sephiroth shot up his school

[beachbum111111]

Seph thought he would be the one to start the Beta Uprising.

[Antares]

It's probably way too late to be skeptical about this, but do we actually have any evidence that Sephiroth was the shooter besides an article from TheDailyBeast? Which isn't a particularly reputable news site anyway? One of their reporters was probably googling William Atchison looking for scoops, and found this thread and decided to report on it.

Like, I was originally on-board because I found one of Plaz's old IP addresses in a thread and I did a reverse DNS search on it and saw that it was in the Albuquerque area, but since then we've realized a.) it wasn't Plaz, and b.) the IP address probably decayed and now matches an incorrect location. Not only that, but we've changed the whole narrative to it being Poiuyt who was actually posing as Plaz on his Sephiroth account, but I've heard from several other users that Poiuyt lived in Canada.

So effectively the only hard-evidence that remains here is the fact that TomTheGeek posted the name 'William Atchison' on a thread where he was trying to dox Poiuyt/Plaz, but again that's not necessarily an impossible coincidence considering the amount of private investigating that went on a few years back.

Am I up-to-date on everything or is there some kind of additional evidence that I'm missing/

Here is a new article posted by Daily Times. It was Sephiroth, there doesn't need to be more proof.

The image I posted some posts back is Sephiroth's steam profile and his real picture, posted by The Daily Beast.

[SeventhSandwich]

I still don't buy it. TheDailyBeast and the site you linked are extremely small-time journalism. I think the authors of the article stumbled upon this thread and reported on it. That or they were tipped off.

The only thing that conclusively ties Sephiroth to this William Atchison guy is the fact that TomTheGeek somehow pulled up the name 'William Atchison' back in 2011 while trying to dox Poiuyt. But several people I've contacted all claim that Poiuyt lived in Canada.

We've changed the 'perpetrator' here multiple times. I don't think this was a Blocklander anymore.

[Antares]

I still don't buy it. TheDailyBeast and the site you linked are extremely small-time journalism. I think the authors of the article stumbled upon this thread and reported on it. That or they were tipped off.

The only thing that conclusively ties Sephiroth to this William Atchison guy is the fact that TomTheGeek somehow pulled up the name 'William Atchison' back in 2011 while trying to dox Poiuyt. But several people I've contacted all claim that Poiuyt lived in Canada.

We've changed the 'perpetrator' here multiple times. I don't think this was a Blocklander anymore.

He was still a Blocklander. Sephiroth used to play Blockland Retail sometimes. This was his last video he posted, three days before the school shooting.

He was mostly on Return To Blockland 1.045 and ran some servers there.

[Darth C3P0²]

Here is a new article posted by Daily Times. It was Sephiroth, there doesn't need to be more proof.

DOB: 1996
Was he born the second of new years?

[SeventhSandwich]

He was still a Blocklander. Sephiroth used to play Blockland Retail sometimes. This was his last video he posted, three days before the school shooting.

He was mostly on Return To Blockland 1.045 and ran some servers there.

Maybe there's a miscommunication here. I am aware Sephiroth was a blocklander. I don't think he was the shooter.

[SeventhSandwich]

Like, let me share more of my reasoning:

Look at all the articles that were made about the shooter. They all mention 'online communities' but don't share any more information besides that. Literally the only source that claims he came from Blockland was TheDailyBeast and other news sources which directly cite TheDailyBeast.

I think the reason why sites like CNN, FOX, and MSNBC don't say anything more than 'online communities' is because that's all people actually know. To get the full, nitty-gritty details of a federal investigation, you have to submit a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, which takes literally weeks to process. The reason why all the mainstream news sources are being vague is because they're only operating off of cursory, summary details given to them by authorities.

More than likely, here's what happened: the journalist who wrote that article for TheDailyBeast managed to find William Atchison's page on Encyclopedia Dramatica, which shows up pretty high in the non-news google searches for his name. Then, they noticed that it mentions in the article that he was allegedly a member here. That journalist, realizing that he now has some piece of information that nobody else has, decides to come here, reads this thread, and then wrote an article based on it.

But does that mean Sephiroth is the shooter? No, it means a journalist read this thread. This thread and one post made by TomTheGeek are currently all of the evidence that this guy had anything to do with Blockland whatsoever.

[OrangeMan³]

yeah but seph’s behavior on the blf fits the profile for how he acted later on (particularly hating religion), and sam hyde stopped using discord once the shooting happened

[SeventhSandwich]

no shortage of psychos in Blockland, and easily possible that Sephiroth ditched his discord after he saw people implicated him as a shooter

poiuyt is kinda famous for trolling here. what better way to cap off his career than ghosting the entire community and leaving us to think he's actually a Flash Mober?

[OrangeMan³]

yeah but if it was trolling it must have been extremely elaborate, since he coincidentially managed to pretend to be a shooter that turned out to fit his behavior and demographics before information was released, not to mention that this was the first time he did this. i guess its possible, but it seems very unlikely

[SeventhSandwich]

Another piece of contradictory evidence: other people in this thread claim to know Poiuyt and that he lives in Minnesota, right?

Ages ago, Poiuyt hacked a bunch of email addresses of forumers, including TomTheGeek. This was the event that instigated Tom to try and dox Poiuyt and that's where the name William Atchison came up.

Badspot, on his own website, posted Poiuyt's IP address, which still, to date, is tied to an ISP in Minneapolis. This is consistent with the fact that he does not live in New Mexico and that he isn't the shooter.

So the only way that Sephiroth could be the shooter at this point is if he's not actually Poiuyt. Is anyone claiming that here?

[Gytyyhgfffff]

the blid listed above joined tournaments last year, so this may be inaccurate, with the ip tracing to new mexico close to where aztec high is

sephiroth's blid joined tournaments last year and it traces to new mexico

[SeventhSandwich]

So is the claim that Sephiroth and Poiuyt are different people? And if that's the case, then why did Tom pull up the name William Atchison while attempting to dox Poiuyt?

[Masterlegodude]

Maybe he mistook Plaz 2.0 for the real Plaz

[The Titanium]

If it turns out to be Sephiroth, I think we should collectively do something for the victims.