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IT'S SO FUCKING COLD AND WINDY ALL THE TIME I WISH IT WOULD JUST CHILL OUT A LITTLE BIT, I DON'T NEED THIS SHIT IN MY LIFE. It must be so so sick to be from a place where there is no wind. only breeze. and no mosquitos or flys.

I've been house sitting for my mum over the weekend, and she filled the fridge and freezer with loads of nice food for me. I had these big boy breakfast sandwiches saturday and sunday morning. It was so fun, waking up, making breakfast, putting my feet up and watching last nights match of the day.

This little bloke made me laugh. how horrible looking do you want to be before somebody puts you out of your misery?

Spend nearly 5 days with this. Alfie just screwing me. He really missed my mum and my sister, and spent almost my whole stay being off with me and shaking.

We threw a surprise birthday party for blake at his house saturday night. check out his cake hahaha

Bradley was on his independent woman shit no listening to no man.

I was waving off the Bison Grass vodka Jamie got me in our secret santa. it was actually really, really nice as far as vodka goes.

What a fucking creepy cat. the creepy, creepy cat.

There were loads of snaps being took. I like taking pictures of people taking pictures. this looks like a press conference or something doesn't it?

Went to see kyle on sunday with Hof and Sam. Sam was playing football manager and I told him to search for Kama. sure enough he was on there, I wasn't expecting a picture and everything! pretty cool right?

I can't remember where this door handle was but I was into it. funny little golden face trout pouting up the whole door frame looooool

My garlic bread had a hole in it. doesn't this make it look like Max is wearing a giant garlic bread costume? To be honest that would be a brilliant, delicious costume.

That's your lot! mainly since my last post I've been writing music and spending time with my dog, but taking picture of me lying on the sofa with my dog would make for an awfully boring blog post. Going to be doing a podcast again this week, so keep an eye out for the link! thanks for reading cool dudes.

UPDATE ON MY SOCIAL MEDIA IDENTITY THEFT

Ok so thanks for reading my Investigation I posted up on friday, i had loads of response about it and how weird it was. Here's a collection of things I've found out since posting that blog entry, with the help of a few other people.

Firstly Jade Moore came forward and inboxed me this message, I'm going to call it an official statement. Make of it what you will.

After the initial facebook post and tweets regarding what had happened this girl Jodie Jones who follows me mentioned to me that I should do an investigation or a podcast. I thought nothing of it.

She came forward with some information about our girl Jade. I saw Aaron saturday night and he said 'Do you know a girl called Jodie Jones?' we had a conversation where I explained she followed me on twitter, and that she had messaged me telling me to do an investigation.

Aaron then said that it was her who requested to follow him on Instagram, and when he looked through the people she followed that's where he found the fake account. after asking her how she knew him she promptly deleted her request and her instagram account. Jodie Jones is also from Colwyn Bay, the same place as Jodie and all the other fake profiles. Is she behind it, friends with Jade Moore and her motive is notoriety? 

Also, here is a bit of fun. remember the photo of me with my 'little brother'? I found the source photo. It was from when asda gave me a free baguette when the new tesco opened up. I took and posted this picture to twitter and wicked-land at the time.

A few different people also shed light on 'Dom Jones', saying that his profile was a fake profile of some guy called Louie Barrat.

Did a little search and our man has two profiles, wether one is fake or wether he is just one of those people who has two facebook accounts, either way our girl Jade Moore who had nothing to do with any of this remember? She was friends with both of the profiles. make of that what you will.

So the Dom Jones profile was also fake, a person who I have never met. do you think the fake profiles of me and a couple of my friends were just the tip of the iceberg? The fact that this random guy Louie Barratt has one makes me think that maybe there are completely different circles of fake profiles that have nothing to do with my life.

Should I do a one off podcast and get Max to interview the girls involved over the phone?

WL INVESTIGATES: MY SOCIAL MEDIA IDENTITY THEFT

Ok so yesterday Aaron gets in touch with me and basically said that he stumbled across an instagram account that was pretending to me. It had photos from all over the place, loads of pictures I had never even seen, collected from facebook, wicked-land, other peoples instagrams, other peoples facebooks, etc etc.

PART 1 - INSTAGRAMAZING

The account soon went to private after I posted about it and people started interacting with it, but here are a couple of screengrabs I got before it went private. The whole account was under the name 'Joe Thomas', but as Kurlton Banks.

Among photos old and new, there were a bunch of photoshopped pictures, some really convincingly done, with me holding my 'little brother'. its only when you look at my hair in the top right corner of this one you can see its not real. also, there were photos of a Kirsty, my friend blakes girlfriend, calling her 'Dani', this was a fake girlfriend that had been created for me.

more of me with the 'lil man'

me and darryl at the races. through the captions and comments on the instagram pictures whoever made this was creating a fake life for me where me and darryl tour around doing mental things.

they even faked text conversations between me and bradley.

here are some pictures from the instagram account that I sent to darryl. sorry for the pixelation, they were just photos taken on my phone, but I hope you can read the captions on them. loads of the pictures had photos of black cats, calling them sauce, as if they were pictures of darryls cat, the recurring little brother Liam, and Max's cat Lenny.

on this one that is max's actual cat photoshopped into the foreground, and my head put on another body. check it out, they even used the same head on a body below.

same again, more photoshop work, really convincingly done with a black staffordshire bull terrier, calling him Alfie, the name of my mums dog. whoever had done this had put in a serious amount of time and effort!

if you scrolled far enough down the instagram it suddenly turned into this normal lad, posting absolutely loads of photos of him smoking weed. It was somebodies actual account that they gave up to turn into a parody account of me haha.

