Epic Battle of Internet Figures 2011

Original post HERE: 26 Mar 2011
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In July 2008, blogger Dawn Yang launched a lawsuit against Wendy Cheng for allegedly defamatory remarks made in a blog post on June 30, which drew controversy all over Singapore, and crossing international borders now in March 2011, Wendy is once again facing another legal issue by American YouTube artist Peter Coffin, well not really, more like a bad joke gone wrong, literally. For those of you who do follow Xiaxue on twitter or her blog, you'll probably already know the story of how it sparked Xiaxue to sharpen her feline claws against Peter Coffin. For those who do not know what's going on, you may click here to view Wendy's blog on how it started.

Wendy Cheng; more popularly known by her pseudonym, Xiaxue, is one of the most popular, if not the most popular blogger in Singapore. Famous for her daring honesty to declare her surgical alterations and awesome photoshop skills, infamous for her shrewd thinking, sharp tongue and feisty verbal retorts. Peter Coffin, who quit his job in December 2010 to fulfil being a full time YouTube artist, seemingly offended Xiaxue in Twitter, coarsely criticizing about her plastic surgery revision. Wendy went ahead to block Peter, however, out of nowhere, a Japanese girl by the name of "Kimi Kobayashi", supposedly Peter's girlfriend, lashes insults on her this time.

It may seem really normal at first, but it gets really weird when Kimi, a strangely unfeminine girl tweets nothing but crude humor, seriously weird sex jokes and shares a common interest with Peter Coffin in making racist jokes together.

There's a reason why some refers Wendy as a "detective". She's good at it, she enjoys it, I bet that is her kind of adrenaline rush. After some research, Wendy discovers that "Kimi" is a fake person. Her proper name is Lee Na Young, Korean and her pictures were stolen and misused by someone to create a hoax account. Not being able to differentiate between Japanese and Korean, the creator of "Kimi" left several loopholes. Although I cannot be sure myself, but from the amount of evidence Wendy has retrieved, "Kimi Kobayashi" is most obviously created by, none other than Peter Coffin himself. Being at the verge of her tolerance, Wendy begun her work to unleash her backlash plan. After consolidating an incredible amount of evidence, Wendy posted everything on her blog, revealing Peter's imaginary girlfriend, and somewhat disturbing actions. Ok, I can't always sound diplomatic. To be honest, I think Peter is really disgusting, flirting with himself online, using fake accounts such as Kimi Kobayashi to praise him and his manhood. [Ewww... God damn gross... ]

In a racist point of view, these are a bunch of losers...

But with your imaginary hot asian girlfriend, you just joined the same league as those guys above.

I just don't understand why there are so much of racism going on. Even though it is a known problem all along, they just all seem to surface recently, mostly racism against asians.

Like the blonde UCLA student whose racist video went viral online. Peter's being quite a racist here too but unlike Alexandra Wallace who can just give up everything from her position in the school, to her internet and social life, it is much more difficult for him to abandon his reasonably decent establishment in YouTube.

Trying to save his ego, Peter attempts to employ legal action to deal with Wendy. However, he underestimated Wendy drastically, by sending a inaccurate home-brew lawyer's letter which he created HIMSELF, in attempt to intimidate Wendy into submission. Actually he most probably copied the letter from somewhere else and used it as a template. Little did he know, Wendy not only has past experience with lawsuits, she also gets legal advice from real lawyer friends. Click here to see Xiaxue's blog; she has uploaded images of the letter there.

[Picture by Seraf1] Great! First he imagines his own girlfriend, than he imagines he is his own lawyer. What other things is he going to shamelessly make up next? At first, I was thinking that Peter Coffin is really getting serious this time and I was thinking, "Oh my god, another loser using legal actions to solve petty issues". Being is own legal team with a lousy email from questionable sources makes him a double loser. Is he on drugs, hallucinating or what? I was totally dumbfounded when I saw the lawyer's letter to Xiaxue. I never expected Peter to be so dumb to use such a futile threat. Sorry Peter, but what you have done is really moronic; its so juvenile, so child's play! I hate to say this to any person, as it is quite disrepectful, but seriously dude, you need to grow up. You really are a loser, double loser!

