Justin (aka "Tsimfuckis," aka "Tsimfuckus," aka "chick3n little.")

Above, the first video I saw on this YouTube account about an hour ago. Here was the second, here was the third, and the fourth, and the fifth. Wait, don't miss this one either. You kind of need to just take some time and watch all of them. Also this.

Nadja over at Street Carnage says,

[He] looks like he might have Progeria, a terrible disease where your body is elderly even though you're only 8. Regardless of this disfiguring disease, he's a true gangster. He has the balls to go online and be like every other pre-teen boy on youtube, singing along to Papa Roach and generally being awesome. The fact that he does this, that it brings him some kind of happiness, and that he calls himself "chick3n little", is why the internet is amazing and why the world doesn't seem so shitty sometimes.

I am not a doctor, and I do not know what condition the person in the video has that makes them look and behave differently. But here is the Wikipedia entry on Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome ("Progeria", or "HGPS"). Here is another entry for a different condition called Virchow-Seckel Syndrome.

Looks like the content was previously uploaded to YouTube under another name, deleted, then re-uploaded them under this new account name. His real name is apparently Justin?

He is already huge in France. Here's an english translation of that article.

Update: Some background on the meme provenance in this BB comment. Some have stated that the current YouTube channel is not controlled by the person in the videos, but was reconstructed by someone else. In other words, the videos appear to have been created and originally published online by this young person, but the "Tsimfuckus" YT channel, and the descriptions/titles therein, not actually his. Various accounts name the person in the video as Justin Tsimbidis; he called himself "tsimfuckis"/"tsimfuckus" in one of his videos. The uploads are fascinating, but it sucks that anonymous jerks on the internet are being cruel to this person.

(Thanks, Sean Bonner and Richard Metzger!)

• [Jack]

  I’d like to now thank Boing Boing for posting an update that explains these videos are not by the kid who made them, but rather by a bunch of idiots who are simply mocking this guy.

  As for #43 (STEAUENGEGLASE)’s comment, everything you are saying makes sense if this kid was willfully posting these videos himself. This is clearly not the case at all. See above and read the update.

  I’m all for empowerment. But exploitation—which is what this is—is sickening.

• [broken_fingers]

  Okay, the kid’s unfortunately screwed for life due to the genetic roll of the dice.

  Other than that, why not treat him like a real person?

  If he puts some fake tough-guy wigger crap up on YouTube, let him get owned. Let his account get compromised. Would you diapering ninnies deny him that? I’d reckon his (high pitched) response would be, “Fuck y’all sympathy-ass niggaz!”

  Shut up and let the kid have some life experience. You know…while he can.

  Get over yourselves and gleefully glue brass rivets to the stupid crap you just DIYd, or go copyfight some stuff you didn’t grow up with, or be really extreme and be the first guy to join a super-tough grrrrls-only knitting collective.

• [failix]

  @Broken Fingers:

  Other than that, why not treat him like a real person?”

  What I object to here is the fact that the very same people who do stupid shit on the internet, in an excluding gesture laughingly point a finger at a guy who pretty much emulates them. The reason he’s laughed at is not because he says or does stupid shit, it’s because he has that disease and does that stupid shit at the same time. Now this is not treating him like a real person, who would’ve been ignored or dismissed just like every other stupid kid on the internet.

  “copyfight some stuff you didn’t grow up with”

  Wow… seriously?

• [Anonymous]

  he’s 16 or something…
  the pics on his myspace are kewler than the videos

• [broken_fingers]

  @Failix

  Treat the guy like a real person. That’s what he wants.

  He’s mocked mainly because he’s a diseased dipshit, just as you say. What should happen here? Should everyone kiss his ass and let his BS slide just because he’s different? He stands out and he knows it. Let him own it for awhile.

  Last paragraph is just BB mockery, all in good fun.

  Getting worn out now–typing is hard for me. I have “physical issues” that prevent me from seeing the letters as I type them, and it requires about a 33% correction rate.

• [Anonymous]

  so what happens at a wal-mart parking lot at 1 AM?

• [Anonymous]

  This kid is totally fly for a white guy. I’m with the “new unicorn” vote on this one. No matter how challenging your day was today, this kid’s day was a bit more challenging – and he just acts like any regular kid.

  Awesome.
  Awesome.
  Awesome.

