Tamtampamela
If you have not heard the name I am surprised, just when I thought a name really would go viral on the Internet it hasn’t. I won’t tell you this woman’s supposed real name, either of them, nor her address, but she kidded the internet and now the internet is trying to wreak its revenge.
‘Pamela’ produced videos on youtube of a fundamentalist Christian persuasion, which is putting it mildly. She came across as an eerie figure. It was hard to believe that she really believed what she said, but that was the problem.
Poe's Law states:
“ Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of Fundamentalism that SOMEONE won't mistake for the real thing. ”
Poe's Law is an axiom suggesting that it's difficult to distinguish between parodies of religious fundamentalism (or, more generally, parodies of any crackpot or extremist belief) and genuine proponents of religious fundamentalism, since they both seem equally insane. Conversely, real fundamentalism can easily be mistaken for a parody of fundamentalism
If your work is a satire then at some point you must make it clear, otherwise it isn’t a satire. Tamtampamela had been posting videos for a year or more.
Suddenly it all came to a head with a video praising God for smiting Japan
All hell broke loose. The comments were really quite disgusting. I saw a comment calling for her to be ‘gang raped’, which I challenged… How soon we form ‘the mob’….
Then… too late Pamela said… wait it is all a joke.
May be it was, but in the end it just wasn’t funny.
The internet allows us to become viral, but if crossed it will try to destroy us. The people who want to kill or harm Pamela are much worse than she is. The driving forces of revenge and retribution seem to remove from people any free will that they may have.
