Enter the Tingleverse
April 25, 2016 3:47 PM Subscribe
Enter the Tingleverse
No thanks, I'm good.
posted by soren_lorensen at 3:56 PM on April 25, 2016 [8 favorites]
No thanks, I'm good.
posted by soren_lorensen at 3:56 PM on April 25, 2016 [8 favorites]
I'd thought he was just some weird twitter guy who'd taken it to the nth degree as a joke, but his story is a lot sadder than I expected. Be sure to check out the reddit AMA by his son.
posted by AFABulous at 3:56 PM on April 25, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by AFABulous at 3:56 PM on April 25, 2016 [1 favorite]
I'd thought he was just some weird twitter guy who'd taken it to the nth degree as a joke, but his story is a lot sadder than I expected.
Unless the story is just another layer to his persona. It's not like there's any proof Jon Tingle exists beyond that one AMA and a handful of Chuck Tingle tweets.
That facet of Tingle mostly just makes me think of @coffee_dad and the "dark" layer to his persona.
posted by rorgy at 4:20 PM on April 25, 2016 [4 favorites]
Unless the story is just another layer to his persona. It's not like there's any proof Jon Tingle exists beyond that one AMA and a handful of Chuck Tingle tweets.
That facet of Tingle mostly just makes me think of @coffee_dad and the "dark" layer to his persona.
posted by rorgy at 4:20 PM on April 25, 2016 [4 favorites]
Well, that got dark.
posted by ChurchHatesTucker at 4:26 PM on April 25, 2016
posted by ChurchHatesTucker at 4:26 PM on April 25, 2016
Yeah there's no way this backstory is true. There's no student by the name of Hunter Fox at UCLA, for example. Just another skin to the onion keeping the publicity going.
posted by crazy with stars at 4:31 PM on April 25, 2016 [7 favorites]
posted by crazy with stars at 4:31 PM on April 25, 2016 [7 favorites]
Tingle posted this this morning, and there's no way you can tell me that isn't straight from the weird twitter / Nightvale / dadaist playbook. Glad he's doing some fucked up world-building! I don't think any of this really needs to go the "is he a tortured outsider artist or not" route, though.
posted by naju at 5:02 PM on April 25, 2016 [8 favorites]
posted by naju at 5:02 PM on April 25, 2016 [8 favorites]
Chuck Tingle is to Youtube as You Suck At Photoshop is to the Kindle Store.
posted by infinitewindow at 5:39 PM on April 25, 2016
posted by infinitewindow at 5:39 PM on April 25, 2016
Enter the Tingleverse
On Amazon, Tingleverse enters you!
posted by octobersurprise at 6:50 PM on April 25, 2016 [9 favorites]
On Amazon, Tingleverse enters you!
posted by octobersurprise at 6:50 PM on April 25, 2016 [9 favorites]
this is important because all flavors besides chocolate, strawberry and vanilla are illegal in the united state and that is wrong. this is important to me because spagetti and milk are my favorite flavors and i dont think its fair that they are illegal."
So Chuck Tingle sounds like yer average SovCit? Between this and the House of Utah thing, I'm betting that "Chuck Tingle" is Mormon housewife with a fixation over being pounded in the butt by the 14th Amendment.
posted by octobersurprise at 7:05 PM on April 25, 2016
So Chuck Tingle sounds like yer average SovCit? Between this and the House of Utah thing, I'm betting that "Chuck Tingle" is Mormon housewife with a fixation over being pounded in the butt by the 14th Amendment.
posted by octobersurprise at 7:05 PM on April 25, 2016
"Leonard Delaney" has some good titles too, including "Oregon Patriots Occupied My Butt" and "Conquered by Clippy"
posted by BungaDunga at 7:06 PM on April 25, 2016 [2 favorites]
posted by BungaDunga at 7:06 PM on April 25, 2016 [2 favorites]
I'd thought he was just some weird twitter guy who'd taken it to the nth degree as a joke, but his story is a lot sadder than I expected.
I'm genuinely surprised to find out he isn't an algorithm.
Well, that got dark.
And yet, Chuck Tingle is indirectly responsible for the only MeFi comment ever to make me snort hot coffee into my sinuses.
posted by ryanshepard at 7:23 PM on April 25, 2016
I'm genuinely surprised to find out he isn't an algorithm.
Well, that got dark.
And yet, Chuck Tingle is indirectly responsible for the only MeFi comment ever to make me snort hot coffee into my sinuses.
posted by ryanshepard at 7:23 PM on April 25, 2016
"Leonard Delaney" has some good titles too, including "Oregon Patriots Occupied My Butt" and "Conquered by Clippy"
I spent money on Conquered by Clippy and read the whole thing.