• [Anonymous]

  #42 Daemon

  I will asume you are not trolling here and speak out of ignorance or lack of understanding of “chan” “imageboard” “/b” culture. I al the fellow anon, now former “oldfag” of 4chan who now suffers a severe case of trolls remorse take if from me or if not learn more by lurking 4chan, and or all the other chan website imageboards out there, but here is the reality; the romantic notion or ideal of anonymous does not hold true with channers in general, while true the fact that 4chan is not the only place anon trolls congregate 4chan anons also known as /b/tards also known as anonymous, will leave /b on occassion when their precious little troll board gets DDOSed by other chans, individuals or when /b/ throws a fit and DDOSes itself when a meme gets overused to the point of being unfunny ECT., the the ugly underbelly of /b usually spills out to other chans,IRC,ytmd, somethingawefull ECT. This is your beloved anonymous that protests the church of scitardology for being the moneymaking stealing machine that it is. Lest you think its not the same group of people or a small subset of /b yoo are dreadfully wrong and misinformed it is the exact same group of people plus recently more “newfags” mainly composed of hipsters who think this is cool. You are free to believe what you want to believe but anonymous trolls cos, riaa,oreily,fox news ECT, for 2 reasons you may or may not already be aware of. 1) foar teh lulz 2) because they broke a rule of teh internets! What pray tell is the rule these organizations have in colon of breaking? Deliberate missinformation about anything anon holds dear, deliberate suppression or denial of access to anything online /b enjoys such as documents “dox”, obscene death pictures/videos, pirated content ECT . Oh and another thing that amuses /b to no end is when people like you or hipsters and “newfags” who dont know much about chan culture stand up & make up & buildup anonymous as some sort of liberating romantic ideal of a wildwestern cowboy who tames the internet and irl in the name of justice when in reality its moar like “foar graet justice!” which ironicaly means the oposite of that. If you still think that anonymous is not the same group of people on /b then you the anonymous you refer to is the greater more abstract anon which philosophicaly are miles apart and two diffrent things altogether. But understand one thing, if you ever do naively go to a protest for scifailology do yourself a favor and also go to irl meetup that 4chan or other chans setup in their diffrent boards ie /o/auto, /fa/fashion, /co/cosplay, /a/anime ECT. Now go to ANY chans /b board, and yes all chans have /b/random boards and b4 /i/raid which got rolled to/b. What you will see is threads posting about raid plans for any of these boards raids when they meet up or any other thing they feel like raiding or trolling in reall life, go on one of these raids or go to a meetup that’s going to be raided. Take some photos and compare these to the people in the cos protests ???? LOLWUT! Yup same people! Except for a handfull or two of hipster sympathizers “newfags” or ex cos survivors if at al. Dont want to go thru the hassle? ED has documented this also and archived this for your viewing pleasure, but this does not tell the whole story, and yes as they say in /b when you see it bricks will be $h4t. The moral of the story is someday you will hear news of some tragedy happening because of channers instigating it, just look at justin, it all starts with a few coments, then osbcene & threatening id spoofed fone calls, then later pizzas and pizza bills, Mormons, bibles& korans, prositutes male and female, exotic dancers & craigslist stalker connections type posts people all being delivered to this guys house and later ID theft so they can empty his account of $$$ chargin for the above mentioned items and services. If someone already voulnerable emotionaly or otherwise goes thru this onslaught there is a huge chance of suicide for them. This has happened I’ve seen it happen, it will and is happening and I’m sure ihavent seen the tragic end of these troll fests and I sure as hell dont want to. Tl;dr DONT PRAISE the trolls!

  Also note to moderator “newfag” is term chans use for new users , channers also call it the cancer that us killing /b. So plez dont censor or disemvoul as it is a legitmate term.

  Also ED refers to EncyclopediaDramatica and some other online archives of past channer histor, lore & memes like lolcats, fail pics, owned, lazor, pedobear, rage, epic fail guy ECT.

• [Anonymous]

  regardless, I’d like to be cool enough to make legitimate shout-outs

• [teufelsdroch]

  BB’s community is pretty sophisticated, but take a look at the youtube comments:

  “u is one ugly ass deform child go suiicide hahaha

  I feel sorry for u but u looke like a fucking nightmare no offence buddy..

  lol you’re a fucking freak. hell i’m not even talking about your condition, i mean your personality.”

  This is not something I would want to be associated with, personally.

