BlogSpot Graveyard: Bird Hybrids

First post: Friday, January 10, 2014

Last post: Monday, May 8, 2017

    

    As I mentioned in my previous post, Trying to find a source of light from April 2019, one of my hobbies is writing. I began this hobby around the end of my college career in 2012 and one of the first stories I wrote was set on an undiscovered island filled with rare animals and a primitive species of human. While doing research on island and subpolar animals a few years later I came across a BlogSpot called Bird Hybrids. Not only does it show what species can hybridize with each other it also shows photos for each hybrid which is incredibly useful.

    Sadly the most recent blog post is from May 8, 2017. However the blog admin has posted comments after that date:

• 17 October 2017 at 22:04
  
• 23 November 2018 at 16:08
  
• 17 August 2019 at 21:08
  
• 26 July 2017 at 22:59
  
• 5 August 2017 at 16:39
  
• 15 September 2018 at 15:05
  
• 31 March 2019 at 22:17
  
• 3 June 2017 at 21:00
  
• 17 August 2019 at 21:11
  
• 18 November 2019 at 21:37
  
• 25 November 2019 at 11:08
  
• 15 August 2017 at 22:10
  
• 11 December 2017 at 12:26
  
• 11 December 2017 at 12:25
  
• 27 January 2018 at 12:39
  
• 19 February 2018 at 22:06
  
• 23 January 2019 at 22:18
  
• 23 May 2017 at 23:04
  
• 17 August 2019 at 20:58
  
• 18 November 2018 at 07:30
  
• 24 March 2018 at 22:18
  
• 5 June 2017 at 21:48
  
• 5 June 2017 at 21:51
  
• 19 June 2017 at 22:39
  
• 10 January 2020 at 10:36
• 17 August 2019 at 20:51
  
• 18 February 2018 at 09:36
  
• 18 February 2018 at 14:16
  
• 14 December 2017 at 23:45
  
• 12 June 2017 at 23:43
  
• 7 September 2017 at 14:51
  
• 7 September 2017 at 15:44
  
• 13 November 2018 at 17:47
  

    As you can see the admin has posted several comments since the last blog post, most recently on January 10, 2020. In an earlier comment the admin stated that they have been busy and have quite a backlog to clear but that hasn't happened, at least not on Blogger. There is a Twitter profile linked in the sidebar that has been active as recently as October 20, 2021. It seems the author has decided to utilize the more popular social media platform.

BlogSpot Graveyard: No Bad Memes

First post: Monday, August 2, 2010

Last post: Sunday, December 16, 2012

    Yet another interest of mine is internet archaeology. It started out as simply searching for old and/or rare videos on YouTube and has since evolved into digging up dead Blogger blogs. I'm going to use this series to spotlight these dead blogs. For me to consider a blog dead it must not have any posts within one calendar year and large gaps between posting must not be a regular occurrence.

    First up is a blog that has gained a little bit of infamy on the internet lately for allegedly being owned by Adam Lanza, the perpetrator of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.

    I had first heard of No Bad Memes on the subreddit r/masskillers in the comments on a different post about Adam Lanza on his recently discovered and since terminated YouTube channel CulturalPhilistine. The comments speculated that No Bad Memes was Lanza and a cursory glance supports this. Not only is the blog filled with longwinded, pseudo-intellectual ramblings about subjects Lanza was known to be obsessed with such as anti-natalism and chimp society but the last two posts made on December 15th and December 16th, 2012 talk about guns and a generic mention of the Sandy Hook shooting (but doesn't mention it by name, only mentioning Connecticut). In addition, any Blogger user knows that posts can be scheduled to publish at a predetermined time meaning it is entirely possible that Lanza scheduled these two posts as a 'parting gift' for society. It would be a mighty large coincidence that a blogger sharing similar views as Lanza would cease posting within days of Lanza killing himself.

    However upon closer inspection it appears the blog is not connected to Lanza. For example the blog author, Leaving Society, claims across several posts to be an "IT guy" with "several college degrees". Lanza was a 20-year old jobless, college dropout living with his mother. Perhaps more convincing is that Leaving Society makes several comments well after Lanza's demise. As far as I know it is not possible to schedule comments:

• January 26, 2013 at 8:31 PM
  
• January 26, 2013 at 7:38 PM
  
• June 16, 2013 at 10:28 AM
  
• January 29, 2013 at 11:02 PM
  
• January 29, 2013 at 10:34 PM
  
• January 29, 2013 at 9:44 PM
  
• January 29, 2013 at 10:43 PM
• January 29, 2013 at 10:09 PM
  
• June 16, 2013 at 10:17 AM
  
• June 16, 2013 at 10:21 AM
  

    We can see that at least three comments were made as late as June 2013, some seven months after Lanza died. My conclusion is that No Bad Memes was not owned by Adam Lanza, it merely shared his beliefs.

    An interesting note, however, is that Lanza had a YouTube channel named 'fuckcomments' and that at least half of the comments on No Bad Memes are made by anonymous trolls mocking the blog. I also found it a little bit humorous that No Bad Memes/Leaving Society was at least aware of the existence of 4chan all the way back in November 2011.