I am sure everyone here is familliar with infomercial huckster Vince Offer, of ShamWOW and Slap-Chop fame. You've either seen his ads on tv, or heard about the talk radio tiff between him and huckster Billy Mays (RIP), or about Vince's other claims to fame: Having won a suit against the Church of Scientology (always good to earn him fans from /b/tards), or having put the smack down on a prostitute who bit his tongue and wouldn't let go.
His ads have been remixed with autotune beauty in YouTUBE videos as "Rap Chop" and "Jam WOW". Rather than suing the remixing DJ for copyright infringement, Vince got smart, he endorsed the videos and had them recut for release AS ADVERTISEMENTS. This obviously greatly upped his Q rating among the young and hip who are not normally sold by infomercials, and has expanded his sales via the viral marketing medium of YouTUBE.
Many other companies are marketing to the young crowd by real or fake viral video efforts, either by coopting an existing viral video of their product, or producing one as an astroturf effort while disavowing association (particularly when the corporation has an older audience that doesnt 'get' what might be edgy content in a viral video.
Prokofy, we feel, is in a similar situation: if she were smart, she'd take advantage of the fact that she was so popular with the /b/tard and goon market segment in SL, and seek to market to them. She should welcome group members from Woodbury, from W-Hat, and from any other group that obsesses so much about her.
Unfortunately Prok is not smart, she is driven by her emotions, she sees what she believes and not the reverse. When someone asks for politeness, she gives the typical New Yorkers "Fuck off!" response. When someone expresses affection for her and her company, she says "Get away from me you creep!"
Because after all, someone so toxic and negative has to hate herself so much she cannot possibly believe that people would like her unless they were messed up. She is inherently unable to coopt the viral internet culture that has coopted her image and her memes of leninist conspiracies and technocommunism into jokes. She certainly cannot stand being the butt of jokes, being unable to not take her self seriously.
This is the difference between her and IntLibber: Int has learned to enjoy the lulz, even when its at his own expense. Prok can't. She is a troll of hate, while /b/ doesnt hate, it does things for the lulz. Doing things for hate is taking things seriously, and nothing is more non-/b/ than the srs bsns of hating things. Prok is the true internet hate machine. She cannot coopt that which she hates, so she will continue banning everyone she attacks and hates on, and expanding her failure along the way.
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Prok Continues to Libel WU
You can always tell when a topic has Proks skirts in a bunch, she blathers on and on so much the content must be counted in column-feet rather than column-inches. Woodbury is evidently not keeping up its end, as her columns about it no longer rival her three column-feet length she dedicates to talking about opensim, OS clients, or Terra Nova blog writers. However she makes a fair stab at continuing the libel, though she seems to go off course midlength in a digression documenting how poorly she services the Russian customers she had recently but lost when she pissed them off with her petty-fascist policies.
Now, she tries to claim the Woodbury U members in SL are not creative, aside from the fact that they rebuild the entirety of their three sims every few months. Last month it was Red Square in Metaversity sim and a varied residential neighborhood in Longcat. This month Metaversity is building an orientation center for new Woodbury students joining the inworld activities, while Longcat hosts a submarine base and ICBM silo.
Woodburyland sim continues to be the most popular educational sandbox in SL, despite certain Lindens repeatedly taking the sandbox's parcel listing out of search. All the WU sims remain the most popular educational sims in SL, demonstrating that a living laboratory that caters to the interests of its users is always going to be a more important educational location than an empty sim-mausoleum full of reproductions of RL campus buildings named after dead rich trustees.
Prok hates the idea of students driving and shaping their education. She is a preacher type, who believes the hoi polloi must be 'saved' by enlightened instruction from authorities on high for their own good. That model of 'education' doesn't work anymore, as if it ever really did.
Now, she tries to claim the Woodbury U members in SL are not creative, aside from the fact that they rebuild the entirety of their three sims every few months. Last month it was Red Square in Metaversity sim and a varied residential neighborhood in Longcat. This month Metaversity is building an orientation center for new Woodbury students joining the inworld activities, while Longcat hosts a submarine base and ICBM silo.
