I'm going to kill myself in 90 days

February 10, 2008 3:33 PM

"I'm going to kill myself in 90 days." A blogger calling herself "Jane" sets up a blog to chronicle her final 90 days, and is calling on the internet for suggestions on how to do it. Disturbed blogger? Or another "viral campaign" for something soon to be revealed?

I couldn't find any articles about it, or further investigation. The WhoIS yields nothing interesting and the only mentions I could find were a bunch of forum posts and a craigslist post

posted by revmitcz (291 comments total)

More like something that should be summarily ignored..
posted by parallax7d at 3:34 PM on February 10 [8 favorites]

I mean, as an atheist I feel life has no greater purpose. My generation has had no great depression, no great war and our biggest obstacle is beating Halo 3. So, if I feel like saying "game over", why can't I?

I say fundie viral. I bet on day 0 she has a religious epiphany and turns to Jesus, who has finally given her life meaning.
posted by papakwanz at 3:37 PM on February 10 [38 favorites]

Her argument is that she has no purpose and thus has no reason to be alive.

If she truly believed that, she'd not be alive, chronicling her last 90 days. Is that not some odd sense of purpose?
posted by scabrous at 3:39 PM on February 10 [10 favorites]

More like AttentionWhoreJane
posted by p3on at 3:41 PM on February 10 [2 favorites]

ooh.. papakwanz just might have it.

(and she's quoting Fight Club anyway, which is kinda the WeakSauce)
posted by revmitcz at 3:41 PM on February 10

Suicide Blue?
posted by geekyguy at 3:42 PM on February 10 [2 favorites]

"I'm going to kill myself in 90 days."

Do it now, you lazy, procrastinating dingbat, I have shit to do.
posted by jonmc at 3:42 PM on February 10 [53 favorites]

Having had a look at day 90, I can only proffer the traditional advice which I imagine is practically currency in the Something Awful forums: it's down the river and not across the street, lady.

Well what, it's practical advice! I actually wondered whether I should write this or not, but since she's made up her mind and not willing to reconsider it'd be a shame if she were to botch it up. I'd hate to be driven to suicide -- and an extraordinarily public one at that -- only to be ultimately unsuccessful and left with the idea that "shit, I can't even do THAT right".
posted by clevershark at 3:42 PM on February 10

My generation has had no great depression, no great war and our biggest obstacle is beating Halo 3.
I generally consider those good things. I'd rather play Halo 3 than live through the Great Depression.
posted by jmd82 at 3:44 PM on February 10 [23 favorites]

I thought there was a law requiring one to quote Fight Club when making a suicide blog?

90 days? This isn't even a cry for help. It's a cry for attention.
posted by Ryvar at 3:44 PM on February 10 [1 favorite]

scabrous wins.
(she won't do it, but if she does, then it might be worth reading.)
posted by patr1ck at 3:44 PM on February 10

I didn't think anyone would find it or even care if they did.

Well, even if you don't promote your blog or post a link to it somewhere, people will eventually find it by using blogspot's "next blog" button, which gives you a random blog to read. I know because I started a few blogs and abandoned them without ever passing the URL around, only to get notified months later that someone found it and posted a comment.

But within two days of starting her blog, it shows up on Cragislist and within 5 days it's on Metafilter? Smells skunky to me, unless "she" was putting it out there herself.
posted by notmydesk at 3:47 PM on February 10

This will be much more interesting if we find out she gets run over by a bus or something before the 90 days are up.
posted by blaneyphoto at 3:48 PM on February 10 [4 favorites]

I think it's a cry for help. Help dying that is. Let's be good samaritans and kill her.
posted by jonmc at 3:49 PM on February 10 [1 favorite]

My generation has had no great depression, no great war and our biggest obstacle is beating Halo 3.

Bullshit. We have Bush, global warming, a ridiculous war in Iraq, a wholy misinformed public, genocide continuing on as we speak, human trafficking, a complete lack of sustainability -- I could go on forever. Don't speak for "your generation," because some of us actually give a shit about the world we live in.
posted by spiderskull at 3:50 PM on February 10 [49 favorites]

If one is really committed to ending their living time on this planet, why wait 90 days and add to the global warming problem for the rest of us? Selfish beotch!

This will probably be a case of suicidus interruptus though. Anyone who goes through that much trouble doesn't want to die; they just want people to pay attention to them. Correct me in 90 days if I'm wrong. And if you show me I'm wrong, I promise I won't be consumed with grief and kill myself.
posted by jamstigator at 3:50 PM on February 10 [1 favorite]

Jesus fuck, I hope network news doesn't pick this up.
posted by tracert at 3:53 PM on February 10 [7 favorites]

This is ridiculous.
posted by inconsequentialist at 3:53 PM on February 10

I hope someone who's had a loved one commit suicide, finds her and punches her in the face. She should just get it over with already.
posted by Skygazer at 3:53 PM on February 10 [4 favorites]

If 500 people favorite this comment, I'll disable my account.
posted by hermitosis at 3:54 PM on February 10 [500 favorites]

No fair, I want her to do it now

I hate old Internet 1.0
posted by mattoxic at 3:55 PM on February 10

Maybe she can be brought around and back to appreciating life by experiencing the crisp, refreshing taste of Pepsi Blue(tm)!

I think the consensus is that it's either simple attention-whoring or the most appallingly tasteless viral ad in history.
posted by clevershark at 3:56 PM on February 10 [1 favorite]

Is Halo 3 really that hard to beat?
posted by notmydesk at 3:57 PM on February 10 [11 favorites]

Jesus fuck, I hope network news doesn't pick this up.

Yes, it could start a suicide fad, which would be bad. The decision of whether or not to kill yourself is one of the most important a weblogger can make.

Weblog Suicide...Don't Do It!!
posted by jonmc at 3:57 PM on February 10 [2 favorites]

If she's looking for fun projects to brighten her remaining days, she should consider a 90 day suicide-themed advent calendar. Each day could have a little Edward Gorey-style drawing, depicting a ghastly suicide.

Maybe after 90 days of really thinking about it, and having fun putting together her calendar, she'll realize that life isn't so bad after all, as long as you have something interesting to do.
posted by SPrintF at 3:57 PM on February 10 [8 favorites]

Population reduction?
posted by ninjew at 3:57 PM on February 10

jane is a gangster!!!
posted by grouse at 3:58 PM on February 10 [3 favorites]

Each day could have a little Edward Gorey-style drawing, depicting a ghastly suicide.

