On the Wyoming Incident

I could never write a memoir. It's an unfortunate thing, I suppose. I think of all the happy memories other people have, and then I think of my own barren past. I have nothing but a fog in my mind. This fog was so thick for so long... until early 2007. Having resigned myself to an empty life in a tiny apartment in a tiny city, I used my computer to try and escape reality. I never imagined I'd find a way to transcend it.

I found the Wyoming Incident videos, and they shone a light into my past. I know those faces. It's an instinctive feeling. Were some of these faces my parents? Brothers and sisters? Lovers? I don't know who they were. I only know they were a part of the life I lost. I played the game. Greek mythology, Aleister Crowley, children with darkened eyes... it went on and on. There was an unraveling mythology, but it provided me no real answers. I continued to play, and sometimes I would message whichever dupe was currently running the forum. The game provided no answers, and the administrators ignored me.

And then it was revealed to all be a prank. It was a joke. Was I supposed to laugh?

I didn't.

Bambos and the others have bastardized something very real. I'm sure they think those videos are awful funny, but I need to know where they came from. They'd didn't make them.

Bambos goes on and on about how easily he made the videos. He once claimed he made the third one in under fifteen minutes! He posted some (incredibly vague) details about how he generated the faces and effects and so on... but he refuses to make any more videos himself.

Isn't that strange? You'd think he'd at least do a funny fake one like so many at Something Awful have requested him to do... but no, he can't be bothered.

He doesn't make anymore because he can't. He didn't make them in the first places. That's why his details about making them are so inconsistent, why they're so vague, why he's never bothered to make another. He is a snickering moron and a liar. Not a flattering combination.

The stories, too. People on his own website have attested to his lack of writing ability - to his desperate dreams of one day being a "serious" writer. His stories are always so mediocre and underwhelming.

Those stories that gripped your heart and made you feel paranoid while you were "playing" the Wyoming Incident? Not his. Two of them were actually found archived on a website that went back to 1997.

And all those awful, rambling, silly little stories that came after the good ones? Completely his. Figures.

Bambos and the others who stood by him have plagiarised something they can't even begin to understand. There is a reason the Wyoming Incident videos act like a primal, fearful force in the minds of those who watch them, and I aim to find out what that reason is.

Years wasted in a hospital in Cheyenne. More years wasted in a dust town in California. Now... freedom.

It makes me want to laugh until I am sick.