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1:06am: ANN never disappoints
From Mousy on Wank_Report:

So, Anime News Network posts a piece of news titled "NEWS: Otakon Enforces Copyright at Artists' Alley"

On the forums, fans quickly jump to conclusions and voice their various opinions on the topic ("various" meaning "omfg how can they!" and "finally someone did the right thing to those suckers!"). As usual, suddenly everyone's a lawyer, quoting Wikipedia and various trusted and not-so-trusted sources, and of course it's complete with people with attitudes: "I've been in the fandom longer than you so I'm right and you're wrong" (Colonel Wolfe) and "I write for quasi-famous online magazines so I can look down on you" (Zac). People are accusing Otakon with selling out.

Even some real VIPs pipe in:

http://animenewsnetwork.com/bbs/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=240315#240315

http://animenewsnetwork.com/bbs/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=240322#240322

http://animenewsnetwork.com/bbs/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=240127#240127

And then, Colonel Wolfe posts a looong article titled 'Bloatacon' taken from another website which is apparently "incorrect in many ways".

The owner of the website the article is quoted from shows up who is apparently dedicated to spread the word about the great "injustice that is being committed against fanartists". Posts are being edited.

In the meanwhile, Otakon issues an official statement regarding the problem - it only stirs up more trouble, as it turns out, as people are now accusing Otakon with wishy-washying and trying to divert attention from the problem. In the end, Colonel Wolfe comes up with a shocking conspiration theory.

And it's still going. (Provided that the mods don't lock the thread or delete it.)

8:13pm: Bored By Brokeback Mountain = OMG YR SO STOOPID!!
This is my first time posting, and I couldn't resist pointing out a wank I found on the Godawful Fanfic Board:

http://godawful.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=24691

I guess you're only allowed to hate movies the great sheepdom hates. Apparently, disliking Brokeback Mountain makes you evil, stupid and intellectually disabled.

I just love this reply, for someone else who disliked the movie:


I think you need to get a little bit of a thicker skin, Fluffdevil. No one does what you're suggesting here. It's simply that if someone attacks a movie in a way that Kitana did, those that like the movie are bound to jump in and question their tactics. Had Kitana made a post that was similar in tone to yours (save for that last snotty and very immature final line you included), no one would be "attacking" anyone at all. Do you get it?

Because, as we all know, GAFF folks are well known for their reasonable, soft-spoken and kind attitudes towards a wide variety of subjects. When it comes to honest debate and discourse, GAFF outdoes St. Thomas Aquinas.

Of course, it all quickly disintegrates into people flaming the original poster for complaining about the cost of the movie--HOW DARE SHE BUY POPCORN!!! BUT POPCORN PAYS THE THEATRE WORKER'S WAGES!! WHY DIDN'T SHE JUST GO ON $5.50 TUESDAY!!!

Itty bitty wank...Great big bowl of popcorn...

10:42pm: To Loli, or not to Loli? Internet Law and Anime Girls
Down over on the Hongfire forums, where one can help themselves to fanservice or outright hentai wanking material, there is a big kerfuffle over the ever controversial subject of Loli. For those of you who aren't familiar with the term, Loli is (broadly speaking) anime/manga pornography with very young females. Shota, is the male equivalent.

The Story? Last month, moderator Shragei posted that after much research, they had deduced that Lolicon was in violation of United States law. Seeing as I only poke around Hongfire for the random TypeMoon books, the occasional pretty CG, and am not a Loli fan, I didn't really give this much more than a passing glance. Unfortunately, this meant that I missed 13 pages of glorious spooge. Take a gander at some of the intraweb lawyering, the "omg u guyrs r sick for liking loli", and the "OMG there's nothing wrong with it stop persecuting me!", "this is great for breaking my obsessions with porn!", and "This is a dark day on Hongfire."

Then, two days ago, Para announced that the Loli gallery was reinstated because apparently it is legal. Naturally, everyone starts bickering again. There is weirdness about whether or not HF is hosted in Australia (where Loli is illegal) or the U.S, or (as they are actually hosted in the U.S.) if the owner (wo lives in Australia) should follow the rules of their home country, even though the server is elsewhere. More intraweb-lawyering, and somewhere around the end Ayunite and karenSP go at it. Geohound03 also gets his panties in a twist, saying that the mods shouldn't have made the mistake of removing it in the first place-- and if they wanted to remove it- they should have damn well left it removed!