Are there 90 Bunny Suicide drawings? I personally prefer that minimalist style to Gorey's.
posted by clevershark at 4:00 PM on February 10

Hey, either it's real or it isn't. Either way, the solution is the same - refer it along to mental health professionals and the police. If it's real, maybe she'll get the help she needs - if it's fake, hopefully the idiots behind it will get arrested.
posted by Mitrovarr at 4:00 PM on February 10 [10 favorites]

I hope someone who's had a loved one commit suicide, finds her and punches her in the face.

I have, twice. And I'd love to. Three times.
posted by The Deej at 4:01 PM on February 10 [5 favorites]

If 250 people favor this comment, I'll kill myself. In 90 days.
posted by item at 4:01 PM on February 10 [44 favorites]

Yeah.......... I'm not clicking on that. I don't want my hit contributing to that. Whether it's genuine, attention-whore hoax, or viral marketing and/or fundie-ism: Ew.
posted by CKmtl at 4:02 PM on February 10 [3 favorites]

I told you I was planning maybe to be hardcore at some predetermined time in the future!

I'm wondering how long it will take for the handwringing, poor-thing, mental-health-is-not-funny brigade to make us feel guilty for joking about this, so I'll say that it's sad if it's real and I hope she doesn't actually go through with it (spectacularly unlikely as that may be).

But if it's some kind of promotional or marketing stunt, I'll kill those responsible myself, with my bare goddamn hands.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 4:02 PM on February 10 [6 favorites]

Achewood, on a similar mission.

also: is it just me, or has she already dropped a couple clues as to a location and a bit of a routine with the dress shopping and the Starbucks/Hollywood sign?
posted by heeeraldo at 4:02 PM on February 10

@notmdesk

I can only vouch for a friend having shown it to me, and knowing he's definitely not involved. I'm also not. The rest, however, is admittedly kinda fishy.

way off-topic personal note : never realized you were on MeFi, your "temporary insanity" writings are still a source of extreme delight for me. And, oddly, you're the only blogger I've ever actually e-mailed to compliment. Albeit about 4 years ago.
posted by revmitcz at 4:06 PM on February 10

If 65913 people favorite this comment, I'll get drunk and dance naked on my porch then pass out.
posted by jonmc at 4:07 PM on February 10 [51 favorites]

If eleven people favourite this comment, I'll kill myself in Halo 3.
posted by tawny at 4:07 PM on February 10 [30 favorites]

I want all of you to do the things you promise to do. But I can only favorite your comments once. Which I'm too lazy to do. One man can't make a difference.
posted by ninjew at 4:09 PM on February 10

I like the part in the video where she takes her clothes off.

Also, what is up with the "pan and scan" or whatever that is going on with the footage? The camera is ostensibly on a tripod or otherwise "still", but yet the field of view moves around. There is something strange going on there.

If I were going to kill myself in 90 days, my goal would be to have as much sex as possible with as many people as possible.

Think about it, you don't have to fear VD, and if you are a woman, you don't even have to fear pregnancy (provided you don't mind possibly terminating a 1st trimester pregnancy along with yourself, which I wouldn't think you would).

I'm not sure what this is, but you can say with some certainty it is not what it professes to be.
posted by Ynoxas at 4:12 PM on February 10

I really will disable my account permanently if 500 people favorite that comment. Although, it's been just a few minutes and there are already a dozen, so this may have been a higher-stakes game than I thought I was playing.
posted by hermitosis at 4:13 PM on February 10 [2 favorites]

I wonder if she's ever been called a tease.
posted by inconsequentialist at 4:13 PM on February 10 [2 favorites]

papakwanz

I say fundie viral. I bet on day 0 she has a religious epiphany and turns to Jesus, who has finally given her life meaning.

This was my exact thought upon first reading it, too.

If I had money, I'd bet a lot of it that she'll somehow be saved by finding Jesus.

Notice, too, that the picture of the hollywood sign has a blatant cross. The photo has nothing to do with her post whatsoever. I think it's some kind of lame attempt at foreshadowing.

Not only do I agree with Mitrovarr that mental health pros and the police need to be called in, but I think some serious net forensics need to be done to out this person.
posted by vertigo25 at 4:13 PM on February 10 [1 favorite]

You've got my vote jon.
posted by nola at 4:14 PM on February 10

and our biggest obstacle is beating Halo 3.

Two words: Nethack, roguelikes.
posted by ersatz at 4:16 PM on February 10 [6 favorites]

This is not the best of the web.

Taken at face value, posting her blog here is publicizing someone's psychological problems and making a spectacle of them. Granted, that's what she wants, probably, but it's not what she needs.

If it's anything else, i.e. some viral campaign, then they are making a spectacle of other people's psychological problems, and trivializing them. It's insulting.
posted by gauchodaspampas at 4:16 PM on February 10 [7 favorites]

On a side note, since preliminary investigations into the IP location and Whois information have proved uninteresting, let's all flag it for objectionable content. As soon as the hosting company finds out about it, they'll hit the delete key so fast they'll probably break their finger, and they will have far greater ability to find out where the creator is located (to summon help if it's real and legal retribution if it's not) than we do.
posted by Mitrovarr at 4:17 PM on February 10 [2 favorites]

I like the part in the video where she takes her clothes off.

you big tease, she keeps her undies on. Besides she's too skinny for my taste.
posted by jonmc at 4:17 PM on February 10

You've got my vote jon.

must be my right purty mouth. ;>
posted by jonmc at 4:18 PM on February 10

If 65913 people favorite this comment, I'll get drunk and dance naked on my porch then pass out.

Oh come on, you were going to do that anyway.
posted by clevershark at 4:19 PM on February 10 [4 favorites]

I didn't think anyone would find it or even care if they did... This blog is not a cry for help or even to get attention.

Your typing says no, but your statcounter says yes, Yes, YES!
posted by Alvy Ampersand at 4:19 PM on February 10 [2 favorites]

But, jonmc would do those things anyways without your charity favorites! Scandalous!
posted by Burhanistan at 4:21 PM on February 10

Do it now, you lazy, procrastinating dingbat, I have shit to do.

I think it's a cry for help. Help dying that is. Let's be good samaritans and kill her.

Are you one of those assholes who yells jump? Fuck, grow up man!
posted by P.o.B. at 4:22 PM on February 10 [4 favorites]

i told u i was hardcore
posted by nasreddin at 4:23 PM on February 10 [6 favorites]

Day 86's "here I am in my underwear" crotch-cam screams fake to me. For some silly reason I don't think a suicide interested in anonymity would identify her hometown and then post a video of herself in her underwear, with her face clearly visible.

