🎨 Artcow Iconoclast / Jonathan Mack Sweet - The Chris-Chan of Arkansas

[Dr. Merkwurdichliebe]

Didn't you say you aren't naming the people you talked to to protect them from retaliation from Sweet?

I was one of the people who had pity for him, until he established what a completely repellent character he is.

Yes. No reason to add to his enemies list.

And I'll have more information from my witnesses soon.

 

[Dr. Merkwurdichliebe]

What did Mr. Sweet do after he was fired from The Herald?

According to those who were there, for well over a year Mr. Sweet would come by the paper's office at all hours of the day and night and post weird notes on the door. Written on random scraps of paper, these notes ranged from demanding that he be reinstated to whining about his "betrayal" at the hands of people he strangely regarded as his colleagues. On a couple of occasions, staffers tried to chase Psycho Martin Luther down when he was spotted putting one of his little theses on the door. Doubtless energized by terror, he proved surprisingly swift and elusive and was never caught. Mr. Sweet continued to post these messages for the remainder of the 1997 spring semester and for the entire 1997-98 academic year.

None of my sources worked at The Herald after the spring 1998 semester, but it's probably safe to assume that he resumed this behavior during his first -- and only -- semester in grad school in the fall of 1998 before being expelled. After he was expelled, he started contacting reporters and editors demanding that they interview him and write stories exposing the liberal/progressive conspiracy that resulted in his expulsion. Finally, an editor wrote to him and told him that if he didn't stop, his activities would be reported to the hated and feared Department of Judicial Affairs. Mr. Sweet has this letter posted on one of his many antiquated websites.

What did Mr. Sweet do to ensure he was the center of attention at The Herald?

Aside from staring at people until they were thoroughly creeped out, injecting himself into private conversations, cursing out the yearbook photographer while discoursing on his fondness for lesbians and generally sperging about at his workstation, he had a special technique he used when people just wouldn't stop what they were doing and focus on him.

He would sneak up behind someone and stand as close as possible without actually touching his victim. Then he would stuff a fistful of peanuts into his mouth and start loudly crunching them with his mouth open. This certainly got him plenty of attention. It was not the kind of attention any normal person would want, but as we know all too well, for Mr. Sweet any attention is better than no attention.

Jonathan, of course, continues to wonder why no one at the paper wanted him back on the staff.

 

[John Titor]

By the way, this is GIMP? The program you people try to convince me to switch to? Pffft. Not impressed. Still sticking with MS Paint.

(Sweet posted an inaccurate and, naturally, ugly version of his doctored photo of his own.)


That's all you can do with MS Paint? Pffft. Not impressed. Still sticking with our pics. Your retouching looks awful. It looks like grey paste was smeared on your face. Also, it is inaccurate. You included the outlines of your beard. The entire point of the venture was to visualize what you would look like without the beard. Once it's gone, your chin is quite weak.

And of course he twisted your words and ignored how you weren't good at photoshopping in the first place.
Also, food for thought: "A bad craftsman always blames his tools."

 

[Chan the Wizard]

So, if I'm reading the AJM situation correctly. Sweets continues to bring unwanted, negative attention. Rather than just ban, you guys decide to tolerate him for your own reasons. It's clearly not working. Sweets will drag down you entire forum if you let him. Give him a one month ban, then let him back probationary, if he still can't behave, you've done your Christian duty to help him.

 

[Dr. Merkwurdichliebe]

Why is there no entry for world-famous author Jonathan M. Sweet on Wikipedia?

Well, right here on this link they had a vote on purging all of the self-promoting, falsified crap he had put up in several entries.

When one of the people in the discussion advised Mr. Sweet to stop deleting comments on his deranged entries because it was rude, Mr. Sweet responded as follows:

• No..."rude" would be telling you to munch my rectum. See the difference? (JMS)

Surprisingly, all sympathy for Mr. Sweet vanished at that point, and his free advertising went away.

Someone who is an editor over there should let them know that the vermin has crawled back in by creating an entry for a user named "The Iconoclast." All of the falsified, self-promoting bullshit is back. (I especially like this clinically insane statement: "His acerbic and often darkly comedic writing has been likened to that of Robert Bloch and Joe Lansdale." No, his incompetent scribblings have never been likened to the work of Bloch and Lansdale, at least not by anyone other than Mr. Sweet his own self.) It needs to be deleted, too.

 

[Le Bateleur]

(Wikipedia findings)

This is a great find. I always wondered what Sweet Bro's middle initial stood for. Jonathan Mack Sweet, eh? It did tickle me to see that Sweet's first foray into Wikipedia saw him use JMS as a signature, because it's another CWC similarity.

