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Kevin Burke
Kevin Burke (a.k.a. Better_Butter321, AnonyMouse32 and The Ghostbusters Troll) is a 43-year-old Canadian neckbeard, film maker, redditor and a long-time user of /r/moviescirclejerk who, on July 10, 2016, decided to troll the /r/ghostbusters subreddit by making a thread that implied that the entire community was trying to make the recent Ghostbusters "reboot" look bad – a very simple task since the movie was legitimately trash and was made solely to pander to dumb feminists and milk a long-dormant franchise that should have fucking died along with Harold Ramis in 2014.
What Kevin didn't expect was that multiple "news" outlets and shitty feminist bloggers would be too fucking retarded to fact check and would end up turning a reddit troll thread into an international news story. Kevin quickly deleted his reddit account to avoid detection, but he still left enough of a trail to allow a savvy internet detective to eventually track him down – although not before several others were falsely accused of being the epic troll known as Better_Butter321.
Circlejerkers
/r/moviescirclejerk is a subreddit dedicated to mocking the numerous movie-related circlejerks that occur on reddit.
The Burke Identity
Through an amazing set of coincidences, Better_Butter321 just happened to be a Canadian movie aficionado with a penchant for trolling, snark and writing tl;dr bullshit that noone cared about.
On ,
Bustin’ Makes Boys Feel Sad — Why Ghostbusters is So Hated
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— Kevin Burke, after trolling /r/ghostbusters (archive) |
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Better_Burger321
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His wife's name is Kaiju.
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Thanks for doxing yourself, Kevin. (archive)
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Kevin's reaction when he realizes that deleting his reddit account wasn't enough to protect him from us.
Not long after the thread on reddit was created, Ashley Lynch posted a screencap of it on his Twatter in an attempt to show that Fembusters was the target of a massive misogynist hate campaign. Unfortunately, Ashley overlooked one small detail – the screenshot that he posted was taken a mere minute after he himself posted the thread on /r/ghostbusters!
Yes, in his haste to create a lulzy false-flag and blame ZOMG TEH GAMERGATORS, Ashley had committed the #1 sin of trolling – he revealed his identity and intentions by being a complete fuckwit.
—NixonForBreadsident |
Fake News Feminazis
Ashley Amber MacLaggan's tweet
Olivia Waring's Metro.co.uk article
Katie Rife's A.V. Club article
Liv McConnell's Revelist article
Ben Arnold's Yahoo Movies article
Ben Wilson's GamesRadar+ article
Ed Biggs' Contactmusic.com article
Matthew Sardo's Monkeys Fighting Robots article
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Olivia R. Waring, half-gremlin and shit-tier "journalist".
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Liv McConnell, professional Girlvinyl impersonator.
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Katie Rife, walking stereotype.
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Ashley Amber MacLaggan
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Carly Lane of The Mary Sue.
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Ben "A Dick" Arnold
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Kat Brown, who writes for Glamour for some reason.
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Daniel Colacicco, Stay Puft Marshmallow Man cosplayer.
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Ed Biggs, owner of Ed Smalls.
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Matthew Sardo of Monkeys Fighting Robots
—noir_wolf, mistaking one dumb white man for another |
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Similarities between Ashley Lynch and Better_Butter321:
- Both are admitted trolls.
- Both love being snarky arseholes.
- Both are diehard movie aficionados.
- Neither uses American English.
- Both write long and boring posts.
- Both refer to Quentin Tarantino as "QT".
THE GOOD REVIEWS WERE TOTALLY NOT PAID FOR!!111
See Also
- Fembusters
- Fake News
- Neckbeard
- Sargon of Akkad - His long lost twin.
External Links
- Archive of Kevin Burke's Better_Butter321 account
- Kevin Burke links himself to the movie posters that he uploaded as Better_Butter321
- AnonyMouse32 shares his poster collection with reddit
- The Vimeo link to his movie trailer that he shared with reddit
- Confirming his date of birth
- His Facebook
- His fiancee's Facebook (They've been engaged since fucking 2012. (archive))
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