• [Anonymous]

  I for one propose we make justin very much aware of how much boing boing and its readers really do find him insparational and care for his well being, he may not sing better than most or you tube better than most, but he does take his knocks and gets right back up living life positively as best as he knows how and defys anyone who tells him he is any less of a man or human for that matter, so now question to you boingboing, Xeni is what does justin inspire or stir up within you? Do you see humanity against all odds? Or do you just see a teenager and his music as the Ione gunman against the angry hatefull world? Surely you see more, i see a brave young individual who dare would leave an imprint an impresion on this world to prove that he had lived, and surely as he grows and gets to discover himself better there is an inner person that he may never get to be, so we are cut short in the opening act of his story that is filled with not of what he is but what he can be during the last days of his life, let us dare hope they are epic meaningfull ones, where justin can inspire and bring smiles to others, giggles to some, help and hope to others in the paradigmn shifting realization that you dont have it as bad as you think you do and if you do the last thing that should never enter your mind is sadness and despair. No! Defiance at fate and destiny itself and a never ending energy and drive to prove it wrong and defy it at every turn whether or not possible! Cory, i think you should write about this story!

• [Doran]

  Wow. Awesome.

• [Capri]

  Obviously not a video I’d care to watch either. The ‘n’ word is dirty no matter who uses it. As for chanology/4chan/Encyclopedia Dramatica/anonymous cowards, they are all bullying, hypocritical, perverted, extremely childish scum and if they were to disappear off the net tomorrow, the net would be a better place.

• [Hot Funk]

  chick3n little, I salute you

• [Anonymous]

  It’s bad enough that he’s stricken with that terrible condition, but its a tragedy that he has bought into the explitive laden moron rap crap.

  The one thing he has that is normal, and he pollutes it with the musical flatulence of mouthbreathing knuckle draggers.

• [Anonymous]

  #24

  Nice hate post.

  But seriously, blaming a all people on a “board”(!) is pretty hard.
  If u think that only 4chan(ers) are the ones trolling you’re pretty wrong. These people doing it are from all over the internet. From all parts of society. Such as 4chan has great content too, u just cannot put everything in a bucket. /b/ is just a great pool of internet stupidity. In all of it’s ways.

  And for this guy, i think it’s great that society let’s him be what he wants to be, but still, the outcome(gangster) is pretty low. At first sight, i thought, yeah! Nice thing. But at second glance it’s just another gangster teen. Nice to know that his appereance doesn’t “block” his own way though. That’s a good thing.

• [Anonymous]

  I think the kid is brave and has a great spirit…he seems misguided like some of the youth today…However I love that he knows how to live on , no matter what others might think of him… An authentic spirit. If more of us were our true selves we’d have a whole new world…I feel sorry for the folks who dislike the kid simply because he looks different from people who don’t have progeria. He’s just having fun and why shouldn’t he?

  P.S. Rumor has it the Justin passed away,Is there any truth to this rumor?

• [Hawley]

  lets all pretend this isn’t a freak show and celebrate his short stay on this earth.

• [Anonymous]

  @BROKEN FINGERS,

  WTF? Maybe he should get mugged, or get in a car accident too, to maximize his variety of life experience? And calling out tough-guy wigger crap on youtube would require several people working 24/7 for years, if no new videos were added. Besides, we’re not talking about the normal hateful youtube stuff, where something like this would get a 3:1 nasty:nice comment ratio, but the force of 4chan — thousands of cruelties in a day.

  And maybe you’d like a thousand of these — haha, you inbred irradiated freak, you have broken fingers, you useless jerk, maybe you should throw yourself off the nearest bridge! (Note: I don’t mean this, I have bigger broken bits myself, and I sympathise since fingers are so damn important to daily life) Surely that would be hard to take, and doubly so for a teenager.

• [Anonymous]

  Treacher Collins syndrome

• [Powerphail]

  Just because something or someone is different, doesn’t mean you have to all stand around and gawp and shout about about how wonderful it is/they are. Look at this kid, it’s obvious he wants to be treated like a real human being — you’re going on about him like he’s the second coming of Jesus or something. Most of you watched this video because the kid looks like a freak and you wanted to see what the freak-kid had to say, to say otherwise would be dishonest. I saw this guy’s face floating around *chan about a week ago and I just knew that he’d be the new target.

