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Mediacrat

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A tale of gay love and epic trolling

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Summary

Mediacrat, aka Joshua Williams, was the subject of an intense and thorough trolling session on Livejournal in the summer of 2004.

The ensuing drama gave birth to Encyclopedia Dramatica, and later the creation of many subsequent memes and other drama.

Origins

Williams was a student at the University of Washington, Seattle. In 2002, Williams became romantically involved with fellow LJ user, Andrewpants. For one reason or another, they stopped communication until Joshua began to report what he deemed as suspicious activity (e.g. the theft of a pumpkin from the front door of Williams' house, the posting online of various unflattering pictures of Williams) and subsequently took his trivial IRL dramas to the Internet.

Williams' general instability, combined with an innate need for attention, catapulted his online notoriety to levels never seen on the internet as of that time. Williams began to make frivolous legal threats against Andrewpants, Jameth, and members of the now defunct site LJDrama.com.

Williams even went so far as to travel to LiveJournal headquarters in Portland, Oregon, to supposedly discuss the matter with members of LiveJournal's abuse team.

Rise to fame

Throughout the late spring and summer of 2004, Williams made outlandish claims (e.g. that an embedded crew from MSNBC was collaborating with him, that he had obtained a modeling contract) and continued to threaten litigation against the supposed perpetrators of his Internet drama, which only made for continued drama and much ridicule at Williams' expense.

During this time Williams notified the local NBC affliate in Seattle about his problems. When this failed, he left abusive voicemails on Jameth's cellphone, from which the terms unlimited disposable income, rich and beautiful, and "I will have your humility" emerge. These voicemails also inspired the composition of a beautiful ballad lampooning Williams' abusive voicemails, "The Ballad of J". Another LJ user, Hepkitten, created the world's first internet settlement check; a mocking, non-redeemable image of a check issued to so-called "victims" of trolling.

By June of 2004 it was reported that Williams had suffered a serious nervous breakdown and had been institutionalized. After this, Williams subsequently filed a restraining order against both Andrewpants and Jameth; this was extended to a year. By July and after claiming to work in a non-existent position at a local modeling firm, Williams abandoned LiveJournal.

Significance

The trolling of Mediacrat precipitated the creation of the infamous and lulzy internet wiki, Encyclopedia Dramatica.

Current status

Keeping the denizens of Oh Internet's IRC server rich and beautiful! Other than that, whereabouts are unknown.

Famous Quote

 
“ 		 
Hi James, uh, hold on.

(to cabbie) Can you take me to the nicest restaurant with a view ... ah, I want a view of the Golden Gate Bridge and a fine bottle of wine. Can you do that? What do you say? Where should we go? Where sho...do y...do you have a recommendation? Where's that? Ok, let's do it. Perfect.

So James, I want to tell you, you are now named in my lawsuit because you would not cooperate, and um, I tried to warn you very much so, and let me just tell you that you are in as much trouble now as Andrew, and I really tried to be your friend, and I really tried to be honest with you, but, um, you defamed me and you harassed me, and I have an, uh, as you know, an unlimited disposable income, and I will have the best attorneys, and I will have your humility, because you were wrong, and you were mean to me, and you will now pay those consequences.

This is my final contact with you, James. The next, the next communication will come from a lawyer, the last thing that you've, you'll ever mention about me in your journal is that you're being, you're being officially sued by me, or nothing at all. If you see me in a bar, you'd better not talk to me, you'd better hide, because I will go up to you and I'll humiliate you. And I'll tell everybody what you've done to me, and how sick and demented you are, with helping Andrew along with this, and just how perverted you are. This isn't drama—this is my life. And you've ruined my life. But the good part of it is, James, I have a brand new life. And I'm rich. And I'm beautiful. And I have the perfect friends, and I have a perfect everything, and I know you do, too, so this really means nothing to you, but just so you know, you haven't won, I've won. Andrew and you and your little posse have inspired me, and given me the confidence through your obsession with me that I might be a model, and that I could be a model.

And so, in effect, thank you for the ten thousand dollars the you've already contributed, and I will be seeking damages from you, and so I'll be thanking you for money in the future.

My final words to you, James, are: I did the best I could to be a friend to you, and I did the best I could to be honest and helpful, and to be supportive of you, and I never got involved with your drama, and so what you will now do is learn the lesson that a friend is a true friend when they will just be your friend.

Goodbye.
 

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—The famous Third Mediacrat voicemail to Jameth.




Facts

  • Mediacrat is rich, and he is beautiful.
  • Mediacrat will have your humility.

Images

rip Livejournal

Oh, eljay!

In simpler times....

The official undergarment of mediacrats



Related Pages

Drama
Encyclopedia Dramatica
I will have your humility
Internet Tough Guy
LJDrama
Rich and beautiful
Unlimited disposable income
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