re: Deadspin: Manti Te'o Dead Girlfriend Story a Hoax (now with drug dealers!)

That's what I'm screaming!

He was trolled on twitter 3 years ago by his buddy.

The lies began in 2012 as he began his Heisman campaign. Coincidence? No.

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I just want him to nut the frick up and come out and say he was in on this

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This

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So there's this account, with this tweet:

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L K@LennayKay
It isn't fair to drag Reagan and Troy into this.. a lot of truths and myths need to be addressed here, and they will be at noon PST tomorrow
16 Jan 13 ReplyRetweetFavorite

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That's one of the accounts used by Lennay Kekua, the hoax girlfriend of Manti Te'o and the weirdest damn story ever. And yes, there are old retweets from Manti Te'o on that timeline -- two of the three tweets are of the variety.



And that account has sure fooled a lot of people. Fooled because it's not her. Or whoever was pretending to be her. Or ... you know what, who knows who was running that account? First, we have this. It's a neat tool that tells you when Twitter accounts were created.



The account was created today. Which means it was deactivated, released back into the wild, and then picked back up ... after Deadspin broke its story. Because this is Twitter and trolling is the name of the game.

Now, how did those old Manti Te'o tweets get there? Simply, a plain retweet shows the original timestamp. It's a great way to fake an account, actually (don't do this ever).

And don't fall for the account that follows Manti Te'o, Rey Maualuga, Troy Polamalu and Reagan Maui'a and was created in the wake of the bombshell. If we've learned anything, it's to be skeptical of, well ... everything.

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If they perceived that their son was in love, why would they not realize she could become their daughter in law?

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I dont know how the Teo's were raised but my parents would want to meet my girlfriend that im calling "the love of my life". If Im the parents, I would have a shite fit if she died and her "family" didnt want my child to attend the funeral. Maybe i wouldnt have a shite fit with their family but nevertheless, I wouldnt be spouting off to the public about how she was part of the damn family, when deep down I know the whole situation is mega fricked up.

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ANyone ever consider maybe the MSB has no more than 20 posters and hundreds of alters?

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Link that shite, bro.

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This is what blows my mind. What normal parents would get this involved with an internet girlfriend? The whole family sounds like a basket case.

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I would love to see my parents reaction if I told them I found the love of my life on the internet

Yes catfish is just being someone you aren't online.. and carrying on a relationship as someone else.

It can go several ways IMO.. It could be actual feelings from that person pretending to be someone else (for whatever reason, ugly, weird, old.. etc), but it could also be someone just straight dicking around with someone. (out of spite, trolling)

Of course it has been going on since the start of the internet.

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"Manti Te'o on 12/8, 2 days after hoaxers call again: "I don't like cancer at all. I lost both my grandparents and my girlfriend to cancer."

Why, after just learning this person was not dead, would he discuss her death?

Further oddities come in an interview with Kate Sullivan in which Te'o shared details of his relationship with Kekua:

"Before she passed, I know it's kind of creepy, but she would write letters for me before every game," Te'o told Sullivan. "The Stanford game was the last game she wrote a letter for."

Notre Dame beat Stanford on Oct. 13, one month and three games after Kekua's alleged passing. It's entirely plausible that Kekua had written the letters ahead of time. But why stop at Stanford?

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Whoever gets to interview Te'o must ask about this. I want to see him try to squirm out of that one.