  Xeni, Justin took down his videos because he realised he was getting ridiculed for the way he looks; obviously, he doesn’t want that. When you found out that it was some asshat /b/tard the re-upped them, I think you should’ve taken down the link, seeing as you appear to have so much respect for him. All you’re doing is contributing to the harassment this kid receives by circulating this video, even if it’s not directly perceived by him.

• [mermaid]

  no more a freak show then any one of us

• [AliasUndercover]

  Maybe he can get a spot on the Tonight Show.

• [TK]

  Unicorn where are you?

• [Pedro]

  I had a colleague at school who had progeria, here in Portugal. I don’t know if he’s still alive, as he would’ve been 25 by now. I can assure you that these videos are real, this is exactly how my school buddy looked like.

  Knowing how terrible this condition is, how cruel it is for a kid to know that he’s not going to live much longer and that people won’t treat him very nicely, I totally support this kid’s right to have fun and make fun of everyone, including himself. Someone with progeria just gotta laugh at this silly planet.

  Go chick3n little!

• [Anonymous]

  Anonymous has been all over this, and they don’t think it’s HGPS.

  see the encyclopediadramatica article on tsimfuckus.

  i read it yesterday as it was on the front page :)

• [jaypee]

  @5 Please, this kid is the new unicorn.

• [dragonet2]

  Rock on TsimFuckus.

  I’ve seen programs on the Discovery Health Channel. It’s heartbreaking because the affected children have all their mental abilities and KNOW what is happening to them. There has been an effort to get them together at Little People of America gatherings, so they know others are in the same boat. But that’s heartbreaking, too, because from year to year, some kids don’t come back.

  Rock on! Make the world know you!

• [Xeni Jardin]

  @anonymous #6, encyclopediadramatica is a medical authority now?

• [Tamu]

  Just so I’m clear on this: does this suddenly make it ok for him to use the N-word? Great for being like any preteen boy, but the use of that word is not impressive. Don’t care who you are.

  • [Xeni Jardin]

    @Tamu, I am in agreement with you.

• [arkizzle / Moderator]

  The ‘second’ video is heavy. He is so clearly saying “Fuck you. Now what?” It’s like a coming-out ritual.

  This is not a freak show*, this is a kid with a shitty hand calling our bluff. Balls out, impressive stuff.

  *the portion I’ve seen so far, anyway. I don’t know what has happened since this.

• [Stu Mark]

  Couple of things –

  One, I would assume he took the vids down because of the trolling. He doesn’t come across as a person who would shy away at the drop of a hat. And it’s possible that his parents took them down or made him take them down. Parents can be such a bummer (and I am one, so I outta know.)

  Two, he is straight up gangsta – I have an infinite amount of respect for anyone who puts themselves out there like that, no matter what their deal is. To have so much courage is inspirational.

  Three, he uses the n-word. Tough situation. First, who knows what his parenting situation is like. It’s possible that while his folks care for him, they may not have taught him about certain social norms. He’s a young teenager, he’s gonna do stuff like that. There’s a reason we don’t hold minors to the same standards we do adults.

  Second, some personal narrative – I’m of Polish extraction, 42, and a husband (and father of two). My very good friend from college is African-American, went to law school, went to the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, etc – whenever he calls me, the first thing he says when I pick up is “My (N-word)!” – Tough decision about using that word. It’s very situational – lots of sides.

  Lastly, as always, BoingBoing is a profound resource on a variety of levels. I am grateful for the opportunity to utilize it to keep my brain/soul growing. Rock on.

• [carrieburrows]

  I don’t typically go for the wigger thing, but I’ll make an exception for this kid!

• [Anonymous]

  He didn’t take them down and re-up them.

  He is a circumstance of /b/

  4chan.com for the newbs.

  A b-tard saved them and reposted them when he came under attack.

• [Anonymous]

  If he stopped uploading videos, as many people have claimed, how do you explain the video of him singing along with a song from Eminem’s new CD “Relapse” which was released a couple weeks ago?

• [Anonymous]

  Keep it going, chick3n little, keep it going.

• [Anonymous]

  Yeah he has been around. He is meme on /b/

• [fakeidle]

  What is worth reminding about anonymous is that it’s not really a “group” in the usual sense. Sure, the encyclopedia dramatica is the voice of a core group, but it’s not necessarily the same people who write it, troll epileptics or that Justin guy, and those who opposed scientology.

