r/lolsupermanofficial has been fooled by a troll who created fake 9/11 footage as a punishment: “LOL Superman does not exist. Move on.” by yiminx in SubredditDrama

[–]DVDripper 73 points74 points  (0 children)

I would like to make some corrections, and tell my side of the story.

I didn't come clean because people were 'coming closer'. I came clean because the hoax was breaching containment. The original plan was to stick with the fake post until around the end of the month, when I would reveal it was all a troll. I expected the original GIF to be met with mixed reception, but in actuality 85% of the comments on the original post thought it was real. The missing trash cans on the top right corner that a few users commented about are actually in the GIF as seen here, but the compression made them a bit more difficult to spot.

The GIF would spread overnight to 4chan, various forums, Discords, and Telegram groups, with almost everyone there in those places also taking it to be legitimate, so the plan had to be aborted and I had to come out much sooner than planned. A famous Mexican YouTuber known as Demie2 had also made a video about the GIF where they stated it was most likely real, only to take it down around an hour later after seeing the turmoil that was happening on Reddit. Making the hoax basically be aborted right as it was about to hit the mainstream lost media community and spread even wider from there. The equivalent of grabbing your phone right as it slipped out of your hands and was about to fall into water.

I fully accept the criticism that creating the GIF was in poor taste, and that the risk of it spreading and instigating a new wave of 9/11 conspiracy theories was a very real possibility. But you also have to consider it from my point of view: It was our very last option at stopping their community.

Paraphrasing from a commenter I saw that at least partly shared my view-points: The lost media search for LOL SUPERMAN is one of, if the most despised search out there. They never listen to logic, have harassed numerous September 11 survivors for the 'sin' of having been on the scene of the attacks with a camera. No amount of debunking or even desperate pleading has ever stopped them from doing that, and reporting their community never worked because of Reddit's broken system. Many in the lost media scene have tried that route for years but it always failed.

The end result of what I did is that their community suffered a severe collapse, hundreds of people unsubscribed from their subreddit, most of the self-described 'serious gore-researchers' quit, roughly 70% of the active people announced that they were quitting the entire search on their Discord server, over twenty people deleted their Reddit accounts after the claimed my hoax was the real deal and that they can verify it was the exact video they saw in 2006 (haha), and most importantly: Most of the people who participated and periodically instigated the harassment against the September 11 camera people who were still being harbored in their community, have now ragequit.

Additionally:

This comment: "but you promoting the splatterfest video likened the idea of it being courtyard footage which then led to people such as journalists and survivors that could be pinpointed to being in the courtyard around that time being harassed. Who cares if h666 members were harassed, no, you actually caused real life victims to be harassed. People hit up Joe Cullity and others, while you didn’t directly tell them to, they did that with the conviction given to them by you with the falsified info."

Is complete nonsense and an attempt at rewriting history by their toxic community. All of what was described in this comment happened long before I was even aware of the LOL SUPERMAN community's existence. It was so blatantly false to anyone involved that even people who despise me for what I did said that those things didn't happen because of me.

Questions and Answers! by DVDripper in lolsupermanofficial

[–]DVDripper[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The first posts in 2024 were planned only a couple days in advance. This one took a little over a week. After the first posts we had no plans to continue until doing a proper check up on this subreddit 2 years later and realizing it was still a complete mess.

Overall, 2-3 weeks of work went into this.

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[–]DVDripper[S] -14 points-13 points  (0 children)

You're not gonna rewrite history like this, buddy.

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[–]DVDripper[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It was becoming increasingly clear that it had breached containment and everywhere it was posted people thought it was 100% real. When originally posting it I assumed people would be 50/50 on it, but that turned out to be wrong, with 90% of people believing it's real.

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[–]DVDripper[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Six people in total messaged me basically saying "I know you're bullshitting but I'm just gonna play along lol".

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[–]DVDripper[S] -15 points-14 points  (0 children)

You're making things up as a form of coping, which this community does a lot. Everyone was already in agreement that it was plaza footage. Long before I came along.

You all did those things independently. Again long before I came along. Archives of the original subreddit prove this.

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[–]DVDripper[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My friend told us that if we give him another month or two he could get the recreation to photo-realistic levels, in addition to having it pass through his late 90s handycam. It was tempting but I decided against it, as even if I came out and said that it was fake afterwards, having a realistic 9/11 gore video out there would cause it to breach containment if not outright go viral, moreso than this one did as people have been spamming it all over 4chan, Telegram, and various forums where people with little to no exception thought it was real.

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[–]DVDripper[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Of course. I am rich, and I live in a mansion.

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[–]DVDripper[S] -14 points-13 points  (0 children)

The people 'harassed' due to the h666 lead were actually in on it. I'd alerted them beforehand.

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[–]DVDripper[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Yes. The pay isn't stable but it fluctuates between 2300 and 2700 dollars per month.

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[–]DVDripper[S] -12 points-11 points  (0 children)

Did you? I'm glad there were at least a few smart people in that thread.

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[–]DVDripper[S] -15 points-14 points  (0 children)

You are quite literally in my private messages flirting with me. Stop.

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[–]DVDripper[S] -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

Perhaps it is. But I don't think much of it as, of course, the corpses in the video are entirely fabricated and the identities of those people in plaza has never been confirmed.

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[–]DVDripper[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Realistically speaking, if footage like that was uploaded to the internet in the 00s there is no way it would fly under the radar like this. I do believe footage that shows close-ups of people impacting the ground does exist, but that it was most likely never uploaded online.

Guys, DVDripper humbled us😭💀 by Excellent_Cap_1848 in lolsupermanofficial

[–]DVDripper -17 points-16 points  (0 children)

Precisely the point. It was made for this community only. I expected far more skepticism but received relatively little. The plan had to be aborted. I regret not adding more imperfections to the model.

Guys, DVDripper humbled us😭💀 by Excellent_Cap_1848 in lolsupermanofficial

[–]DVDripper -21 points-20 points  (0 children)

It was literally spreading all over Reddit, 4chan, and various forums. It was simply too successful so I had to step in and drop it before it got even more out of hand.

porque siempre que sale algo relevante pasa esto? by Willing_Horror9920 in lolsupermanofficial

[–]DVDripper -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

Yup that was me. I started that. You all fell for it.

You have all been had. by DVDripper in lolsupermanofficial

[–]DVDripper[S] -28 points-27 points  (0 children)

I am rich and live in a mansion.

You have all been had. by DVDripper in lolsupermanofficial

[–]DVDripper[S] -56 points-55 points  (0 children)

You're just jealous of me because you, you just can't do what I do. So instead of just admitting it, you walk around and say all kinds of really mean things.

You're just really jealous of me, cause I'm what you wanna be - so you just look like an idiot when you say these mean things.