I'm not sure if many people picked up on this, but last year successful/massively overrated Dutch singer Dotan was exposed for bigging himself up through 140 (!!!) troll/fake fan accounts on various websites across the internet, throwing insults at other artists through these accounts and even fabricating stories about encounters with terminally ill fans. Well, guess what? Three of these accounts were on our very own Popjustice and it was something else: This was Dotan' first PJ attempt at street teaming his way into public consciousness as "indiepopgirl", followed immediately by the other two troll accounts (one of the fake names even translates as "not feeling this/can't be arsed"): https://forum.popjustice.com/threads/dotan-this-town.21738/ This was him starting a thread about singer-songwriters three years before his own album became a massive success, but his presence didn't exactly go down very well with the people of Popjustice: https://forum.popjustice.com/threads/singer-songwriters.21697/#post-1344626 Rihanne! Lady Gage! This thread almost has uksinglemom levels of brilliance when you realise who was at the helm of it. Here's another thread he started about himself, featuring two of the fake accounts: https://forum.popjustice.com/threads/new-talent-dotan.21698/ He even had something to say about Nadine: Your faves well and truly never could!
Is it bad that as soon as I saw he was married I was waiting for the sequel thread? Of course it came but Ms. @2014 stopped the fun. That first post was enough to get me howling though.
People being so over Ed Sheeran the thread turned from an all bash Sheeran to an all hail Phil Collins thread with a title change to mark it and the mods allowing it to happen cause they are so over Ed too.
