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Obscure KYM history: "hang on.. got another call"

Last posted Oct 02, 2019 at 02:43PM EDT. Added Sep 06, 2019 at 03:53PM EDT
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Like many strange treasures I've discovered on KYM, I found the now deleted entry hang on.. got another call just by pressing "r" to go through random images. As you may know, when an entry is deleted, all the images in its gallery stay, only the entry in the titles aren't hyperlinked red. You can currently see all 70 images that were in the gallery by searching hang on got another call, but I have to warn you, a few of them are explicitly NSFW (more so than KYM allows). They'll probably be removed once a mod sees this. It's a good thing a little birdie happened to archive all the image pages on the Wayback Machine and you can browse the whole gallery there by clicking "next" and "previous".

What I've unearthed is a long-forgotten and scarcely preserved Lolcow of old by the username "hotfoot777". If I told you about a drunken redneck who was swarmed with prank calls from 4chan, you may think of Ghost from True Capitalist Radio, but this man is more like his less successful or memorable little brother. The entry was added November 4, 2010 and the Wayback Machine has 3 captures of the page, from November and December 2010 and one in June 2012, where it was still sitting as a submission with 10,000 views and 23 comments (both of which it had gained most of by the end of 2010, the apparent window of his meme status). From the comments, images, and some other sources, here's the story as I've been able to gather…

Judging by his old Twitter feed of the same name, hotfoot777 started streaming on Tinychat in October 2010. It seems that he alternated between this site and the one where he was discovered, ww.com (which I know nothing about; it now redirects to Weight Watchers). Around the beginning of November, he was caught accidentally (I presume) still streaming while getting a blowjob from his wife. 2 screencaps of this happening currently exist here on KYM (though not for much longer) on 2 separate occasions, one as part of a GIF with other screencaps and one that was used as an Advice Animal style template in 2 images, but I don't know which of these was where he was caught. He may have just not given a fuck and streamed both on purpose. (Also, at one point, his wife flashed a breast, partly covered by text in an image macro.) I guess he either listed his phone number for viewers to talk to him or he was doxxed from his name, because when some /b/tard saw what happened and posted about it, he was swamped with prank calls on stream in typical 4chan fashion over the next days (the phone number itself was even posted here as an image). He overran the board to the point of being dubbed "King of /b/" (or the Internet) by some.

He seemed to take it in good humor other than occasional annoyance, but as calls kept coming in, his catchphrase, the entry's title, was established.






As the spectacle went on, various quotes and moments were screencapped and made into image macros.








Among other memes from back then, callers frequently asked how magnets work.






But no matter how frustrated he got with the incessant calls, he kept insisting that he was the one in charge, or "pulling the strings".






At one point, the police even showed up, but I have no idea why.

Sadly, I've found very little video evidence of his streams. Only one YouTube video I know of (below), "REDNECK GETS TROLLED OVER 9000 CALLS!", was uploaded by OLDSCHOOLHARDHOUSE on November 4, 2010 (the same day as the entry) and has just over 2,000 views.

In addition, Vimeo user Yourdogisnowtheman has 10 separate clips of one of his streams numbered "4chan Help Line" 1-10. Videos 5-9 contain the same portion as the YouTube video, but better quality, fewer views (all under 100), and strangely posted over a week later (the 15th). Other than some meme callers and him mooning the camera in video 3, nothing noteworthy or NSFW occurs.

The only other trace of his memetic footprint I've managed to dig up is this thread (also on the 4th) on a forum for Electrical Audio (a Chicago recording studio of all things) titled "Fuck with this drunk guy on his web cam". With 127 posts, they seemed to have as much fun watching as 4chan did.

All in all, I think it's a shame this potential legend faded beyond obscurity into near absolute disappearance after his few days of fame. He's a goofball hick, but I found his personality and reaction to sudden memedom somewhat endearing. Per his Twitter, he kept sporadically streaming until 2012, but I've found nothing on him since then. If he's still out there, I hope if he comes across this post, that he'd know he managed to pull the strings of at least one person this many years later.

