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If you’re coming to this page, you probably came here from Twitter, so there could be several reasons why.  So I have something for each possibility:

If you’re just looking for my blog, that’s that’s here:

If you’re looking for my quasi-bio, that’s over here:

 

But if you’re a new Twitter follower…

…and you’re here because you’ve already encountered one of my many persistent bashers—often known as Internet Trolls—or any of their insipid or rapacious rumor, gossip, or other harassment which they throw at me almost every day on Twitter, then please read on..

I get a lot of Internet Trolls

No, seriously, I mean I get a lot of Internet Trolls obsessing about me on Twitter.  And they often tweet to anyone new that they see me engaging with so they can “inform” them about their latest nonsensical conspiracy theory, or pass them a link to their latest sloppy attack web site that claims to finally have the goods on the monstrous shoq and his well documented trail of pure evil. They will also spam the #hashtag games I enjoying playing in, so they can be seen my millions of people who would never notice them otherwise.

It’s completely fabricated hooey that has been exposed again and again to most of my followers.The target is always the new folks (possibly you?) who don’t know the history of these mostly routine, but always childish (when not psychotic) attacks. This warped and comically pointless (but destructive) game has gone on for years.

There are many antagonists in this malicious clique, but the most prolific of them are @ratboyv2 (or some variation thereof), @2Deforcer, @nadia_artist (aka Nadia Reed, @NadiaArt2, NadeeArt2), and @beccay2. These harassers feed on each other’s tweets and fables, and more than a few political operatives (trying to discredit me) will try to leverage the daily noise they make, often using their lies and gossip as pretexts for their own harassment of me.

Why do they do it? You tell me. There are as many theories as there are trolls  I’m highly visible in some political and media circles, and on a lot of Lists on Twitter. Polluting my streams lets them get noticed by people who would never know or care about them otherwise.  But there are darker explanations, as well.  There are some people on the pseudo-left who aren’t too fond of my political pragmatism, and we’ve had rather ugly experiences in the past. More than a few have suspected that some of those players are behind many of these troll attacks, or had initiated them directly or indirectly at one time.

That’s really all you really need to know about  these cranks or disturbed people and their annoying fabrications and fantasies that little up my Twitter stream. I apologize for their unpleasantness.  I advise that you block them, report them, but most of all, ignore them. If you’re really short on something more interesting to read, I’ll explain a little further below in a series of sometimes disjointed notes reflecting their latest noise. But honestly, there’s really just not much there to see.  It’s just the sad details of broken humans being monstrously human.

These trolls tell tall, short, but always ridiculous tales

Since the only point is to harass me, coherence and continuity have no role in this. There are yarns for every occasion.  One minute I’m an unemployed pedophile, and the next, some mega wealthy trust fund baby who was parking cars for George Soros in my spare time when he asked me to infiltrate Occupy Wall Street on behalf of Alex Jones and the Illuminati.

Then there’s the “Shoq’s a bully who harasses women” line of attack. This one is so common that most of my stream refers to everything I do as bullying this or that.

It’s all crazy talk, sure. But it’s really deranged crazy talk, and if it weren’t so nasty, mean spirited, and unpleasant for my followers and me, it would be amusing. But it is, so it’s not. The motives of these cranks are all over the map. Some began simply because they were manipulated into it by someone else playing the victim, but took to enjoying the activity like a hobby, even if they long since learned the truth. Others are motivated by politics, political payback, or pure mental illness. For whatever reason, this core group of crazies spend most of their Twitter time trying to incite, provoke, and prevaricate with total strangers, pushing whatever fantasy, vitriol, vulgarity or hate they think they can sell to someone about me.

There are at least 30 names engaged in these ridiculous games on a semi-regular basis, but many of those boil down to sock puppets or associates of a small clique of seriously disturbed repeat offenders such as @ratboyv2, @notshoq, @beccay2, and @nadeeArt2,  who are engaged in this behavior e v e r y  s i n g le  d a y.

Note: @ratboyv2 is a legendary internet troll by the name from Sacramento Califorina (this is widely available information on the web, due to his long history of abusing people). He’s spent years stalking people like me all over Youtube, 4chan, and various private forums. It’s how he lives his life. His most famous alias on the web is “Daniel Spengies.” If you want to be repulsed, just google him. But be warned, there is some very vulgar stuff to found.  For those who ask often, yes, I am aware of several options about how to deal with this perpetually pernious individual. 

Their very deep well of stories are almost always incoherent fables, or half-baked, half-true bits of common knowledge—or more often, common rumor—which have morphed into and across various themes for the nearly two year span that these obsessives have engaged in this routine harassment. It’s a spectacle that unfolds daily—again, daily—in full view of thousands of my followers on Twitter. While there is good reason to believe some of them are being compensated for political reasons, others engage in this stupidity with no cogent rationale at all. They do it because it gives them something to do, or because, since they feel that attacking someone with a reputation is an easier path to getting attention than actually doing something constructive to earn it.

Most of them work under the assumption that Twitter users are stupid, and that if they just makes some allegation often enough, eventually some of them will stick. Barring that, they assume just the irritation factor will push many of my followers away. It rarely does for very long because my reputation has a fairly large footprint on twitter and the brighter folks either seen right through the trolls immediately, or eventually figure out that they were briefly taken in. Some of my best friends, quite a few of them media, tech, and entertainment celebrities, were once misled by these malicious decepticons. 