My nickel bet: it's a "journalist" who wants to write about how cold and heartless people on the internet are. If it isn't actually being produced by one, it'll certainly be used that way by one.
posted by ook at 4:24 PM on February 10

*hands P.o.B. a razor blade*
posted by jonmc at 4:24 PM on February 10

Sure, she'll kill herself in 90 days, but not before revealing how amazingly ripped she got from her Power 90X workout.
posted by Sys Rq at 4:27 PM on February 10 [1 favorite]

I hope someone who's had a loved one commit suicide, finds her and punches her in the face.

I have, twice. And I'd love to. Three times.
posted by The Deej at 7:01 PM on February 10 [+] [!]

Make that four.

: (
posted by Skygazer at 4:27 PM on February 10

Ynoxas, I can't see that working for me:

Fat balding depressive middle aged man wants to have sex with as many people as possible..

hello, any takers?

Fat balding depressive middle aged man here....

Free sex, hello...

Anyone?
posted by mattoxic at 4:28 PM on February 10

and FWIW, I've known at least three people who've killed themselves which is why I wont indulge this ridiculousness.
posted by jonmc at 4:31 PM on February 10

She looks emo to me... and she can barely keep my attention for 9 min let alone 90 days.
posted by fearfulsymmetry at 4:31 PM on February 10

the internet excels at spreading stupid, doesn't it?
posted by pyramid termite at 4:34 PM on February 10 [3 favorites]

There should be a Dexter-type to take care of fake suicide morons like her.
posted by hojoki at 4:35 PM on February 10 [1 favorite]

Well, I guess one of the writers on strike needed something to do...


My vote is for some upcoming tiv show or something.

I don't think truly suicidal people do things like that or sound like that.

And if it does turn out to be some kind of "fundie viral" I'LL be ticked off. Because it would be pretty darn unbiblical.

(AND my final answer, if it does turn out to be someone with mental illness, I vote borderline disorder.)
posted by konolia at 4:37 PM on February 10

Make that TV show. I can spell but apparently I'm not all that as a typist.
posted by konolia at 4:37 PM on February 10

Isn't 90 days a long time to wait for your period?
posted by hal9k at 4:37 PM on February 10 [3 favorites]

Her last post will say "He who is valiant and pure of spirit may find the Holy Grail in the Castle of aaaaaagggh." (Yes, I know Python quotes are tacky, but this post calls for tacky.)
posted by goatdog at 4:39 PM on February 10 [1 favorite]

A yawn for help?
posted by furtive at 4:40 PM on February 10 [6 favorites]

I think it's a fundie viral; this is exactly the kind of thing they think is just brilliant and the whole riff about being an atheist and life not having any meaning is exactly what fundies think about atheists. Also, the "me in my underwear" thing is about as close as a fundie could come to what they would really want to show, which is nakedness and not caring about people seeing your body because nothing has meaning. But, being fundies, they can't actually do that so they pull the punch.

And I keep saying they because I will bet money there are at least as many people behind this as there are behind lonelygirl115.
posted by localroger at 4:40 PM on February 10

Hey, either it's real or it isn't. Either way, the solution is the same - refer it along to mental health professionals and the police. If it's real, maybe she'll get the help she needs - if it's fake, hopefully the idiots behind it will get arrested.

For what?
posted by Flunkie at 4:43 PM on February 10 [2 favorites]

Maybe this blog will also turn out to be a Chris Morris spoof.
posted by little apollo at 4:43 PM on February 10

Frankly if this is a fundie viral I'd find it very hard to fight the temptation of putting a rock through one of the involved church's windows were I to find myself near the building. "Bearing false witness", and all that.
posted by clevershark at 4:44 PM on February 10 [1 favorite]

And if it does turn out to be some kind of "fundie viral" I'LL be ticked off. Because it would be pretty darn unbiblical.

konolia, comments like taht are the reason I dig your funky vibe, sister. (also, you're over 50, right? If you flirt with me I can initiate you into the club of 50+ women who flirt with me* at my workplace (and it's only women over 50) that me and my co-workers have dubbed 'Jon's Cougars.')
posted by jonmc at 4:44 PM on February 10

to clarify: konolia at her best is like that woman in Night Of The Hunter who turns her shotgun on Robert Mitchum's character and says 'You ain't no preacher, neither."
posted by jonmc at 4:47 PM on February 10 [2 favorites]

More and more Internet is starting to resemble 19th century Russian novels. This is the young person who is not very popular, but wasting to tuberculosis and everyone has to visit and try to smile and be supportive while hoping that she would turn the drama down or die already. Then there is a senseless war going on, and a new political hope somewhere. And much ado about God.
posted by Free word order! at 4:49 PM on February 10 [22 favorites]

Flunkie: For what?

Oh, probably falsely causing a crime (or emergency) to be reported. I believe that's illegal in at least some jurisdictions. I'm sure it violates other laws as well - and there's always getting the person responsible committed involuntarily.

Also, unless this is self-hosted, the host will kick them off. There's just too much liability involved with a project like this (i.e. copycats.)
posted by Mitrovarr at 4:50 PM on February 10

Also, what is up with the "pan and scan" or whatever that is going on with the footage?

Well, my webcam has some (shitty) feature where it will follow your movements with software, zoom in / zoom out automatically. That's a possibility.
posted by Jimbob at 4:52 PM on February 10

SheHe should just get it over with already

Those were the very words I spoke to a friend of mine over breakfast, regarding my brother. Little did I know his discoloured body was swelling under a warm summer sun in his Olds Cutlass even as I uttered them.

Express derision for attention whores, yes, but speak not those words - if ther follow through you'll regret them, guaranteed.
posted by CynicalKnight at 4:55 PM on February 10 [15 favorites]

I don't know if this is real, but if it isn't, one day this sort of thing probably will become real.

There's a certain dark humor occasionally:

Also, I don't want to pre-sell or go to the trouble of boxing anything up. Call me selfish, but who wants to spend their last days packing up a house?

But mostly, it's just boring.
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 4:55 PM on February 10

Suicidal threats? Check!
Nudity or partial nudity? Check!
Now she just needs visuals of her making out with another chick, and she'll have completed the Attention Whore Trifecta.
posted by schroedinger at 4:57 PM on February 10

konolia, comments like taht are the reason I dig your funky vibe, sister. (also, you're over 50, right? If you flirt with me I can initiate you into the club of 50+ women who flirt with me* at my workplace (and it's only women over 50) that me and my co-workers have dubbed 'Jon's Cougars.')

Sorry, friend, still forty-nine till December. My husband turns fifty next friday but I'm not going to allow HIM to flirt with you.
posted by konolia at 5:03 PM on February 10 [3 favorites]

papakwanz has it. Notice the big old cross in the Hollywood sign photo? Looks like konolia's gonna need to do some whuppin'.
posted by nasreddin at 5:08 PM on February 10

No matter what this is, it shouldn't be getting our attention. If it's phony it should be deleted, if it's real we shouldn't contribute to it.

