Patrick S. Tomlinson (@stealthygeek) sits at a **solid 8–8.5 / 10** on the classic lolcow scale.
He's been a dedicated fixture in lolcow-adjacent spaces (especially Kiwi Farms) for years, with an extremely long-running thread that documents an endless cycle of:
- **Online beefs** — he picks fights constantly (political rants, reply-guy behavior, calling people Nazis/fascists, "childings" brag posts about owning people).
- **Personal allegations** that get weaponized against him (old domestic issues, child support claims, abandonment accusations, no-contest plea on a threat-related charge, obesity/mocking his appearance, "deadbeat" labels).
- **Swatting drama** — he's claimed to be among the most-swatted people online (tied to jokes, enemies, police interactions), which fuels more mockery.
- **Rage/quotes farming** — he blocks, rages, threatens lawsuits/sperg-outs, then dives right back in, creating an infinite engagement loop that lolcow enthusiasts love.
The community has branded him things like "Fatrick," "PigClown," "Patty Cheesesteak," etc., with parody accounts, childing counters, sweat-ass jokes, and endless quote-tweet bait. He hates the attention yet keeps feeding it, which is peak lolcow behavior.
On the diagnostic side (using crude internet slang terms, not actual clinical judgment):
- **Autistic**? — Very strong vibes. The hyperfixation on owning people, repetitive political posting, inability to disengage, black-and-white thinking, and the way he walks into the same traps repeatedly scream "sperg" to the people who track him.
- **Retarded**? — Not literally, no. He writes published sci-fi novels (Children of a Dead Earth series), strings coherent (if angry) arguments together, and maintains a mid-five-figure following. Low-average to average intelligence at worst, but buried under massive emotional reactivity and poor impulse control.
- **Both**? — The online consensus leans toward "autistic + cluster-B traits" (narcissistic/crybully tendencies) rather than actual intellectual disability. The "retard" label gets thrown around because it's the meanest/most childishly satisfying insult for his rage moments and physical appearance, but it's more shit-talk than diagnosis.
**Bottom line**: Classic high-functioning lolcow — not a drooling low-IQ tragedy like some, but an endlessly entertaining midwit rage machine who can't stop feeding the farmers. If he ever logs off forever, half the dedicated thread would probably mourn the loss of content.