I never confirm or deny anything they say because tomorrow they will just say something else. It’s not about reality; it’s about the pure joy of disparaging someone with something to say, and “knocking him down” in the eyes of others. Usually those others are brand new to my follower stream and simply don’t know that these cranks are as common as fire ants at a company picnic.  Call it envy, obsession, paranoia, or any label you choose, but it’s probably little more than mental illness.

But whether these freaks of nature work for the right wing, or are simply insane, they are an irritating Twitter social disease that some Tweeters just can’t shake. I am one of those unfortunate victims.

If you ask any of my thousands of followers, especially the better known ones, they will tell you this same obsessive stupidity has gone on for years. Yes, years. Your best move is to just block them. But if you absolutely must know more about this pathetic form of social media disease, read on. 

My trolls come from one of 3 basic sub-species:

Imposter trolls - who often posture like parody accounts, but will tweet to strangers, trying to make them think they are  me under some other account. They often get suspended, but they’ve had names such as: @notshoq @Shmuq  @shoqanon and @occupy_shoq. New ones pop up regularly.

Political Pretexters – These range from libertarian or progressive #puritopian trolls who spend their waking days hating president Obama, to right wing operatives and astrotweeters, echoing whatever fascist message or meme they last heard or were paid to propose. These types range from pretentious ideological jerk off nobodies like @Nostromosil, who simply like the attention they get from pestering me, to hard core wingnut hitmen like @dangainor, or the professional Republican hit trolls that organizations like Dan’s are often said to employ to keep audible left wing political voices busy swatting flies on Twitter.

Obsessive Ankle Biters – This category covers mostly a clique of organically unpleasant people who, for a variety of reasons, enjoy being nasty and harassing of me as a substitute for having anything else to do. They have names like @beccay2, @james_x_, @ratboylives, @NadiaArt2/nadeeart2, @JennyJynx, @wheeliesmom, @themanknownasx, etc. Sometimes this weird clique of broken people will pretend they are battling me in defense of someone else, while at other times, it’s just a fun night on the town to call me a “bully, abuser, phone sex addict, pedophile, Republican operative,” or just someone that beats his cat. By whatever their pretext, these people are among some of the most uninteresting – and borderline – personalities on Twitter.

As you can see above, my Trolls come in many shapes, colors, sizes, and hair styles. They are bizarrely obsessive, frequently pugnacious, and almost always weird. In any given hour, a search of them on Twitter will reveal just how persistent these prattling morons can be.

Here, try this search and see for yourself! If you don’t see “@shoq” there straight way, you must have hit a very rare lull in the stupid. Just down scroll a bit. It will be there soon enough. It always is.

This slumgullion sludge of muttonheads just live to spread misinformation, rumor, gossip, or any personal info about me they think that they have, when not spamming my conversations with their twitter litter. Naturally, they all think they are undiscovered geniuses, and/or incredibly funny.

That’s in their world. To everyone else, most of them appear to be just obsessive cranks, punks, the eternally envious, or just generally embittered jerks with way too much time on their hands. But other species of them work for Right wing political groups, or are sympathizers for Left wing bloggers whom I am sometimes critical of.  But a fair number of them are explicitly or implicitly connected to a long standing feud that is almost two years old. That story is told elsewhere, and if you really want to read it, just ask and I will link you to it.

What They Say Matters… Because They Never Say Anything

99% of what these Trolls yammer about is just the same old idiotic rumor an innuendo they’ve yammered about for over a year. There’s never any consistency, coherence, or continuity. It’s just a cacophony of mindless noise which they seem to enjoy, and my stream wishes that they would just take elsewhere. They never will.

As to the content of their racket, I never confirm or deny anything that these cranks think—which isn’t all that much.  Many of these impersonators and weird stalkers have been suspended, but they bring new names online regularly.

Their funnest game it to try and convince people I spend my time pulling the strings on hundreds of sock puppets all over Twitter, controlling events from the oval office, to the deepest recesses of the their personal lives. I am everywhere. I am omnipotent. I am Shoq, Lord of Darkness, Supreme Ruler of Twitter, and the biggest badass since Dr. Evil.

But seriously, no matter what these trolls blither about, I only use only the name @shoq on Twitter, 99.9% of the time.

  • I use @shoqq when that name is in “twitter jail” and @shoq cannot tweet.
  • I use @shoqjock on those rare occasions that I feel like tweeting music, which I haven’t done for about a year.

I do hold some names which I plan to use (or give away) which have strategic future project value, such as @occupyCongress and @occupyVoting. I almost never use them, and always disclose that they are mine by including my shoqvalue.com URL in them,

With no exceptions that I am aware of, every other “Shoq” related name that you see belongs to some troll from the right, from the left, or in the case of personally motivated trolls, just from hell.   Again, what compels this obsessive behavior? There are many theories,and some of those can be found within the bowels of any book of standard psychiatric diagnostic codes. You can read more about the general subject of the harassment I get, and my choice to remain anonymous here, and here, and here.

I am sorry they are so annoying.

It’s not legal to kill them with fire, and Twitter only rarely suspends or terminates such accounts. There is no need to waste precious tweet space telling me about them, or that I should ignore, block, report them. You can rest assured that all such measures were long ago taken by me and many of my followers already. But your reporting them for “spam” (on their profile pages) can always help alert the Twitter hall monitors and occasionally one of these rabid bugs will get squashed.

But again, that outcome is rare. So just block and report the freaks, and let’s get on with things that actually matter, such as saving this country from radical conservatism and the Republicans wrecking this nation in its name.

Shoq

Update

Apparently, I am a liar. This picture is now circulating on Twitter, proving that I am in fact, a “bully.” My attorneys and I are huddling to consider a response to it. 

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