Tuesday, 22 July 2008

Our first stalker

If you're anything like me you'll spend most of your time searching your name on Google. Well, I was Googling Ladma this morning when I came across our Comedy Blaze account. Imagine my delight when I discover that our film, Look North, was on the Comedy Blaze homepage as one of the top four rated films. Right up there with Ben Stiller of all people!I checked the Ladma Channel on Comedy Blaze and saw all our details - along with accompanying picture and blurb. All our other films were also up there. Yet, for the life of me, I couldn't remember signing up to the site. I tried our username with all our usual passwords. I couldn't get in. I tried requesting the password to all our usual emails. I couldn't get in. So I emailed Comedy Blaze saying that we couldn't access our account and could they tell us which email we signed up with? But they didn't reply.

Suddenly it dawned on me, I had never even signed up to Comedy Blaze. A quick cross-reference later, and neither had Pete or Chris. So who the hell has signed us up to Comedy Blaze? And who wasted their time entering all our details? Could it be that we have a fan that is so obsessed with Ladma that they go around creating profiles for us on comedy websites and uploading our films? A fan, not just of Ladma, but of all the laborious administration which is required to forge an internet presence. Yet, like with all stalkers, there is a downside. Along with five genuine Ladma videos on Comedy Blaze, there is one which has absolutely nothing to do with us. The video in question is entitled 'Arab Lebanese Wog Sex Hotline Ahmad Sabra by SKIITZAPHERENIKZ Ahmad Sabra' and features a half-naked Asian man eating an apple. We would like to categorically state that this video has nothing to do with Ladma and its appearance on the Ladma Comedy Blaze Channel is completely unauthorised. Indeed, as far as we can tell, the Ladma Channel itself is completely unauthorised.
As you can imagine, this is a very alarming concern. Either someone has created a profile on our behalf or stolen our log-in details (but we still can’t remember making an account). I feel like a white middle-class lawyer who's had their identity stolen by a bin thief. But instead of spending all my money on themselves they've put down a deposit on a really nice house - the only drawback being they've decorated the house with Nazi memorabilia and insist on lynching black people in my back garden. If anyone’s got any ideas, please let us know. We appreciate the plays and being featured on the main page, but this racist video just isn’t cricket.

Dan

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

That's mental. Maybe someone has a grudge against you and is trying to destroy Ladma, but who have you upset so much that they would do that?