My vote is to delete this fpp.
posted by HuronBob at 5:10 PM on February 10 [1 favorite]

Wow... Best O' teh Webnets, this.

I'd like to say I'll be checking back in 90 days, but I'm sure some other dumbass will have my attention at that point.
posted by Pecinpah at 5:10 PM on February 10

My husband turns fifty next friday but I'm not going to allow HIM to flirt with you.

Awww, he knows I'm cute as hell. ;>
posted by jonmc at 5:13 PM on February 10

Meh.

This would have been slightly interesting back in the day as an 'internet phenomenon' thing, but these days the Internet is culture and other forms of media are simply appendages slowly withering away.
posted by delmoi at 5:13 PM on February 10

This kid's got some great ideas that could help this idiot.
posted by Busithoth at 5:16 PM on February 10

God, is suicide seriously the next internet spectator sport? So fucked up on so many levels...
posted by liruskainen at 5:17 PM on February 10

i flagged the blog, since there needs to be either mental health professionals involved or the harsh light of day shone on the pepsiblueness.

also, her generation has no great war? what about the war we've been in for longer than WWII?
posted by rmd1023 at 5:20 PM on February 10

A good friend of mine committed suicide, and I take this stuff very seriously. That being said, this is either a stunt or a world class attention whore (quite possibly both). Either way, the world is probably better off without someone who would trivialize the horrible pain and suffering that the vast majority of suicidal people go through and do it with a "look at me!" fucking Blogger account.

Good riddance.
posted by dhammond at 5:21 PM on February 10 [1 favorite]

I predict I will favorite this and then forget about it until the Lifetime movie: "90 Days to Death"
posted by parmanparman at 5:21 PM on February 10

By the way, I notice the original poster the link ALSO lives in Hollywood...here's the blurb to his blog....is anyone else just a wee bit suspicious here?


MitczRev. Mitcz (pronounced "Reverend Mitch") is a "twentysomething" Stand-up Comedian, Internet TV Host, Actor, and 10-year-veteran Web Designer living in the jaded city Hollywood, CA.
While Rev. Mitcz's stand-up comedy can be at times jarring and abrasive, he presents a goofy twist on subjects that audiences have found endearing. Some have suggested that his comedic appeal is a mixture of his personal appearance (which in itself can be controversial) and his stage presence that becomes infectious enough to make audiences laugh at subject matter that they'd otherwise be appalled by.

This site serves as a central hub of all things Rev. Mitcz, encompassing video/audio footage of past comedy performances, photos of the man himself, a peek into his design portfolio, a list of upcoming gigs, and links around the worldwide web that show off his attempts at blogging, and the official site of his live internet-based TV show. In addition, should you want to book Rev. Mitcz to perform comedy at your event, there is information on the "booking" page
posted by konolia at 5:22 PM on February 10

Brilliant blog. Look at all the venom she drew up.

I've lost friends to suicide too, and I try to keep a little idea that they may have been telling me "fuck you".

Suicide needs more respect. I guess all the haters here would force people to stay alive if they were able to? Christ, what a bunch of assholes.
posted by telstar at 5:24 PM on February 10 [1 favorite]

Can someone grab a shot of this Hollywood cross supposed dead giveaway and put it on flickr?

Or, alternatively, a google cache of it? Assuming that won't show up as a hit for the attention-whore/marketeer/missionary.
posted by CKmtl at 5:24 PM on February 10

*gag*
Seriously, if this is a viral for anything I'm quitting this biz.
posted by dabitch at 5:27 PM on February 10 [1 favorite]

I say fundie viral. I bet on day 0 she has a religious epiphany and turns to Jesus, who has finally given her life meaning.

Bingo.
posted by Pope Guilty at 5:34 PM on February 10

Brilliant blog. Look at all the venom she drew up.

With all due respect, your metrics are shit.
posted by dhammond at 5:34 PM on February 10 [1 favorite]

I'm currently at the 10% mark. One thing they never tell you about attention-whoring, is how weirdly unfulfilling the attention feels when you have to whore for it. Really, the favorites better keep pouring in to kill me off, because otherwise there'll be no living with me after this!
posted by hermitosis at 5:34 PM on February 10

OK. Here's the thing.

Only fundies think that atheists think life has no purpose. It's the classic lame argument, and this "well, if there is no god, might as well just die" sounds like the kind of shit I heard from wacko preachers on the mall on my undergrad campus. Also, no one decides to kill themselves just because they are bored. There's no, "Hey, why not, that sounds like it'll be interesting." People who commit suicide or attempt to are in immense pain, and they see death as the only way out. There is never this kind of rational, "Hmm, what should I do with my stuff?" "Oh well, I guess I'll still go to work and go out on dates before I kick the bucket" bullshit. Also, no one PLANS to do it THREE MONTHS IN ADVANCE. Maybe if you're dying from a terminal illness or something. If you PLAN to do it, you most likely don't really WANT to do it, and are hoping for someone to stop you. And you are certainly more dramatic about it than, "Hmm, yeah, I think I want an early summer death."

For those interested: Day 0 is May 5. Cinco de Mayo, and also right near Ascension Thursday.
posted by papakwanz at 5:39 PM on February 10 [6 favorites]

i flagged the blog, since there needs to be either mental health professionals involved

The funny thing is, if a "mental health professional" finds out that a patient is planning suicide, they are required by law to violate confidentiality and go to the authorities and rat their patient out.

This blogger has turned that equation on its head. Bravo!
posted by telstar at 5:40 PM on February 10 [1 favorite]

What if this really turns out to be a viral marketing campaign for a salsa company who's planning to release some new salsa concoction on Cinco de Mayo? She'll decide not to kill herself because she's finally found the perfect salsa.
posted by PostIronyIsNotaMyth at 5:47 PM on February 10 [11 favorites]

Where's Tom Cruise? He'd know what to do.
posted by grounded at 5:48 PM on February 10 [1 favorite]

Yo.

What the FUCK.

...

Fundie viral sounds about right, and it's exceedingly saddening that this is the first conclusion we jump to.

Although I do have to say, this thread has totally highlighted konolia's absolute loveliness and I've totally developed another crush. dammit.
posted by Phire at 5:49 PM on February 10

A good friend of mine killed himself several years ago without warning.

I wish I had the 90 days notice.
posted by robocop is bleeding at 5:50 PM on February 10 [9 favorites]

I haven't thought about my friend Keith who killed himself--20 years ago, almost, I think--in ages. He said in his note that he was just tired of being under a cloud all the time. Good man. I believe people should have the right to end their lives if they choose to but wish he hadn't.

