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EFFORTPOST John Fenley the CD guy who bought half the city of Pine Bluff has provoked a stalker who is probably going to kill him :marseyopera:

Excellent post about this guy

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 :marseyconfused2: the entire concept is like something out of the dotcom boom. All of his videos have comments like this from confused customers.

https://i.imgur.com/k6MUlTo.png

:marseynetgrannytalking: :marseysad:

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.

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 :marseyseethe: every time John would post about something. Eventually he responded.

https://i.rdrama.net/images/17333315976798215.webp

This did not satisfy him. He commented again, John apparently was having a bad day and decided to unload :giggabork:

https://i.rdrama.net/images/1733331737331389.webp

This has completely set the guy off :chudexplode:

Since this post he has tweeted at:

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The majority of these are reposts of John's comment with ranting

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 :platysun: :marseycoffee: , seething about it throughout the day, and continues to :feraljaktantrum: well into the evening, likely shortly before going to sleep :marseytoasty:. 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 :pepereeeeee: is unsurpassed. I have never made a post on the internet that upset a person as much as this one comment has. I kneel :vegetakneel:

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>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

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? :taywhat:

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 -

I was a manager there for a while before Murfie went under. At our absolute most efficient, I would guess it will take one person around 9,400 hours to rip 800k discs. That is being very, very generous. It also assumes he has the custom rig we were using at the end.

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. :marseyclueless:

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 :marseycapitalistmanlet:

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Interesting decision making. Narcissism or drugs? :marseyquestion:

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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 :marseychefkiss:

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Where did he get his initial money from?

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 :motherofgod:

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where :marseydrama: does an idiot :marseygossipretard: like this even get the money :marseygangster: to do this shit? Did the dumbass :marseyfuckingfunny: 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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