  What this means is that “anonymous” is a method for organizing people online. It’s like saying “protesters marched against intolerance”, and then “protesters marched against gay marriage”, and believe that they are the same people.

• [bklynchris]

  This is the new unicorn, like it, most definitely.

• [Anonymous]

  Blame ED for this shit, I don’t even think /b/ would stoop this low – but I wouldn’t put it behind them.

  Also, as a regular, please mention /b/ alongside 4chan when shit like this happens. The rest of the boards are innocent of this.

• [Cruxx]

  There’s people on 4chan who are trying to ruin this guy’s life for putting this stuff out there. They want him to “an hero” if you know what I mean. The youtube videos up now are not his account.

  He’s trying hard to be a cool kid, I hate to see people putting his personal info out there for trolls to take advantage of.

  Good luck Justin, hope they don’t get to you too badly.

• [nosehat]

  Do not go gentle into that good night.
  Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

• [Anonymous]

  /b/ has appointed him the king of 4chan a couple days ago.

• [Blaine]

  He likes the Steelers. He’s good with me.

• [FreakCitySF]

  “#10 posted by Tamu, June 5, 2009 7:02 PM

  Just so I’m clear on this: does this suddenly make it ok for him to use the N-word? Great for being like any preteen boy, but the use of that word is not impressive. Don’t care who you are.
  Take a look at this
  #11 posted by Xeni Jardin, June 5, 2009 7:04 PM

  @Tamu, I am in agreement with you. ”

  Avttnf versus Avttref! Tupac said it’s ok to use one and not the other, terms of endearment….Will you make one exception, he doesn’t have a lot of time left on the planet, and the time he does have hasn’t been all that great as we know it to be…. I imagine……, youtube is bringing him some joy, and let him use any words he wants…..afterall it’s just a word…

• [Anonymous]

  @20Freakcitysf.

  “Juden” was just a word in 1929, too…

  Words have more power than any other construct of humanity.

  Too be so easily dismissive of that fact is kinda ignorant.

• [Anonymous]

  #17 SOO TRUE..

  when i read the encyclopedia dramatica entry and the comments on youtube, it made me realize just how tooo far anonymous has gone,

  for years /b has gotten away with bloody murder and i wouldnt be surprised to hear someday on the telly say that they have driven someone to suicide, murder or worse.

  /b gets away with crap posting comments on his youtube videos taunting him as often as they can.
  i mean raiding an Oreily factor forum for kicks is one thing but seriously the fact that anon has been irl trolling with project chanology does not give them a freepass to do stupid $4!7,

  and every time boingboing brings attention to anonymous praising them for doing wonderful things like taking on scientology or RIAA, it makes me sick cuz to the /b tards and 4chan in general everyone knows its an inside joke that this too is a joke to them that they will keep on doing til they get bored and move on to another target like justin.

  if nobody believes me and believes that anon is still angelic and wonderfull well then take a good look at encyclopedia dramatica to see their galerie of “anheros” or soon to be “anheros”. and when they raid a site or troll a person it too is an inside joke that ebaumsworld did it and they pawn it off on ecrapworld when everybody knows who did what.

  lest you think /b tards are loyal to each other 4chaners they are not, /b is famous for raiding itself such as /fa in real life when they have meetups they throw urine and other crap at them, and they are stupid enough to pose for pictures afterward and go to anonymous protests where they are later identified as being the same people who threw urine and crap at /fa cuz they too are stupid enough to take photos of themselves b4 and after protests.

  this is just the tip of the iceberg, in short boing boing dont give /b the attention they crave, if your going to cover protests against the church of scientolology or riaa, cover those protests that are NOT /b motivated, and yeah COS should be banned along with most if not ALL RELIGIONS, but thats another topic for another day. as for justin my hats of to you my good ol chap!

• [Anonymous]

  His name is apparently Justin Tsimbidis.
  Here is a little more about him

  http://images.puggal.com/justin-tsimbidis/

• [Jack]

  Look folks: It’s a freakshow. Pretending it isn’t is ironic hipster denial.

  And here is what is sad. He clearly deleted his videos because he no longer wanted the attention. But folks are reposting this stuff against his will and virtually guaranteeing his position as an Internet freak… Something he clearly doesn’t want.

  Kudos to Gavin McInnes (aka: Street Carnage) for once again profiting off of ironically veiled racism and exploitation.