That said, this seems to be crap.
posted by maxwelton at 5:51 PM on February 10 [2 favorites]

Konolia..

I checked out the Rev's profile as well... and wondered.. but a google of the "90 day jane" finds a lot of hits now, including digg, I get more suspicious when a site is almost invisible and gets posted here.... I'm not ready to lynch the Rev. yet...
posted by HuronBob at 5:53 PM on February 10

Er, I meant, he was a good man. Not good that he killed himself. (Maybe I should kill myself, save the world some incoherence and typos--but I'm going to wait to see how it turns out for "Jane.")
posted by maxwelton at 5:54 PM on February 10

Nthing the Jesus theory. If that's the deal, it's jaw-dropping for its spectacularly cynical approach... imagine, 90 days of tacky marketing deceit all constructed to promote Truth.

Somebody call Mel Gibson.
posted by rokusan at 5:57 PM on February 10

Well, I flagged that blog. Let the Blogger people deal with this as they see fit.
posted by clevershark at 5:59 PM on February 10

Flagged as offensive. I second HuronBob's call to delete it.

(Plus this is all reeks of stunt. Yeah, I mean you Rev.)
posted by Skygazer at 6:01 PM on February 10

(P.S., we definitely need to stop favoriting hermitosis' comment at 499--and save that last one for some future indiscretion on h's part:

"Oh, yeah? So you think being informed and reasonable about [sexism, racism, declawing, circumcision] is welcome around here? Say hello to your 500th favorite!")
posted by maxwelton at 6:02 PM on February 10 [5 favorites]

sexism, racism, declawing, circumcision

All at once? Eww.
posted by ZenMasterThis at 6:03 PM on February 10

"Well, I flagged that blog. Let the Blogger people deal with this as they see fit."

I hope they start a blog which chronicles them shutting down the blog in 90 days.
posted by travis vocino at 6:04 PM on February 10 [2 favorites]

This blogger has turned that equation on its head. Bravo!
posted by telstar at 8:40 PM on February 10 [+] [!] </em

Yes, Bravo! Which is why she should change her blogs name to 90secondJane and just get it over with.
posted by Skygazer at 6:05 PM on February 10

She could get run over by a truck and die before the 90 days are up.
posted by mike3k at 6:06 PM on February 10

Fascinating.

However, she failed at the execution. A blogger account can be easily traced.
If someone wanted to do this correctly, nothing would be better than writing and then make it appear days after you killed yourself. Easily achievable by most blog software.

Of course, you miss the attention but hey, you wanted to kill youself and leave a public record, not be an attention whore.
posted by Memo at 6:18 PM on February 10

Why is she asking the internets what to do instead of asking Ashley Olsen?
posted by mr_crash_davis at 6:20 PM on February 10 [1 favorite]

I give it maybe another day, tops, before Blogger pulls the plug.

The thing that strikes me as really sketchy is the video. It looks like it was shot with somebody else holding it. I guess it's possible that it was given the pan-and-scan treatment in post, but it sure doesn't look like it was just taken from a camcorder sitting on an improvised support in a dressing room.

The whole thing is a bit odd. I can accept the plausibility of someone deciding to gain some notoriety by publicizing their own suicide, but suicidal person plus convenient buddy to hold the camera? Harder to believe.

I look forward to the after-the-fact retrospective post, but I doubt Blogger will let it go long enough to get really interesting.
posted by Kadin2048 at 6:28 PM on February 10

Amen, telstar. Suicide should be an inalienable right for anyone that fully understands its consequences.
posted by hjo3 at 6:31 PM on February 10

Some good might come of this. May could be designated Suicide Awareness Month (actually, I'm surprised there isn't one already - or was it missed off the list?).
posted by tellurian at 6:35 PM on February 10

I say fundie viral. I bet on day 0 she has a religious epiphany and turns to Jesus, who has finally given her life meaning.
posted by papakwanz

Or finds Obama.
posted by semmi at 6:41 PM on February 10

Please forgive me for this, but I couldn't resist. It fits so well.
posted by konolia at 6:41 PM on February 10 [1 favorite]

mmm, I guess more people want to see me naked than see item dead.
posted by jonmc at 6:49 PM on February 10

It's a strange world we live in.
posted by item at 6:52 PM on February 10 [1 favorite]

If this isn't weird fundie bullshit (doubtful) then the person is just straight-up disturbed in ways that have nothing to do with atheism.

You don't need God to know that there are lots of ways to make the world better, not only through direct action, but by having a child and attempting to educate them to behave in a way that will continue to improve the world after you die.

Personally, I view atheism as a greater call to action than most theistic beliefs. After all, if you're a theist you can blame all the world's problems on a greater being, assume that said being will solve them if they want to, and never take any real responsibility for anything.

If you're an atheist, the situation is the exact opposite, and you must actively decide if you will be part of the solution or if you will ignore the vast problems facing this world.

Oh well.
posted by Tacos Are Pretty Great at 6:52 PM on February 10 [2 favorites]

item, my brother, I'd bare all to let you live cos that's the kinda guy I am...
posted by jonmc at 6:56 PM on February 10

It strikes me in poor taste whether or not it's fake. If one is going to commit suicide, it seems to me that taking time to minimize the impact of the death on others, however one can, is the decent thing to do. Were I to do so, I'd feel obliged to tidy my up my belongings and obligations, and write some explanatory letters to those who deserve an explanation. However preferable an explanation in person would be, the sort of person who deserves that--and there are many, in my own life--would also be inclined to dissuade me from suicide, perhaps by force, so a letter it would have to be.

Threatening suicide in order to get oneself dissuaded out of it has always struck me as ... too undignified, I suppose; but if a suicide is one who never mentioned it, ever, the effect on family and friends of having learned of it will be even greater - setting all of them off thinking "oh what could I have done", maybe blaming themselves, going through a total (and largely unwarranted) re-evaluation of their opinion of the person, etc. Undignified and messy as all hell. It would probably be best to "coincidentally" ensure that one's affairs were in order, for an upcoming trip or change of job or some other reason, and then go arrange a quiet "accident". The total polar opposite of a blog announcement. I can't think of any worse way to do it, as far as effects on people are concerned.

On the other hand, suicide isn't the only way to die with some notice. If one is definitely going to die, I don't see so much of a problem with someone with terminal cancer doing an "I will die in 90 days" blog, even if they intend to euthanize themselves. I wouldn't read it unless I knew the person involved, and if it was me I'd for damn sure make it friends-only if I even did it at all, but YMMV.

