"JΞSTΞR™" and that Mediocre Part of the Internet

    Perhaps I took this "ordinary citizen" a little too seriously. I am not sure where the rest of you are getting yours from, but all of the blogs/twitters I found were connected to fairly larger sites (i.e. professional journalism, or at least appearing to be). So, I decided to just plunge into the strange depths of the Twitter. With a simple search of 'North Korea' tags, I quickly entered into that "disturbing" part of the internet (I had promised myself never to return). After scrolling down a little bit I found a user who was running under the alias 'JESTER', but with the strange characters I have in the title. He has over 44,000 followers and has made a little less than 4,000 tweets.

   Apparently, this Jester, also runs a blog, however, upon clicking it my anti-virus popped up and said that it had blocked a malicious site (so, don't try to go there). He is a self proclaimed "hacktivist" and "pitier of fools". He provides fairly frequent updates to rising bitcoin prices, seems to use a lot of lingo that only someone who spends too much on the internet (i.e. I'm not sure what he's talking about a lot of the time, constant acronyms, etc.), occasionally posts headlines (generally from major news networks) or attempts at being clever in regards to them (such as: "I liked Kim Jong-un better when he sang Gangnam Style."), but mostly engages in debates with other twitter users about Anonymous, hacking and Islam (?). He has some kind of (racist) Muslim picture for his profile, (which behind it resides a promo-photo of Heath Ledger's Joker) it's unclear if he himself is Muslim or if he sees his alleged 'hacktivism' as some kind of Jihad parallel, as he is frequently mentioning Jihad in his tweets.

I suppose this probably isn't the kind of blogger that you wanted me to highlight, however, sometimes as we wade through the mire of the internet, I think we forget to stop and appreciate how strange anonymity has allowed people to be. That for every one good website, blog, or twitter there are probably 100 less good ones. We get so caught up in the real world that we forget this multitude of bizarre subcultures of people that exist in the digital one. Remember that 44,000 people thought that this person was worth hearing updates from on a regular basis (the City Weekly has a circulation of ~60,000, according to their website).

If you'd like to check him out, after my glowing review, his twitter is here: https://twitter.com/th3j35t3r