It appears that Peter Coffin might have a problem with lower self esteem, or not feeling popular enough amongst his peers. Therefore, "Kimi Kobayashi" is like an alter ego of Peter Coffin, a seriously hot asian girlfriend to make himself feel more loved and enviable by his peers. Along with the possibility that he might have also purchased a major portion of his YouTube subscribers. [Notice the gapping discrepancy between his subscribers versus actual views.] Though not a major psychological issue, this is a counter-intuitive measure to make oneself feel better. Shocked? Yes! I was too! It IS possible to use money to purchase fake subscribers to make your channel appear more popular.

By the way, I need to declare that I am not a fan of Wendy Cheng. My girlfriend [I have a real girlfriend] loves her stuff but I can't take her bitchiness most of the time. So I don't follow her on twitter or visit her blog other than when something big happens, example: THIS, and her dispute with Dawn Yang back in 2008, when she starts her investigations, usually with astonishing results. There are however, things Wendy says or does that I feel are inappropriate at times and the things she did in the past to get famous but I wouldn't say I hate her though, more of neutral. What she's doing now can really destroy Peter totally, however, sometimes you got to love her guts. And because Peter is making some terribly, stupidly wrong moves, it becomes fun to watch.

After sending the letter to Wendy, Peter probably spent all day trying to delete COUNTLESS nasty comments from the general public; on his Facebook fan page [which he once again shamelessly created for himself], Twitter, and 3 YouTube accounts. But obviously, that isn't going to help as they still kept coming in. His Facebook fan page was so swarmed he was forced to close down his Facebook fan page. He then locked his Twitter and YouTube comments, but everyone still continued to spam comments on every single post of his on Facebook, and Youtube video. Peter than realized, he can run, but he can't hide.

Peter Coffin finally emerged to face the world. As below, I copied and pasted his last few tweets, supposedly in reply to Wendy:

"I attempted to stop this privately with Xiaxue, who she seems quite intent on ruining me. Kimi is not me, I'm not sure who she is."

"I honestly wanted to work it out, but you can't make something real. I want her to be real. Desperately, even. In fact, that is all I want."

"But at this moment, you are attacking me for making something up. I didn't. I don't even know how to put what has happened to me."

"You can say what you'd like, but you need to know that yes. I did something blind, stupid and embarrassing hanging on to someone.."

"I didn't know that long. But I didn't invent this. I wish I had, but I didn't."

"Listen, if I were that mentally ill to make her up, I'd be dead right now. I didn't. I'm heartbroken and just dead inside."

"I'm not even asking you to do anything. You wanted my explanation, you have it. I probably won't be posting again for a while. Peace."

Still no proper apology from him, but given his sorrowful state, I doubt Wendy would ask for more. But I liked his last tweet. I mean, peace is definitely all he can ask for right now.

Continuing to resolutely deny that "Kimi" is actually himself, he was forced to change his statement, however, still all too dumb. He now claims that he didn't know Kimi was a fake person and that he has been also duped by this fake persona into romance? DUH!

How could someone possibly NOT know that person is fake if he previously said he had not only had physical contact but fancy sexual encounters? So what is really fake? Peter or Kimi? Pretty contradicting already huh? So I wonder how he is going to explain what "Kimi" commented on Peter Coffin's made-believe perfect penis size? And what about those carrot bits and genital graffiti? [I still can't stop laughing about how he actually made that shit up...] Is that a kick in the face or what? If I were him, I would have just dumped the god damn ego and shut the f**k up. The ego is way beyond salvation!

Picture by sketchingheaven. Source DeviantArt

All over the internet, people have been commending how Xiaxue owned Peter Coffin, but there are however, others who thinks that Xiaxue has gone too far. I've seen other popular bloggers/Youtube artists who labels Xiaxue is in fact being a cyber bully.

I was confused too, whether I should even post this article in the first place, but I eventually decided to go ahead. Yeah, I agree Wendy can be bitchy at times, but from what I know, she would never resort to such critical methods unless provoked. Sometimes I pity Peter; how he got totally ruined by Wendy and how he has to live with it, but then again I think he deserves it after seeing the outrageously disgusting things he does. That is kind of karma too; think back on how he goes around testing the patience of other users by posting nasty criticism on their pages. I don't think they appreciated his crude humor, no? There may be people who are nice enough to ignore his comments but feisty Xiaxue is obviously the wrong target. Since Peter initiated the "fight", I believe Wendy is just doing what she needed to do; paying him back with his own coin. I agree too that nobody likes to be bullied, including Xiaxue.

I know she'll definitely prefer a nice pink dress or what not, but I just thought this statement would fit her to a tee. [But if you think it's lame don't flame me.]