This is really why I think the blog's a "fake" of sorts (ie, won't lead to a genuine suicide on day 90, whatever the motives of the blogger): almost everyone who kills themselves doesn't go through any great preparation. They can't. A day or two tops. It's a snap decision, made having reached the end of one's rope. What kind of person could possibly think killing themselves for that long without getting over it, getting distracted from it, or doing it? Why the arbitrary deadline? If she's waiting for some event to occur to make life worthwhile, and giving it 90 days, it may occur on the 91st day, or it may never occur at all (which is a fact better faced). The 90 day thing is at least as irrational as the suicide.
posted by aeschenkarnos at 7:11 PM on February 10 [3 favorites]

Fat balding depressive middle aged man wants to have sex with as many people as possible..
hello, any takers?

Sure, Lori Gottleib

Though you'd probably have to settle in respect of the numbers, to just one.
posted by PeterMcDermott at 7:13 PM on February 10

The bar for committing internet suicide has been set pretty high. Stripping naked, shaving your head, applying ritualistic face paint and then blowing your brains out while listening to Bjork - now that's a suicide! Threatening to maybe kill yourself in 90 days if you aren't actually a viral marketing scheme or a lonely attention whore... well it barely makes a ripple. She's probably do better to threaten to kill and eat a rabbit if she wants attention. Or maybe balance things on its head.

[Note: This post does not actually advocate suicide, not even for stupid people. Following the first link is not advised and you'd be better off just reading about it on wikipedia]
posted by CheshireCat at 7:19 PM on February 10 [1 favorite]

This would have been slightly interesting back in the day as an 'internet phenomenon' thing

Yeah, "a good thread values uniqueness over novelty" and it's already been done.
posted by PeterMcDermott at 7:21 PM on February 10

Flagged. The blog, not this post.
posted by ThePinkSuperhero at 7:31 PM on February 10 [1 favorite]

a beginner's guide to faking your death on the internet
posted by madamjujujive at 7:32 PM on February 10 [3 favorites]

@ Konolia & HuronBob :

I promise, in any way you'd deem appropriate, that I simply got linked to this via friends on a private forum (on a nudie-indie-alt-girl site I occasionally do freelance design for) and posted it here cause I was kinda surprised no one else already had.

Not sure how to prove my innocence beyond that. Yes, I'm a stand-up comedian. Yes, I live in Hollywood. Yes, my comedy is pretty dark and I've said/done some fucked up shit. But, no, I had absolutely nothing to do with this. I didn't even know she was in Hollywood until it was mentioned here.

And for the record - I'm not that kind of "reverend". It's meant mostly as sarcasm.
posted by revmitcz at 7:34 PM on February 10

I have the underwear she's wearing, and now I kinda wanna kill myself. Maybe they're poisoned panties.
posted by Ambrosia Voyeur at 7:50 PM on February 10

I mean, as an atheist I feel life has no greater purpose. My generation has had no great depression, no great war and our biggest obstacle is beating Halo 3. So, if I feel like saying "game over", why can't I?

I'll bet a dollar that this is a viral for The Purpose Driven Life.

Only a dollar, though, since Rick Warren is probably too smart to approve of something this retarded.
posted by Avenger at 8:00 PM on February 10

what else is on?
posted by subgear at 8:31 PM on February 10

JUMP!
posted by caddis at 8:31 PM on February 10

If I were going to kill myself in 90 days, my goal would be to have as much sex as possible with as many people as possible.

I'm not going to kill myself in 90 days (that I know of), and that's still my goal.
posted by Mr. President Dr. Steve Elvis America at 8:40 PM on February 10 [4 favorites]

My money's on: Research for a Sociology grad student's thesis. The comments on the blog and in threads like this will provide much fodder for pages and pages of crap. Wonder what her thesis statement will be?
posted by spock at 8:42 PM on February 10 [1 favorite]

'Tis in the vein of 'I'm Totally Psyched About This Abortion!'
posted by ericb at 8:43 PM on February 10

This is clearly a cry for help.





I'll PayPal her a couple bucks for the razor blades.
posted by Optimus Chyme at 8:59 PM on February 10 [1 favorite]

My money's on: Research for a Sociology grad student's thesis.

I hope the working title of her thesis is "People on the internet are cynical and distrustful".
posted by clevershark at 8:59 PM on February 10

I'm going to jill myself in 90 days, let me know if you have any suggestions for how I can do the deed.
posted by subgear at 9:13 PM on February 10

revmitcz: Hey, thanks a lot! I really appreciate that.
posted by notmydesk at 9:15 PM on February 10

comment from the blog: you know what is sad? my 4 yr old son was diagnosed with cancer last week. they are giving him 8 months to live. he would enjoy your life, and you are going to waste it away.
let me know where you live and i would welcome the act of smashing your head between two cement blocks.
you self-absorbed douche

Betcha that's fake too.
posted by telstar at 9:20 PM on February 10

This is pretty disgusting and disturbing.

Out of curiousity about the domain by proxy thing, I found it interesting that:

"Prohibitions: Domains By Proxy® is not intended to be used to protect your identity if you:
• Transmit spam, viruses or harmful computer programs;
• Violate the law or infringe a third party’s trademark or copyright;
• Engage in morally objectionable activities, including but not limited to those which are child pornographic, defamatory, abusive, harassing, obscene, racist, or otherwise objectionable."

( more legal action-ish links here)

Don't know where this falls, however.
posted by NikitaNikita at 9:26 PM on February 10

Well, there's only one thing we can do, right?

We've got to find this woman.

Maybe it's just my Superman complex (Believe it or not, my day-job is as a mild-mannered reporter with a girlfriend whose initials are L.L.) but if this woman is really planning to kill herself - for attention or not - she needs to get help. Because believe it or not, while this may have the hallmarks of a "fundie viral" it also has the hallmarks of a person suffering from existential depression, something I myself suffer from. This typically hits very intelligent people - who are also the most likely to be athiests (anecdotally) and so while it's unlikely, it is plausible.

If it's real, we have to find her.

If it's a viral video, it is in such appalling bad taste that the perpetrators of it need to be show for the horrible people that they are. If this is really a viral campaign, these guys need to be shut down, and dragged out into the sunlight. If this really is a viral campaign, then whatever assholes signed off on this need to know that they've doomed whatever product they're hawking.

So if it's fake, we have to find her.

Either way, my conscience does not allow me for this woman to do harm to herself, and it does not allow me to let some viral campaign harm others who are suffering - those who lost loved ones to suicide, those who may be pushed into suicide by this campaign...

So We Have To Find Her.
posted by BrianBoyko at 9:42 PM on February 10 [5 favorites]

So We Have To Find Her.
posted by BrianBoyko at 11:42 PM on February 10

Well get crackin' Superman.

