I thought McSweeney’s “Get to Know an Internet Commenter” columns were just mildly entertaining distractions … until I realised they were 100% real.
Here’s a selection of MSBC user profitendieu’s “insights” as presented on McSweeney’s, and here’s the real-life proof. Likewise for Rotten Tomatoes user SIFI GUY (and here’s the proof.)
Get to Know an Internet Commenter
Published: Thursday, 29th July 2010 at 3:17 PM
By day, he works for ABC TV as a web developer. By night, he plays bass guitar in Look Who's Toxic. He also runs a little Unix Timestamp conversion site. There are plenty of other things he should be doing, but most of the time he's dreaming of what he'll do when he grows up while watching bad Star Trek spin-offs.