"I TROL U"
I'm not actually PFC. I've barely even interacted with him and have no idea who he is in real life. Everything I've posted in this thread so far has been a complete lie. If you don't trust me (and you shouldn't at this point) the admin can probably confirm that our IPs don't come from the same region. I suspect that he figured me out a while ago and is just keeping quiet, based on the fact that the tags "troll" and "prank" suddenly appeared on the thread without me adding them and that his previous post asking me to confirm PFC's posting location has since been deleted.
Originally I was just going to post troll face and do a "it was me Austin" routine, but I seriously underestimated the reaction this thread was going to get and feel like I owe everyone an actual explanation and apology to replace my previous fake explanation and apology. I honestly didn't expect so many people to take me at my word and post sincere replies, and at this point making a post like that would be the same thing as saying "fuck you for caring." This community is filled with an above-average number of sincere and honest posters, and I think it reflects well on the userbase as a whole that most people assumed that I was telling the truth and replied with what they really felt about it. I'm not used to that level of trust in online interactions, and while it seems stupid now, I didn't realize that I would be taking advantage of that trust by making a post filled with provocative lies. I don't expect anyone to believe me when I say this, but I genuinely feel bad about how this turned out and want to apologize to anyone I may have offended.
I made this thread because I wanted to delete PFC. He had been banned, but I wanted to see if I could go further and undo his entire existence. I wanted to make sure that if he ever decided to return with a new account people would instinctively doubt the reality of the person on the other side of the screen. I had been thinking about memetics and how we construct our sense of self in both the real and online worlds (I recently beat Serial Experiments Lain for the PSX), and I wanted to try doing something that would make other people think about these topics and maybe make them laugh a bit when I pulled the big reveal. I never had any plan to mock or gloat over anyone who was convinced, and I sincerely hope this post doesn't come across that way.
Believe it or not, I didn't do this because of any special malice towards PFC. Like I said earlier, I barely interacted with him, and I was surprised to find out how many people who replied seemed to genuinely dislike him (if I had realized this I never would have made the thread.) Before he left, PFC expressed his contempt for people who were too committed to their internet personas multiple times. He admitted to intentionally trolling on Kiwifarms and asked the admin for negative reactions so he could call other Agora users dumb. I know these facts hardly count as informed consent, but they convinced me that going through with my plan wouldn't mean stepping on his tail too hard. I identified him as someone (like me) who wasn't too attached to any one identity on the internet, and who wouldn't mind someone else borrowing a persona he had left behind. It was a case of the perfect chance to test a theory suddenly falling into my lap. As soon as I came up with the idea I got carried away and immediately acted on it without thinking about what I was doing or what the consequences would be.
From a coldly objective point of view the experiment was a success. Almost everyone accepted the fact that PFC was no longer real, and now that I've completely slaughtered my own credibility some people might still think we're the same person even after reading this post. If I deleted my account or got banned before telling the truth the reality of PFC would be permanently cast into doubt. With both of us gone nobody would be able to prove whether the cat was alive or dead. In theory it would have been hilarious, but in practice it didn't make me laugh at all. Lying to other people isn't actually fun and I felt bad when I saw how confused and upset people got.
In short, this was a stupid thing to do and I regret doing it even if it made some people laugh. Sorry.
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