• [Anonymous]

  Absolute fucking legend ! Awesome buddie

• [Anonymous]

  #21
  Look folks: It’s a freakshow. Pretending it isn’t is ironic hipster denial…
  umm no! everyones a freak show, had he been an average healthy teenager no one would think much of him being a youtube user like other teenagers ect.

  He clearly deleted his videos because he no longer wanted the attention.

  you would too if you attracted /b’s unwanted full trolling might and attention, again had he been an average looking teen this wouldn’t of happened unless your name was boxxy.

• [Antinous / Moderator]

  Moderator note: http://www.boingboing.net/2008/10/27/palin-hears-rally-at.html#comment-318090

• [Anonymous]

  While I’ve only watched this first video and snippets of a couple others, I’m realizing one thing: these can’t be current. ICP, Slipknot, Linkin Park, Limp Bizkit, Lit, Offspring, et al? I bet someone — not the subject of these videos — is perpetuating their existence and popularity. I’m dubious.

• [Antinous / Moderator]

  Also: He is already huge in France.

  Heh.

• [13strong]

  This is one of the most baffling posts I’ve ever seen on Boing Boing, which in some way makes it one of the more notable.

  But I don’t get it – the kid’s annoying to me. I mean, there are plenty of hip hop loving white teenage boys out there. It’s great that he doesn’t feel ashamed or embarrassed about his condition, but by praising him for this kind of stuff it’s like we are expecting him to be embarrassed.

  There’s nothing interesting in these videos, and his dialogue is as inane as most other youtube webcam videos made by hip hop / celebrity culture loving teens.

• [Anonymous]

  “it sucks that anonymous jerks on the internet are being cruel to this person”

  welcome to reality

• [The Lizardman]

  General note:

  Stop saying “freak show” like its a bad thing – it isn’t.

• [Falcon_Seven]

  Teufelsdroch, Antinous, the phrase you are looking for is ‘pseudo-intellectual masturbation’. Credit goes to Woody Allen. I shall remain silent on everything else posted here so that my ‘righteous indignation’ does not offend anyone.

• [Jack]

  @#27: ANONYMOUS

  umm no! everyones a freak show, had he been an average healthy teenager no one would think much of him being a youtube user like other teenagers ect.

  Really? You said it yourself “had he been an average healthy teenager no one would think much of him”…

  It’s a cyber-freak show. Nothing more and nothing less.

• [Anonymous]

  He calls himself tsimfuckis, for instance in his first video

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjqmvS5FT2k

  this utube chan name doesn’t seem to be goofing on him.

• [doggo]

  “…these videos are not by the kid who made them, but rather by a bunch of idiots who are simply mocking this guy.”

  Well, if that’s the case, then the idiots made a huge fail, judging by the comments on YouTube. Most of the comments I saw were positive and congratulatory.

  So, what to make of that?

  And while I hate to disagree with Xeni, I have to say that when someone uses the word “nggr” to emulate their heroes, who are using the word “nggr” as a term of endearment or solidarity, does that necessarily connote racism? Let’s not be kneejerk.

  • [Xeni Jardin]

    @doggo, I don’t want this thread to degrade into an argument about whether or not a child with Progeria (or another medical condition that makes them very different in appearance or cognitive ability) should be condemned for having used the n-word in a YouTube video.

    To clarify my earlier comment, it’s my personal opinion that white people in America should avoid using that word. They don’t own it, and it carries an incredibly charged history in this country that affects black folks in ways that we (non-black folks) cannot really empathize, because we have not experienced racism as they have. It’s just dumb, and an example of entitlement that we are not due.

• [Stu Mark]

  Like the n-word, freak show is a word that means different things to different people – some of us refer to ourselves and/or our behaviors as “a freak show,” with good humor or outright pride.

  This young man, whom I know *nothing* about other than his representation in these vids, seems not to shy away from his own label, Chicken Little. Not sure if he invented the moniker or whether he adopted it, but when he says it, there seems to be genuine pride in his voice (my listening fwiw).

  Would be excellent to have Xeni interview him with a specific bent towards this discussion.

• [Anonymous]

  I love Justin Tsimbidis! He’s a great person that seems to have a great outlook on life even with his horrible condition! He is someone I hope to meet some day! In all the videos that I have seen of Justin, he seems to be a very happy kid! And as I say to those out there that make fun of him… Well they have no heart!

