In 2024 I was made aware of the LOL SUPERMAN lost media search by one of my friends, a heaven666 user who had been message-spammed by members of the lolsuperman subreddit after they discovered he was a former heaven666 user, as that website was considered to be one of the first places LOL SUPERMAN had been posted to. After looking more into it, the video itself had been widely dismissed as a hoax among anybody serious in the subject of September 11 history, digital forensic analysis, and internet archival. Despite this, the entire lost media search had limped on with incredibly poor research, bad literacy of the early internet, and people lying for clout and recognition within the community. This wouldn't be much of an issue if not for the fact that the entire search eventually devolved into something more disgusting: the harassment of various cameramen who were there during the attacks, to the point some of them were forced to private or delete their accounts.

This to my friend and I seemed outrageous, and we decided something should be done about this.

So to put it bluntly, we decided to fuck with you :)

As both of us were former heaven666 users, we had the expertise to fabricate an entire backstory that could not be properly debunked. There were two former TV technicians on heaven666, but they never shared any gore, only harmless bloopers and out-takes that had been circulating for years between TV station employees. They would serve as the basis for this 'Jay' person, a supposed 'a TV technician from the east coast' who we entirely fabricated in one afternoon sitting.

Our text would be posted to one of the largest gore-centric subreddits, MondoGore, and we would innocently pose as a former heaven666 user who was looking for other former site members to reminisce with. In actuality, we were hoping to bait the lolsuperman subreddit into engaging with this natural-seeming post so we could feed them more bullshit about this Jay person. And of course: you all fell for our trap as easy as a mouse falls for cheese.

The list of heaven666 bookmarks we provided were taken from our old computers whose data we had transferred to external drives years prior. All links were real, with the exception of 911-splatterfest-2329.php, which we made up. We specifically chose the video ID 2329 to make it look as if the video were uploaded in late July of 2006. We counted on users of the LOL SUPERMAN community to do their own research and figure the dates on their own, and sure enough, they did! You suckers did our job for us!

And that was it for now. Our thought process behind this was that you would all waste your time hunting for a non-existent person rather than harass actual cameramen who were on the scene of the attacks and demanding they hand over their footage.

Almost two years would pass and curiosity would get the best of us. We checked the LOL SUPERMAN community and found out that quite a few things had happened. First, a few people attempted to debunk the DVDripper lead, but all of those debunks were poorly done and were quickly corrected by other members of the community. Second, it seemed that the primarily lead was the Jay one, which gave us a good laugh. But third and most importantly: in the time between our initial posts in 2024 and now, you assholes had harassed three more cameramen. We got frustrated with this, and decided to take the DVDripper hoax to the next level.

We contacted a mutual friend who specializes in VFX work, and over the course of a week with our guidance he would use his free time to experiment with a semi-realistic 3D render of the World Trade Center plaza during the attacks. While all the dimensions of the structures were accurate, many textures were flawed as it was designed around the idea that it would be heavily compressed and downscaled when finished, so they had to translate well. Many reference photos were used: Cullity's, Rosbrook's, Labriola's, and more. The images would be triangulated for surface reconstruction so we knew exactly where each body and piece of debris would go.

The video would be rendered in blender, 30fps 1080p, downscaled and heavily compressed with 2005 software and 2003-era video codecs, and made to play at 10fps. It would be then copied onto an old 2005-era computer where it would be converted into a .GIF with even more era-appropriate software, the type that skipped frames and would randomly make the GIF play at the wrong speed due to messy default settings. The computer was not connected to the internet, and we calibrated it to show the wrong date on every file we created: July 27, 2006.

The heaven666 logo would be studied as to be replicated with complete accuracy, ultimately being decided to color it red instead of blue, and have it link to a Members-Only forum that never actually existed.

We then made up 'Jay's' complete username: ojayplace73, and made up a backstory that he used to run a heaven666 sub-forum titled "O. Jay's Place", as owning your own site or 'place' as some people would call it was common back in those days. We also asked a few friends to change their old abandoned accounts to this username. They thought what we were doing was funny, so they did.

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And the rest is history :)

Consider this to be this community's punishment for the never-ending toxicity it radiates, the inconsiderate and borderline abusive behavior it has shown towards September 11 survivors, the copious amounts of misinformation promoted over the years, as well as numerous other things, including but not limited to the fact that in the original subreddit an open neo-nazi with a fascist symbol in their avatar and racist comments in their history was made moderator.

Stop contacting random people. LOL SUPERMAN does not exist. Move on.

Stop harassing people for their footage. LOL SUPERMAN does not exist. Move on.

Stop plastering your site logo on pre-existing 9/11 media without permission. LOL SUPERMAN does not exist. Move on.