More importantly, look what comes up when you Google Sweet Bro's full name:

http://mugshots.com/US-Counties/Arkansas/Craighead-County-AR/Jonathan-Mack-Sweet.70935579.html
(archived here: https://archive.is/dliN1)

Sadly there's no mugshot available (maybe the flash was too bright), but we learn that on or around 20th January 2014 a Jonathan Mack Sweet was booked in Craighead County, AR on a charge of failure to appear. The date of birth is an exact match to our Sweetian hero's.

 

[Picklechu]

Someone who is an editor over there should let them know that the vermin has crawled back in by creating an entry for a user named "The Iconoclast." All of the falsified, self-promoting bullshit is back. (I especially like this clinically insane statement: "His acerbic and often darkly comedic writing has been likened to that of Robert Bloch and Joe Lansdale." No, his incompetent scribblings have never been likened to the work of Bloch and Lansdale, at least not by anyone other than Mr. Sweet his own self.) It needs to be deleted, too.

I do agree with his Wikipedia user page that his genre is horror, although for different reasons than he may have meant.

Also, the edit history is interesting, especially what was removed in this instance.

EDIT 2: Wow. Just go back and read through the various edits that have been made over the years to that userpage. I can't believe I didn't read through these last year.

 

[Le Bateleur]

The link below will download an Excel spreadsheet containing arrest warrants issued by the police in Jonesboro, AR. OpenOffice converted the text all weirdly for me, but it looked as though Jonathan Mack Sweet has two arrest warrants listed, both for failure to appear.

http://www.jonesboropolice.com/documents/June19warrantsearch.xls

The lack of an exact date, and the disclaimer on the Jonesboro police website makes me wonder whether the list is current or maybe dates from June 2014 (or earlier). Still, it does seem that Jonathan Mack Sweet was at one point wanted by the police on two counts of failure to appear.

Unless Sweet (self-)publishes The Face of Burgess Goldstein in the next four days, he's going to have to make another edit to his TV Tropes page

Sweet has been promising this release since at least 2012, so I don't hold out much hope, but I am genuinely interested to possibly see Burgess Goldstein. It's apparently about "an autistic boy and his doting, if somewhat disturbed, mother." Given that all of Sweet's books are basically him rehashing his past, could this be a tacit admission of having the 'tism?

 

[The I Scream Man]

This is a great find. I always wondered what Sweet Bro's middle initial stood for. Jonathan Mack Sweet, eh? It did tickle me to see that Sweet's first foray into Wikipedia saw him use JMS as a signature, because it's another CWC similarity.

More importantly, look what comes up when you Google Sweet Bro's full name:

http://mugshots.com/US-Counties/Arkansas/Craighead-County-AR/Jonathan-Mack-Sweet.70935579.html
(archived here: https://archive.is/dliN1)

Sadly there's no mugshot available (maybe the flash was too bright), but we learn that on or around 20th January 2014 a Jonathan Mack Sweet was booked in Craighead County, AR on a charge of failure to appear. The date of birth is an exact match to our Sweetian hero's.

God if we could get ahold of a quality mugshot maybe Papa Null will put Sweetie up on the wall of shame.

And that was some excellent info on his Wikipedia doings, @Dr. Merkwurdichliebe. The whole thing is classic Sweet, right down to people questioning his competence almost immediately.

 

[DrJonesHat]

Excellent work as usual, @Dr. Merkwurdichliebe. Sweet is the most oblivious person I've ever encountered.

As for the warrants for failure to appear, I wonder what the original offense was that he was supposed to appear for.

His Wikipedia antics are not surprising, good catch there.

 

[Holdek]

Also, the edit history is interesting, especially what was removed in this instance.

EDIT 2: Wow. Just go back and read through the various edits that have been made over the years to that userpage. I can't believe I didn't read through these last year.

Also, here is his overall Wikipedia edit history : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/The_Iconoclast

I've clicked on a few random edits of his...racism, political POV pushing, flatulence commentary, raging against "Ashleigh" on tenuously related article talk pages. Probably some lulzy stuff in there for Sweetstorians. It goes back 11 years.

The link below will download an Excel spreadsheet containing arrest warrants issued by the police in Jonesboro, AR. OpenOffice converted the text all weirdly for me, but it looked as though Jonathan Mack Sweet has two arrest warrants listed, both for failure to appear.

http://www.jonesboropolice.com/documents/June19warrantsearch.xls

The lack of an exact date, and the disclaimer on the Jonesboro police website makes me wonder whether the list is current or maybe dates from June 2014 (or earlier). Still, it does seem that Jonathan Mack Sweet was at one point wanted by the police on two counts of failure to appear.