Woodburyland sim continues to be the most popular educational sandbox in SL, despite certain Lindens repeatedly taking the sandbox's parcel listing out of search. All the WU sims remain the most popular educational sims in SL, demonstrating that a living laboratory that caters to the interests of its users is always going to be a more important educational location than an empty sim-mausoleum full of reproductions of RL campus buildings named after dead rich trustees.
Prok hates the idea of students driving and shaping their education. She is a preacher type, who believes the hoi polloi must be 'saved' by enlightened instruction from authorities on high for their own good. That model of 'education' doesn't work anymore, as if it ever really did.
Prok Continues to Shag on Shang
Loathe to let a topic go, it appears Prokofy is looking here for topics to write about. She has expanded on her one line rip on Caledon proprietor Desmond Shang to rip into him with a full TL;DR post here.
Desmond has no trouble smacking her back in the comments. The drama is thick in this comedy gold. Apparently Prok's conspiracy radar is in full borkification mode and completely distorted every fact in an email Desmond sent her.
Prok's behavior reminds me of my own dear Russian great grand babushka, as steely an old harridan as ever could be found upon the steppes. She always made it clear to you that your behavior was substandard and if it was up to her you would have long since been left out in the snow bank as an infant for the wolves. Of course, Prok's not Russian, she's Irish, but I suppose the same sort of toxically negative cancerous personality can be found in the peat-huts of old Ireland.
Anywho, the crazy cat lady's toxo plasmosis seems to remain in full force.
Desmond has no trouble smacking her back in the comments. The drama is thick in this comedy gold. Apparently Prok's conspiracy radar is in full borkification mode and completely distorted every fact in an email Desmond sent her.
Prok's behavior reminds me of my own dear Russian great grand babushka, as steely an old harridan as ever could be found upon the steppes. She always made it clear to you that your behavior was substandard and if it was up to her you would have long since been left out in the snow bank as an infant for the wolves. Of course, Prok's not Russian, she's Irish, but I suppose the same sort of toxically negative cancerous personality can be found in the peat-huts of old Ireland.
Anywho, the crazy cat lady's toxo plasmosis seems to remain in full force.
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Amateur Hour in Prok-land
Today, in a post having absolutely nothing to do with him, Prokofy ripped on Desmond Shang, proprietor/estate guvnah of Caledon's estates, which are a fine group of well manicured sims themed on the victorian/steampunk era, in her very first sentence:
While we might find ourselves in the unpleasant situation of agreeing with Proks opinion of Desmond only because of his role in banning Woodbury University members from his sims and trying to get Carl Metropolitan to ban them from NCI (an attempt that failed), he has in the past seemed to be a decent if stiff gent. We were truly shocked he would take such initiative against Woodbury when we've had nothing to do with his sims in any way. Perhaps the NCI teachers who teach at Oxbridge who happen to be WU members got under his skin for some reason, failing to hew to his ideas of proper victorian RP language. We don't know, but hope we could talk with him about it at some point.
What we do find amusing though is that Desmond has been one of the few people who hasn't yet declared Prokofy *batshit insane*, and has even stood up for her anti-WU jihad attitudes and propensity for guilt by association and spouting about 'leninist conspiracies'.
He certainly doesn't deserve Prok slamming him like that. Then again, in her mind, he FAILED at getting WU banned from NCI, or getting Carl to do so, so in her Dr. No-like mental machinations, he evidently doesn't serve her any further use and must be punished with public verbal thrashings to get him to perform properly.
"Toss him into the tank of angry sea bass!" she says in mad and diabolical over-arched tones.
Desmond, mate, if ye read this, be it known we feel for ye.
It is becoming clear that Prok is picking off her hench-men one by one. Carl failed and worse yet, publicly apologized to his victims for failing, so she spanks him down. Now shes spanking Desmond for failing to properly motivate Carl. Who shall be next? Bladiblu? Coco? We look forward to the next shoe falling in gleeful anticipation. Who will fail Prok next?
One thing that makes SL unpleasant is the small-minded smugy and petty little burghers (like Desmond) that you find there -- and worse, the small-minded wannabee burghers.
