The Internet Hate Machine

Overheal

Beautiful. So Beautiful.

http://consumerist.com/2011/12/ocean-marketing-learns-that-yes-there-is-such-a-thing-as-bad-publicity.html

So apparently: some company makes some bat**** stupid looking accessory for xbox controllers but is apparently awesome. So dave buys one before xmas and the shipping issues and hilarity ensue. The company that makes them uses a middleman marketing company for it's PR. Inside we see Dave getting very pissed at Ocean Marketing, and Ocean Marketing fires back with.... well internet trolling is of higher caliber.

So Dave CC'd Penny Arcade and others on the email. Ocean Marketing responds by saying a bunch of really debasing things that are more or less NSFW, and mocks Dave for trying to get PA to listen to him/this and how Ocean rents a booth at PAX and all this other ****. To which Mike at Penny arcade responds he will be canceling their booth at the next expo over the email. Ocean rep fires back at the Penny Arcade guy with some diatribe, and that's when Penny Arcade fired up the Internet Hate Machine. Blogged the whole altercation.

As a result the Ocean Marketing guy responds back with his tail up his arse and the company that makes the controller contacts all of it's customers informing them that they have axed the marketing firm.

I heart the interhighway.

http://penny-arcade.com/resources/just-wow1.html

pablomakaveli

To be fair the guy who made the actual product itself seems like a decent guy who just made the mistake of hiring an asshole to do the PR side of it.

The controller itself was designed for people with disabilities who might not be able to use a regular controller so it is a shame this asshole has done a lot of damage to the product and its innocent creator.

It was fun to see the Ocean marketing guy get punished but it went to far when his wife and kid got targeted too.

Helix

the pr guy kept digging too

Vorrtexx

Helix wrote: »

the pr guy kept digging too

I think that was a fake account, funny though

The real one is @OceanStratagy

danthefan

Helix wrote: »

the pr guy kept digging too

What an idiot. All his so called apologies were just crying about getting caught. Hopefully he won't be getting too much work in the future.

Overheal

Vorrtexx wrote: »

I think that was a fake account, funny though

The real one is @OceanStratagy

Krieg

I do love these internet hate machine stories

Vorrtexx

Overheal wrote: »

The one he used before he changed it was @OceanMarketting

super_furry

It's getting murky but I think http://twitter.com/#!/OceanDeepSea is the real current account he's using now.

He's up on MSNBC now for **** sake http://ingame.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/12/28/9770514-chastened-gaming-rep-responds-to-internet-infamy

Krieg

Its actually too difficult to tell between him and the troll accounts

WolfForager

Been following this over the last few days, has been quite hilarious :pac:

Duggy747

It's been funny watching it develop.

The product itself shouldn't suffer, though, since this was the work of a pleb so it would be a pity.

Krusader

Doctor DooM

How did that dude ever get a public facing job? Seriously!

Owen

I've been watching this as it broke. The guy's real twitter account is @oceandeepsea - he admitted as much himself in an MSNBC interview. He's also on a steroid forum and admits to juicing up, and has court documents online about a domestic violence case. Seems a class 1 dick really.

sink

Words fail me.