I want this:

"Fast Eddie is not now and has never been a member of Buffistas.org and here's a link to the conversation where tvtropes was launched" to be easily available information just in case the next reporter he talks to thinks to do a little fact-checking.

I think it would be nice for new people or curious people to have a link that pointed them to the beginning of it all, or a brief explanation somewhere, mostly because it keeps coming up.

I like the "is/how is b.org affiliated with tvtropes" suggestions. More down that route.

I like the "is/how is b.org affiliated with tvtropes" suggestions. More down that route.

Me too. And I like the specific wording of "Fast Eddie... was never a registered user name".

I like the "is/how is b.org affiliated with tvtropes" suggestions. More down that route.

Me too. And I like the specific wording of "Fast Eddie... was never a registered user name".

Yep, this please.

In case it's needed, here's a link to the transcript of the interview, and a quote of the specific mention.

[link]

BROOKE GLADSTONE: Tell me, what’s the origin of the site?

ZACHARY PINCUS-ROTH: It came out of this discussion website for Buffy the Vampire Slayer called Buffistas. One of the guys on that site – his name is Fast Eddie – decided, well, why don't we create a site that talks about all these repeated patterns we see on TV, and it took off. Now there are over 20,000 tropes.

At which point we clarify that we never had a user called Fast Eddie, but had a user Gus who started TV Tropes, and was reported to have died from complications of a monkey bite (and whose death was later also reported by the person calling themselves Fast Eddie: [link]

Fast Eddie says that Gus, who passed away from MS in 2006

Yes. Plain facts. Leave the interpretations to each person. (Which, honestly, is more damning. But also up to the individual.)

I like where this discussion is going and am admiring the spicy brains on display.

(BTW, I'm late to the disco. I cannot believe I'm the #1 poster in Spoilers. Damn)

back to your scheduled discussion of monkey bites.

Search terms from last month (there were a number of people looking directly for us, with searches for buffistas=334, buffistas.org=83, phoenix board=9 (maybe us), buffista=6), and then some people who may or may not have ended up in the right place, but a couple are weirdly on the nose, and most are testaments to our FAQ:

• james marsters yearbook photo
• phoenix discussion forum
• the complexity of faith
• sarah michelle gellar armenian
• phoenixboard
• macbeth there comes a knocking at the gate what is done cannot be undone
• phoenix boarrd
• oscar wilde a woman of no importance
• oklahoma girl who cain't say no
• oh baby baby how was i supped to know
• manservant hecubus
• phoenix boar
• the great gatsby puppy
• why wasn't a new slayer called after buffy died the second time
• “what need we fear who knows it when none can call our power to account
• the vampire slayer
• the slayer succession line buffy
• what does tcbitw stand for
• why didnt another slayer get called after buffy dies at the end of season 5
• whatever became of the slayerettes
• what grade in school is dawn in buffy season 7
• james marsters "cement block"
• if they told james marsters that his new love interest was a cement block, he would have chemistry with the cement block.
• bboc factor

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