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This was originally posted on the WBE site.
This is the True Blogger Story of the Thumb & Run Guy or T&R Guy for short. T&R Guy was once a blue chip prospect for journalism on the internet under his real-life name that is often disputed. He came from a family that taught him the value of negative anonymity towards those who write articles and voice different opinions. These values were picked up throughout his childhood. His father was a private investigator, and he had a stay-at-home mom who home-schooled little T&R Guy. Eventually, T&R Guy's success had come full circle as he was able to have his young blog accepted under an anonymous name for teen magazine, Blog Insider. He claimed in an interview with the magazine that when he disgreed with, held a personal grudge, or didn't want to be seen with his own clear opinion on blogger's posts, he would thumb them down without ever replying as to why. Many claimed this as petty which would later hurt his attempt to become an elite and respected blogger and writer on the internet.
When we return, T&R Guy moves on after being home-schooled which begins his rise to fame before his life took a turn for the worse.
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After being home-schooled for his entire life, T&R Guy was finally set to go out into the real world. His name was featured prominently in magazines as a teenager, but his negative remarks and his attempts to bury blogs and bloggers he disliked in is path soon caught the attention of nearly everyone he knew. Rumors persist to this day that he found the time to thumb down blogs from Sporting News and Yard Barker because of jealous grudges towards others. This was a desperate attempt for attention in which one blogger in particular gave to him: fragnoli. So T&R Guy then had famously taken his frustrations out on the bloggers even more than before in the SN community.
Later on in the year, T&R Guy was held in contempt by a court of law in the case of Big Sooners fan vs the Troll Coalition. As a result of this, he was forced to sign a contract with Blog Wrestling Entertainment(BWE) in which it was later revealed that fragnoli would face him in the ring. He was allowed to where a mask while competing in the promotion. Fragnoli was able to beat him at the special Black Friday! event in November of 2006 with the help of wwefreak. The hatred for him grew, and he had to have help.
When we return, T&R Guy's personal life sees him finally marrying his soulmate.
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Even though T&R Guy's in-ring career had not gone according to plan, his personal life was fine. After years of hiding his true name and identity from all of his family and friends, he found someone that shared the same interests as him: T&R Girl. Coincidentally enough, T&R Girl's real-life name was never known, and she had a reputation of burying blogs out of spite in jealousy in internet communities, too.
They both had met anonymously on the internet after not knowing they were actually talking to each other in chat room for sometime. They also crossed paths in other communities, and T&R Guy really took a liking to a female who had the same unique abilities as he did. T&R Girl had also been home-schooled, and loved the thrill of angering some bloggers with anonymity on every occasion she could get.
The two finally hitched with only blog sniper as a witness at the wedding. Rumors still fly that they eloped because of only one person being present at their wedding. T&R Guy decided to also form an alliance in BWE to get back at bloggers from SN. Along with his best friend, blog sniper, they formed the Thumb Brigade heel faction. So after getting the group together, they set out for revenge by also recruiting the one blogger who could help them succeed in BWE and help bring the promotion to it's knees: soadrules1313.
When we return, T&R Guy's damaged legacy continues to cause problems throughout the internet and in BWE.
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After soadrules joined the Thumb Brigade, they set out to destroy BWE Promotions by implicating it's CEO, David Funk, with falsifying a positive drug test he took for Insanelozol. This was later proven that they were behind the scheme, and they were forced back into action by the CEO later.
After T&R Guy and T&R Girl's appearance in Extreme Blog Wrestling(EBW) last spring, the group continued to plague SN members, but then rumors surfaced that they appeared in another community. In fact, many members in the Yard Barker community have said that this was going on for a long time. Bloggers began to give the two attention for their actions which helped them garner much needed internet-wide attention. It's believed by some that a Thumb Down campaign had begun to unravel the site along with many other issues they seemed to have instigated. Both of them are suspects in starting the campaign in which they caused petty differences among members. They still exist in the SN community with their antics, and have begun to take the campaign tour around the internet.
Recently, it was learned that another T&R Tot was possibly on it's way. However, some claim that the only thing they really do together is give each other the "thumb". Whether it's true or not, society wouldn't be accepting another member of the T&R family in the world.
From the time he grew up until now, T&R Guy has lived a life of anonymity in everything he's done. It's been said that he wears a mask in public, and so does T&R Girl. The constant scrutiny of being labeled as a negative, instigating, and anonymous presence on the internet has earned him legendary status among the troll communities. The T&R Guy's legacy of conspiring out of jealousy is fully intact regardless of how his life unfolds. He's still active in BWE Promotions these days on the EBW brand.
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The idea and credit of this blog goes to fragnoli, who had done a series of True Blogger Stories in the past on SN. Thank you for viewing, and be sure to check his site along with the others on my Blog Roll List.
12/19/2008 11:10:00 AM
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6 comments:
Nicely done Dave! And thanks for the shout-out at the end.
We may never know who T&R Guy is in real life, but we'll always know how much of a scoundrel he is.
Thanks frag. You created the True Blogger Story concept, so I'm giving credit where it's due. I just felt like writing about the T&R Guy with that concept.
And yes, he's a scoundrel! Glad you beat him down when you did though! LOL!
That was great...I really enjoyed that...Probably because of my hatred of thumb & runners.
Thanks BEEZE. There are many that share your thoughts on this!
Well-done indeed! T&Rs drive everyone crazy, and are certainly an unfortunate occurrence. So take THAT, thumber!
I'm liking the new site!
Thanks wassup. I'm long past those issues, but I felt the legend of T&R had to be brought to life anyway. LOL!
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