Dream Land · 8:51pm Jun 7th, 2015
Sorry, but I have to say this.
I don't believe Dream Land.
(For those of you who have no idea what I'm talking about: Dream Land is a user who says she has cancer and is going to die very soon.)
If she does actually have cancer then I'm really sorry. But I don't think so. I've seen a lot of people on here claiming that they have cancer just to get attention, most notably Jared. And almost every single one of them was fake. I've also seen a lot of people claim to be banned from fimfiction by their parents just to stir up drama, and the only person I actually believe is FelineFluff.
Fimfiction is a community filled with drama. Hell, there's a website dedicated to reporting all the drama that goes on around here.
So tell me: am I making sense, or am I just being heartless?
Personally, I think you are definitely making sense, unfortunate as it might be...
My mom banned me but my dad lets me lol.
DON'T TELL ANYONE!
You didn't believe me?
3130476 Never knew you were banned.
3130481 Banned? No. Forced to remain offline for over a week (and, to their knowledge, forever)? Yes.
3130490 Same thing sorta happened with me, but I didn't say anything about it on fimfic.
Oh man, I love this stuff.
I made a blog post on the exact phenomenon you're speaking of a while back, over here.
Let's go on a journey through this user's blog posts, shall we?
lh3.googleusercontent.com/b5jNX5XFvUaLMT0SULr9ppA8YkLgOmIdQT_a8v6RjVI=w927-h354-no
Yep, that kind of person. "Life sucks I wanna die just letting you know FIMFiction you're that important to me." Yup, we're so important to him that he'll confess to us how suicidal he really is.
lh3.googleusercontent.com/h_af8q3jdtq2oS6QJ9a_MzQToHH-hWm29A8tptappIM=w919-h232-no
I dug like friggin' crazy to finally figure out what happened. The place where the issue he made a blog post over is located right here. I guess he accidentally blocked Shine, so whatev.
He also thanked 2006midnight for her help; I know 2006midnight because I've talked to her at some length. She's a very interesting person, though I question anyone who's so open about what should be their innermost thoughts. I guess I'm making a correlation I don't really feel at liberty to detail here.
lh3.googleusercontent.com/zBiQSzM6idJTPFrsWPFd6VEAUc2j_UnQxpBL8Eb9_ws=w923-h280-no
OH CHRIST
OUT OF NOWHERE
Welp, another one bites the dust. Another teenager stares, bored, at their feed, and decides, "I'mma make a blog post about me having cancer. That oughta make things interesting." They then wait for the inevitable flood of "we miss u" comments and "u ok?" PMs.
Let's take a moment to... diagnose this, shall we?
I mean, I'd imagine that being diagnosed with imminent death would give someone a less flippant view of things, but Dream Land, to his credit, changes absolutely nothing about his general behavior and the way that he presents himself in his blogs, sucks off his closest friends, and butters us up with doom and gloom. 10/10 for dramatic lack of emotion. Call me cynical, but I just find his "I'm dying" pill a little difficult to swallow. Maybe because it's a suppository, meant to be rammed up where the sun don't shine, and as uncomfortable as we are having to do such a thing, we know we have to take it--for him, so he can feel better. I guess?
SIX DAYS LATER
lh3.googleusercontent.com/MLjrLrshQvRu-TjLTKb1wqZUKha-CP9C-yk-352Oq_8=w918-h222-no
Well... that escalated quickly.
In 6 days, he goes from, "Nobody wants to help me, and I’m dying," to, "I'm definitely about dead. The thing I want to do in my final hours is message you guys on FIMFiction, because you are obviously the people I want to talk to on my death bed."
This, of course, begs the questions: Why the fuck is he not in the hospital? Why is he on a computer and not with loved ones? Why is he still just as legible in his typing as always, despite his apparent slow asphyxiation due to having an advanced stage of lung cancer? Why did he never even attempt something like chemotherapy? Why is his apparent death so conveniently close to when the final death clock starts ticking, as if he's trying to ride this wave of impending mortality popularity?