"No one told me that I had to appear for court! (Plus my brother didn't give me a ride to the courthouse like he promised etc. etc. or somesuch other bullshit probably.)"

 

[TheUltimatePickle]

Also, here is his overall Wikipedia edit history : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/The_Iconoclast

I've clicked on a few random edits of his...racism, political POV pushing, flatulence commentary, raging against "Ashleigh" on tenuously related article talk pages. Probably some lulzy stuff in there for Sweetstorians. It goes back 11 years.



"No one told me that I had to appear for court! (Plus my brother didn't give me a ride to the courthouse like he promised etc. etc. or somesuch other bullshit probably.)"

Maybe he went to the courthouse but just wandered around for 8 hours and never made it to the courtroom?

 

[DrJonesHat]

There were black people in the lobby, so of course he didn't get past them to go into the courtroom.

 

[Adamska]

There were black people in the lobby, so of course he didn't get past them to go into the courtroom.

Alternatively, he sperged out when he realized the judge was a negro. Or he cussed out a court painter for drawing in front of him, or "No one told me I had to show up!".

 

[DrJonesHat]

Alternatively, he sperged out when he realized the judge was a negro. Or he cussed out a court painter for drawing in front of him, or "No one told me I had to show up!".

He probably just ignored his summons or thinks he doesn't have to do it. He's got special snowflake syndrome something fierce.

I'm sure he's labelled the court as part of DA SYSTEM that oppresses him. Of course, this part of the system has a rather potent ability to make his life miserable, so he'd do well to pay heed to them.

@Dr. Merkwurdichliebe, I'm confused. What was the actual reason for Sweet's expulsion? I thought he was expelled for plagiarism, but apparently the penalty for that was just removal from the Herald staff. Has Sweet ever stated why he was expelled or have you uncovered the charge in your investigations?

 

[Shadow Fox]

Psycho Martin Luther

oh my god

[Liberalism's] emphasis on the culture of victimhood, dependancy, and entitlement programs keeps us down. It survives by killing any sort of desire for self-improvement in people.

And Belchy would know about victimhood, dependency and entitlement.

Spoiler

It's the only thing he knows about.

To the surprise of no one, his wikipedia edits include a spergfest on the discussion page for TV ratings.

 

[ASU]

I want to be able to say for certain who tore apart my life

All I can think of.

Alternatively, he sperged out when he realized the judge was a negro. Or he cussed out a court painter for drawing in front of him, or "No one told me I had to show up!".

I'd actually really be curious as to the race the officers of the court were. It would be funnier if they were all white, imo.

I could see a situation where an oblivious Sweet kept talking while court was in session and had to be shushed by a black bailiff. He'd see that as a violation of all of his rights. I'm kind of surprised Sweet hasn't gravitated to the sovereign citizen movement. They seem like his kind of whackjobs.

 

[Holdek]

He probably just ignored his summons or thinks he doesn't have to do it. He's got special snowflake syndrome something fierce.

He's also a fuck-up in general probably.

@Dr. Merkwurdichliebe, I'm confused. What was the actual reason for Sweet's expulsion? I thought he was expelled for plagiarism, but apparently the penalty for that was just removal from the Herald staff. Has Sweet ever stated why he was expelled or have you uncovered the charge in your investigations?

He was kicked off the paper for plagiarism, but then expelled for harassing people and refusing to undergo subsequent psychological counseling, IIRC.

 

[ASU]

This was one of the reasons for deletion given for Sweets Wikipedia entry from the link posted by @Dr. Merkwurdichliebe.

It is sad beyond words to unwrap the most inviting gift and find the box empty.

I'm not sure if they were referring to Sweets Wiki entry or Sweet himself for his "munch my rectum" comment. If that was directed towards him as a person it's one of the harshest intellectual insults I've read in a long time. I googled it in a few different forms and found no hits for that sentence nor any very like it. Someone came up with that on the spot. Damn.

 

[DrJonesHat]

I think we would all pity him except for the fact that he continues to stalk, harass and threaten people whose only offense was to cross his path almost 20 years ago. That behavior makes him deserving of everything he gets. I also find it highly irritating the his activities are funded with our tax dollars since the Paragon of Republican Virtues has refused to even attempt to get a real job for his entire life because he has more important things to do.

I am particularly annoyed by this as well. I have no problem with folks who cannot work due to some ailment or condition beyond their control, it's the mark of a civilized society that provides for those who cannot provide for themselves. Sweet could hold a job if he'd simply pull his head out of his ass. What really pisses me off is how he rails against those on government assistance while being on the dole himself. I can tolerate strangeness, and odd points of view. I cannot tolerate hypocrisy at all.