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.

Think Before You Act

Original post HERE: 24 Mar 2011
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I know this post came kind of late, but most of us should already know or have heard about the blonde UCLA student, Alexandra Wallace and her racist rant on Youtube. Opsss! Correction; she is an ex-student by this time. She has already decided to leave the university after her family received death threats.

It all started when she posted her video onto YouTube and it went viral, literally. In her three minute video, she lamented about how the University of California in Los Angeles [UCLA] admits what she labels as "hordes of asian people" into the school. She also criticizes that the asians are ill mannered and invites their families into the dormitories on the weekends. What really pissed most people off is how she actually faulted Asian students for disrupting her studies at the library by calling family members in the wake of the tsunami. Speaking in a fake Asian language -- "Ohhhh. Ching chong ling long ting tong" -- she chastised them notably for talking on their cellphones in the library. Even if it didn't affect her, she didn't have to make things worse. If something that disastrous possibly happened that threatens the lives of your family, who wouldn't get uptight? That is totally uncalled for! She should have tried to use a little fraction of her brain before she blurted that out, or to make the whole video in the first place. Unfortunately, it was too late. Despite removing the video after it had over a million hits, her video was copied and reposted by other users. More and more people watched and got enraged. Well, not all. Some who watched the video light-heartedly suggested their preference that she did the video topless. If you haven't watched that video yet, clicking here will bring you to the video.

She has sInce apologized through facebook and the campus newspaper. In her letter to the Daily Bruin Friday, the student said she was "trying to produce a humorous YouTube video," but instead "offended the UCLA community and the entire Asian culture."

"I am truly sorry for the hurtful words I said and the pain it caused to anyone who watched the video," she wrote.

"Clearly the original video posted by me was inappropriate. I cannot explain what possessed me to approach the subject as I did, and if I could undo it, I would. I'd like to offer my apology to the entire UCLA campus. For those who cannot find it within them to accept my apology, I understand."

"Especially in the wake of the ongoing disaster in Japan, I would do anything to take back my insensitive words. I could write apology letters all day and night, but I know they wouldn't erase the video from your memory."

"I made a mistake. My mistake, however, has lead to the harassment of my family, the publishing of my personal information, death threats, and being ostracized from an entire community. Accordingly, for personal safety reasons, I have chosen to no longer attend classes at UCLA," she wrote.

In case the university by any chance decides take disciplinary action and expel her, maybe it was a good idea for her to quit school before that happened. But really, the school never intended to discipline her, and she disclosed her decision to withdraw only after she was informed of the school's verdict. Below anyway, is my favorite video response to Wallace's.

I liked the 7chins and the gibberish that sounded like Korean with a quick statement of "Dirty Asians"

However, I am not totally without sympathy. As David from the response video says, violence only begets violence. What Wallace did was hurtful and inexcusable, but the response has been far more egregious. As much as death threats that went all the way out, even to her family members who weren't involved to being with. Quitting school probably doesn't solve the problem; her entire family might have to reolcate to another residence in order to avoid the harassment. What keeps me wondering is, is she going to enrol in another school? Would it help? I mean, the whole world knows about her now, not just UCLA. Would she still get the same treatment wherever she went? Perhaps, she needs to change the family name? Or even to surgerically alter her looks to avoid being recognized?

The conclusion: Actions always have consequences. It is important to think over our actions carefully as they may bring grave consequences. These were teenagers acting stupidly without thinking through to the consequences. They got caught up in the impulse and didn't think at all. We all have crazy impulses but mostly we think before we put them into action and realize that they are crazy. If in doubt give yourself more time to think, think again and only act once you are sure, or don't act at all. If you want to avoid doing things that you will regret, make sure that you think through your actions beforehand. The consequences of unthinking action may cause hurt feelings or embarrassment, which could have been avoided if you'd taken the time to think. Think before you act and avoid a lot of grief and heartache in your life.

Wallace had to delete her YouTube account, probably her Facebook account too, or whatever in the internet that has to do with her. Threats, Quit school, relocate, all these trouble! In this internet age, it is very easy to be loved, hated or shamed by the whole world, overnight.