🎨 Artcow Iconoclast / Jonathan Mack Sweet - The Chris-Chan of Arkansas

[Dr. Merkwurdichliebe]

Four days ago, Unbalanced wrote right here:

No, the way I live now is the "real" world-- miserable, depressing, lonely, and in constant, unrelenting [sic] pain.

This almost makes you feel sorry for him.

But not to worry. He recovered quickly and is back to threatening everyone in sight and babbling about how he has already set in motion his latest plan to get a huge financial settlement from ASU. Sounds like another visit from the police is in his future.

I hadn't noticed these dramatic mood swings before. They are a major symptom of borderline personality disorder. How many damned mental disorders can one person have?

 

[Adamska]

By the way, maybe I'm just late to notice this, but has Sweet been changing some stuff on his website? He seems to have dabbled in some weird fake newspaperman fantasizing:

http://www.freewebs.com/welcometolemora/smokingcatnewslinks.htm

http://www.freewebs.com/welcometolemora/cidispatch.htm

Another page I didn't notice before: http://www.freewebs.com/welcometolemora2/inspirationgallery.htm

Some of this could have just escaped me because the links in the header are not consistent from page to page within his site. It's like it was designed like a hospital or something.

I'll give Jonny one more area where he isn't completely incompetent at: Web design. I say this mainly because he's merely making stuff that is horribly out of date and moderately fucked up. He's actually more with it than some actual real people websites and what Tumblr shits out.

And if he really wants to scratch that newspaper itch, he probably should've tried getting that real people journalist job using his English degree. He can still do that by writing for online periodicals, but no. That requires change and initiative, and we know that Sweets the Autistic Narcissist lacks both.

 

[Chan the Wizard]

I'm sure the mold and lack of any human contact exacerbates any pre existing mental condition he has.
Momma Sweet should really put him in a group home for mental defects for both his and her own good.

 

[Adamska]

I'm sure the mold and lack of any human contact exacerbates any pre existing mental condition he has.
Momma Sweet should really put him in a group home for mental defects for both his and her own good.

He could probably argue his way out of it though, and she seems to want to sort of enable him out of some familial duty; she knows Jonny would starve to death literally within the month if she kicked him out.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Jonny would starve to death literally within the month

If that happened, then towards the end, Sweet might start hallucinating that he's somehow back at ASU in half-past 1997 and at least die happy. Or he may just have a sudden moment of clarity and realize he wasted about half of his life on that revenge and ASU quest deliberately resisting change and ambition while wallowing in grudges.

 

[He Sets Me On Fire]

By the way, maybe I'm just late to notice this, but has Sweet been changing some stuff on his website? He seems to have dabbled in some weird fake newspaperman fantasizing:

http://www.freewebs.com/welcometolemora/smokingcatnewslinks.htm

From the Cordell Hull University Statesman:

Well. Having gotten quite used to Jon's insanity by now, none of this comes as a surprise to me. Nevertheless, I must admit that a question has been inspired:

What in the hell...?

ETA: An excerpt from the "Tiresias" section of the Inspiration Gallery:

"I regret I have no pictures of Ashleigh to display here--we weren't together long enough to take any. She liked to say she looked like a young Jenny McCarthy, but I always thought she looked like a young Alicia Silverstone. I miss her so much. 8("

And if I may editorialize,

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA snort!HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HAAAAA HA HAAAAA!

 

[DrJonesHat]

It's impossible to know for sure, but based on the way he behaves online, I'd say he's got Narcissitic Personality Disorder with a dash of autism, and a mood disorder too, probably bipolar. NPD has some overlap with Antisocial personality disorder, so that would explain his utter disregard for the rules of civilized society. The only way we'd know for sure what's going on in his head is if he got a psych eval, and he shared the results with us. Even if he was forced to get an evaluation, I doubt he'd pull a Nick Bate and post the results for the world to see.

 

[Mahimahi]

Wow. That new fake newspaperman stuff is quite the deranged mix of revenge fantasy, scat fetish, geographical ignorance, pathological obsession and shitty gonzo pastiche.

On another note, I'm surprised that all the armchair diagnosticians around here have overlooked the near certainty that Sweets is afflicted by Ed Zachary's disease.

 

[NobleGreyHorse]

What I'm absolutely stunned by, in the profile on Network54 linked upthread, is that he says his idol is Bob Dylan.

...

Bob Dylan. You mean the Jewish guy who advocated/still advocates change, which you see as a ploy, and in fact wrote a song that was literally about the inevitability of change? That Bob Dylan? The skinny guy who sang "Don't follow leaders," and then you go and put Rush Limbaugh as the guy Jonichu explicitly copies on a comic cover (where Rush, not to be outdone, is wearing a tie festooned with tiny pictures of Jonichu's terrible eyeglasses)? Are we talking about the Bob Dylan here on Earth, or some Crisis on Infinite Dylans?

 

[Holdek]

I still want to see them explain how my eating sunflower seeds (not peanuts, as Doc Murky purports) at my desk (not in anyone's ears, that's blah-blah) justifies trying to murder me with a trash can, or staring at a girl's scar too long gives them ample reason to bring in an underage townie girl to get me in trouble.

