Last week, a 34-year-old man named Ken Bone was an audience participant in the Trump-Clinton debates. He instantly became an overnight sensation to to the internet at large due to his jovial appearance and warm personality, generating meme after meme[/url and having his twitter account go from several to tens of thousands of followers.
Sounds like a typical internet star. He gets notable for a week or two then he fades out and get a random remembrance on those year-end recaps. This is where things get interesting: [url=https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/57dw9a/im_american_citizen_undecided_voter_loving/]He hosts an AMA on Reddit several days after gaining his newfound fame. Unfortunately, he fails to realize that the internet is a cruel and unforgiving place and uses his general Reddit screenname to answer questions. Internet sleuths then comb over his history, and find some rather strange facts about him. He fapped to pics of Jennifer Lawrence during The Fappening, he committed insurance fraud, he likes fetishized porn, and called the Trayvon Martin shooting justified. This led to an internet shitstorm which has sought to completely destroy whatever reputation he had gained in the last week or so. Now, he lies disgraced like many internet denizens before him.
Personally, most of this shit is really, really minor. To hardened Kiwis, this isn't even lolcow material. On some things, like the Trayvon Martin shooting, he's correct. He's human, shockingly, so that means he must be destroyed. What say you? Shameful display by the internet or justified sleuthing?[/url]
