The web page gets straight to the point:

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Then there is some description of Bob Manoukian, which also happened to be kind of the only info I could find on the guy besides one other paywalled Bloomberg article.

Clicking through to the home page, things only gets weirder.

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So the guy is desperately poor and his plan to capapult himself into the ruling class is to attract the attention of a wealthy benefactor apparently. Here's another quote from the bottom of the page:

I hesitate: Should I show my blog or not... Art Center

That link gets you to his plans for his dream house.

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I kind of relate, to be honest. Who hasn't fantasized about living in a palace? I know I draw out my crazy plans all the time, it's my favourite form of escapism.

The about page gets even more interesting though.

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That's a pretty wild montage. It got me wondering if the guy has pages dedicated to other billionaires, you would think so, as this was a project that was apparently maintained for at least three years. I tried Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates but neither one of them came up, so I searched on Google instead, and bingo.

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I clicked one at random, and it is what you would expect.

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Pretty interesting. I hope his plan worked and that is why the blog is not getting updated anymore.

I don't mean to dunk on people like this but not sure what is a better comm to post this to.

  • idkmybffjoeysteel [he/him]
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    8 months ago

    Also the montage reminds me of a former friend's desktop background. They turned into a pua incel fascist about 10 years ago, which I can only attribute to them breaking up with their girlfriend and having to listen to her get pounded by strangers for a year straight as they continued to live together. Before they really showed off their true colours and I cut them off forever, they showed me their desktop background which was a montage of faces from figures like Trump, Warren Buffett, Jordan Peterson, Andrew Tate and Elon Musk. Apparently it was for inspiration. I jokingly asked why I wasn't included in the montage and he replied that I would have to be someone they would look up to have that honour. I thought that was pretty rich considering they are the type up person to produce their own cuckold smorgasboard. A little while later I sent them a communist meme and to my surprise they went off on a McCarthy style tirade, somehow also managing to fit in their endorsement for the Christchurch shooter in the midlde of their wild rant. This story is a bit irrelevant here, but I think about it all the time.