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RedPanda ([info]redpanda) wrote in [info]fandom_wank,
@ 2004-07-01 11:29:00
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Current mood:weird

Perhaps you can find something more vicious, but there's some good bits here...
The truth behind the Harry Potter "Book Six Name" hoax is out, and of course the utterly-disconnected-from-anything-resembling-reality HP fans are acting like the hoaxer cooked and ate a baby right in front of them. The article is cute. However, minor hysterics erupt in the comments:

"It's obvious he meant for innocent fans to believe his dirty trick. I hope Rowling sues him."

"I would love to call this kid plenty of horrid things right now, but do to the moderators I will settle by calling him a repulsive jerk. How could anyone be so lame! ....Lame, pathetic, repulsive, immature, jerk...that is all he is...."

"What this thoughtless ("I didn't think...) person did was wrong and foolish. He never even thought about the fans, which is unkind and the opposite of what we try to do here in HPANA which is to be thoughtful and courteous to each other."

"Tis guy is the world's number one jerk.....how dare he even try t impersonate JKR.....he certainly desesrves some punishment....."

"How dare you lie to us you big jerk!!! but at least they fessed up. but still... that was rude, lying to everyone out there..."

"It was not nice at all, i didn't like this man."

Uh...kids? It was a JOKE. Yeesh. My favorite so far is this one:

"It wasn't very funny!! he ruined the title surprise what the hell was he thinking!!"

I wonder what world she lives in that the hoax was the real title-- Oh, wait, she's got a Photoshopped Harry-marries-Hermione icon. THAT world. Got it.


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[info]beccastareyes
2004-07-01 09:34 pm UTC (link)
I'm actually impressed iwht this guy. Back when I was somewhat involved in the HP fandom, we would often joke about starting rumors and seeing if people bought them. This guy actually did it.

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[info]judyhazeleyes
2004-07-01 09:57 pm UTC (link)
I've gotta say, I'd be amazed if someone said they hadn't been tempted to do so. I know I've often felt the urge to light a fire under the collective ass of the fandom, be it trolling or no, just to sit back and enjoy the outcome. But I think the recent battle over the 'real' title shows that HP trolls can't really pat themselves on that back - anything will rile our crowd up.

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(no subject) - [info]backfromspace, 2004-07-01 11:38 pm UTC

[info]smo
2004-07-01 09:36 pm UTC (link)
"Innocent" fans?

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[info]crickets
2004-07-01 09:55 pm UTC (link)
Hee! Perfect icon for that comment.

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(no subject) - [info]smo, 2004-07-01 10:31 pm UTC
Express Buss to Hell, now boarding at platfom 666 3/4 ... - [info]bubosquared, 2004-07-01 11:23 pm UTC
handbasket? - [info]jaig, 2004-07-02 12:17 pm UTC

[info]circumstance
2004-07-01 10:00 pm UTC (link)
Hmmm. It's like deja vu, all you have to do is switch the words around a bit, and presto:

"What these thoughtless ("We didn't think...) mods did was wrong and foolish. They never even thought about the rest of wankas, which is unkind and the opposite of what we try to do here in fandom_wank which is to be inclusive in our snarkitude."

"These mods are the world's number one jerks.....how dare they even pretend not to know what was going on.....they certainly desesrved to have their modding priveliges taken way....."

"How dare you lie to us you big jerks!!! but at least they fessed up. but still... that was rude, lying to everyone out there..."

Fandom_wank: officially just as whiny as the Harry Potter fans.

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[info]mooncalf
2004-07-01 10:03 pm UTC (link)
Everybody SING!

o/~ For weeeee are the wankers, my friend ... and weeeeee'll keep on wanking... 'til the end... o/~

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(no subject) - [info]judyhazeleyes, 2004-07-01 10:06 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]nekoneko, 2004-07-01 10:29 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]lasayla, 2004-07-02 02:22 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]circumstance, 2004-07-02 02:28 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]restlesshands, 2004-07-02 05:09 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]hermiones_hymen, 2004-07-03 11:58 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]restlesshands, 2004-07-03 09:41 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]terminal_frost, 2004-07-03 01:33 am UTC
Damn you. - [info]elanor_durall, 2004-07-02 12:30 am UTC
Re: Damn you. - [info]mooncalf, 2004-07-02 12:55 pm UTC
Gratuitous Coverup
[info]deoridhe
2004-07-02 01:59 am UTC (link)
I don't know what you're talking about. *shifty look*

*slips Circumstance fifty bucks under the table* Why don't you go have some ...pie, and leave the theories to us?

