, citing a thread where she'd told a distraught kid that he deserved for his cat to die because he'd let it out of the house. That kind of opened the floodgates and people started going to town on her. Lycan defended herself by saying that she just thought it was sort of neat how "resilient" the turtle was, and that she'd had lots of pets die because - and this quote has stuck with me for years, because it's just that galling - she "failed to care" about their welfare. That's right, she flat-out admitted that she'd caused the neglectful deaths of numerous pets. I'm pretty sure I told her to go to hell at that point, fully expecting a ban since that kind of vitriol was against board rules.
For this debacle Lycan got another suspension, rather than the bann she so richly deserved. I don't know why the mods didn't show her the door, other than we were a small, close-knit community and the mods didn't want to cause a lot of drama. I think she wound up setting the turtle free near a river. Last I heard she was getting married and had abducted a baby duckling she'd found by a roadside somewhere.
when I found that out just recently 
