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.

  • glans [it/its]
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    8 months ago

    In the recent stonetoss doxx they were able to search for all domain names registered by this guy. I think they used some tricks to do it as presumably he had privacy turned on when he registered it. For some reason the page doesn't load right now.

    edit: don't forget https://web.archive.org/web/sitemap/https://crazybillionaire.org I just archive the Bob Manoukian page for the first time. Which means not many people have seen this site.

    The main page was very handcoded html/css but once you go to the About page and look at the source you see it is actually wordpress.

    Since it's WP there is an RSS feed so I found another section of the site it looks like isn't available from other entrypoints: Please comment on "My Plan - updated". "Older posts" brings more.