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"KnowsAboutCars" (knowsaboutcars)
11/10/2014 at 08:18 • Filed to: None

I just found out that SKZ (Supreme Kiwi Zorro or whatever name he used) has deleted everything he (or she) published here. SKZ was subject of controversy from time to time but I really liked some of the stuff he posted here (Oppo liveries, forgotten concept cars etc.)

Have a Mini Cooper S brochure since allegedly SKZ had an old Mini.

DISCUSSION (38)

505Turbeaux > KnowsAboutCars
11/10/2014 at 08:21

I heard he was having issues with his eyesight, like badly. He penned an epic history of VW with help from a ghostopponaut, but for some reason it was up for a day or 2, then scrubbed, then came back alive on it's own sub blog that I was added to edit without request (just odd, but I was enthusiastic about it). So yeah I don't know what happened there.

area man > KnowsAboutCars
11/10/2014 at 08:23

damn, those concept car galleries were awesome. Never understood what the controversies were

Brian Silvestro > KnowsAboutCars
11/10/2014 at 08:23

She was a very nice person. She made me this: http://brainsgifs.kinja.com/gifs-157780256…

CalzoneGolem > KnowsAboutCars
11/10/2014 at 08:25

I didn't like the guy but its sad to see a fellow Jalop lose their content or their eyesight.

Kinja'd!!!

thebigbossyboss > Brian Silvestro
11/10/2014 at 08:26

Supreme Kiwi Zorro was a man. This I am sure of. They were married though, to another man.

Brian Silvestro > thebigbossyboss
11/10/2014 at 08:26

Really!?! Interesting....does not change my opinion

thebigbossyboss > Brian Silvestro
11/10/2014 at 08:30

I am pretty sure this was the case. It confused me for a while though too.

SKZ was pretty nice. Too bad about their eyes. that was really sad.

SnapUndersteer, Italian Spiderman > KnowsAboutCars
11/10/2014 at 08:33

It doesn't matter how good his posts were. He was always out to cause trouble and skirt the rules. The mod team took the collective decision to ban him. We told him he can do whatever the hell he wants on his Kinja.

That's it.

thebigbossyboss > CalzoneGolem
11/10/2014 at 08:34

Yeah I think we can all sympathize that losing your eyesight would be pretty devastating.

thebigbossyboss > SnapUndersteer, Italian Spiderman
11/10/2014 at 08:34

I thought he went blind.

Axel-Ripper > area man
11/10/2014 at 08:41

For every cool oppo-thing he did he also did a lot of shit stirring, crying victim and attention whoring for no necessary reason, and a good deal of questionable subconscious Nazi sympathizing that he tried to claim was a history of VW. It was a brilliant series of articles for sure (I'm not sure how kinja ever supported that much content in one article) but he has some severe mental issues.

Pabuuu, JDM car enthusiast & Italian parts hoarder > KnowsAboutCars
11/10/2014 at 08:55

I think it was just a troll account. He/she used photo's from some hipster internet blog couple and said that it was him/her, that was proven.

It came back some months ago under a different name, but I'm not sure where that one went.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > thebigbossyboss
11/10/2014 at 09:02

SKZ had some type of connection to I Hate American Cars (possibly the same person), and had previously shown some issues with pathological lying/invented persona and shit-stirring. The "new, improved, nicer" SKZ that we all became familiar with over time still came off as really neurotic. If he did lose his eyesight as described multiple times it's a shame, but patterns of shit-stirring still cropped up from time to time and were really beginning to be obnoxious. Among these, the "I don't understand" obtuseness game after being divisive and rude as a lead in to the "everybody's PICKING ON ME!" game. Leading to "everybody is mean to me" flouncing exits from Oppo more than once, followed by "Well, I got over all the mean things that mean hatey people here said to me" triumphal re-entry.

SO MUCH DRAMA

Oh, and the "I'm a baker married to a man" thing? Constant attempts at gay-baiting, just in case any of us were hatey or anything.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > area man
11/10/2014 at 09:03

Most of SKZ's epic trolling was in the past. Most.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > CalzoneGolem
11/10/2014 at 09:07

Not in my cereal. NEVER in my cereal.