I too worry that Peter might not be able to take the intense humiliation and commit suicide, which no one wishes. If it 's a man who committed the act, he shall be duly responsible for it, as a man. As simple as that. It's funny that Peter had the cheek to send Wendy a cease and desist letter for all those bullshit. What about the real Lee Na Young? Her personal identity and photos were stolen, used by Peter to satisfy his sexual fantasy and ego! Worse of all, she is being portrayed as a dirty whore bearing the name of "Kimi Kobayashi" who has extremely bad taste for men and enjoys foreign objects being inserted into her vagina? Should she consider Peter a cyber bully? What if she knew about it, can't take the humiliation and decides to take her own life?  Shouldn't she instead send Peter a cease and desist letter for making her sound like a wanton prostitute?

Peter Coffin should just surrender already, forget his erroneous YouTube career and forget about his reputation and seeking attention when he got all the bad ones he could ever ask for. He's still able to make redemptions and be forgiven; like getting a decent job and live on humbly, careful not to agitate others. I still do feel sorry for this dude...

Until then, I shall commemorate his deeds.

Japan Earthquake & Tsunami: [Part Two] Reactions and Statement of Opinions

Original post HERE: 15 Mar 2011
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Who wants to wake up in the morning, open the window and see the moment of despair as what we see in this picture on your left.. They say that "If you don't have anything proper to say, at least do not make nasty or sarcastic remarks". Despite the catastrophic tragedy that ravaged Japan, it appears that there are people who are making somewhat inappropriate comments that do not lighten the situation at all.

I myself, came across a lot of comments all over that weren't really nice to speak off, some with extreme contents of racism insulting the Japanese with. There is even a giant picture of consolidated comments from various facebook users, most of them talking about the tsunami as an incarnation of karma to bring retribution to Japan for the Pearl Harbor incident.

Before I carry on, I need to warn that the comments on that particular page are rather inappropriate. Some netizens even got enraged by those comments and called them insensitive, nasty, mean or racists. I have battled myself for quite a long time whether I should write this post or not, because, at the end of the day, I just want to share my views, and I have absolutely no intentions to offend anyone to begin with. I also have no intentions of revealing who put in those comments nor their facebook profile pictures directly on my blog. But if you really insist to see it, clicking here will bring you there. Anyway, I did not make or upload that picture, the link was just shared and circulated.

According to a little research I've done, I found out that over 50% of the viewers on my blog are actually from United States. I believe it is mainly contributed by my other post, "Chris Medina Phenomenon" which created a sudden surge in blog hits overnight, and even constant increment daily. I fully understand that If I say any wrong things here, I could easily gain twice the number of haters as much of viewers I gained from the previous post. You should be able to fully understand that I'm putting myself at risk here, but I just think it's fair for equality and peace in the world. And lastly, I'm not Japanese, so look, I don't gain anything for speaking up for Japan. Anyway, below are some examples of those comments somewhat uncalled for; word for word.

"Eat a dick japan! That's what you get for pearl harbor, karma son! Haha!"

"Yeah I hate it for Japan but remember those idiots started World War 2. They bombed Pearl Harbor. Wonder how much money we will send them."

"Fuck Japan. Remember Pearl Harbor." (they were tonnes like this one)

"I think the earthquake in Japan happened because of Pearl Harbor. Paybacks are a motha f...cker. Some people wish God to be with those Japanies sneaky bastards... ... not me...what goes around comes around according to Justin Timberlake. The nuke we gave them may be easier than what they got today."

"Japan you remember Pearl Harbor? Ain't Karma a bitch."

"who gives shit about Japan? Not this guy. Did they send aids when americans were dying during Katrina? hell no, remember Pearl Harbor? Late Justice."

"Mother nature remembers Pearl Harbor when we were attacked and by whom. December 7, 1941"

"Dear Japan, enjoy your tsunami. - Sincerely, Pearl Harbor"

Pearl Harbor, Pearl Harbor. Wow! As you can see, Pearl Harbor became a kind of convenient topic of excuse for unwanted hatred. Ok I'm not perfect either, but I really hate to say that a lot of those comments seemed to contain a bit of racism. From what I see, most of the comments came from people who weren't even born yet to experience the real pain and agony of the actual Pearl Harbor incident. So how did they know about it? How did they get such a hatred over it? Perhaps some read the history books, perhaps some watched the "Pearl Harbor" movie, starred by Ben Affleck. Well, to what I know, movies should only be considered as a form of entertainment. Even though its based [loosely] on a true story, it's common to infuse huge doses of dramatization to make the movie successful. To what I feel, most people were just influenced by various ways, most of them, didn't know what it felt like to be really going through Pearl Harbor, and that includes me.