I still can't decide whether that was one of my worst decisions or one of my best decisions.
posted by Jacqueline at 8:00 PM on April 25, 2016 [11 favorites]
I spent money on Conquered by Clippy and read the whole thing.
I still can't decide whether that was one of my worst decisions or one of my best decisions.
posted by Jacqueline at 8:00 PM on April 25, 2016 [11 favorites]
his story is a lot sadder than I expected.
What story? Has anyone ever reported anything about Chuck Tingle that wasn't obviously further fiction? (Perhaps you're just extending the joke, I dunno.)
posted by kenko at 8:55 PM on April 25, 2016
What story? Has anyone ever reported anything about Chuck Tingle that wasn't obviously further fiction? (Perhaps you're just extending the joke, I dunno.)
posted by kenko at 8:55 PM on April 25, 2016
AFABulous: "his story is a lot sadder than I expected"
You mean "story" as in literally "story," right? We know absolutely nothing about the guy. I agree, though, that the fictional backstory is sadder than I would have expected he'd make his fictional backstory.
posted by Bugbread at 12:09 AM on April 26, 2016
You mean "story" as in literally "story," right? We know absolutely nothing about the guy. I agree, though, that the fictional backstory is sadder than I would have expected he'd make his fictional backstory.
posted by Bugbread at 12:09 AM on April 26, 2016
Chuck Tingle: The Sad Backstory about How I Got Pounded in the Backside by My Sad Backstory.
posted by straight at 12:30 AM on April 26, 2016 [7 favorites]
posted by straight at 12:30 AM on April 26, 2016 [7 favorites]
Pounded in the Butt by Amazon's Reccomendation Engine
posted by Mr.Encyclopedia at 4:00 AM on April 26, 2016 [2 favorites]
posted by Mr.Encyclopedia at 4:00 AM on April 26, 2016 [2 favorites]
Just came in to say that Tingle's Space Raptor Butt Invasion is nominated for a Best Short Story Hugo for 2016.
posted by infinitewindow at 11:01 AM on April 26, 2016 [2 favorites]
posted by infinitewindow at 11:01 AM on April 26, 2016 [2 favorites]
Pounded in the Butt by a Best Short Story Hugo Nomination
posted by Law of Demeter at 11:01 AM on April 26, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by Law of Demeter at 11:01 AM on April 26, 2016 [1 favorite]
Well, if I had to choose a literary award to be pounded in my butt...
posted by ChurchHatesTucker at 11:05 AM on April 26, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by ChurchHatesTucker at 11:05 AM on April 26, 2016 [1 favorite]
On the one hand, after reading the AMA I feel a bit guilty and sad, because I was convinced that this was a troll. I have read Unicorn Butt Cops: Beach Patrol, and it's competently written, so I figured it HAD to be trolling. To find out that it is an actually mentally disturbed person makes me feel a little dickish. On the other hand, from his son's account, Chuck Tingle is happier than he has ever been, and he himself recognizes the humor in a book like "Pounded in the Butt By My Book Pounded in the Butt", and I can't really naysay that.
I hope he wins that Hugo.
posted by chainsofreedom at 4:18 PM on April 26, 2016 [2 favorites]
I hope he wins that Hugo.
posted by chainsofreedom at 4:18 PM on April 26, 2016 [2 favorites]
I'm still seeing absolutely no information that points to this not being a troll. In fact, this whole article is just additional evidence that it is all a troll. Seriously, read it again. The author contacts zero people who know Tingle, besides, supposedly, Tingle's son. He talks about Tingle having an arch-nemesis neighbor whose Twitter feed is vague pedophelia and dinosaur sex jokes, with a fake profile photo. The arch-nemesis neighbor also has a Facebook page with drawings similar to videos put out by Tingle. And that's about it. Other than that, it's just more quotes from Tingle and Jon.
