How dare you guys use the Spanish 'haha' on such a serious thread?
I find it funny how FBI agents would post pictures of themselves on Facebook.
How hard is it to make a few fake FB profiles, am I missing something or isn't that really extremely weak "evidence?"
Please consult "Exposing The Buffalo Club"/"Brock Pierce All Things Considered" for the complete thesis as to why they're authentic. There are dozens of reasons - "a preponderance of evidence," as they say in the civil courts - that these profiles are authentic.
The quasi-tl;dr addendum is this. For starters...
THEY'RE ACTIVE AND CHATTY
As PG noted, these 12-14 profiles move like a pack. If someone uploads a photo, it gets likes and comments from most of the others, often within minutes of one another. It's usually some refrain of "lol/jajajaja" or comments featuring bizarre syntax, like they've been auto-fed through Facebook's Bing translator from Spanish. There are many references to "Buffalo JA" over the course of the past 3 years. There are pictures of monkey buttholes and monkey testicles. There are pictures of jails.
"What color hair has Buffalo JA? lol"
"Wordless!"
"bad...jajajaja"
"reality...jajajajaja"
THESE ACCOUNTS HAVE BEEN AROUND FOR YEARS
These accounts go back as far as 2010. The central ones - Marc Rector, Brock (Pierce) Rector, and Kevin Colins (Chad Shackley) - have all been quite active since 2012, and still are to this day (though their pages have mostly gone private ever since this lil' investigation broke). The DIA/FBI guys are newer additions to the club. Most of them joined in 2013. The FBI/DIA/INTERPOL logos started appearing on their profiles in the last week of February, this year. Same time Gox and Autumn met their fates.
Therefore, we might as well cross off "Bitcoin competitor" as a suspect. Brock Pierce was still wrapped up in his IGE-esque ventures at that time. Nobody knew he was going to be a big player in Bitcoin, and for that matter nobody had any actual clue that Bitcoin would surge to $1200 in three years' time.
SO...WHO ELSE COULD HAVE DONE THIS?
The best way to disambiguate these profiles is to divine a possible motive. If these profiles are NOT Marc/Brock/Chad, who could possibly be responsible for them? As Brock Pierce himself said on Twitter, we can assume whoever made these profiles has a "not good" motive. They're out to smear him, link him to Marc Rector, etc. BUT WHY?
Brock Pierce has definitely made enemies. There are thousands of WoW players who blame him for ruining their beloved MMO experience. There are a bunch of former child actors who tried to sue him for sexual assault. He only paid off one of them.
Whoever this mysterious enemy of Brock is, he must have a deep well of hatred...he's been lurking for 2-3 YEARS on facebook, quietly fabricating a patchbook of incriminating correspondence with a fake Marc Collins-Rector and fake Chad...
...But he doesn't stop there. He tracks who Brock's been making friends with back in LA. He even creates fake profiles for Ken Rutkowski, Brock's new Santa Monica bestie. So fully dedicated to the Authenticity of his scheme, he somehow finds an incredibly obscure photo from the 2008 Tech Cowboys UnConference in Jackson Hole, uploaded nowhere else but Jeff Pulver's private Flickr account...and he adds that to Ken's facebook album.
But our cyberstalker isn't done! he decides to add another layer of intriguing fuckery in late 2013, tossing in some LA-based non-profit guy named Michael Kaliski, setting up his profile to make him look like a DIA agent...then he adds two more "INTERPOL agents"...their photos are so obscure that they don't even pop up on a Google Images search!
The artistry of this tr0ll! To be so methodical and precise, so coldly calculated.....
that he doesn't even bother posting this shit when the Bryan Singer sex abuse hits the headlines back in March. For the first time in years, the terms "Brock Pierce" and "pedophile" are being splashed across all the Gawkers and Jezebels and Buzzfeeds...and Brock's arch enemy does nothing! He continues to post things, but keeps the FB profiles obscure.
Nobody is tipped off to them, no anonymous person drops a link on Twitter, BTCtalk, Perez Hilton, WeHo Confidential...Weeks later, Brock begins his big push to join the board of TBF, while simultaneously attempting to purchase Mt. Gox as quickly as humanly possible. Some Bitcoin people are starting to grumble on forums about all these fast business moves...people are starting to wonder, "Who is Sunlot? Who is Brock Pierce?"
But again, our Brock-hating villain stays his hand! Why didn't he strike when the getting was good? Why didn't he blast this across the web BEFORE Brock's already-controversial election? Why didn't he take his VENGEANCE and ruin Brock Pierce's legitimacy once and for all?
Because he doesn't fucking exist. That's why.
It's a matter of forum record that Phinnaeus Gage was the first person to share these Facebook accounts with people who actually might give a shit (us). Further investigative work has been done by myself and (as far as I know) two or three other anonymous individuals who, like myself, are simply fascinated by all this shit. Oh, how we wish we could just look away...
I, for one, can pledge to you that until early 2014, I only knew Brock Pierce as "young Gordon Bombay" and "the kid in that First Kid movie, wait wasn't Sinbad in that?"
And while I'm a n00b to this forum, veterans of BTCtalk can likely attest that PG, for all his tenacity, has not been quietly engineering a massive takedown of Brock Pierce since 2010. He's had plenty of other foes to deal with (davout, etc etc).
Convinced yet? Either way, there's more...
