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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When I lived in NYC, I participated on a music-related message board for many years. Since we were all based in NYC/LI/NJ, we would have meet-ups for happy hour and music shows.

Two of the regular posters on the message board got into heated arguments that usually devolved into personal insults. The female poster, K, was quite funny and very popular with the in-crowd on the board. The male poster, S, was a bit quirky/on-the-spectrum and not as popular. Ironically, both of them attended the same Ivy League university, though I'm not sure they knew each other from there. K would mercilessly lay into S. I believe she may have even humiliated him in-person a number of times.

After a while, S devised a plot to turn K's message board screen name (which included her real-life first name) into a street art meme. He began plastering the city with stickers of "STFU [K's screenname]" and taking photos, then uploading them to the message board. It caused quite a scandal as many message board posters thought it was hilarious, while others (mostly female) thought it was a form of harassment. He began a blog that documented the proliferation of his meme, giving out thousands of stickers to random strangers. He started getting photos of the sticker in random cities all over the world.

He made hundreds of t-shirts with the "STFU [K's screenname]" logo printed on them and gave them out to a ton of NY'ers. K would be out at a bar or on the subway and see a random person with the "STUF [K's screenname]" t-shirt. It completely pissed her off.

That all happened over 10 years ago. The message board shut down probably 5 years ago. S is still keeping up his art project and has successfully showed branded objects and photos with the "STFU [K's screenname]" logo at art gallery shows. He's sold tens of thousands of dollars woth of "STFU [K's screenname]" merchandise. I think he even trademarked K's screen name.

That is the most epic trolling I've ever seen in my life. The gag has been going on for close to 15 years.[/quote]

Hello! STFU Katielady by any chance?

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https://hiveminer.com/User/STFU%20Katielady/Interesting[/quote]

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