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Re: Gratuitous Coverup - [info]circumstance, 2004-07-02 02:20 am UTC

[info]sorchar
2004-07-02 02:17 am UTC (link)
*looks shifty* Hey...*slips you another fifty* Here, go buy yourself something pretty.

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(no subject) - [info]circumstance, 2004-07-02 02:32 am UTC
Re: - [info]sorchar, 2004-07-02 02:36 am UTC

[info]kerikeri
2004-07-01 11:15 pm UTC (link)
Is it sad that the first thing I thought upon seeing the domain hpana.com was that someone had gone and created a Harry Potter-themed pro-anorexia site? I really have been here too long.

(So would it be a site for pro-ana HP fans, or people who like to write angsty badfic about the characters having eating disorders?)

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(Anonymous)
2004-07-01 11:23 pm UTC (link)
If you're sad, than I am too, because that was what I immediately thought as well.

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[info]ashenmote
2004-07-01 11:46 pm UTC (link)
If it is sad I win at sadness :P

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[info]dawnswalker
2004-07-02 12:06 am UTC (link)
You're not alone. That's exactly what I was going to say.

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[info]sorchar
2004-07-02 02:18 am UTC (link)
If anyone did it'd be Draco. Or maybe Lavender Brown.

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(no subject) - [info]darkrose, 2004-07-02 05:44 am UTC
Re: - [info]sorchar, 2004-07-02 07:44 am UTC
(no subject) - ataniell93, 2004-07-02 07:26 am UTC
Re: - [info]sorchar, 2004-07-02 07:47 am UTC
(no subject) - roxannelinton, 2004-07-02 11:59 am UTC
(no subject) - (Anonymous), 2004-07-02 05:02 pm UTC

[info]canisetlupus
2004-07-01 11:29 pm UTC (link)
That guy is my hero. He hasn't only riled up the fans, he came up with a better title than JKR!

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[info]dracolovesharry
2004-07-01 11:34 pm UTC (link)
Agreed. Half-blood Price is sort lame, when compared to the one that the rumor!dude came up with.

And Potter fans must rejoice at the fact that rumor!dude got JKR to release the NEXT title. Atleast now we've got something new to argue and make new wank about ;)

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(no subject) - [info]dawnswalker, 2004-07-02 12:07 am UTC
(no subject) - (Anonymous), 2004-07-02 12:12 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]dracolovesharry, 2004-07-02 12:15 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]selene_avis, 2004-07-02 01:50 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]squib, 2004-07-02 04:34 am UTC
*stares, unblinking* - [info]kymscrazy, 2004-07-02 07:38 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]delfeus, 2004-07-02 01:38 pm UTC

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[info]iczer6
2004-07-02 12:25 am UTC (link)
Meh.

While I think the joke was kinda lame and the title was just plain silly, [I mean come on folks if you can do that why not go all the way and do something like 'Harry Potter and the Three Way with Malfoy and Snape'] I still think hacking her site was majorly uncool.


Icz

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(no subject) - [info]calluna, 2004-07-02 12:33 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]aiwendil, 2004-07-02 01:15 am UTC
What Aiwendil said. - [info]canislune, 2004-07-02 01:54 am UTC

[info]selene_avis
2004-07-02 01:46 am UTC (link)
There would be worse, but mugglenet has the comment sections down at the moment. The hoax didn't bother me. Oh, sure, it was wrong, but there's something inately funny about fooling that many of people without even trying.

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[info]apocalyptica
2004-07-02 03:14 am UTC (link)
I love that guy. I only wish I'd thought of it first.

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[info]bunny
2004-07-02 03:17 am UTC (link)
You should have included a link to The Leaky Cauldron's comment section, too.

Current highlights:

"It also doesn't matter if his hoax was or was not clever. If this was an issue in all things, there would be many rapists, murderers and child molesters who had their cases thrown out of court because the jury thought they were clever."

"The hoaxer should be exiled and not allowed to read books 6 or 7 at all. That is a fitting punishment."

"Real Harry Potter fans DO NOT go around pretending to be the author. Real fans do not let pranks get this far out of control. Real fans do not wait until they have been proven wrong to apologize.

