Tl;dr he bought a defunct company (Murfie) that held onto peoples CDs and vinyl and tried to move it to an impoverished shithole in Arkansas because property value was cheap. The town drove him insane and methheads robbed him daily but he decided to buy up 1000 more properties anyway, most recently a 7 story school administrative building with no plan on what exactly to do with it. He has also tried to run for mayor there as a Libertarian and got arrested for throwing a tantrum at a city council meeting when they said he couldn't turn one of his abandoned warehouse properties into a go-kart track. He represented himself in court.
All of the property of Murfie has been sitting in a bunch of shipping containers while he runs around Hell on Earth acting like a retard. To be clear the average customer of Murfie is like 70 years old. The business would take a CD or vinyl from you and for a subscription fee allow you to listen to your CD or vinyl over a streaming service 
the entire concept is like something out of the dotcom boom. All of his videos have comments like this from confused customers.
Most of them have had to accept that this inventory is gone, had this dumbass not gotten involved it would have all likely ended up at a landfill anyway because nobody in their right mind would have purchased this company.
However there is one guy who really, really wants his CDs. @PontifierAR on Twitter (Formerly Chuck's) has this pinned to profile and has been dedicated to harassing him for the past five years.
After nearly FIVE Years, I think this sounds reasonable. Do you, #Murfie Customers? I think this is only fair. #JohnFenley doesnβt seem to know how to apologize and change behavior, so I thought Iβd help him. #pinebluff #murfie #crossies #pontifier #lino #libertarianinnameonly pic.twitter.com/wibu01eNCW
β John Fenley - RETURN MONEY AND PROPERTY NOW! (@PontifierAR) June 16, 2024
He has several wordpress sites raging against John Fenley and Murfie and a schizophrenic Youtube channel.
John is active on Reddit as /u/Pontifier. At some point this guy made a Reddit account and would reply with some 
every time John would post about something. Eventually he responded.
This did not satisfy him. He commented again, John apparently was having a bad day and decided to unload 
This has completely set the guy off 
Since this post he has tweeted at:
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The majority of these are reposts of John's comment with ranting
People that are assaulted are often blamed by the perpetrator as provoking it in various ways. This tactic is very common of perpetrators to their victims. I am the victim of #JohnFenley. He has the balls to blame me for what he did. #PineBluff #Murfie #Crossies #Pontifier pic.twitter.com/V2TLj8Pm8Q
β John Fenley - RETURN MONEY AND PROPERTY NOW! (@PontifierAR) December 1, 2024
THIS IS WHAT VICTIM BLAMING LOOKS LIKE!!!#JohnFenley #Pontifier #Murfie #Crossies #PineBluff pic.twitter.com/pryzKQaYUR
β John Fenley - RETURN MONEY AND PROPERTY NOW! (@PontifierAR) December 1, 2024
This could be interpreted as a threat or at a minimum letting me know he has the power to βloseβ my disks. Either way he is now being crazy aggressive. He told me I would get my property and money back in 2020β¦itβs now almost 2025. #JohnFenley #Pontifier #PineBluff #Murfie pic.twitter.com/KEQjRShhYt
β John Fenley - RETURN MONEY AND PROPERTY NOW! (@PontifierAR) December 2, 2024
Get Your Very Own Asshat for #Christmas. It will show everyone who is the #asshat! I ordered mine and got the #BlackFriday deal! JohnFenley #PineBluff #Murfie #Crossies #Pontifier pic.twitter.com/CzG9LgcGun
β John Fenley - RETURN MONEY AND PROPERTY NOW! (@PontifierAR) November 29, 2024
I don't know what timezone he's in, but he's definitely American. His first tweets of the day are all around the same time. He is apparently waking up and thinking about the post first thing in the morning 
, seething about it throughout the day, and continues to 
well into the evening, likely shortly before going to sleep 
. It's safe to assume he dreams about this post as well.
There is hilarious schadenfreude in John's story but a lot of people here seem to root for him. There is something kind of endearing about his insane ambition even if it's delusional and extremely poorly thought out. But clearly his ability to make someone 
is unsurpassed. I have never made a post on the internet that upset a person as much as this one comment has. I kneel 
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I made a vid documenting John's saga in Pine Bluff and he left a comment telling me the dude that was in charge of the Pine Bluff zoning department got
a little while after my vid went up.
Cool guy. I hope he doesn't die next year.
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!commenters primo fenleykino from local dramatard
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these men built america
r-slurred entrepreneurs look for easy opportunity. 1yr later "the Indians burned down my crops, kill them!!!"
