So I Moderated an Axe Murderer

WHAT THIS IS: John Green tells the story of a boy he knew in high school, who turned out to be much more than the socially-inept loser everyone knew him to be. He turned out to be, in fact, an axe murderer.

WHY IT EXISTS: I am a friend of john's. We met at kenyon college, which is where this was shot. At the time, I was collecting crazy stories from my friends on video about things that happened to them during high school. This was one of those stories.

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• john
• green
• axe
• murderer
• killer
• internet
• brotherhood2.0
• dean
• simakis
• compuserv
• high
• school

[blessedbyacurse]

Rewatching this, it strikes me again how weird and wrong the word "faggot" sounds coming out of John's mouth.

[uiruu]

Makes fun of nerdiness

Proceeds to unite all nerds against worldsuck

[lilgurby]

What a great storyteller. He should be an author - *sarcasm*

[LoveiElla]

LOOK at that ANCIENT computer...*shock*

[noelliespinelli]

I should add that the Smashing Pumpkins bit is relevant because they were SP chatrooms and message boards. This was a heyday of blaming music (and the Internet) for things like this and so that was in the media as well.

[noelliespinelli]

I realized halfway through that he was talking about XSpaceboy1. When this happened, I was a 13 year old Smashing Pumpkins superfan on AOL that frequented the same chatrooms and message boards as Sam Manzie. What a weird world.

[jngo123456789]

I did some more research on this because I thought it was really interesting and the genuine story is so, so horrible.Sam Manzie had/has lots of psychological problems ever since he was in kindy and the boy he killed was just selling candy door-to-door. At 17, Sam testified for the older man he had had a relationship with. It really struck me how much John had changed when I found all this out and it's kind of reassuring, although incredibly disturbing at the same time.

[SammyCronin]

@SuperSmasher1 That's not necessarily a bad thing.

[SammyCronin]

@dontBeSoSerious11 He's like Margo Roth Spiegelman. ;)

He mentioned in an old video that there was only one time when he wasn't a nerd (he was more of a prankster at the time) and he said something along the lines of "AHHH! I'm so ashamed of having a non-nerdy past!".

But yeah, this is kind of creepy.

[SammyCronin]

@Curriay Oh my gods, I knew there was a reason I was staring so intently at him like I was trying to remember something. I can not believe I didn't notice immediately... Thanks!

He looks almost exactly like how I pictured Prongs (and that's a good thing). <3

[sunshinensmileys]

He's ridiculously hot. 

[TJ4kicks]

John tells this story much better as a young adult then he does while playing FIFA.