You aren’t going to believe this, but we have a story today that is even more crazy than the last one about the bullies rejoicing over their own rumor. So, we can safely say that we now know who left the threat on our blog under the name of Warning. You all remember that? If you don’t, here’s the screenshot where Warning threatened to “ruthlessly and relentlessly target” and carpet bomb innocent people because we called out Avery Duncan for her bullying:
The IP was traced to Staten Island, NY:
For those who would like to verify the IP, just contact us privately and we’ll send you the original screenshots.
So… who lives in Staten Island, NY, and has been talking smack about us and the whole Avery Duncan episode on his Wattpad profile?
:
Also known as Parogar:
Here are a few interesting comments made by him on his profile. You will notice some familiar words and phrases:
You see how he uses the exact same words? Which is why we thought this was so funny:
Yeah, that’s right, Kevin! Because you did say it!
Oh and btw, if you take a look at his recent FB posts, he is the bullies’ definition of a BBA:
Okay, so… after he left his threat on our blog, we wrote up a post exposing it and promising that we would be sending the information to the police so that they could trace it and find out who he is, which we did. We also promised to give that information to anyone he “ruthlessly and relentlessly” targeted and carpet-bombed. And what was his reaction?
Well…
Regardless of his tough words, he took it seriously because instead of targeting innocent people, he created a bunch of socks and carpet-bombed Avery’s book on Goodreads to make it look like it was us. Yes, you read that right. He CARPET-BOMBED HIS OWN FRIEND’S BOOK:
Then, he wrote this on his Wattpad profile:
When we discovered what was happening that day, we wrote a post called The Bullies Carpet Bomb Avery Duncan’s Books (at the time still not knowing that it was him) and we reported the carpet bombs and fake accounts to Goodreads.
How did he react? Well…
See how he mentions his 13+ K followers? Of course this is his “network capable of reaching tens of thousands of people”.
Anyhow, then, what happened?
Immediately, the carpet bombs on disappeared and the book was given a light shower of five star ratings from recently created sock accounts:
Now keep in mind that all this happened on May 14. All in ONE day. So, let’s think about this. Even if Goodreads had gotten our message that day about the fake accounts and the carpet bombs, they still take a few days to analyze the accounts and remove any suspicious activity. And that’s on a good day. Normally, Goodreads takes weeks to do anything. Yet somehow, the one-star carpet bombs magically disappeared and were suddenly replaced with a bunch of five star ratings right after Kevin sent out his call to arms, telling his “tens of thousands” of followers to five star her book (which btw resulted in 7 five star ratings, not tens of thousands).
Very interesting, isn’t it?
Well, guess what, Kevin! We have bundled up all our links and screenshots in a nice little zipped folder and sent one copy to Goodreads to let them know of the mischief you’ve been up to. The other, we are sending out to the Staten Island police department with a warning that you intend to “ruthlessly and relentlessly” target and stalk people online.
Good job, buddy. You just screwed yourself.
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Sounds like he just confessed to a criminal conspiracy.
Wow. My head actually hurts from this. Requesting good reviews to bump down bad ones is what the bullies attack other authors for doing but now the bullies are doing this themselves? Complaining about bad reviews? And they would post to their group to get their group to target authors with bad reviews but now are saying that our blog that stands against such behavior is what causes that? It’s WHAT THEY DO. It’s WHY THIS BLOG EXISTS. They said their posts don’t result in fake reviews and rating, despite asking for them but somehow our posts do result in such. Yeah okay. The creating socks to change a book’s overall rating is not new from them though. I just can’t believe how hypocritical the whole thing is and that he trolled his own friend’s book. You know they will deny deny deny but how many times now have things looked shady on their part? There comes a point in time where you can’t claim it’s a coincidence anymore. We’re past that point.