This isn't evidence of the AMA being true, it's evidence of the AMA being not true.
posted by Bugbread at 5:13 PM on April 26, 2016 [2 favorites]
This isn't evidence of the AMA being true, it's evidence of the AMA being not true.
posted by Bugbread at 5:13 PM on April 26, 2016 [2 favorites]
Loooooooong con!
posted by chainsofreedom at 5:17 PM on April 26, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by chainsofreedom at 5:17 PM on April 26, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by 445supermag at 6:25 PM on April 26, 2016
Losers whine about their best. Winners go home and fuck the prom king.
posted by infinitewindow at 8:02 PM on April 26, 2016
posted by infinitewindow at 8:02 PM on April 26, 2016
Y'all this line in the AMA: " Dad has a hard time understanding many things, but I would not let him be the butt of some worldwide joke if I didn't have faith that he was in on it in some way. "
I know a few people in real life who are actually in the position Jon Tingle claims to be-- their schizophrenic or otherwise disturbed fathers are viral internet weirdos a la TimeCube. None of the Chuck Tingle stuff reads anything even remotely like the kind of content generated by these guys. I vote troll.
posted by moonlight on vermont at 3:37 AM on April 27, 2016
I know a few people in real life who are actually in the position Jon Tingle claims to be-- their schizophrenic or otherwise disturbed fathers are viral internet weirdos a la TimeCube. None of the Chuck Tingle stuff reads anything even remotely like the kind of content generated by these guys. I vote troll.
posted by moonlight on vermont at 3:37 AM on April 27, 2016
Yeah, there is absolutely no way this back story is real. It's all too perfect: the complete separation of the author from the work; the proliferation of weirdly fictive biographical "evidence"; the ridiculously fake PhD; the fact that the related books offered on the Kindle store tend to be George Eliot novels. I'm betting former or current graduate student in Eng. Lit. (or MFA), plus a lot of giggling.
posted by Sonny Jim at 5:08 AM on April 27, 2016
posted by Sonny Jim at 5:08 AM on April 27, 2016
From the AMA
johnewarren 4 points 47 minutes agoposted by ChurchHatesTucker at 12:18 PM on April 27, 2016 [1 favorite]
Do you believe Ted Cobbler is behind your recent detractors saying your nomination is nothing but a conspiracy to make the Hugo Awards look foolish?chucktinglethanks[S] 4 points 29 minutes ago
yes this is clearly a ted cobbler trick and part of the DEVILMAN AGENDA. hugos award is about SHOWING THAT LOVE IS REAL and that means when soundrels try to take over they are antibuckaroo. so best idea I think is to prove that love is REAL and show that sciencest writers UNDERSTAND man name of CHUCK is not just inside books but out here in the first layer of the tingleverse. this sentence is PART OF SPACE RAPTOR BUTT INVASION because it proves love is real as an expirence in the tingleverse to make buds hard. so this is why I think that love will win over devilman tactics and prove LOVE IS REAL for all who kiss the sky.
He's already written and published Slammed In The Butt By My Hugo Award Nomination
The man is some kind of god.
posted by Jacqueline at 6:41 PM on April 27, 2016 [2 favorites]
The man is some kind of god.
posted by Jacqueline at 6:41 PM on April 27, 2016 [2 favorites]
Even better, he's announced on twitter that - since he can't make the Hugo ceremony at Worldcon - if he wins, his award will be accepted by Zoe Quinn.
posted by rmd1023 at 10:11 AM on May 5, 2016 [5 favorites]
posted by rmd1023 at 10:11 AM on May 5, 2016 [5 favorites]
She's changed her Twitter screen name to True Buckaroo, too.
But honestly, if there's anyone who knows how to say "fuck you up the ass" in an elegant and amusing way, it's Chuck Tingle.
posted by NoxAeternum at 11:35 AM on May 5, 2016 [2 favorites]
But honestly, if there's anyone who knows how to say "fuck you up the ass" in an elegant and amusing way, it's Chuck Tingle.
posted by NoxAeternum at 11:35 AM on May 5, 2016 [2 favorites]
Has anyone actually read any of his books? I am so curious.
posted by jeather at 12:57 PM on May 5, 2016
posted by jeather at 12:57 PM on May 5, 2016
Ursula Vernon filks about Chuck and Zoe, with apologies to Dr. Seuss:
The Hugos still lived, in spite of his claim!
He tried to stop fandom but fandom still came!
(Though not QUITE like in books with Chuck Tingle's name.)
posted by NoxAeternum at 8:14 PM on May 6, 2016 [1 favorite]
The Hugos still lived, in spite of his claim!
He tried to stop fandom but fandom still came!
(Though not QUITE like in books with Chuck Tingle's name.)
posted by NoxAeternum at 8:14 PM on May 6, 2016 [1 favorite]
I love Chuck Tingle because he/she is a brilliant, self-aware and hilarious troll.
posted by a strong female character at 8:58 PM on May 14, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by a strong female character at 8:58 PM on May 14, 2016 [1 favorite]
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I am so very, very sorry.
posted by NoxAeternum at 3:52 PM on April 25, 2016 [1 favorite]