SnapUndersteer, Italian Spiderman > thebigbossyboss
11/10/2014 at 09:13

That doesn't earn any sympathy. What's your point?

thebigbossyboss > SnapUndersteer, Italian Spiderman
11/10/2014 at 09:17

I guess I thought he left because he went blind, not because he got banned.

I think going blind would be bad, but that's just a guess.

CalzoneGolem > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
11/10/2014 at 09:21

Not now. Not ever!

Axel-Ripper > thebigbossyboss
11/10/2014 at 09:23

Lets not forget that his initial "I'm leaving because I'm going blind" was part in reaction to the Kinja upgrade to black-font-on-white-background, which apparently was hard for him with some weird kind of colorblindness to read.

thebigbossyboss > Axel-Ripper
11/10/2014 at 09:24

Yeah.

thebigbossyboss > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
11/10/2014 at 09:28

I am not sure who I hate american cars is.

There was a lot of drama surrounding him that's for true. I never understood this.

I am not saying he didn't stir up the drama, but I am saying "I do not understand what the point of stirring up drama on the internet is".

I didn't know they were lying about being married, I would have no way to know. He is way over there, and I am very very far from NZ.

I guess I just don't see the point about lying about your life on the internet. I'm not going to say I've never embellished anything, but I mean generally who I am on here is who you get in real life.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Pabuuu, JDM car enthusiast & Italian parts hoarder
11/10/2014 at 09:30

There was a brief interlude between SKZ's greatest idiocies on the front page and greatest idiocies here with a suspiciously SKZ-like poster who claimed to have a gore fetish. Was that a real person, or SKZ employing facile trickery to start arguments and put zit-popping and infection videos on Oppo? Hard to say. The writing style, choice of userpic, and a dozen other little things sure seemed like "Rosetto Viacava" or whatever was SKZ.

If there's been one since the big SKZ noise-making exist, I must have missed it. It would fit the history, though.

ttyymmnn > thebigbossyboss
11/10/2014 at 09:36

I learned to believe very little of what SKZ said. If he/she truly did go blind, I regret that. But there was just too much drama.

thebigbossyboss > ttyymmnn
11/10/2014 at 09:37

Yeah I hear that for sure. I always steer clear of Oppo drama if I can.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > thebigbossyboss
11/10/2014 at 09:53

I Hate American Cars was an infamous front-page troll. Claimed to be an Aussie, but when Kinja switched everybody with a Google-linked account to (Googlename).kinja.com, the google user account was "lilkiwiguy". IOW, someone who was a Kiwi or had long-running pretensions of being one. IHAC mostly stopped posting, then SKZ showed up posting very very similarly with similar content, arguments, and spite. Oh yes, lots of spite, slams on Americans out of *nowhere*, etc. After claims that IHAC and SKZ were the same person, IHAC mysteriously became active again for a while, and the two accounts supported each other in what looked like really blatant sockpuppeting. Eventually one or the other account "admitted" that they "knew each other", and eventually there ended up being a whole constructed backstory which was almost certainly false. IHAC constantly engaged in gay-baiting with reference to a gay son, and SKZ's gay-baiting was supposedly established as that gay son, but both accounts had a proclivity toward provable falsehood - clinical habitual lying. Eventually IHAC went dark, and some time after that, SKZ got semi-banned or something.

About that time, we had a "new oppo poster" named "Rosetto Viacava". Very distinctive posting style, tone in the written word, choice of userpic, etc. Smelled like SKZ. Said poster played it cool for a while, then started posting and requesting post of gore videos. Zit-popping, etc. etc. Eventually got into some massive arguments possibly involving racism(?), and got B&.

Some time after this, SKZ made comment on the content of some mods/something or other and was probationarily allowed on Oppo, having allegedly turned over a new leaf. This was after some time of relatively minimal drama on the FP. SKZ then began his career on Oppo of car history posts and other genuinely interesting content interspliced with drama posts. Posts about life as a baker, posts about having some form of albinism(?), posts about "Ivan", a romantic interest, and all kinds of other posts that had a very unreal and weird nature. SKZ was exposed about this time as having "borrowed" pictures "of me and Ivan" which were already transparently fucky from some photographer's blog. SKZ then went all "why are you so mean to me!?" and flounced. The first time.

