he was everywhere back then and one day he just disappeared

jindosh:

in 2012 and 2013 at least 60 (low estimate) different users orchestrated a big coordinated joke against tom preston, notorious deviantart art elitist and asshole by over the course of a year repeatedly contacting him as though we were vacuum salesmen trying to sell him vacuums and he endlessly blocked every post from his timeline literally seconds after every comment and we had no idea how he was so fast but so there were hundreds of ‘this comment has been hidden’ pages and many random ‘what’s going on?!’ comments

so unless you were actively doing it and watching you wouldn’t have known what was going on until after several months we conditioned him to feel incredible loathing to images of vacuums and suddenly he went off the grid for over a day without posting or deleting any of our messages and we were all waiting in silence and then without a word he made his header a picture of a vacuum and left it up there like a white flag for several months and it was bizarre actually