these dudes should find out who deeznuts was. they already have grady's phone #
― Roberto Spiralli, Friday, 14 October 2016 19:44 (seven years ago) link
listening to this podcast, damn, it's an incredible story!i was always kind of defensive of the guy in the photo. at first i thought people were really projecting onto the photo and being a bit mean, like talking behind someone's back. this podcast really gets across that it's more about the curiosity, piecing together this mystery, and these layers of hoaxes and false stories all intersecting and colliding. fascinating stuff!― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, October 14, 2016 3:29 PM (sixteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i was always kind of defensive of the guy in the photo. at first i thought people were really projecting onto the photo and being a bit mean, like talking behind someone's back. this podcast really gets across that it's more about the curiosity, piecing together this mystery, and these layers of hoaxes and false stories all intersecting and colliding. fascinating stuff!
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, October 14, 2016 3:29 PM (sixteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
otm
Is no one frustrated that 10 years were wasted on a hoax?― whtkrkid, Friday, October 14, 2016 3:16 PM (twenty-nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― whtkrkid, Friday, October 14, 2016 3:16 PM (twenty-nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
new ilx description?
― PappaWheelie V, Friday, 14 October 2016 19:49 (seven years ago) link
^^^
― sleeve, Friday, 14 October 2016 19:49 (seven years ago) link
Boom
― the tightening is plateauing (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 14 October 2016 19:53 (seven years ago) link
No no. I agree that this is extremely fascinating and interesting. I was intrigued when I heard the podcast. I was just wondering if anyone was angry about the death hoax, since sometimes that's how people react. It's difficult to gauge an internet community, and I just didn't know how y'all felt about it.
― whtkrkid, Friday, 14 October 2016 20:11 (seven years ago) link
It's not like it was a cancer-blogging-child death hoax
― slathered in cream and covered with stickers (silby), Friday, 14 October 2016 20:12 (seven years ago) link
agree w all here that the luna saga (which I was totally unaware of at the time) is a way more dramatic story
― Οὖτις, Friday, 14 October 2016 20:19 (seven years ago) link
i only know the vague outline but it does seem pretty dramatic. that nyer story about the catfishing new orleans phone operator reminded me of it.
― The times they are a changing, perhaps (map), Friday, 14 October 2016 20:24 (seven years ago) link
Personally I'm not at all angry about the hoax. As people said above, the hoax part is only from, like, last year I think? And although I was sad about the possibility of it being true I don't think anyone was personally affected by it. We've had active members of the board die, so an object of a protomeme is not going to have the same impact. And it's not like this whole messageboard is about the picture and we thought about it every day - this place is huge and we have many other petty things to talk about. If you're new you probably haven't had a chance to participate in polling every single fucking list from every single fucking music magazine yet. (NB even though I think this is ridiculous I generally like the ILM polls and certainly don't begrudge anyone polling anything they want to, unlike some of the hardline grouches here.)
― emil.y, Friday, 14 October 2016 20:26 (seven years ago) link
Listening to this podcast made me very nostalgic and emotional about ilx!
― flopson, Friday, 14 October 2016 20:27 (seven years ago) link
also: why do all podcast hosts sound like they have a runny nose??
― flopson, Friday, 14 October 2016 20:28 (seven years ago) link
they all use microphones that make you sound like ira glass
― mh 😏, Friday, 14 October 2016 20:29 (seven years ago) link
who did Ira Glass start his career trying to sound like
― slathered in cream and covered with stickers (silby), Friday, 14 October 2016 20:31 (seven years ago) link
That podcast was a lot more entertaining than I'd expected it to be!
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Friday, 14 October 2016 20:31 (seven years ago) link
OMG this podcast.
fucking hilarious.
― Brevs Mekis (dandydonweiner), Friday, 14 October 2016 21:31 (seven years ago) link
I'm going to have to listen to this podcast to finally understand what went on itt
― *-* (jim in vancouver), Friday, 14 October 2016 21:33 (seven years ago) link
Literally for the past 10 years, this thread keeps ILX a part of my Internets
― Brevs Mekis (dandydonweiner), Friday, 14 October 2016 21:35 (seven years ago) link
"a guy named gr80 told me about it."
― Treeship, Friday, 14 October 2016 22:16 (seven years ago) link
^^
― johnny crunch, Friday, 14 October 2016 22:47 (seven years ago) link
Would've had a heart attack had the other host said, "there's a grady now?"
― pplains, Saturday, 15 October 2016 03:55 (seven years ago) link
i would like a podcast about pplains and sunny and their children and arbitrary geographical borders and surviving cancer and english dialects and bobby petrino and david berman (but not his dad)
― mookieproof, Saturday, 15 October 2016 04:01 (seven years ago) link
Finished listening a few minutes ago, and now I've been going back over the thread. I was still strictly ILM-only in 2006, so I missed the original frenzy, but I got up to speed later on.
I agree with someone upthread who said you don't have to know anything about the thread or even ILX to think that was a remarkable podcast episode. I applaud the considerable amount of work they put into it.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Saturday, 15 October 2016 05:26 (seven years ago) link
My wife knows Roxy and Nijoli casually IRL but has never been an ilxor. I have occasionally shown her ILX classix, like Bloomps and this thread. She is also a Reply All fan and likes to listen while doing her morning yoga, which she was doing this morning when this came on. She came into the bedroom to tell me and I said "You mean the photo [Roxy IRL] posted?" She hadn't realized that connection, so now she's all worlds-colliding.
