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- Mr. Tomlinson's feud started after members of the now-defunct Reddit site r/opieandanthony got his Twitter account suspended, causing him to threaten some bored trolls who never heard of him with a libel lawsuit. The trolls responded predictably.
- Mr. Tomlinson has been instructed many times by friends, family, police, and attorneys to stop engaging with his trolls, and that continuing to provoke them will cause him to be trolled even more. Mr. Tomlinson wilfully ignores this advice
- He would eventually file a defamation suit against 60 anonymous people which was dismissed with Mr. Tomlinson being ordered to pay $34,762.25 for opposing parties' attorney fees.
- He ended up paying $83,736.99 due to his unsuccessful attempts to dodge the court-ordered judgement, for which he faced jail time and contempt charges.
- He also filed 2 frivolous restraining orders against people who had engaged in First Amendment-protected behavior (one for texting him and another for attending his contempt of court hearing), both of which were dismissed.
- Early on in the lawsuit, Mr. Tomlinson vandalized his own motorcycle and submitted a false police report blaming the people he was suing.
- He accidentally sent surveillance video of the alleged vandal (himself) to a troll.
- Mr. Tomlinson has never shown this video footage during any of his media tours, and desperately tries to scrub it from the internet.
- Mr. Tomlinson claims that the surveillance video was initiated by his "motion-activated" camera, which only collects "30 seconds at a time", despite the video being 32 seconds long and beginning several seconds before the "vandal" enters into the frame.
- On 13 April 2023, the individual responsible for calling the fake emergencies (SWATs) to Mr. Tomlinson's house, a SWAT-for-hire dealer named "Torswats", revealed that Mr. Tomlinson ordered the SWATs to his own house because he wanted to get in the news and sue the MPD for money.
- Torswats would repeat these allegations in private chats which were not intended for public view.
- Mr. Tomlinson has gone on multiple news tours since the SWATtings started in order to promote his victimhood brand, utilizing the services of Lenora Claire.
- He also recently sued the MPD for money.
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WWAW The Flaming Lips?
- Thread starter HotDogJoe
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After Yoshimi they never did a single genuine thing again.
Just like Rivers Cuomo, once Wayne Coyne suckled at the sweet tit of mainstream success he immediately sold out.
WOW WE’RE SUCH A ZANY LIVE BAND WITH A GIANT BALL YOU CAN ROLL AROUND IN, FESTIVAL GOING CHILDS!
I couldn’t listen to them anymore. Too much pandering to the late aughts peak-indie neo-hippy festival crowd.
Edit to add: yes of course Pinkerton is a great album. But when it bombed Rivers made the decision to never err on the side of being vulnerable and genuine again.
In a similar way there are a few great post-Yoshimi songs, but there was a decided reduction in doing crazy, weird, uncommmercial shit.
Just like Rivers Cuomo, once Wayne Coyne suckled at the sweet tit of mainstream success he immediately sold out.
WOW WE’RE SUCH A ZANY LIVE BAND WITH A GIANT BALL YOU CAN ROLL AROUND IN, FESTIVAL GOING CHILDS!
I couldn’t listen to them anymore. Too much pandering to the late aughts peak-indie neo-hippy festival crowd.
Edit to add: yes of course Pinkerton is a great album. But when it bombed Rivers made the decision to never err on the side of being vulnerable and genuine again.
In a similar way there are a few great post-Yoshimi songs, but there was a decided reduction in doing crazy, weird, uncommmercial shit.
Had some really good albums, but he fried his brain and is a huge retard now everything to early 2010s or so was good though, stopped listening when they released their first turds.
At War with mystics has some decent tracks but nothing on the level of clouds through yoshimi.
It was the cocaine and the celebrity lifestyle. Lotta fawkin’ problems with that 50 year old Wayne guy.
black lips are shitty but good
The Flaming Fags
Hit dat out da fawkin paahk!!
I remember they performed with Beck a few times. They were pretty good, I thought.
Anyone ever hear about how Beck recorded an album with The John Spencer Blues Explosion and never released it? Then those tapes, along with numerous other artists tapes, even classic and historical ones, were destroyed in the Universal Music Group fire years ago? Supposedly he didn't find out they were destroyed until years later, as Universal was trying to cover up the extent of the damage for a very long time.
Shit like that just angers me.
Anyone ever hear about how Beck recorded an album with The John Spencer Blues Explosion and never released it? Then those tapes, along with numerous other artists tapes, even classic and historical ones, were destroyed in the Universal Music Group fire years ago? Supposedly he didn't find out they were destroyed until years later, as Universal was trying to cover up the extent of the damage for a very long time.
Shit like that just angers me.
Eww