PART 2 - SOCIAL MEDIA GROUNDWORK

so from the instagram there was a link to his twitter, with a similar sort of idea, again using the name 'Joe Thomas' but pretending to be me, as Kurlton Banks. the twitter account had only been active since november 2012.

after following the link in his twitter bio, people started to post links on my facebook status of his facebook profile, basically the same thing as the twitter, Joe Thomas, as me, as Kurlton Banks. Annoyingly I had been blocked so I couldn't have a look through it, but people were posting screengrabs.

The profile picture here was literally posted on that day to the religion page, a night out in Leicester, from tuesday night. it was clear it was a comprehensive ongoing effort.

This was just the tip of the iceberg. Bradley found from that one profile's mutual friends a bunch of fake profiles with slightly different names to me and my group of friends. there was one for Danielle, the fake girlfriend. her photos were a combination of Kirsty, Valena and Jess Reed. Also, fake profiles for Bradley, Frank, Jamie, Max, Darryl and Rose and Kama.

All of these profiles had fake photo albums, of photos from various peoples facebooks, with everyone tagged in each others photos. Albums of photos had been pulled from facebook and wicked-land and reposted, complete with comments and likes dating back to around september / october time.

I got this screencap from Darryls yesterday. He messaged facebook and got his fake profile removed, but here is an example of how the profiles interacted. Im guessing between these comments from darryl there were comments from my Joe Thomas (me) profile, but because I was blocked they were not showing.

PART 3 - JADE MOORE

more or less simultaneously, yesterday evening Aaron and Jamie both realised this Jade Moore was something to do with it. Aaron said he went onto the instagram that was posing as me, and looked through the followers, and this girl was on there. He said he seen that me and bradley were friends with her on FB. When Jamie started looking around these fake profiles he saw the odd photo from an album of party photos Jade uploaded a while back, and remembered that she had sent me and Bradley friend requests. I cast my mind back and she sent me a friend request a while ago. I remembered us wondering who she was. I accepted it, assuming she listened to my music, or read my blog or whatever.

I had a look on her profile and it dawned on me that she was the one collecting the photographs and posting them from the fake profiles. She was friends with a few of my immediate circle, but as well as Kirsty and Rose, two people who had fake profiles also, but were from complete different ends of my social spectrum. She must have been watching my status yesterday when it was all getting discovered and coming out.

does anybody recognise her? Have you met her? Originally she is from Colwyn Bay in north wales, But a couple of statuses on her wall lead me to believe she has moved away, maybe to Leicester. After I posted on facebook about the profiles and what not, and we had basically figured she was something to do with it she removed her hometown information from her profile at some point this morning.

Her name was fresh in my mind because I got a notification on the wicked-land facebook fanpage that she had liked it, and when I clicked her profile she had liked that, a Kurly Hypa fanpage, Boy Kid Clouds fanpage, the company I work for, the Religion photographers fanpage, an event darryl has creates fanpage and Darryls musical alter ego's fanpage all in one day. Clearly broadening her sources to collect photos and information.

This is where it starts to go mental though. going through her photos you can find that she is friends with the actual Joe Thomas, Presumably the real guy before his profile got switched over to me. she had photos tagged in with him, and the some other random guy, tagged in as Max Bailey, the fake Max Barton.

these are the same people that were in the pictures right back to the start of Joe Thomas's instagram, before he switched it to me. There is a whole group of young lads who Jade is in pictures with whose profiles list them as being from Colwyn Bay. wether they are a real group of people with real lives, or another circle of fake profiles, much like ours are we do not know. Jamie believes the latter.

PART 4 - DOM JONES AND RICKY JAMES RUSSELL

On the fake profile for Rose there was one lad who kept popping up, liking and commenting on pictures. I had a little snoop around this guys profile and he too was from Colwyn Bay, but was in pictures with a guy I know from Leicester. He was mutual friends with all the other lads who were pictured in Jades albums (the photos where Joe Thomas and Max Bailey were tagged in) and mutual friends with all of the fake profiles. wether he is related to Jade Moore and they are doing it together, or they just know each other from back home and happen to both have knocked around Leicester at some point I do not know, but his knowledge and contribution to the situation is undeniable.

This is the photo of him with a guy called Ricky James Russell. On both of their profiles they have a load of photos together, it's not like a one time meeting. I know for a fact this Ricky guy has lived here for a long time, if not all of his life, which would lead me to believe that Dom also resides in Leicester these days as the dates on these photos were relatively recent. Ricky is one of those people I know of, but dont actually know.

Me and Ricky have a lot of mutual friends, and im pretty sure he would be aware that I exist.

if you do want to enjoy Ricky's personality, here it is in all it's glory.

PART FIVE - THE WHOPPER

up until around 3 oclock this afternoon speculation still surrounded wether Jade Moore had ever been to leicester or wether it was just a chance encounter over the internet. Rose messaged me with a screengrab of her profile asking if that was the one I meant. Rose said she went school with her, Jade came to Rose's school from years 7 until 9, and left because she was always getting bullied and what not. Wether she is still in Leicester Rose doesn't know, but doubts it, as she had not seen or heard of her since she left, in year 9.

In conclusion Jade Moore definitely has lived in Leicester, and it would not be mental to think we might have crossed paths at some point before. Im guessing that Dom guy is involved, simply because he is all over the accounts, mutual friends with all the lads from Colwyn Bay and all of the fake accounts. I think Jade is the kingpin, and definitely organised the whole thing as she has the appropriate people added on facebook, but she is quite clearly not the only one who knows all about it, and possibly uses the profiles. I think its high time we got some answers out of Jade Moore, I'll be tagging her in the facebook post to bring our conclusions to her attention.

DON'T THINK FOR A SECOND THAT THIS IS 'CASE CLOSED', I'LL BRING YOU THE LATEST AS IT UNFOLDS.