While we might find ourselves in the unpleasant situation of agreeing with Proks opinion of Desmond only because of his role in banning Woodbury University members from his sims and trying to get Carl Metropolitan to ban them from NCI (an attempt that failed), he has in the past seemed to be a decent if stiff gent. We were truly shocked he would take such initiative against Woodbury when we've had nothing to do with his sims in any way. Perhaps the NCI teachers who teach at Oxbridge who happen to be WU members got under his skin for some reason, failing to hew to his ideas of proper victorian RP language. We don't know, but hope we could talk with him about it at some point.
What we do find amusing though is that Desmond has been one of the few people who hasn't yet declared Prokofy *batshit insane*, and has even stood up for her anti-WU jihad attitudes and propensity for guilt by association and spouting about 'leninist conspiracies'.
He certainly doesn't deserve Prok slamming him like that. Then again, in her mind, he FAILED at getting WU banned from NCI, or getting Carl to do so, so in her Dr. No-like mental machinations, he evidently doesn't serve her any further use and must be punished with public verbal thrashings to get him to perform properly.
"Toss him into the tank of angry sea bass!" she says in mad and diabolical over-arched tones.
Desmond, mate, if ye read this, be it known we feel for ye.
It is becoming clear that Prok is picking off her hench-men one by one. Carl failed and worse yet, publicly apologized to his victims for failing, so she spanks him down. Now shes spanking Desmond for failing to properly motivate Carl. Who shall be next? Bladiblu? Coco? We look forward to the next shoe falling in gleeful anticipation. Who will fail Prok next?
Proks Alt Banned
Apparently Random Unsung, one of Prokofy Neva's alts, is missing from search. This is the second of her alts to be banned in the past week.
Friday, September 4, 2009
Cyberstalking Rodney
Prok has continued her cyberstalking, this time she's AGAIN attacking Rodney Linden aka Rodney Caston, well known anime creator (Mega Tokyo), and friend to /b/tards everywhere.
She and her droogs can't seem to agree whether she is net-stalking a nobody or attacking a public figure.
Prokanista cult member brinda Allen says:
I am sure in Prok's world of John Birch Societies and Rotary Club meetings, Linden Lab would force all their employees to wear ejackets and eties on their avies like good corporate drones. They wisely don't because LL doesnt pay their people enough to make them suffer that way in RL, never mind in SL.
Either way, Prok's insulting an increasing number of people day after day. She has most recently banned all users of third party clients from her land, in a rather lulzy spaz attack, a virtual business an hero on full display. We predict her occupancy rate will crater and she will leave SL land business within a few months.
She and her droogs can't seem to agree whether she is net-stalking a nobody or attacking a public figure.
Prokanista cult member brinda Allen says:
"Hmm...I did see Rodney Linden at an info hub... {not Ross btw...Hanja or Ahern i think} and wondered why he was there. Obviously he's allowed any avie he chooses..just seems a lil creepy that he's in a outfit that seems violent looking. I would think a certain amount of professionalism in attire would be appropriate."
Posted by: brinda allen |
I am sure in Prok's world of John Birch Societies and Rotary Club meetings, Linden Lab would force all their employees to wear ejackets and eties on their avies like good corporate drones. They wisely don't because LL doesnt pay their people enough to make them suffer that way in RL, never mind in SL.
Either way, Prok's insulting an increasing number of people day after day. She has most recently banned all users of third party clients from her land, in a rather lulzy spaz attack, a virtual business an hero on full display. We predict her occupancy rate will crater and she will leave SL land business within a few months.
Monday, August 31, 2009
Meet the Real Prok: Super Sekrit Spai
Fast Company Bio of Prokofy/Catherine A FitzpatrickSeeing the lulz emanating from the epileptic fits of bawww seen on Prok's blog the past few weeks, particularly with her rather rude dragging of RL into things in her libelous attacks upon IntLibber, we felt it meet to /r/ Prok more deeply. Working from what we know about her:
RL Name: Catherine A Fitzpatrick
Skills: Translates Russian (badly, according to natives), bawwwing about human rights while being a shill for the foreign policies of a tyrannical regime with a history of abusing human rights, while at the same time attacking that regime (We mean the Bush Administration, not Linden Lab), tendency to jargon, word salad, newspeak, and seeing leninist conspiracies everywhere. Staunch anticommunist/Ayn Rand fan, but hearty endorser of New Deal politics and neosocialism.