Noone's stopping you.
posted by Ynoxas at 9:50 PM on February 10

( more legal action-ish links here)

Right. Bust the messenger. Does anyone know how many people are contemplating suicide at any one time? This woman appears to be going slightly public about it and the whole screeching tribe wants to bring down whatever possible apparatus on her head. Again, what a bunch of weenies, in this blog and that one.
posted by telstar at 9:52 PM on February 10 [2 favorites]

Ynoxas: It's what I do.

Dun, da da da dun. Da da dun. Dun, da da da dun. DA DA DUN!!!
posted by BrianBoyko at 9:55 PM on February 10

How Not to Commit Suicide by Art Kleiner.
posted by mecran01 at 9:56 PM on February 10

BrianBoyko: I feel/felt the same way, and further googling led me to a hunch that it may be someone on the indie-nude-alt-girl site (NSFW) possibly referenced in revmitcz' earlier comment.

Then I was weirded out and kinda disappointed in myself for getting sucked into this, so now I'm going to go to bed and let someone else nab the bad guy/s (girl/s)

Whatever flavor of fake this might be (viral, attention whore, fundie, etc.)... Skygazer, Deej:, please throw in an extra punch in the face for me when/if this gets solved.
posted by NikitaNikita at 9:59 PM on February 10

My generation has had no great depression, no great war

This just proves she's as stupid as I thought she was: The Iraq War, The 9,000,000,000,000 Dollar Debt.

I'll tell you what: I've been someone whose had to deal with depression for a long time now, and never was I once as optimistic about it as this Jane character seems to be. It scared the shit out of me. Where would I go? How would I do it? Would it be painful? How long would it take? What effect would it have on my family, etc., etc. This person, on the other hand, seems to be going about her daily routine as if everything's A-okay. (I haven't read any of her posts, but I have just started viewing the video that she's linked to, and christ). Going to a department store and picking out clothes to see how good they'd look on you. If you're so fed up with life that you're planning on offing yourself, you can't even get out of bed, let alone out of the house for shopping. This lady gives suicide a bad name. And by that I mean--the last thing that we need is someone making light of the matter and exploiting it for a bit of fame, if that is what she is doing. God I hope she's not. On the other hand--I hope she is. Whatever her ulterior motives are, this was a bad idea to begin with.
posted by hadjiboy at 10:14 PM on February 10 [3 favorites]

You're on the right track Spock. I just get more of an art school project feel from it, mostly because it looks like she's killing herself out of boredom.
posted by Hugonaut at 10:29 PM on February 10

Hadjiboy: Actually, it doesn't sound off to me, though I can see where you're going with this.

I've had to deal with both chemical depression - what you're describing, and "existential depression."

Basically, existential depression is when you come to grips with the fact that whether you live or die makes no difference in the ultimate scheme of the world, so, considering that life is full of ruddy banalities like having to find food, water, and shelter, having to look at the human race for all it's flaws - when ultimately, life has no meaning, death has no meaning either - it's very easy to rationalize that there is no difference between life and death.

Basically, a depressed person thinks about committing suicide because they believe that it will end the pain of living. An existentially depressed person thinks about committing suicide because they rationally evaluate the cost/benifit analysis of existing vs. not existing, and have found that they find not existing preferable. That's what "90 day Jane" sounds like to me - if it's true, and why I'm a bit hesitant to brush this off.

I'm going to have to deal with this my entire life, you know. My brain will always be weighing living vs. not living on a pair of scales. Of course, what I've been doing with my life is putting a finger down on the "living" side. I'm pulling a Don Quixote with my movie and so long as I can think to myself that art justifies life, that creation is better than destruction, well, I can live with that.

I am not a doctor/psychologist.
posted by BrianBoyko at 10:30 PM on February 10 [1 favorite]

You're on the right track Spock. I just get more of an art school project feel from it, mostly because it looks like she's killing herself out of boredom.

I disagree. Klerck really did kill himself, and he claimed it was because he was bored.
posted by Mr. President Dr. Steve Elvis America at 10:32 PM on February 10

One of the anonymous comments on Blogger linked to her other blog.

(Disclaimer: I do not know whether this is the same Jane.)
posted by halogen at 10:39 PM on February 10

Damn, I missed the opportunity to jump in quickly for cheap & easy favourites in this thread.

My life has no meaning now.
posted by UbuRoivas at 11:12 PM on February 10 [2 favorites]

After I watched the video of her picking out a suicide dress, there's no doubt she lives in Los Angeles. The first store she goes into is a store on Hillhurst, in the Los Feliz area of Los Angeles, at the corner of Kingswell and Hillhurst. It's in my neighborhood. The name of it escapes me, but it's right next to world's worst restaurant Home. I think the third dressing room, the one with the orange curtain, is Atmosphere, on Vermont. I feel as though someone is holding the camera at certain points.

There's part of me that makes me think it's a put-on, kind of a Silver Lake art project gone awry, a bored girl and her dumb roommate who got sloshed at The Drawing Room one night and, instead of going to Echoplex to see Midnite Movies perform, decided to see how many people they could piss off with this blog. But then there's all that stuff where she's responding to criticism and such, and if *I* were going to post a blog that's just a put-on, I wouldn't react to responses, unless that's the point of the experiment. I've just found both this fpp and the blog, so I still have some catching up to do, but she's surely from Los Angeles -- or, at least, that footage was shot in LA.
posted by incessant at 11:30 PM on February 10

Incessant, can you find out the name of that store for me? I'm sure they'll remember the woman who came in with a video camera only a couple of days ago.
posted by BrianBoyko at 11:33 PM on February 10

Disturbed blogger? Or another "viral campaign" for something soon to be revealed?

False opposition, there.

The real answer is "none of the above". Obviously, just a giant douche.
posted by UbuRoivas at 11:35 PM on February 10

incessant has it.
posted by Ambrosia Voyeur at 11:45 PM on February 10

Brian, it's a place called "American Vintage," says my wife. I'd doubt they'd recall the woman wiht the video camera -- it looks like she was using a digital camera's video capture option, and it seems she only was filming, from the hip, as she was walking into the store. Upon reading the rest of her blog and the comments here, she clearly goes to the Starbucks at the corner of Vermont and Prospect, and she lives within walking distance of me. How remarkably odd. I'm not entirely sure where that church is that's in the Hollywood sign picture, but it won't be hard to spot in the morning, I'm sure.
posted by incessant at 11:50 PM on February 10

Maybe she should start slowly and just cut off her feet.
posted by RavinDave at 11:53 PM on February 10

no, she should cut off her foot in this style.
posted by UbuRoivas at 12:13 AM on February 11

Pretty girl like you shouldn't kill yourself. You can find some man to take care of you with a body like that. Leave suicide to the ugly and fat members of your gender. You deserve better.

