Msscribe: The Harry Potter Fandom's Greatest Con-Artist - A documentary of one of the finest examples of fandom drama

[Cosmos]

This a recounting of the Misscribe story. If you've never read about the Msscribe story, it's one of the wildest, finest, most extensive examples of old internet drama. Basically, it's about the early Harry Potter fandom, their drama, and their fanfic-writing stars (people who were worshipped for writing popular fics, basically). Msscribe is a woman who inserted herself into the popular, cool girls circle of fanfic writers.

There's lots of drama, and it turns out that Msscribe herself was causing the drama with a literal army of sockpuppets, all in the effort to make her group's fandom rivals seem bad and herself seem good (plus to get closer to the Cool Girls TM by uniting under a common enemy). Her actions and the proof were all meticulously documented and then released as a huge exposé. It's basically an early version of a Kiwi Farms thread.

I recommend reading the actual exposé, but it's really long and this video is a good recounting of the incident. Definitely give it a watch if you're interested in old-school fandom drama.

 

[Lonely Grave]

I saw this a week ago, looked for it here but found nothing, but I thought it had been already posted and lost in the minor lolcows/HP griefing thread somewhere.

Glad to see I was wrong. This story is one hell of a ride.

 

[Fandom Trash]

I know what I'm doing with my spare time today.

Thanks. I knew that Cassandra Claire (the one who wrote Mortal Instruments) was a Harry Potter BNF that caused a lot of drama back in the haydays, but I never knew about the other ones.

Fandom really brings out the crazies.

 

[Judge Holden]

Fandom and furries have a lot to answer for in terms of making this epoch of the internet so fucking insufferable.

 

[ElAbominacion]

Congrats, @Cosmos, this seems like premium content!

 

[Y2K Baby]

Bitches be crazy.

 

[Orion Balls]

Dionne D Williford. I remember her, mostly because Delaware is a boring ass State.

 

[tasty humane burger]

I vaguely knew about the Ms Scribe stuff just from The Internet but I watched the video in the OP a few weeks ago and had a little stalk to see what she is doing these days and I stumbled across this...

 

[Scarlett Johansson]

I vaguely knew about the Ms Scribe stuff just from The Internet but I watched the video in the OP a few weeks ago and had a little stalk to see what she is doing these days and I stumbled across this...

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So that's what she's up to

 

[frozenrunner]

People who unironically use the term "fandom," and especially those who use it regularly, deserve to be waterboarded.