Wow. He boasts revenge. He threatens to expose and have thousands of his followers attack authors who have been already targeted by bullies? Innocent authors not even involved in ANY of this current drama. All because a friend of his was called out for her own bullying actions? This Avery may be young, but she obviously needed to be scolded and called out for doing it. That’s ALL that happened, really. Life moves on. But THIS guy obviously thought he could bully your site. (Ego much?) He is obviously just a jerk who thinks he’s like Howard Stern of the book world. He should have minded his own business, but instead has now made himself look like a complete ass. Great job exposing another troll and obviously, a writer who has to beg for good reviews. By the way, the guy must be insecure to have selfies of himself wearing boxing gloves. Makes him look even stupider…
Wow. Just came home from working all day to see more useless wasting of time from individuals who don’t care to contribute anything positive to society. Get a job, Kevin and Avery and all the rest of you. For the love of Jeebus, think about what you do and say before behaving stupidly. I really wish STGRB didn’t need to exist. But so long as you people keep causing trouble, they’ll be here showing us working folk all the nasty people we have to avoid online.
this might interest you:
http://www.wattpad.com/forums/discussion/790444/Wattpad+PLEASE+ban+Western+Balgonia+from+the+website.+They+are+subhuman+TRASH+and+I%27m+tired+of+them.
read all the way to the end
We’re probably not going to waste our time. Thanks for the link though.
I worded that comment so badly…
That thread was a social experiment that ended with many reports which wattpad acted on. The place he was talking about doesn’t exist though.
Erm, Bad Pitched, just how is that link relevant at all? You know Western Balgonia doesn’t exist, right? He was carrying out a social experiment, and it was hilarious. And sarcastic. And very ironic.
No, it wasn’t. It was stupid and pointless. It made a lot of people very angry and got him in trouble with Wattpad moderators. We’ve been talking to a lot of members of Wattpad recently. This joker isn’t as adored by others as he thinks he is.
The guy is dangerous to his own success. Think about how many people there are in the world who may or may not know that Western Balgonia isn’t real? He makes himself look like a tool. Which, obviously from everything that has transpired, is what he is.
I’m not going to lie on this one; Parogar does stuff like this in A LOT in forums. He’s not afraid to put his two cents on conversations and it often gets him in trouble. This was the same reason why he got in trouble with Wattpad moderators. He is kind of well known in the forums so when he posted it, people became quick to get angry at him without stopping to see whether it was real or not.
…I think we all know the Balgonia thing isn’t real, especially when we get to the bit about the High School Musical 2 DVD.
Yeah, it was kind of obvious, especially since there is no country in the world called Balgonia. That was a bit of a giveaway.
Exactly! I don’t know why ‘Writer’ was ‘concerned.’
Because there are some people who wouldn’t know that it was a joke and would see his posts and think he’s racist. Writer is concerned because in this case, he is his own worst enemy. He is harming his career.
Like I said, the “Return our HSM 2 DVD now or else,’ statement pretty much clears that up for those people, terrible geography or not.
Not for everyone. You’d be surprised. Also, you need to remember that usually people will start reading a thread and then stop after the first few comments or the first page. In that case, all they’ll see is him being a total arse and they’ll put it together with his name and picture and remember it. Not a good move on his part at all.
This guy sounds like he has a serious anger problem. He was probably looking for a socially acceptable way to unleash his senseless rage, and attacking people on behalf of his ‘friend’ was that socially acceptable outlet. He reminds me a bit of Angela and Miranda in that respect, who started a blog just to attack people, all in the name of defending ‘readers’ rights’.
And the 13K followers? Any idiot can rack up thousands of followers. I think you showed how in a previous post. What makes me laugh is how this idiot thinks a ‘follower’ is basically a slave minion who will unquestioningly do his bidding. I hope he gets the help he needs.
A while back he was forced to take down recordings of him reading and mocking stories from his YouTube account.
A lot of people have come forward this week with information on, Kevins, past bulling tactics. Mocking stories on You Tube, is just more of his nastiness. He is a cyber bully, plain and simple.
He is claiming that, STGRB and Anne Rice, have bullied him. But the thing is, HE was the one who sent STGRB a threatening email. HE was the one who went onto, Anne Rice’s, Facebook page telling her what to do. STGRB wrote a blog post about, Kevins, threats, and Anne Rice, had to ban him from her Facebook page. So, can someone please explain to me when and where was Kevin bullied?
And infamous bully Anna K. injected herself in the situation by giving Avery’s book a fake 5 star rating. She did this simply to spite STGRB, hoping to piss off JBG and co., and here I thought fake 5 star reviews were against the bullies’ unwritten “rules”?
Frankly, I wish all of these wastes-of-space would crawl back under the bridges where they belong.