Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-28501738-20160519231628

About two years ago, I started trading in Team Fortress 2. It was very stressful, as people trying to find my specific hats were few and far between. That didn't stop me from finding people who wanted them.

Like any TF2 trader, I came across a ton of phishers. You know, the people who friend request you randomly and link you to a link immediately. Anyways, I usually forgot about them, as their names were all fairly generic. However, I remember a phisher that caught my attention.

His name was "gio fick spongi", and his icon was of a man crouching down in a pretty dirty-looking room. The man seemed to be staring  directly into the camera. Like any phisher , though, his profile was private, and gave me a typical phisher link. directly into the camera.

I didn't click it, I just simply blocked him and moved on.

It wasn't until a week ago when he came across in my mind again. I was removing people from my friends list who I didn't talk to, when I saw the account in my blocked list. I remembered he was a phisher, but I wanted to add him as a friend again.

When I searched his name on Steam, I was a little bit shocked. The entire page was filled with people with the name "gio fick spongi", along with the same exact icon. There were 5 pages all filled with people named "gio fick spongi."

It then occured to me that maybe the name was in a different language than english. So I went to google translate and typed in "gio fick spongi" and set the language t

o "detect language"

Google Translate detected that I typed in Swedish, and it translated as "Gio was spongiform." According to the internet, Spongiform happens when the brain gets eaten by a prion, and the brain becomes spongy. If my conclusions are correct, Gio was the man in the picture, and he had some brain damage.

This conclusion made me a little bit freaked out, and I quit my research. After remembering the incident and typing this, I am curious again. I do not know anything else about "gio fick spongi", and I won't add him back yet. If anyone has anything else to add to this topic, please write it down in the comments.

Thank you, and have a good day.

Sincerely, TractorBud. 