What I want to know is what condition causes one's thoughts to get so tangled like this. Is it just CWCism plus a higher IQ?

 

[sonichuis44]

What I'm absolutely stunned by, in the profile on Network54 linked upthread, is that he says his idol is Bob Dylan.

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Bob Dylan. You mean the Jewish guy who advocated/still advocates change, which you see as a ploy, and in fact wrote a song that was literally about the inevitability of change? That Bob Dylan? The skinny guy who sang "Don't follow leaders," and then you go and put Rush Limbaugh as the guy Jonichu explicitly copies on a comic cover (where Rush, not to be outdone, is wearing a tie festooned with tiny pictures of Jonichu's terrible eyeglasses)? Are we talking about the Bob Dylan here on Earth, or some Crisis on Infinite Dylans?

Lol if you think Sweets knows a goddamn thing about Bob Dylan. He almost certainly just heard Mr. Tambourine Man on the radio when he was a kid, then when he got older and heard it was cool to like Dylan decided that he was a fan.

 

[MarineTrainedTard]

Lol if you think Sweets knows a goddamn thing about Bob Dylan. He almost certainly just heard Mr. Tambourine Man on the radio when he was a kid, then when he got older and heard it was cool to like Dylan decided that he was a fan.

He doesn't understand any of Dylan's messages in any of his songs, that's certain.

 

[Ti-99/4A]

If House Speaker and Randroid Paul Ryan can be a fan of Rage Against the Machine, then Sweet bro can be a Dylan fan. It's still hypocrisy at its finest.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

his idol is Bob Dylan

Like I mentioned many pages ago, Sweet liked this line in particular, which he used in signature over on AJM:

I once loved a woman, a child I am told
I gave her my heart but she wanted my soul

 

[Dr. Merkwurdichliebe]

On another note, I'm surprised that all the armchair diagnosticians around here have overlooked the near certainty that Sweets is afflicted by Ed Zachary's disease.

You are Ed Zachary right about Sweet having a textbook case of that condition.

 

[wenttobermuda]

What I'm absolutely stunned by, in the profile on Network54 linked upthread, is that he says his idol is Bob Dylan.

...

Bob Dylan. You mean the Jewish guy who advocated/still advocates change, which you see as a ploy, and in fact wrote a song that was literally about the inevitability of change? That Bob Dylan? The skinny guy who sang "Don't follow leaders," and then you go and put Rush Limbaugh as the guy Jonichu explicitly copies on a comic cover (where Rush, not to be outdone, is wearing a tie festooned with tiny pictures of Jonichu's terrible eyeglasses)? Are we talking about the Bob Dylan here on Earth, or some Crisis on Infinite Dylans?

Yeah, Sweets professed musical tastes confuse me, too. If he said he was a fan of Lynyrd Skynyrd that'd be natural. Or maybe Pat Boone. But Dylan?

At some point he must've figured out that Dylan is widely acclaimed, and so liking him demonstrates his sophisticated taste. Sort of how the buttons on his hat show the world how humorous he is. Or maybe Dylan is just what passes for edgy where he's from. Or better yet, maybe Dylan is actually a crypto conservative folk hero that only Sweets truly gets.

 

[NobleGreyHorse]

Maybe he just saw Dylan on his Victoria's Secret commercial (God, do I wish I were joking) and thought, "Ayyy, aging Lothario, look at all those chicks around him in their underwear. I could be like that. We both have facial hair."

 

[He Sets Me On Fire]

Very telling exchange here between Jon and EmmettBrownPhD:

So, Jon tries to get out of the legitimate fan mail question via a childish dodge.

If Jon Sweet provides no proof of fan mail, then he had no fans. End of.

All he had was the junk that appeared on his desk, which his coworkers could've put there for hazing purposes. You know, come to think of it, since Jon has such an awful memory and tendency to make up fantasies about bad parts of his life, I wonder if anyone "sent" him anything at at. Really, Jon may have been directly given that stuff by his fellow students just to get him to leave them alone.

"Hey, Sweet-tard, go fetch," one of them may have said, throwing a rolled up poster at him. Jon, being a mind-feeble backwoods result of prenatal moonshine imbibement, may have looked at the printed picture, saying, "Garsh! Lookee here! Looks like I gots me wunna dem fancy terlet tissues! Yaaa-hoooo! No more usin' mah bare hand to wipe myself! Cousin Betsy's* sure to marry me now! I'm an upwardly-mobile young pruffenshunal, I yam! Uh-Hyulk!"

*For the purposes of this conversation, let me establish that Cousin Betsy is a taxidermied armadillo.

 

[The I Scream Man]

It would be really really easy to take a picture of any fan letter, any one at all (since he's so fond of taking pictures now) and then just blur out the names or whatever.

Yep, pretty easy to do so.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

via a childish dodge

Reminds me of a certain foamer who went into nursery rhymes, tongue twisters, or Bible verses when overwhelmed.