( Ayunite and karenSP )</center> Those two keep wanking until the end of page seven, although before that, karenSP makes an overgeneralization and assumes Ayunite is one of them Christian people who hate porn:

( This is exactly how christans are, they refuse to listen to ANYTHING that is even remotely against what they believe and exaggerate all situations to better their arguement )

Around page seven, geohound03 resurfaces and screams at everyone for not listening to him and taking him out of context because they are Loli fanboys. I think he misunderstands karenSP's spooging at Ayunite, for spooge directed at himself.

Finally, Lisa Hayes is fed up and closes the thread.

Harhar, wank in a hentai forum. Who didn't see that coming?

10:50pm: Michael Muhney, star of regular on actor in TV's Veronica Mars, has a pleasant history of interacting with his online fans, most notably on LiveJournal (rack_of_lamb) and FanForum. Usually he makes posts along the lines of "Hey, guys, that fan thing was awesome and here's what I've been up to!" and/or quotes Napoleon Dynamite at the internet.

However.

Likely because of Mr. Muhney's just-this-side-of-being-a-dork-like-the-rest-of-us affability, he's attracted some rather rabid fangirls. (Well, the affablity and the smokin' guns. I'm just saying.) Due to budget constraints, mainly the fact that Veronica Mars is a cheapass show to make and NOBODY appears in every episode each season but Veronica and maybe her dad, Mr. Muhney's character is not a regular.

One of the fangirls organizes an email campaign to spam Rob Thomas, the showrunner, with emails reading "MUHNEY AS A REGULAR!". (Showrunners love that sort of thing, haven't you heard?)

About the same time, Mr. Muhney makes a (bitter)sweet little post about how the show is like a party, and he's just glad to be invited. Or maybe he wasn't invited to the party and is sad about it? I forget, because he's edited the post!

He's also edited a post in which he defends co-Veronica Mars actor Teddy Dunn, whose character and acting abilities are quite controversial, here.

Indilime wants to know why!

SchnappyCat has an idea:

He edited the second one because his webmaster, Maruschka, posted in the original campaign idea post that iwillrememberu started that RT was getting mad about all of the spam mail he was getting from Michael's fans. She thought it might be backfiring on Michael. So he edited so as not to encourage any more emailing to RT.

Most of the wanky comments are in the e-mail campaign post, including this telemarketer-style "But if he has his email out in public, he must want to be emailed! By spammers like me!" defense and this, my favorite exchange of the whole thing:

spectralbovine: I suggest you A) Take that address out of the post to prevent crazies from going wild and B) Use the e-mail form on Rob's website.
iwillrememberu: That's what I wanted to say but the email form is gone....
spectralbovine: Hmm. Interesting. Guess he doesn't want to be e-mailed anymore.

It's a mini-wank so far, relatively speaking, but I think it's got legs. Whenever production staff/actors and fans interact, the crazy is sure to follow!

edit: Apparently Rob Thomas is getting a little fed up with the Muhney campaigners. From this rack_of_lamb post:

FAN EMAIL:
Hi Rob -
>
> Great show! Sounds like you'll be around for a 3rd
> year on the new CW network... congratulations.
>
> I hang out at TWoP and I'm a fan of Sheriff Lamb -
> have you seen that poll they're running about who the
> fans want them to interview?
>
> keep up the good work.

ROB'S RESPONSE:
"Honestly,

If I get any more e-mails sent to my home address touting Sheriff Lamb or suggesting I put him in the main titles or saying they want to see him shirtless, I'm going to write the guy out of the series.

Rob

But thanks for the kind words."

The first post on that entry?

I think Rob's being sarcastic and playing around. Like, "yeah, yeah, I get it." I'm sure it does good for him to know that we love Lamb.

Riiiiiight.

edit 2: ONTD has a post on the unfolding "Rob Thomas catty emails" drama. With a rather fetching picture of Mr. Muhney at the top, and really, isn't that what's important in this whole thing? I BELIEVE IT IS! (thanks to wanktastic for the link!)