The votes are in and the winner of the highly coveted Man Boobz Troll of the Year Award for 2012 is … MRAL!
Wait, you say, he wasn’t even on the ballot?
Well, no. The troll that got the most votes from you, my dear readers, was the verbose anti-Man Boobz crusader known as Steele — also known as Mikhael Varpole and, briefly, as Torvus Butthorn. Indeed, Steele cruised to victory, getting 47% of the vote, as compared with the 33% received by Tom Martin, his only real competitor. (Dr. Pell came in third, with a mere 6% of the total.)
But as it turns out we’ve been played, big time. The troll we know and love as Steele turns out to have been MRAL all along.
Yes, that MRAL – the long banned commenter who cannot seem to walk away from this blog. We’ve uncovered and banned many of his previous sockpuppets, but somehow he managed to slip his boldest sockpuppet right by us.
Oh, sure. I and others here often wondered if Steele was for real; it seemed pretty clear to me that he couldn’t possibly believe everything he said. But it wasn’t until I went back to some of “Steele’s” earliest comments here, in preparation for this post, that I discovered how justified these suspicions had been. Turns out that one of “Mikhael Varpole’s” IP addresses matched one used by an earlier troll, Scooby Doo on Zombie Island, who had been outed as MRAL a couple of months earlier.
D’OH!
“Torvus Butthorn” really should have been a dead giveaway. But otherwise the highly dedicated MRAL did a masterful job of keeping his troll character consistently ridiculous yet plausible enough to not be an obvious phony, and of hiding his particular obsessions in such a way that he didn’t give himself away.
So, congrats, MRAL, and you’re banned again.
After this, the rest of the results are a bit of an anticlimax.
Sunshine Mary wins the Special-est Snowflake award for Female MRA Trolls, with 52% of the vote. Driversuz comes in second with 32%.
Tom Martin easily wins the Worst Human Being award with a stunning 73% to David K Meller’s 22%.
Some Guy Bored With Your Schtick wins Most Tiresome with 58% of the vote; Diogenes is a distant second with 24%.
And JudgyBitch wins Most Pathetic Vote Beggar.
I hope they’re not all MRAL too.
“So, congrats, MRAL, and you’re banned again.”
This made me laugh so fucking hard.
Yonkers!
Ho…ly… SHIT. I did not see that coming. I guess we have to admire him for keeping our eyes be-wooled for so long.
Now I’m wondering if he was Pell too. Hell, now I’m wondering if he’s DAVID! XD
Holy dipshit! That little weasel fooled us good.
HAHAHA! Well played, dipshit. Now buh-bye.
ROFL! Tthat was one hell of an effort at being a poe. Pell and co. could learn from it.
Wow, just… wow. And now I feel kind of stupid, since I actually considered Steele’s ideas seriously a few times (yeah, I know, I try a little too hard). I should have known, though- a couple of the (former?) blog posts were just too silly to be real.
I could have sworn though that Varpole had another blog up with non-MRA stuff that he linked to, and that had a picture of an older guy on it and information on where he worked. Or was that all made up too?
Holy shit, indeed. And yay that the guy I took my name from won!
David admitted on a thread last year that he is in fact NWO, Pell, Roissy, Elam, you name it. He IS the MRM. He is the Troll of Trolls, the almighty.
Now if only Mr. Al can take that dedication and turn it into getting a life, it would be real progress.
Well, shit. Stone the crows, but that was a surprise. It’s a pity, in many ways he’s been the most fun we’ve had. That he took the time to create a few other socks was a pretty good subterfuge.
Pity that, for all his wit, the boy’s that screwed up.
How very, very sad. The things that boy could do if he applied all that energy to something…anything…else.
Yeah, it really says “what a waste” – and that’s regardless of whether he actually believes all the misogynist shit he spouts or not. It’s a sort of boy who cried wolf thing, makes you wonder if he’s lied about everything he ever wrote here – and that leads right back to being screwed up.
Seriously, Mr. Al, get off the internet and write screenplays or something. Because that was hilarious; you have a hell of an imagination.
I’m actually sort of stunned. The amount of attention to detail, the sucking up, the persistence of traits… yes, sometimes it seemed he was taking the piss, but it was a piss-take consistent with the rest of the persona.
He earned this prize.
I think that all the trolls are MrAl, with the possible exception of SunshineMary, who is simply too too special a snowflake to be anyone but her own true self.
Mr. Al: Steele aside, you’re a good writer.
Wow, I did not see that coming.
All of the above is why I love this place–we got punked hard, and we’re still like, “hey kid, well played, you should write.” So for those who would call us giant meaniebutts, this right here is a refutation.
WHAT IF WE’RE ALL MRAL?!?!?!
Knowing it was MRAL, the sucking up makes a lot of sense. He has always been a bit desparate for friends and, by the time he was Steele, he knew he couldn’t get it from the regulars here anymore.
Hey MRAL, if this was material for a screenplay or novel, just change the names, eh? 😀
Ella was a fiction of a fiction, EVEN SADDER.
LOL!