― Mike Pence shakes his head and mouths the word ‘no’ (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 15 October 2016 12:43 (seven years ago) link
Wow. Familiar with the thread and photo but must've missed all the other photos that were found but long since not showing itt, and the ensuing sherlocking of it all. Great, if slightly unnerving, podcast.
― kinder, Saturday, 15 October 2016 15:11 (seven years ago) link
lol the @replyall twitter blocked me pre-emptively. feel like a cyber bully :(
― maura, Saturday, 15 October 2016 15:52 (seven years ago) link
This may be common ILX knowledge but the image info in the disappeared follow-up pics upthread have little titles like 'laureljealous' 'hugz' 'takeitalloff' and 'johnfirco_loftus'
― kinder, Saturday, 15 October 2016 16:14 (seven years ago) link
oh wait I'm just getting to that bit of the thread.
― kinder, Saturday, 15 October 2016 16:18 (seven years ago) link
Just listened to the podcast, I think I would've enjoyed it even without the ILX angle. But having followed the thread for 10 years it's pretty weird to have it exist now in another arena.
The transcript is a rich lode of board descriptions, but this is my favorite: " Just picture pages and pages of black text on a white background; everybody’s trying to outdo each other."
― Mike Pence shakes his head and mouths the word ‘no’ (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 15 October 2016 17:35 (seven years ago) link
(oh i was blocked because one of the reply all dudes is the husband in 'my husband's stupid record collection' and he didn't take kindly to my criticisms. oh well!)
― maura, Saturday, 15 October 2016 18:02 (seven years ago) link
(we made up.)
― maura, Saturday, 15 October 2016 18:19 (seven years ago) link
./~ I was lurking, Wayne was there, two worlds collided... ./~
― go get your winebox (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 15 October 2016 18:40 (seven years ago) link
wait one of them is that guy? plot thickens!
― mh 😏, Saturday, 15 October 2016 18:51 (seven years ago) link
Ew, god, I loathed that blog.
― emil.y, Saturday, 15 October 2016 18:59 (seven years ago) link
this was a good podcast but i can totally picture that.
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 15 October 2016 19:01 (seven years ago) link
I totally refer to gatefolds as openies now.
― how's life, Saturday, 15 October 2016 23:34 (seven years ago) link
I love this reddit comment so much
jjm7000 8 points 3 days ago Here's a link to the entire message board, if anyone was curious to see. They seem to be freaking out a bit over the podcast release haha.
Here's a link to the entire message board, if anyone was curious to see. They seem to be freaking out a bit over the podcast release haha.
...because it implies that the So Not Gonna Happen thread is a self-contained, niche-interest message board entirely devoted to that one photo. Wayne's whereabouts have never been far from our minds, but over the past 10 years we've forged friendships and marriages, written SNGH fanfics, indulged in semi-off-topic chitchat to pass the time ("Wayne would definitely be a Trump backer!") and organized meetups complete with SMDH tableau vivants and King of Prussia Hooters pilgrimages. but now we're in a state of turmoil because the Reply All podcast has not only solved the one mystery that made our community worth sustaining, it has also forced us to engage with Reddit and Twitter for the first time, thus spoiling the purity of one of the last isolated pockets of uncontacted Web 1.0 holdouts. sad!
― hippie lady from california who loves that god (unregistered), Sunday, 16 October 2016 21:06 (seven years ago) link
I also wonder if all these 19-year-old Redditors (and even the producers of the podcast) have any real concept of message board culture apart from what they've picked up from off-topic Roblox and Club Penguin forums. I guess ilx is as alien to them as Usenet was to me when I was that age.
― hippie lady from california who loves that god (unregistered), Sunday, 16 October 2016 21:13 (seven years ago) link
tbf ILX is pretty alien
― the notes the loon doesn't play (ulysses), Sunday, 16 October 2016 21:19 (seven years ago) link
true
― hippie lady from california who loves that god (unregistered), Sunday, 16 October 2016 21:26 (seven years ago) link
no reddit is the one with the mascot
― mh 😏, Sunday, 16 October 2016 22:10 (seven years ago) link
Tough listen because the main host has a voice like a Daniel Clowes character (mouth-breath-y, slack jaw, excessive saliva?)... not to mention the Arnold Horschack machine-gun laugh.
It's a voice that made me pine for Starly Kine's if you can believe that.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Sunday, 16 October 2016 22:45 (seven years ago) link
pplains otm
― Special Derrida Blues (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 16 October 2016 22:51 (seven years ago) link
i'd rather saw one of my legs off than listen to a podcast that isn't sports related. cheerio!
― Inspired by an argument in the Stereogum comment section (brimstead), Sunday, 16 October 2016 23:27 (seven years ago) link
^so not gonna listen
― Special Derrida Blues (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 17 October 2016 00:54 (seven years ago) link
whoa @ the revelation that alex goldman is the husband of my husband's stupid record collection
― Wozniak on Kimye's Baby (jaymc), Monday, 17 October 2016 04:20 (seven years ago) link
I didn't know you could marry a record collection? And someone else's to boot! High infidelity, I guess.
― Tuomas, Monday, 17 October 2016 06:39 (seven years ago) link
How's your husband dealing with it?
Starting a blog
― duped and used by my worst Miss U (President Keyes), Monday, 17 October 2016 12:18 (seven years ago) link
I was wondering if the podcast was going to be revenge for the stuff we wrote on the worst music writing thread
― duped and used by my worst Miss U (President Keyes), Monday, 17 October 2016 12:19 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, they should have done a hoax episode in which it turned out Wayne had killed himself because of this thread.
― Alba, Monday, 17 October 2016 13:14 (seven years ago) link