Creepy places... On the Internet

The Internet is enormous. And given that it has, up to this point, been almost completely anonymous it's not surprising there are some pretty strange parts. So it takes a mind-bending, almost admirable level of dedication to stand out among the tangle of crazy. There are several websites that prove the internet can still make the hairs on the back of your neck stand on end ...

You can find an Internet forum for pretty much anything. So at first glance, The Bloody Board, a forum for fans of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (famous tv series that I personally dislike with great intensity by the way), seems comfortingly normal. They post tweets from former cast members of the show (mostly about how much it sucks to work at this gas station now), speculate about plot points, discuss favorite episodes and fan art; the usual stuff.

But on close inspection, something's just a little off ...

One user, "jamie_marsters" appears to be quite prolific, posting and replying many, many times a day. We suppose it's sort of creepy that she's taken the name of Buffy star James Marsters, and changed it to Jamie to imply familiarity, like an ex-girlfriend or an old babysitter might.

A quick look at the profile statistics and things get much worse. Look at the number of total posts "jamie" has made....

 

That's right, almost 40,000 posts. 

The only problem is......

There is no community. There is only jamie_marsters. Scrolling through the archives reveals that there are virtually no other users, just this one, posting non stop, replying to herself, over and over again, almost every minute of every day for the last six years, alone inside her own dark little chamber of madness...

1 month ago, after 6 whole years  "jamie_marsters" deleted the forum, after this story was released and the website was overrun by internet trolls.