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ALERT: If you are new to this thread from the homepage, here's a good summary of the autism shitstorm
Updates: Dax has bought Maddox's debt legally and can now fuck with him as much as he wants
George "Ouzounian" is former internet funnyman Maddox, whose site was much beloved for it's at-the-time (early 2000's) edgy vitriol Maddox's career has waned since the name has become associated with the sad reality of the author, a balding Armenian dough boy. "Dax" Herrera is the much more notable host of the "Dick Show" featuring his trademark much-more-relevant edgy humour. In 2014, Maddox launched the "The Biggest Problem in the Universe" podcast and invited Dax to join him. Said podcast was quite successful and ran for two years, until ending in the inevitable drama. For more information, please check out the Maddox thread embedded in this sentence. Having enough of internet mockery, Maddox took the entirely rational step of suing everyone even remotely involved or the reasonable sum of 20 million, including lawyer fee's. You can see all the documents in this case on New York's court webpage, here.
So who all is getting sued? It's quite the list. Dax Herrera himself, who after a campaign of actual harassment from Maddox decided to mock him; Dax's company Foundation Digital, a search engine optimization firm that no doubt worked for free to further harass the plaintiff; Trevor Birt, a comedian who created the "MadCucks" parody character; Asterios Kokkinos who sponsored a music album where the only lyrics are the words "Cuck" after Maddox overreacted to the word; Weber Shadwick, who by employing Kokkinos aided and abetted his "campaign to harass the plaintiff;" Joshua Kaufman, legal counsel of Weber Shadwick who did not immediately fire Kokkinos for things unrelated to his job; Patreon, an online begging site, by providing a platform for the defendants to spread abuse and receive compensation for; and finally Jordan Cope, a customer service tech for Patreon who did not ban Dax from the platform for things unrelated to the Terms of Service. You may have noticed that not Kokkinos was sued, but also his employer and his employer's defense counsel. There is more to this than just autism: all are based in New York which boasts one of the most permissible environments for frivolous lawsuits.
An example of harassment worth 20 million dollars. This was pulled from a TRUE and HONEST legal document.
But it was not just Maddox who fully embraced lolcow-ism - his lawyer seems to be exceptional himself. Basing himself in a virtual office in Manhattan, Kevin A. Landau, Esq., has attempted to file for a clerk judgement (for an automatic settlement of 20 million) against Kokkinos based upon a fraudulent interpretation of "summons by" date. Alas, said motion for Judgement has been routinely denied by the court and is no longer visible on the New York Court's webpage. This is in addition to the basing of the case in New York on the flimsiest grounds imaginable. To cap it off, the documents he has submitted are a goddamn mess, 53 pages of tweet's and other goddamn things.
With the rejection of the motion for a clerk judgement by the court, we are currently waiting on all involved parties to submit their paperwork. Barring any judge looking at this house of cards and blowing it all to pieces, of course. To pass the time, you can check page 25 of the initial legal brief attached to this post for a summary of Kiwifarms for a real, live judge.
A blog has been made about Kevin A. Landau's legal career.
Updates: Dax has bought Maddox's debt legally and can now fuck with him as much as he wants
George "Ouzounian" is former internet funnyman Maddox, whose site was much beloved for it's at-the-time (early 2000's) edgy vitriol Maddox's career has waned since the name has become associated with the sad reality of the author, a balding Armenian dough boy. "Dax" Herrera is the much more notable host of the "Dick Show" featuring his trademark much-more-relevant edgy humour. In 2014, Maddox launched the "The Biggest Problem in the Universe" podcast and invited Dax to join him. Said podcast was quite successful and ran for two years, until ending in the inevitable drama. For more information, please check out the Maddox thread embedded in this sentence. Having enough of internet mockery, Maddox took the entirely rational step of suing everyone even remotely involved or the reasonable sum of 20 million, including lawyer fee's. You can see all the documents in this case on New York's court webpage, here.
So who all is getting sued? It's quite the list. Dax Herrera himself, who after a campaign of actual harassment from Maddox decided to mock him; Dax's company Foundation Digital, a search engine optimization firm that no doubt worked for free to further harass the plaintiff; Trevor Birt, a comedian who created the "MadCucks" parody character; Asterios Kokkinos who sponsored a music album where the only lyrics are the words "Cuck" after Maddox overreacted to the word; Weber Shadwick, who by employing Kokkinos aided and abetted his "campaign to harass the plaintiff;" Joshua Kaufman, legal counsel of Weber Shadwick who did not immediately fire Kokkinos for things unrelated to his job; Patreon, an online begging site, by providing a platform for the defendants to spread abuse and receive compensation for; and finally Jordan Cope, a customer service tech for Patreon who did not ban Dax from the platform for things unrelated to the Terms of Service. You may have noticed that not Kokkinos was sued, but also his employer and his employer's defense counsel. There is more to this than just autism: all are based in New York which boasts one of the most permissible environments for frivolous lawsuits.
An example of harassment worth 20 million dollars. This was pulled from a TRUE and HONEST legal document.
But it was not just Maddox who fully embraced lolcow-ism - his lawyer seems to be exceptional himself. Basing himself in a virtual office in Manhattan, Kevin A. Landau, Esq., has attempted to file for a clerk judgement (for an automatic settlement of 20 million) against Kokkinos based upon a fraudulent interpretation of "summons by" date. Alas, said motion for Judgement has been routinely denied by the court and is no longer visible on the New York Court's webpage. This is in addition to the basing of the case in New York on the flimsiest grounds imaginable. To cap it off, the documents he has submitted are a goddamn mess, 53 pages of tweet's and other goddamn things.
With the rejection of the motion for a clerk judgement by the court, we are currently waiting on all involved parties to submit their paperwork. Barring any judge looking at this house of cards and blowing it all to pieces, of course. To pass the time, you can check page 25 of the initial legal brief attached to this post for a summary of Kiwifarms for a real, live judge.
A blog has been made about Kevin A. Landau's legal career.