One guy lamented,

"who gives shit about Japan? Not this guy. Did they send aids when americans were dying during Katrina? hell no...". Actually, Japan really did send help to the United States during the Katrina event, in case anyone really didn't know. Then again, when things like Hurricane Katrina hit USA, it's called a natural disaster. But when a natural disaster hit Japan, it's karma, retribution or what not. Statements of  what seems like double standards would appear selfish, arrogant and sometimes racist, and I believe no one likes that from both perspectives. Another lady states that she hated Japan because "Japan were the idiots who started World War 2." Technically, Japan did bomb Pearl Harbor but they did not start World War 2. It was Hilter and the Nazis [Germany and Slovakia] who invaded Poland back in 1939 that sparked it all. If you have to be influenced by history, at least get the facts right. The documented story lies here.

Ever since history was recorded, there were a lot of wars dictated; Civil War, American Revolution, Iraq War, Napolenic War, French Revolution, The Peloponessian War and much, much more. That's a lot of senseless violence. Oddly, we hate wars and point fingers these days but yet those extreme bloodshed in history were actually ok. Those were before our current democratic times and forms of government didn't really seem to work well in most countries. People who military power during those days usually have the say. However, these people didn't seem to have much forms of entertainment and probably, their only career perspective was to wage war, gain more power, and conquer the world. It was all the rage then, and quests for domination were so common, as though it were their past time hobby. I'm sure we know of many more ruthless warlords in history who were brutal to the bone. In the modern times now, we still have terrorists in this world and they are posing a standing problem. I would think it's more logical to be wary of them rather than to whine over some history that  we vaguely know of.

As we all know, World War 2 was a world war because it involved multiple countries from different continents and regions in the world, including my country. They did terrible things on our lands but over the years, most of the citizens and countries have already forgiven them. And to remind that the Pearl Harbor incident is dated back December 7, 1941, that's almost 70 years ago. Don't we have better things to do in our lives then hold a grudge way before our time?

As a counter attack, Japan too, took 2 atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki; talk about being paid back with their own coin. But don't you think that was some massive bad ass punishment for such a small country as compared to the U.S? You have any idea about the death toll or thought about the amount of casualties over there? If you thought only Pearl Harbor was bad, the bombs in Japan killed over thousands! In specific, horrific deaths by acute radiation exposures and survivors were stricken with various forms of cancer later in life and I'm not even finished yet. The ruler or military power of Japan during then no longer lives, a new populace started afresh and the later generations also had to rebuild what their ancestors screwed up back then. This was already their karma, and they have already done more than enough to serve the world and atone for their predecessor's sins. So why should we still bear a grudge, bring up the doggone past and be sore over it after so many long decades. Once again, most of us didn't even go through it, that makes us look like we can only know how to talk big. If this questionable behavior isn't caused by racism, I really can't see what else made us so petty.

If some kind of doomsday really came and threatens to eradicate all the humans entirely, do we still classify it as a natural disaster? Or could it have been our very own negative karma by shamelessly making fun of each other? Karma can be a bitch, I agree, and so can mother nature. If she were to really throw a tantrum, she could blow up anywhere she fancies. If we can't help or aren't willing to help, we could at least shut up. Those nasty comments will lead us to hell either, that's how karma works too, ain't it so? So laughing at another's misfortune isn't really a nice idea, we don't need Justin Timberlake to remind us that karma may turn around and bite our ass.

Let bygones be bygones, we live for today and tomorrow, not for yesterday. I may not be a follower of the christian faith, but I know that God also taught us to "Forgive and Forget".

Having said so much, it is very fortunate to know that these senseless racism and improper comments are only in minority. Most of us still embrace the warm morals of human compassion and common empathy. If you wish to lend a helping hand or make a donation, you can also click here to refer to Part One of this article, which will lead you there.

Japan's going through an excruciatingly painful time right now and they need all the help they could get to pull through this one. Especially, with a failing nuclear power plant that could meltdown anytime. Regrettably, I personally couldn't do much, I just wish we can settle all these social unrest and solve these petty differences. After all, Earth is home to us all.

Here's the end of Part two of this post.  There's one more part and I have more views to share regarding the reactions of the general public.

Next up:
Japan Earthquake and Tsunami: [Part Three] Action Speaks Louder than Words