Then, SKZ came back, "I'm now married to Ivan", "I forgive all of you who were mean to me", and so on. More content, slightly less drama, then drama started winding up again. Picking fights with Opponauts, etc. After a while it fell into a vicious cycle of Content, Attention Whoring, Controversy, I'm-The-Victim-Here Whinging, Flounce, Delay, and I-Forgive All Of You But You're Still Mean return, followed by Content.

Evidently, the mods finally had enough, and SKZ apparently chose to burn bridges as well.

The point I'm trying to make here, is that whoever is behind SKZ is an attention whore of epic proportions and Fucked In The Head beyond all reason. Literally everything they ever posted re: personal information must remain in question, because he/she/it is FUCKING INSANE and previously given to fabrication of absolutely everything.

thebigbossyboss > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
11/10/2014 at 09:58

This was quite the history. Thanks for taking the time to write it up. I always knew SKZ was a bit off, but I never knew the entire back story.

Anyways thanks for enlightening me. It's probably for the best they got banned then.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > thebigbossyboss
11/10/2014 at 10:06

I think I got all the chronology correct - not sure if I did, but all those are Things That Happened. In short, Shit Cray. A ban would not be on the lines of being executed for jaywalking, it would be on the lines of being executed after being caught jaywalking, having violated probation in an arson case while out on bail for a couple armed robberies, and strong circumstantial evidence for guilt in the rape of a nun and eating of a baby.

ThePenguin > KnowsAboutCars
11/10/2014 at 11:28

Bets on how long till he's back?

DasWauto > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
11/10/2014 at 19:22

I'm glad there are still people here who remember his history; SKZ outlasted a lot of his detractors, unfortunately.

Just one correction: Rossetto was in between SKZ's first leaving in a huff and the subsequent return. An account to hold him over in his 'absence', if you will.

DasWauto > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
11/10/2014 at 19:23

This is the greatest thing I've ever read.

505Turbeaux > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
11/11/2014 at 08:19

Jaysus RamblinRover. I feel I am a pretty perceptive guy, but this takes some serious observation here. I remember pieces of this but not the whole thing. Now I know...

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
11/11/2014 at 08:55

Thanks for the backstory. I got tied up in it a little bit, too. He/They attempted to use me as a little pawn in their game at the end, related to the Beetle history posts. All the drama surrounding this is a real shame, because the content he created was really great! Oh well...

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > 505Turbeaux
11/11/2014 at 09:00

Whoever the true SKZ is, he's cuckoo for cocoa puffs. This much is clear. I can't say I made a hobby of tracking him or anything, but after a while, I kind of felt like a psych taking notes. (All mental - actually writing this shit down would be entering into competition on the crazy.)

"So, you say your last prolonged absence was not due to butthurt, but due to *marrying* "Ivan". And now, after several previous gripes alleging a colorblindness issue, it has evolved into "actually going blind". Iiiiiinteresting ."

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > DasWauto
11/11/2014 at 09:01

Or the saddest. It's like a guy who spent years writing a novel, and then got into an argument with the publisher over the color of the paper to use, and he ends up burning his manuscript.

Seeing the almost-full story written out like this is hard to believe.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com
11/11/2014 at 09:02

With great prose comes great dickbaggery, apparently.

Actually, I became very suspicious after a while some of the content was lifted from somewhere and repurposed, but I never was really sure where. Never tried to find out that hard.

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > 505Turbeaux
11/11/2014 at 09:15

He tried using me as a pawn for this as well. Replied to my oldest OPPO post, telling me I was a mod on his new Kinja site, and asked me to delete his comment... It smelled funny, and I didn't want to get in the middle of him and the mods, so I just didn't mess with it. Here's the last communication:

Kinja'd!!!

The sad part is, the work was really good. It's a shame that he let petty arguments get the better of him, and that he cut himself out of a community that respected his work and was very supportive of him in his declining health.

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > KnowsAboutCars
07/05/2015 at 15:54

FYI - http://oppositelock.kinja.com/update-on-skz-…

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > SnapUndersteer, Italian Spiderman
07/05/2015 at 15:54

FYI - http://oppositelock.kinja.com/update-on-skz-…