Jesse Camp: MTV VJ Forefer

(submitted by Amy R)

(submitted by Amy R)

(submitted by Amy R)

A while ago there was a fairly public twitter fight between @joemande and @RealJesseCamp.  It was somewhat entertaining but somewhat sad… mostly because “Jesse” was claiming that retweeting him was a copyright infringement.

Now, I am apparently someone who can’t avoid looking at a train wreck so I watched.  I had suspicions that it wasn’t REALLY Jesse Camp but hard to prove.  I also noticed that his profile linked to a tumblr.  And inactive tumblr.  Curious, I tried to register it myself… and that is what we have here.

I can’t say what my intent was, to be honest.  Just seemed like an opportunity.  All I did with it was repost (some of) his tweets, usually with a tiny bit extra.  My plan the entire time was to keep it up until he removed the link.  I mean, the joke (if you could call it that) is moot if it was not linked to the twitter profile.

Nice thing was that it was a pretty simple project.  Very little effort on my part.  Once in a while, I would just look at the twitter (using a saved search for “RealJesseCamp” because I was too lazy to bookmark it) and see if anything was entertaining enough to post (or at least could be made entertaining by putting a spin on it… this is a favorite of mine).  It really wasn’t that often.

I had made this one earlier today, adding in the “(at the post office)” part.  Because, well, it seemed like something someone would yell at the post office.  (I almost went with “the bank” but I thought it would be interpreted as money problems).  There was a follow up of him “(at the dry cleeners).”  I was hoping there would be a third (Comedy Rule of Threes and all), so an hour later I searched again.  That is when the tweet seen in the above photo came up.

So.  That was the answer.  Dr. Crop (@Dr_Cop) was the owner of @RealJesseCamp.  I wasn’t 100% sure.  It sort of looked like he was just kidding.  To test the waters, I made the post about @Dr_Cop not being Jesse Camp and how only @RealJesseCamp and this tumblr was the real Jesse Camp.

Which freaked Dr. Crop out a bit.  This is funny to me for couple of reasons.  First, he believed I was stalking him because I knew he was at the post office.  Total coincidence… although, to be fair, we all swear like that waiting to buy stamps.  Second, here I was claiming that his fake twitter was really Jesse Camp and he wasn’t.  I was, in essence, backing up his own claim.  (Let me follow up with the level of meta that this originally caught my interest because Dr. Crop, as @RealJesseCamp, was entertainingly trolling the internet by telling Joe Mande that he was going to sue him for retweeting him… And here Dr. Crop is honestly getting upset that I was reposting his fake Jesse Camp tweets.)

That pushed Dr. Crop over the edge and finally removed the link to here.  So the project ends.  It was mildly entertaining for me.

In closing, a few things to take away:

@RealJesseCamp is not really Jesse Camp.  Not enough people follow this tumblr for it to make an difference that I say that here.  But, hey, if a few folks know, great.

If anyone knows Joe Mande, could they pass that info on?  And give him my thanks for this little adventure I’ve been on?

@Dr_Cop, I can’t track your cellphone or anything. It was a very lucky guess.  You are safe.  Also hope you don’t get in trouble for getting the work truck stuck in the mud.

And, most importantly, I hope that the real Jesse Camp is happy and healthy.  Wherever he may be.

Signed,

In No Way The Real Jesse Camp