Location: East Side, Manhattan, NYC
Past: Something to do with the United Nations
After much searching, we found in her own self-written Fast Company bio, that Ms Fitzpatricks trail is first found with the International League for Human Rights, which claims to be the oldest human rights organization in the US but was an offshoot of the ACLU by intelligence service related attorneys during the Red Scare era of the 1920's. Her father may have been a power attorney in DC with a history in the State Department and diplomatic (i.e. selling out to foreign powers) lobbying.
Fitzpatrick's time with the ILHR dates from sometime between 1998 and 2002, in which she was the program director for former Soviet States, and her name is on documents about various UN human rights conferences representing her NGO proudly. She seems to have developed a strong mistrust of central asian post-soviet states in this time period as just a bunch of thugs who dont change without a lot of heavy bribery and heavy handedness, and worked closely with the Bush Administration in negotiating more recognition of human rights in these thugocracies. She seems to have contrasted this sort of diplomacy through bribery from the typical sort seen with, say, South Africa, which will bend over for some AIDS aid.
Then in 2003 she went to work for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty as an "editor" (i.e. Propaganda/Disinfo Agent), evidently being involved in Bush administration propaganda campaigns in Europe against those cheese-eating surrender monkeys, France, and of course not saying much about Spain's cowardly withdrawal from Iraq and Afghanistan over a few bombings that brought the internationalist socialists into office.
For those in the know, Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty are propaganda radio stations operated by the CIA officially since 1969, and unofficially through channels since 1972. Yup, Prok is a CIA propaganda/disinformation agent.
So why would she claim to be uninsured, is that disinfo to serve her new masters in the Obama administration and their quest to force everyone into nationalized health care? Perhaps she was given a "Burn Notice" in years past, like in the TV show when she went off the ranch with inane rantings about leninist conspiracies inside The Company? Did they retire her to Bellevue Hospital on mental disability? Perhaps instead she was reassigned by the CIA to be a FUD Propaganda/Disinfo Agent in SL? This would explain her attacking Linden Lab and demands for government controls in SL. She could simply be seeking to stir up a large enough dramastorm to justify more government in SL?
We don't know exactly. We know her Fast Company bio does indicate she has NOT terminated her employment with this CIA propaganda mouthpiece. So she likely does still work for the government intelligence agency in some capacity, despite her claims to the contrary and claims to be uninsured (yet if she was operating undercover, which of course would be illegal for a CIA asset to operate in the US, she would have to be officially uninsured to be plausible, so even that would fit).
All we can tell is that we now know why Prok is such a big-government New Dealer, anti-communist pro-war-on-eterror whackjob: She's a government plant here in SL, spreading FUD and lies, or else the tired and exhausted husk of a former spai who is now mentally disabled.
It also explains why she hates IntLibber with such a passion: IntLibber, before joining SL, was apparently a well known Libertarian activist, Vice-Chair of the LP of New Hampshire, Free State Project member, and one of the few people in the past decade to peacefully and legally bop Big Brother a big one on the nose a few times (Killington, VT secession; Eminent Domaining Supreme Court Justices Homes, etc etc). Nothing makes Big Brother more angry than being made a fool of by one man or a small group.
She also apparently agrees with the neo-luddite movement organized on the right by CIA shill Francis Fukuyama, and on the left by Bill McKibben and Theresa Heinz-Kerry as well as faux-secessionist/luddite Kirkpatrick Sale. Left anarchists like Sale have been trying to take over the right-leaning Free State Project in New Hampshire for several years, to make it part of his Second Vermont Republic project to secede all of Northern New England from the US. Attacking a noted FSP leader would be part and parcel of such a campaign by an ally of Sale.
Another curious contraindication: In the 1990's she worked for George Soros' Open Society Institute, yet she is a raving opponent of openness: anti-Open-Source, anti-Open-Information, totally against the transparency society the OSI promotes. Did she leave OSI out of philosophical conflict? Did she discover Soros is a Leninist Conspirator? Did Soros fail to give her the personal stimulus package she earnestly desired?
We now know a LOT more about Prokofy Neva, but are left with even more questions. We encourage our readers to /r/ this topic more deeply.
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