These days, fakes can be considered an internet plague. They are ravaging the web, stealing faces, ruining reputations, overpopulating social engines, and setting false hope in the hearts of many a person. This epidemic is none other than a pathetic cry for attention.


        Through much observation and research of the common fake, I can assure you that these 'people' are merely attention-deprived freaks, who are most often retarded at best. An easy way to bust a fake is through carefully analyzing the shoddy collection of faces they harbour. Noses, cheekbones, and eye colour/shape all heavily define a person's face, and even the slightest difference between even the smallest facial feature can completely change a person's appearance. That's the most common reason fakes are constantly called out. However, for the more clever fakes, there is one major downfall; hair parts. Whether you part your hair on the left, right, or middle, it is nearly impossible to switch it. Fakes often blow this off, as it is not a defining feature, but it comes in very handy for administrators when the time comes to examine a possible specimen. Let's take for example itsSHILOH, a very popular member, who was recently shot down from stardom. To many members dismay, she was accused of being fake. "But she seemed so real!" members claim. The story behind her is classic. She was suspended for uploading fake images, and if she had only made a salute, she could have gotten her privileges back. She was sent a message informing her of her suspension, and upon reading it, she did what any embarrassed fake would. She promptly deleted her profile, taking roughly 1500 comments out with herself, a big loss for EmoEarth.


    Any active member recalls the bizarre love triangle strung between huggableXxXCaRl, JustJaxon, and Andy. They too, were all fakes, but with a less traditional tale behind them. All three were discovered to be owned by a single person, who had them all connected together in some way, to make them look like real people, with lives, and friends. This was a good strategy, but the owner also had all three come online at the same time, and that's essentially what tipped the admin off. Upon searching all three's IP Addresses, they all matched, and they were immediately suspended, and in order to save the mass of comments each of them held to their names, their passwords were changed so they couldn't commit profile suicide, like our dearly beloved, itsSHILOH. The best part was a while after they had been caught, when a 'friend' of JustJaxon messaged Benji, claiming his friend Jaxon had, ironically, 'forgotten' his password. Reports show that JustJaxon had attempted to login to his account 40 times. We checked the friend's IP Address as well, and we're pleased to discover it matched that of the other fakes.


    Now given how many fakes there are, we can conclude that it's all for attention. You never see them faking uglies. That just wouldn't yeild the kind of attention they crave so much. They also often call themselves ugly, hoping that people will disagree with them and compliment them lots. This is downright pathetic if anything, and it seems no matter how many compliments they get, they are hungry for more. They are the locusts of the internet, devouring field after field of innocent or naive people, who fall in love with the masks they wear, only to be raped of their feelings when the fake moves onto new prey. There was recently a story on the news about a girl who had fallen head over heels for a fake. They talked for several months, and when the fake got tired of her, it snapped and told her it hated her and the world would be better off without her. The girl promptly hung herself in her closet. This story should be some sort of indication to fakes all over that what they're doing is wrong, and absolutely illegal (it's a form of identity theft). Hopefully someday, fakes will give up, and just be themselves. But until that day arrives, administrators like myself and Benji can revel in the glory of having enough power and wit to catch a fake, and possibly take down a few others along with it.