EPTAs I read, I considered the fact that I was getting trolled. But at the same time, I wondered, who would do such a thing to me, and what for? I read on, and the comments for the most part took the post as being serious, and gave words of encouragement. A few things were said such as "A thousand nerd hearts deflated upon finishing the first paragraph" [sic], while I was grinning slightly because I knew that I was the subject of their envy. People who had met me in real life said nice things about me ("oh, i see. well, he's white, quite a good-looking guy, charming, and a long-time veteran of this website. pm him."), which further boosted my confidence. I felt my ego bloom slowly over the course of those few minutes, and with it blossomed a somewhat ironic interest in this person, the OP. She looked pretty cute from her photos, she is my age, she lives somewhere within my area... I found out more things about her than she knew about me, at that point. Was I perhaps being too cynical, thinking I was being trolled? What if this was truly a shy girl's somewhat comedic approach to opening communications with me?
As my ego led me astray into a dreamworld, I started to think that maybe she poured compliments and used liberal hyperbole to make it comedic, but was in fact at least interested in meeting me. I love meeting people from Team Liquid, more often than not I make friends! And to me, the more friends the merrier. Whenever I would go on a road trip, I would visit friends from the internet that lived along the way. Why not have another friend? As I prepared to write my response, I tried to remain down to earth about the situation and not get in over my head by saying something like "Hey bby asl where u at?"
I developed a plan. I was going to respond and feign ignorance, a kind of counter-trolling measure, in my mind. I would get to the bottom of this, depending on her response. But, at the end I would put words of encouragement, just in case. "I think you should PM him" [sic]. You know, just so that my ignorant response (which was laced with rather negative conspiracy theories and internet rapist insinuations) wouldn't scare her off, on the off-chance that there was a scrap of reality behind the words that this person wrote.
The response was given - it was indeed a 'troll.' But, the bright side was that it was meant to be a tribute. Wait, what?
I began to muse. I pictured the scenario being played out in the simplest of ways - a girl comes up to a guy and says "I like you, teehee" and then runs away. Usually the guy feels flustered, perhaps a little giddy, and then tries to develop the seed into a flower (whether it be friendship or relationship). But then, the girl says "Ah jaykay you are a great poster on this website though, that's why I pretended to like you." That just seems kind of cruel, no matter how you spin it. I know we're not in 'real life', but a lot of the things that are said and done because of this site are very much real. I have real friends and real fun with them, although I met them in this virtual reality. Thus, I feel like I have real feelings and attachments to the things I read and write, especially ones relevant to or about me. Call me pathetic, but it's true.
I know it was meant to be "all in good fun," but even cliche personalities on a website such as myself are human, and we have feelings too, you know? I was kind of appalled when people trashed one of my posts for being not as good as another, as if I am supposed to post according to some standard that they are exempt from because I once had a spotlighted post and they did not. This was worse than that.
On that note, I want to apologize that this post isn't funny or creative, most likely a waste of everyone's time, and that I am tarnishing my reputation. Forgive me, TL.
TL;DR: I agree with Chill, don't make fake blogs, especially pertaining to other people on the site, because even if they aren't offended, your audience feels duped and maybe a little disappointed.
EDIT: And I certainly don't want to start a pity party here, that would be so against my 'FIGHTING!' mentality. I might have a broken nose and a concussion but I'm not down about anything ^^; life is great. FIGHTING!
