Aww..this is so great! I'm really, really glad to see this story in full, especially written with real dedication, thoroughness, and care. I think I first got curious and looked around to see what all the fuss was about a couple years ago after catching a post on secret santa. I saw your subreddit, etc. but only got bits and pieces of story, told through random reddit posts and comments, backwards. It was like a really terrible, reddit-Momento mashup journey. --- Silly people - we don't have any interstates - we're in LA. The 605. THE 605. --- “When he asked for help proofreading, I knew I was pretty good at it,” kleinbl00 said, matter-of-fact. “So I helped.” The scriptwriter reworded some things, cut the length, made the whole speech cleaner, punchier, better—but the writing, the heart, was all still Orpilla’s. It took kleinbl00 30 minutes. For what it's worth, your haters are missing it, kb. Your heart is way bigger than your dick. :P Chills. From the reddit post: http://www.reddit.com/r/Youngluck/comments/cipv9/sentencing_update/ Laughs. Thanks for sharing.Interstate 605
The man who founded r/favors wasn’t just your average redditor. A scriptwriter and audio engineer in real life, kleinbl00 was one of the closest things Reddit had to a celebrity. He’d drop long, immaculately constructed comments at a speed that less-gifted Internet pontificators drop 140-character tweets. And his range of knowledge was vast. He’d show up in any one of dozens of forums and leave thoughtful comments with the unmistakable sheen of expertise on everything from audio engineering to communism and the short American vacation to homeopathy and neuropathy. Redditors would shower his best comments with hundreds of upvotes and crosspost them to the r/bestof subreddit, a museum for the best of the best of Reddit comments. But kleinbl00 was also a tough-as-nails moderator when he needed to be, knocking heads of unassuming redditors who broke the rules.
“I understand and respect that you have a job to do. I only pray that you not only consider the crime, you consider the criminal. I did not do what I did to harm anyone. I did not even do it for profit. I did it to help a friend in danger. My heart told me to do what my gut told me not to and while I would do anything to rethink that choice, I know that I and my family will live with it forever.”
All I ask in thanks is that you remember "i before e except when it's me." ;-)