I don't know whether to laugh or cry.

June 28, 2007 10:35 AM

Someone, O someone, please tell me more about the person in this picture. (Referenced here, and apparently something of a meme I missed out on...)
posted by nevercalm to Grab Bag (11 answers total)

Seriously? Google for Brian Peppers, and you'll know everything you want to know (and probably more). I found the hysteria that rose up around him to be more than a little predatory and quite distasteful.
posted by CRM114 at 10:36 AM on June 28, 2007

If I remember correctly, he's a convicted sex offender from Ohio.

His name is Brian (J) Peppers.
posted by boreddusty at 10:37 AM on June 28, 2007

Encyclopedia Dramatica, your source for all things Internet-meme related:

http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/index.php/Brian_Peppers

(Down at the bottom is has links to related articles including Snopes.com research, and a lot more image macros.)
posted by Kadin2048 at 10:39 AM on June 28, 2007

This is apparently the Wikipedia article on him before it was removed.

Enjoy.
posted by boreddusty at 10:40 AM on June 28, 2007

Response by poster: OK, cry it is. Thanks all.
posted by nevercalm at 10:43 AM on June 28, 2007

See also here.
posted by the dief at 11:06 AM on June 28, 2007

And then there are these two who can "pop" their eyes - 1, 2.
posted by ericb at 1:07 PM on June 28, 2007

CRM114 writes "Seriously? Google for Brian Peppers, and you'll know everything you want to know (and probably more). I found the hysteria that rose up around him to be more than a little predatory and quite distasteful."

I completely agree. Especially when I saw the (oddly cute, I thought) pictures of him as a smiling child. I wanted to cry, too, but maybe not for the same reason as nevercalm.
posted by peep at 1:46 PM on June 28, 2007

Response by poster: No peep, I'm pretty sure it's for the same reason.
posted by nevercalm at 12:36 PM on June 30, 2007

Oh good, no offense intended. There was a thread in the blue with a lot of OMGMYEYES bullshit where he was being used as a punchline over and over. It was appalling.
posted by peep at 2:06 PM on June 30, 2007

Response by poster: Yes, there's something uniquely horrifying about the Internet, in that anonymous people can be as cruel and tasteless as they like, where in real life they'd never have the balls to say any of that stuff to anyone's face (and rightly so). Where else in life could you take such savage glee at making fun of a mentally disabled, wheelchair-bound man who is confined to a nursing home at a very young age, seemingly wrongly imprisoned due to previously mentioned mental disability, looking in his mugshot for all the world like he was worked over, not to mention unfortunately formed from birth cat such as Mr Peppers?

Compassion and understanding are dying emotions.
posted by nevercalm at 6:03 AM on July 1, 2007