In conclusion, let this be the moral of the story:

Last edited Sep 06, 2019 at 03:56PM EDT
Around the beginning of November, he was caught accidentally (I presume) still streaming while getting a blowjob from his wife. 2 screencaps of this happening currently exist here on KYM (though not for much longer)

Hahahaha, how the fuck did those images survive 8 years on here (they're still up at the moment of typing this)?

Ozzzim wrote:

Looks like you made quite a lot research on this one. Maybe you could try making another entry for this?

As much as I'd like him to be that popular, he's just not. This already had an entry that apparently wasn't deemed relevant enough to stay. He's certainly not now. Virtually no one knows about him. The only YouTube video has a couple thousand views, all from the time when a few people knew him. I think this historical/tribute post is as much as he deserves.

Jack the Dipper wrote:

As much as I'd like him to be that popular, he's just not. This already had an entry that apparently wasn't deemed relevant enough to stay. He's certainly not now. Virtually no one knows about him. The only YouTube video has a couple thousand views, all from the time when a few people knew him. I think this historical/tribute post is as much as he deserves.

Dunno, this is a meme wiki after all and if it was ever relevant it ought to get documented. Also you said that the entry was only for "hang on (…)" and not entire hotfoot777 character.

Can we get some admin/mod evaluation perhaps?

Alright. It's been a full week and all 4 of the offending images are still up. Has no mod been one of the 255 views? I thought for sure one of them would have been quick on the draw shortly after I made the post ("not for much longer" my ass). Like I said, the whole gallery is on the Wayback Machine, so you won't be scrubbing any of it from history.

Jack the Dipper wrote:

Alright. It's been a full week and all 4 of the offending images are still up. Has no mod been one of the 255 views? I thought for sure one of them would have been quick on the draw shortly after I made the post ("not for much longer" my ass). Like I said, the whole gallery is on the Wayback Machine, so you won't be scrubbing any of it from history.

Messaging a moderator/admin is faster than assuming they've seen this thread

I'm actually dragging this entry out of Hidden and into Deadpool because of this thread, so the gallery is now a public place again. As for the images, man I had trouble finding them besides the GIF and assumed another mod already took care of it. It was quite hard to spot them when small (like his dick! SYKE).

The internet can be a magical place.

Last edited Sep 16, 2019 at 03:47AM EDT

RandomMan wrote:

I'm actually dragging this entry out of Hidden and into Deadpool because of this thread, so the gallery is now a public place again. As for the images, man I had trouble finding them besides the GIF and assumed another mod already took care of it. It was quite hard to spot them when small (like his dick! SYKE).

The internet can be a magical place.

Awesome, I hope to hear more about it

Hey, just thought I'd add to this forum post (signed up just for this) – I actually called him a few times back in 2010! I randomly thought of him today and this was one of the first results on google about it.

I didn't think it was b but I think I might have just mis-remembered it (I really only scrolled through r9k back then) and I wanna say he was doxxed, and I don't think he willingly gave it out. I'm also pretty sure we got his social and real address. Dude took everything like a champ where most people would have been upset everything. To add to the blowjob thing – he actually had full on sex with his wife on cam. I wanna say she also started to threaten to call the police on everyone or something before that.

Honestly it was really fun. Hard to believe it's been almost 10 years.

Last edited Oct 02, 2019 at 01:53PM EDT

catturnedtosmoke wrote:

Hey, just thought I'd add to this forum post (signed up just for this) – I actually called him a few times back in 2010! I randomly thought of him today and this was one of the first results on google about it.

I didn't think it was b but I think I might have just mis-remembered it (I really only scrolled through r9k back then) and I wanna say he was doxxed, and I don't think he willingly gave it out. I'm also pretty sure we got his social and real address. Dude took everything like a champ where most people would have been upset everything. To add to the blowjob thing – he actually had full on sex with his wife on cam. I wanna say she also started to threaten to call the police on everyone or something before that.

Honestly it was really fun. Hard to believe it's been almost 10 years.

Thanks for posting. Do you remember what you said and how he responded? Also, if you have some minutes to spare, one of your calls may be in one of the 10 videos on this Vimeo account.

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