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Wait what the frick? Why? Have these r-slurs never heard of Spotify or is the sound coming from the records, even thought it's been digitized, just that important or something?
Also these dudes and the whole idea are absolutely insane. Why the frick is he still buying property? Is he planning on filling it all with servers? Is he planning on making this shithole into his personal fiefdom?
Great find lmao.
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The first property that lured him to Pine Bluff was a 17 acre abandoned manufacturing plant he bought for $300,000. This was ostensibly supposed to be the storage space for Murfie's inventory and new HQ, but even at that time he was also talking about making the building into the "largest makerspace in the world", a business incubator, and a science museum.
This is the same property that he ultimately attempted to make an outdoor go-kart track with no utilities and portapotties for pottys.
When he got there he lived in a campers tent inside the warehouse and was attempting to process all the Murfie CD data on a laptop with a handwritten CLI script, using a generator for power and stolen wifi.
By the way, he has to do media processing like this because he declined the opportunity to just purchase the rights to Murfie's digital media archive for $15k. According to someone familiar -
Now, he's talking about moving Murfie to this 7 story office building, saying that it will be a safer place for storage and a better place to do the media processing, but he's also saying it could be open office space, and simultaneously saying he's going to open a restaurant on the top story and a rooftop bar.
He seems to just be buying all this shit up with vague ideas for imaginary businesses in the hope that one day Pine Bluff will experience a market upswing and he'll be Emperor
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Lmao he's like the IRL version of every fake LinkedIn entrepreneur, but actually pretty based for r-slur sending all his ideas in a the Crack Cinematic Universe of Pine Bluff. I hope he somehow makes it into Lolbert Business Fantasy Kingdom
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This guy is absolutely batshit insane
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that's why he rules
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Where did he get his initial money from?
That schizo youtube channel is top tier. VERY nice find
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I think predominantly crypto. I just realized one of the WordPress sites aren't the CDs guy, it's about him making a big scene with a crypto scam years before Murfie
https://whoispontifier.wordpress.com/
This is the kind of person who goes through life and ends up with multiple unrelated people making angry wordpress sites to complain about the harebrained schemes he pulls
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Interesting decision making. Narcissism or drugs?
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where
does an idiot 
like this even get the money 
to do this shit? Did the dumbass 
fail upward all his life or something?
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He supposedly has some patents (I'm skeptical) and his parents had some money but not that much. I think he got into crypto early and most of his capital is from that. It seems like the kind of thing he would have geeked out on before other people and there's pre-Murfie web presence where he apparently made a huge scene about trying to get an altcoin developer to give him money.
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There are biddies in my hometown who pay to print out pictures, scan them back in, and email them. You try to explain the image is already on the computer and they look at you like you're speaking Cantonese. Granted there are exceptions, but old people are on average really fricking stupid.
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!commenters
i feel like Small update https://rdrama.net/post/327830
also like
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I love this guy! One of my all time fave examples of techie spergs with more money than brains.
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!project2025 will entirely eliminate crime and overregulation saving him and Pine Bluffs!!
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Why did you reference Elon?
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!schizos
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Fenley is still going on about his fusion reactor too lmfao
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God I forgot how hilariously stupid this guy is
https://old.reddit.com/r/CommercialRealEstate/comments/1gy5dl4/cheapest_options_in_the_continental_united_states/lyt2v02/?context=8
!r-slurs kneel before your king
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It was, in fact, a bad idea.
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This guy is awesome
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I remember coming across him organically on HN and then seeing it later here
he's very eager to blabber about his story
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What the frick is this business model
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How can I invest?
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When he owns the entire city he still only has one vote. Does this sound fair?
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No. He should have zero votes!
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The local bandits will steal your investment
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Goofy middle aged white guy
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!schizomaxxxers this guy is a legend
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I think Google music let you upload whatever audio you wanted to their servers and make a private streaming library. IDK if that's still a thing after it rolled into youtube red or premium or whatever it's called. Kinda baffling that anyone would think that itself is a service worthy of its own subscription, especially if you had to send physical media into the company. .
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The benefit is you can trust Murfie to keep the physical media safe!
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What a fricking trainwreck this entire sotuation is. Time to go back and re-read the OP! Thx
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I was just thinking of this guy this morning, manifested this post ty
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Snapshots:
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several wordpress sites raging against John Fenley and Murfie:
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a schizophrenic Youtube channel:
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