Even people who aren't fans do not GLOAT during what is supposed to be an apology if they are sincere about it. This guy just wanted attention; otherwise he wouldn't have come foward at all."

"So the hoax may have led to JKR giving us a very small amount of info about who the HBP isn't... well, I would've rather not had that info if it meant this hoax hadn't happened. It was a cheap and dirty trick, an insult to JKR, and an insult to us."

"The hoaxer should be beaten within an inch of his life and then given the Dementor's kiss. Period."

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(no subject) - (Anonymous), 2004-07-02 03:45 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]hermiones_hymen, 2004-07-03 12:02 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]madamotaku, 2004-07-02 03:49 am UTC
(no subject) - (Anonymous), 2004-07-02 03:52 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]onmyforehead, 2004-07-02 03:58 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]madamotaku, 2004-07-02 04:22 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]wolfgangmozart, 2004-07-02 05:20 pm UTC
Re: - [info]onmyforehead, 2004-07-06 11:11 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]dawnswalker, 2004-07-02 06:00 am UTC
*lol* - [info]innominate, 2004-07-02 07:27 pm UTC
-_- - [info]danceswithelvis, 2004-07-02 11:37 am UTC
Palindromic mnemonic... - [info]mindset, 2004-07-02 06:35 pm UTC
Re: Palindromic mnemonic... - [info]danceswithelvis, 2004-07-02 11:13 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]electricchick, 2004-07-02 12:55 pm UTC
(no subject) - (Anonymous), 2004-07-02 05:11 pm UTC

[info]gal_montag
2004-07-02 04:17 am UTC (link)
And the Half Blood Prince? *is intriegued*

/fangirl

But really, why does it matter if the title is Harry Potter and the Broke Down Hoopty? They're all going to go out and buy it either way.

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(no subject) - [info]plazmah, 2004-07-02 07:22 am UTC
(no subject) - ataniell93, 2004-07-02 07:31 am UTC
Re: - [info]gal_montag, 2004-07-05 07:30 am UTC
Re: - [info]gal_montag, 2004-07-05 07:31 am UTC
repressed white girl from the suburbs wants to know.. - tocomfortyou, 2004-07-09 06:28 am UTC
Re: repressed white girl from the suburbs wants to know.. - [info]gal_montag, 2004-07-09 06:34 am UTC

[info]oysteria
2004-07-02 05:42 am UTC (link)
Every time I see something like this, I want to say "nobody gives a shit!"--except that it's so obviously untrue.

I can't fathom why anybody gives a shit, though. It's just the freakin' title.

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(no subject) - [info]danceswithelvis, 2004-07-02 11:40 am UTC
(no subject) - (Anonymous), 2004-07-02 05:13 pm UTC

(Anonymous)
2004-07-02 04:01 pm UTC (link)
JK Rowling didn't seem that wound up judging from her comments, she seemed quite amused. Good job she has got more of a sense of humour than some of her fans!

Mac

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(no subject) - [info]madamotaku, 2004-07-02 06:19 pm UTC

[info]terminal_frost
2004-07-03 01:57 am UTC (link)
The truth behind the Harry Potter "Book Six Name" hoax is out, and of course the utterly-disconnected-from-anything-resembling-reality HP fans are acting like the hoaxer cooked and ate a baby right in front of them.

Y'know, I think I may have an idea of why this fandom is so damn batshittily spoogy.

Apparently they're trying to achieve in seven years (so far) the craziness the Tolkien fandom achieved over the course of several decades.

Unfortunately, the end result is like putting a medium-sized car with a top speed of 250 mhp and can go 0-60 in under ten feet but takes 30 yards to brake properly into an area that's 10'x100' for a demonstration of its impressive abilities.

The car's performance is obviously spectacular, but then again, so is the inevitable crash when it hits the wall at the end.

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[info]ultimate_cin
2004-07-03 10:27 pm UTC (link)
I just find it incredibly amusing that people are taking the title of a book so damn seriously. You all know that as soon as the book comes out they're going to be kicking and scratching anyone in their way to get it - so what the fuck does it matter what the book is called?

The extremes, they are teh funneh.

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heh
[info]prettyveela
2004-07-04 03:12 am UTC (link)
I wonder what world she lives in that the hoax was the real title-- Oh, wait, she's got a Photoshopped Harry-marries-Hermione icon. THAT world. Got it.

*dies*

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