With an unlimited team of independent online psychiatrists she is bound to get the help she needs.
posted by lightweight at 12:23 AM on February 11 [1 favorite]

Yeh, that's just the most ridiculous advice I've ever read.

Soon as she gets a man to take care of her, what invariably happens? Cheesecake frenzy.
posted by UbuRoivas at 12:38 AM on February 11

I'm going to have to deal with this my entire life, you know. My brain will always be weighing living vs. not living on a pair of scales.

Brian, you have no idea what the hell you're talking about, do you? Take it from me, just from readin that you're not in any danger of committing suicide any time soon and this girl is a completely phony idiot. If anyone should find her it should be to throw a pie in her face.
posted by Skygazer at 12:51 AM on February 11

In 90 days, Jayne is going to kill himself... some Reavers.
posted by kyleg at 12:52 AM on February 11 [11 favorites]

Hey Telstar you troll any harder and you're going to pop a vein.

Look, people have a right to do anything they like. They don’t have a right to make light of the real suffering of those who're actually suicidal or those that have dealt with it.

True suicidal ideation is a mental illness. There is profound physical, emotional or psychological distress. You don't do it because you're "bored". People who are that ill don’t talk about it to anyone let alone online, and they don’t put up a blog with a catchy name and record suspiciously well edited exhibitionist videos. Even if it does allow the individual to remain anonymous.

It’s people who’re locked up inside themselves you need to worry about. People who can’t or won’t open up and become progressively resigned and withdrawn. Isolating themselves for long periods of time and pretending that everything is "alright".

This girl and/or the people who hired her to do this are complete assholes.
posted by Skygazer at 1:10 AM on February 11 [3 favorites]

get on with it. dont wait for me.
posted by monkeyJuice at 2:21 AM on February 11

Hasn't she heard? All she has to do to make life better is settle.
posted by crossoverman at 3:00 AM on February 11

Did you see the parody blog? http://90dayjayne.blogspot.com/
posted by jfrancis at 3:25 AM on February 11 [2 favorites]

Hardly new.

A couple of years ago a guy set up a similar blog, announcing his suicide for a certain date. Then by the date announced (actually, 10 days before, just to make sure nobody would try to actually stop him) he jumped from a bridge, end of story. He was kind of a geek and extremely clever in covering his tracks.

No links because a) the blog has obviously been pulled shortly after and b) everything was written in Italian anyway.
posted by _dario at 3:57 AM on February 11

Skygazer There is profound physical, emotional or psychological distress. You don't do it because you're "bored".

I get what you mean, but I disagree somewhat: The opposite of boredom is engagement in the world, and that does help with suicidal ideation, profoundly so. A person no longer able to engage with the world might well describe themselves as "bored". It's true, but it's not the whole story.

People who can’t or won’t open up and become progressively resigned and withdrawn. Isolating themselves for long periods of time and pretending that everything is "alright".

Isolation isn't in and of itself a bad thing, and IMO an introvert who suicides after isolation does so not because of the isolation, but because the isolation didn't help quickly enough, or sufficiently.

I suspect teenagers suicide more not necessarily just because they feel more deeply depressed (though I think they do), but also due to inexperience with depression as such. "What is happening to me? This is horrible! I can't take it another second!" As with drug overdoses, the inexperienced addict is more likely to come to harm. (Which isn't the only analogy between these conditions.)
posted by aeschenkarnos at 4:37 AM on February 11 [1 favorite]

Anonymous Anonymous said...
Sounds like a problem that a good ass fucking could fix. You're hot, go do some porn, you'll feel better and we'll all be happier.
February 10, 2008 11:32 AM

Do you think that he was using "good ass" as an adjective, like "Damn that was a good ass burger" or do you think that he was saying that she needs some ass fucking that is good? I ask because my grandmother has been very depressed lately and I want to make sure that I provide the best help that I can.
posted by ND¢ at 5:27 AM on February 11 [2 favorites]

everyone I know has killed themselves. On the plus side, there is no one to make annoying comments at the TV while I am watching it.
posted by scose at 5:32 AM on February 11

The brilliant Brit satirist Christopher Morris did this in The Observer yonks ago. The writing is laugh out loud funny. I strongly recommend everyone in the world reads it immediately www.compsoc.man.ac.uk/~cow/studio/geefe.html
posted by henners at 5:56 AM on February 11 [1 favorite]

poop
posted by East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94 at 6:13 AM on February 11 [1 favorite]

I'll give her credit if on day 0 she says she's not going to kill herself along with an impassioned "I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore" speech.

Howard Beale only strung his viewers along for seven days, though, not ninety.
posted by DevilsAdvocate at 6:37 AM on February 11

Let's see if she points her webcam at herself in the toilet with pill bottles everywhere and then later says "Oh, I wasn't trying to kill myself.."

Ah, the old days of LiveJournal...
posted by drstein at 6:48 AM on February 11

What I find more depressing than the idea of someone posting this kind of blog for real is all the people who are eager to taunt her for doing so or post about how she should do it sooner. I think the whole thing is likely fake, given the internet, but if there's even a smidgen of doubt (which of course there is), it makes me feel sick to think of all the people goading her to do it. What a world.
posted by agregoli at 7:22 AM on February 11 [2 favorites]

you'd prefer Kaycee Nicole style handwringing? What you see as 'goading' is actually people calling bullshit.
posted by jonmc at 7:28 AM on February 11

This is entirely fake.

Yukio Mishima she is not. And she's definitely no GG Allin, whe didnt'even go through with it (his "due date" was Halloween 1992), he basically just OD'd 9 months later like any other heroin junkie.
posted by Skygazer at 7:37 AM on February 11

This entire thread was worth it just for the 90DayJayne link jfrancis posted.
posted by emmastory at 7:42 AM on February 11

What are "reavers"? Is that something I would have to have seen a lot of movies to know about?
posted by clevershark at 7:53 AM on February 11

It's a gorram mystery.
posted by emmastory at 7:56 AM on February 11

.

first...lolz!

But seriously - this smells like viral bullshit to me...
posted by mattr at 8:24 AM on February 11

Many of you are probably like me - I am going to forget about this crap as soon as I leave the page. I think I'm already forgetting about it as I write this.

But please make a followup post when the days are up? Hopefully then there'll be something worth reading about.
posted by crunch buttsteak at 8:41 AM on February 11

is she running ads?

she should run ads.
posted by MeatLightning at 9:05 AM on February 11