{"id":42040,"date":"2011-06-07T17:57:29","date_gmt":"2011-06-07T21:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/42040\/joko-busted-sending-bad-lolcats-friendburst\/"},"modified":"2011-06-07T17:57:29","modified_gmt":"2011-06-07T21:57:29","slug":"joko-busted-sending-bad-lolcats-friendburst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/42040\/joko-busted-sending-bad-lolcats-friendburst\/","title":{"rendered":"JOKO BUSTED SENDING BAD LOLCATS ON FRIENDBURST"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"JOKO: Thank you very much for being here, and good afternoon. I’d like to take this time to clear up some of the questions that have been raised over the past 10 days or so and take full responsibility for my actions.<\/font><\/p>\n

At the outset, I’d like to make it clear that I have made terrible mistakes that have hurt the people I care about the most, and I’m deeply sorry. I have not been funny with myself, my family, my constituents, my friends and supporters and the media.<\/font><\/p>\n

Last Friday night, I posted a bulletin on FriendBurst\u00a0 of an LOLCAT of my cat that I intended to send as a direct message as part of a joke to a woman in Seattle. Once I realized I had posted it to FriendBurst, I panicked. I took it down and said that I had been hacked. I then continued with that story — to stick to that story, which was a hugely regrettable mistake. This woman was unwittingly dragged into this and bears absolutely no responsibility. I am so sorry to have disrupted her life in this way.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"\"To be clear, the LOLCAT was poorly Photoshopped, and I sent it. I am deeply sorry for the pain this has caused my cat Bliss and the memory of Barry, the squirrels outside,\u00a0 my friends, supporters and fans. In addition, over the past few years, I have engaged in several unfunny IM exchanges conducted over FriendBurst, MySpace, email and occasionally by smoke signals with women I had met online. I’ve exchanged Rebecca Black jokes, TROLOLOLO guy and Walrus with a Bucket pictures with about six women over the last three years. For the most part, these communications took place before Kevin made me a FriendBurst Featured Member in January 2011, though some have sadly took place after. To be clear, I have never met any of these women and some of these un-funny comments were inappropriately inspired by third parties.
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\"\"I haven’t been as funny as I might have been, and I’ve done things that I deeply regret. I failed to bring LULZ\u00a0 to people I care about the most and the people who believed in me. And for that I’m deeply sorry. I apologize to my cat and the squirrels, as well as to our friends and supporters. I’m deeply ashamed of my terrible judgment and actions.<\/font><\/p>\n

And I’d be glad to take any questions that you might have.<\/font><\/p>\n


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