• [StRevAlex]

  I really like how nearly every Boing Boing post’s “Discussion” devolves into back-and-forth idiocy of one form or another. And by “really like,” I mean “can’t stand.”

  • [Antinous / Moderator]

    And by “really like,” I mean “can’t stand.”

    He who spends his Friday evenings reading things that he can’t stand needs to work on his social calendar.

• [FrankPrendergast]

  The uploads are fascinating, but it sucks that anonymous jerks on the internet are being cruel to this person.

  What are you defining as cruel here? because if it’s the unauthorised reuploading of videos by someone other than the owner, than surely you are perpetuating that cruelty by allowing the video to remain on Boing Boing.

  If you believe that someone has put these videos up as an act of cruelty than in my opinion the thing to do would be replace the content in this post with a small note outlining that the original content was removed because the source was a cruel ****.

• [Anonymous]

  ^^^Great catch anonymous above. He references Eminem’s new album a number of times. Actually, he references alot of things which are pretty recent. So clearly, he’s still making videos and someone close to him is uploading them

• [failix]

  @Broken Fingers:

  “Treat the guy like a real person. That’s what he wants.”

  Yes.

  “He’s mocked mainly because he’s a diseased dipshit, just as you say.”

  Yes.

  “Should everyone kiss his ass and let his BS slide just because he’s different?”

  Not kiss his ass, but let his BS slide yeah. Because that’s what we generally do with common dipshits. Take a look at the crap that floods youtube and how much of it is (forunately) ignored
  and never gets mentioned.

  He stands out and he knows it

  But still acts as if he didn’t, and that’s the ass kissing part BB comes in. Which I think is ok, because it’s not really about HIM, but about what he did with the internet.

  Now, maybe he expected his BS to be ignored just like every other kids BS. Because like you said, what he wants is to be treated like a real person/kid. But of course this doesn’t happen and the kids he expected to be treated like (the 4chan kiddies) make fun of him. And who do you shit on? Him of course “because he wants to be treated like a real person”.

  My point is that we (in general) seem to be treating different persons like “real” persons only when it fits us.

  This isn’t particularly directed to you Broken Fingers. I understand what you meant and probably agree with your core philosophy. I just think we have to look at the bigger picture here.

• [Takuan]

  no, YOU shut up!

• [StRevAlex]

  Tell me about it!

  • [Antinous / Moderator]

    Yeah, but I get paid a salary to do it in between watching videos on xtube.

• [failix]

  Okay, in my post above, I have to admit that I jump into many conclusions without many actual facts… I should note that I may be totally wrong with these assumptions, and that the validity of my point really only depends on these assumptions.

  “Is deleting (or temporarily unpublishing) this blog post, or removing the link or video embed from this post, the right thing to do now?”

  Nah. pretty please don’t?

• [Dean Putney]

  Having caught this early on the channel network, I might be able to give you a little more detail on the source of the videos.

  The original YouTube user was “TsimFuckis”. He uses this name (among others) a few times in his videos, and it was on his MySpace page before he took it down. When I saw the videos, they only had about 300 views each, and the thread on 4chan had less than a hundred replies.

  A couple details from his MySpace page that are corroborated in the videos: He’s from Corona New York, and he’s got a group of friends that call themselves “Team Reckless”. He seems like an all around normal kid to me, fooling around and making ridiculous videos.

  If I recall, the thread I saw wasn’t necessarily negative, it was just kind of saying “take a look at this guy”. It’s a shame that making him King of /b/ gave him negative attention (in the same way that it ruined /b/oxxy), but that’s how it is with anon. That’s the risk you take putting yourself online.

  • [Xeni Jardin]

    Indeed, thanks Dean. Anyone know how old he is, and how he’s doing?

• [failix]

  Thanks for the insight Dean, I have to rethink some of what I said then.

• [Celestyna]

  These posts always make me wary.
  They’re usually presented with a somewhat patronizing tone of “awwwww, isn’t that sweet and uplifting”, when in fact it’s really just code for “Look at the progerian dude making a video, everybody!”
  Even after the kid took it down.

  • [Xeni Jardin]

    @Celestyna, I don’t know that the videos are sweet or uplifting. And I also didn’t post them to be cruel. I honestly have never seen anything exactly like these before (I’m not talking specifically about the genetic condition, but the whole package, the content of the videos, the attitude, the voice, the persona). I could not stop watching the videos. So I blogged them. That’s why.