As they say in the Tootsie Pop commercials, the world will never know.
lh3.googleusercontent.com/bLsyhlYbO5mFmtHGGWiik9HKEEXEjZYa15ogc474yTY=w919-h194-no
"I can barely breathe, but the thing I'd love most right now is for you guys to comment on my blog posts. I'm that bored on my death bed." This is a pretty legit blog post, amirite?
I just... can't think of the words to express this.
lh3.googleusercontent.com/bbXAjOTDILApRj1_umU4HqsOuD5L1cGBeYKwfvM0sQQ=w923-h246-no
And, of course, the final final final blog post. Good night, sweet prince. :^)
Come morning, we'll hear about how Dream Land's friend took over his profile and has the same speech patterns, is interested in writing MLP fanfiction, and thanks the same friends the "original" Dream Land did for being such good friends. I'd love that end to this saga.
More realistically, this will probably become another one of those stupid inactive accounts that no one pays attention to anymore.
3130379 Because that's what some people do, I have seen it, but being close-ish to Dream Land, I believe her
3130510 Bloody hell, you did a good job with that.
3130510
Firstly it's a she. Secondly you don't know anything about her.
3130530
3130510 My thoughts exactly. And it's always cancer, never any other type of terrible disease. Although all of it ticks me off a bit, as I've had some firsthand experience with cancer before (false diagnosis, thank god) and blogging about it on a fanfiction website is just not what someone with cancer would actually do. Sure, saying bye maybe, but then they'd spend time doing fun things with the people they love.
3130551
3130510 the only family she had was her dad
3130531
Even if the truth hurts.
I say what must be said.
3130536
In the blog post of Shine's that I linked in my diagnosis, 2006midnight repeatedly referred to Dream Land as a "him," and Shine began referring to Dream Land as a male as well. I didn't see any corrections made by Dream Land, who commented on that blog post and made a blog post of their own. This was good enough for me to determine a gender and run with it. If she doesn't want to be misidentified, I'd like more clarification to be done where misidentification occurs.
Granted, I haven't spoken with Dream Land at extreme length in PMs to the point where the site makes me stop PMing because I'm basically spamming the site. All I have to work off of are these blog posts that point to trending behavior and illustrate character. If you have information to the contrary and can disprove all of my assumptions based on this, please enlighten me. I'd love to know that my skepticism over people who would fucking lie about cancer is not the case here.
3130510
Actually gathering evidence?
img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20140306133505/mlp/images/f/fb/Give_That_Man_A_Cookie_meme.jpg?hc_location=ufi
3130569 she told me about the cancer weeks ago
3130563 So she says, but you're forgetting that people can lie.
3130578
I..i.can't I just can't
3130563
I'm not sure why this is important.
3130583
She told me weeks ago
3130588
So why does her only family being her dad pertain to anything?
3130594 that was meant for panda
3130610 But you replied to his comment with that, and I don't see what it has to do with anything either.
3130610
Oh, all right. That makes sense.
Okay, so, like... she's known about her cancer for weeks. Finally plucks up the courage to make a blog post about it for her followers. Then blogs 6 days later saying it's her last night being alive. It's just such convenient timing. Also doesn't explain the totally coherent text despite her apparent difficulty breathing, nor does it explain her being on FIMFiction with less than 24 hours to live. Usually, the hospital is trying to help you stay as alive as possible for as long as possible. This just doesn't add up. Too many things that a person with cancer wouldn't do, and she's doing them.
3130626
He meant that Dream Land doesn't have anyone to really spend her time with, so she turns to this as her "loved ones."
3130635 Ah, makes sense.
3130631 whatever
I'm a little late to the party given the thread I just read in the comments, but I say your skepticism is justified.
HOWEVER—
When you've created a legitimate network on a website like this one, it wouldn't surprise me if people with cancer talked about it on their blog. Hell (and I'm not trying to create more drama, I swear— I have a few people I've gotten fairly close to on this site that actually saw and/or heard me via skype while I was in the hospital and can attest to it), I myself am a cancer survivor and blogged about it fairly frequently when it was really kicking. Luckily, I'm in remission (and technically still in recovery). I know it's not the same as someone claiming to have cancer and then saying they're dying a week later, but opening up about personal stuff isn't necessarily "not something someone with cancer would do." Sometimes getting support from people you barely know helps to keep you going— it lets you know you're cared about, no matter how brief a comment may be. I got a lot of support from this site when I needed it, and I give it back when I can.