• [Derek C. F. Pegritz]

  Young mutant, we here at New Traditionalist Party Headquarters in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, salute you!

• [Anonymous]

  I for one am with lizardman! “freakshow” is not a bad thing if you calebrate it and make nothing but awesome things out of it!

• [eltonbong]

  put up anything with your face on it on youtube and some ass will insult you…
  its a video rorschach test….if you are an insensitive asshole you see something to laugh at an make fun of….otherwise you probably see something great.

• [noen]

  My social calendar ran off with my to do list.

• [Anonymous]

  No Justin is not dead. Go to the encyclopedia dramatica page on him and it posts a link to his Facebook page. He has moved to New Zealand to escape trolls and harassment, and appears in a new Die Antwoord video. He’s all buff and still as gangsta as ever.

• [StRevAlex]

  I do love Superior Mutants.

• [Anonymous]

  why is everyone speculating what disease he has…Just looks British to me.

• [asuffield]

  But the videos were not faked

  Wait, back up there.

  They weren’t? How do you know? When was this proven?

  I’ve seen puppet-and-mask shows that were at least this convincing. Modern animatronics is even better. Maybe it’s real, maybe it isn’t – I can’t tell, and I’m pretty damn sure you don’t know either.

• [teufelsdroch]

  So–

  you found out that the link was posted by people out to hurt Justin, against his wishes…and DIDN’T delete it?

  • [Xeni Jardin]

    @Teufelsdroch,

    So– you found out that the link was posted by people out to hurt Justin, against his wishes…and DIDN’T delete it?

    Is deleting (or temporarily unpublishing) this blog post, or removing the link or video embed from this post, the right thing to do now? I’m asking, for real.

    (1) The videos appear to have been created and published by Justin.
    (2) As I understand it, some /b/tards or channers or ED or whatever — some trolls ganged up en masse and flooded his YouTube channel, and he or someone acting on his behalf took down the videos because of the troll flooding.
    (3) Someone, I don’t know who, republished the videos.

    I find this fascinating for a number of reasons. I don’t know if Justin (or his parents) want the videos removed from view. If they, or anyone I can verify is acting on their behalf, were to ask us to take down the post or remove the content out of respect, that would be a different thing.

    But the videos were not faked, and they do not appear to have been recorded or published originally out of intent to harm.

• [Daemon]

  #24 All other issues aside, /b/ and anonymous aren’t actually the same thing. It’s not like it’s the only place they congregate on.

  You, for example, are here on boing-boing.

• [steauengeglase]

  For all of the freak show comments I have only this to say. Some years ago, while in college, I worked with kids who had special needs. Some were high level behaviorals, others were isolated because of health concerns and others were low level kids who needed help going to the bathroom. They played, studied, laughed and made fun of each other just like any other kid. Anyone who has to bring freak into the conversation as a pro or con should take a long, careful, critical look at their own humanity. So what if the leaf turned a different direction, it is still on the same branch.

  As for the N-word issue, I’d suggest that you go to a Wal-Mart parking lot at 1AM and take a long look at America and it’s future. Elsewhere you should be concerned with the Anglos who say it in their living rooms when no one else is around. Those are the people with race issues, everything else is purely masturbatory.

• [Dean Putney]

  Before I head out for the day, I just wanted to share a video of TsimFuckis’s (I think that’s actually what he wants to be called online) that I feel really shows who he is:

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTWt7VK8bfg

  I’ll leave it up to you to decide what that is exactly.

• [teufelsdroch]

  @43 i hereby introduce an addendum to rule #1

  RULE #1: Use of analogy between the opposition and Hitler = FAIL.

  Addendum to RULE #1: Description of oppostion as ‘masturbatory’ = FAIL.

  All approve?

  • [Antinous / Moderator]

    You mean ‘masturbatory’ isn’t a compliment? Well that explains how I got that black eye.

• [failix]

  Well, I sometimes refer to pseudo-intelligent ideas as “mind masturbation”. :>

  But am I the only one to find the opposition between the post ans the update kind of… ironic? ^^

  “why the internet is amazing and why the world doesn’t seem so shitty sometimes.”

  Yeah I totally agree!

  “the new account name sounds like a mean way some others have come up with to make fun of him.”

  -_- back to reality, thanks 4chan kiddies…

• [Anonymous]

  Virchow Seckel syndrome