That said, 3130510's evidence, while I can't confirm it to be true, unfortunately does point to the drama-seeking department.
Final verdict: your skepticism is justified, but it doesn't mean you're right.
3130696 Yes, but I'm mainly skeptical about why someone who's about to die would choose to spend their final moments talking to random strangers on the internet. Why not write something down to whatever family you have left, saying all the things you never got a chance to. Sure, I completely understand blogging about it - it's undoubtedly a frightening experience, but as you're about to die? I'm... not so sure.
I made a blog post when I was feeling really low, and I got a lot of support. But I later regretted it, and it wasn't until months later that I finally spoke up about it and had it deleted.
But then again, that's just my opinion, and I could most certainly be wrong. My cousin killed himself without a suicide note or anything, but that's also suicide and not dying from cancer.
3130730 Yeah, I'm in agreement with you there. I guess the first reason I can think of is that they would treat it like Facebook— if there are at least a few people you want to get a message to in a particular network in a short amount of time, and you don't want to/can't send them each messages individually, may as well send it out publicly so they all see it at once. *shrug*
3130735 I... guess that makes sense. I'm just really unsure now.
Hmm. . . .what to say here. . .
Frankly. . . . I'm unsure. If I had more evidence, I'd most likely say that Dream Land is lying.
But, I just don't know. So all I'm gonna do is play the waiting game and see what happens.
3131015 As will I. Or I'll try to, anyway - it seems that I've upset some people and it's not looking like I'll be able to just watch from the sidelines and be ignored.
man, because of stuff like this fimfiction never gets old
in less than a month, there have been two cases of death faking
good work, fimfiction!
3130510
This is why I love Scootareader so much.
Any sensible person with actual cancer would be spending more time with their family and friends that they can ACTUALLY TOUCH AND HUG AND STUFF. Not on a fucking brony site meant for fan fics. No offense but I hardly find it to be a brilliant idea to try to gather attention from strangers on the internet I barely know of other then horse words.
3130510
You left out the part where the account inevitably gets banned by the mods to prevent abuse by third-parties. Preferably while said "friend" tries to salvage the account. Which, I might say, is a pretty good policy to have. They'll never get to enjoy the flood of pity followers that inevitably arrive...
...Unless, of course, s/he makes a shocking "recovery" from their supposed "last day". That'd be even better.
Of course it makes sense. This fandom is known for having many hypocrites and liars.
This happens often enough that I have TWO blogs on this phenomenon. This is the footnote I needed to actually update this year's.
3131553
lh3.googleusercontent.com/dHgHBZ3yDIUbfiZlKbpIvgtuTfOwAj9BUzCl0cHo68c=w286-h95-no
lh3.googleusercontent.com/MOvnI6BPvR9bE9xD3P0ylQ8DqnbSht3m5-voOUHcTHY=w115-h15-no
lh3.googleusercontent.com/W3weAliz2u_UI1aHKaBgLz13nAUhXTh9F3oQ4r7GS1s=w62-h40-no
I just... get the feeling that something's not syncing up here.
If that was a good night blog post, they still logged in up to about 10:15PM Pacific time. So, like, 7 1/2 hours from "Goodnight" to actually logging out. That is one long-ass night.
Since our cancer patient almost certainly has school today, I'm hoping to see that logout timestamp get updated in a few hours.
3130379 i believe panda here does make valid points, but many do tell the truth, just like what happened to sakura.
3131217 I'm unaware of the second one
fill me in?
3132838 See Blinky's post.
3132993 (removed link)
3133004 No, I meant the post that they made on this blog, as it has a link to an image of the other user.
3133021 Oh yeah, I saw that on the FFP's article. Not sure why I didn't see it in the comments, though.