Vino

***"Listen you spineless, skinny little bitch"***

I-I'm banned?!

Vino, both well-liked and despised. A good productive member of the community and a not so good person. Most Alley regulars who look back at Vino usually think back of his ridiculous activity in late 2019, but his Alley career started a bit earlier. Let's take a look at one of the more polarizing Alleyans. I can't say how he was during his Blender days, or how his time was as a Contest Central helper alongside ane.

### Blender Days

#### Rise and Origins

My own recollection is not the greatest but Vino joined the Blender around the same time (within months at the very least) as Fang and Shodai did. So this would've been in mid-2007; all the same Vino quickly proved himself via the newly established Blender tradition of baring the Crucible. In the context of this that the "Crucible" was taking being flamed, trolled, and poked fun at for some time to see if a prospective Blenderite had sufficiently thick-skin to endure it. Needless to say, Vino did and established himself with being one of the most talented photoshopers and image editors in the Blender's collective history which included Dave, Shodai, Zaru, /root (adam), and several others to make fellow Blenderites laugh and would-be trolls and shitposters weep when trying to flame or shitposts the sub-section. Lord help a poster if Vino had access to any real world photographs to make fun of them with as some would ultimately come to realize he wouldn't hold back if sufficient ammunition and material was given to him.

#### Twilight

Regardless, Vino became part of the 'third/fourth' generation of Blenderites who came about in the 2007s due to his talents with image edits and meme spamming ctrl+v attacks with others on a caliber rarely seen. But there was a darker side to him. One even I for most of the Blender's existence, was unaware of, and that was his fixation with female posters and other people's personal data like facebook accounts and profiles. Though some like a certain Austrian, were already suspicious of the Jewish Himura Battosai, nothing was ever hard pressed on Vino. But as the Blender started to wind down in activity in the late 2015's - early 2016's, our 'hero' began to migrate and increasingly since the 2013's, post more and more frequently in the Chatterbox. This infamously lead to his own take on blogs and personal diary threads turning into the "Uncle Vino Bus stories" to the delight of some and the horrors of others in the section. This became essentially as much of a household and commonplace staple in the CB as was anything else like Bioness' creepy fetish for authoritarianism and kissing the ass of various staff members. But beneath that lurked something worse, Vino's lust for female posters attention and affection.

Though purely of speculation on this editor's part, there have always been glimpses into what our redhaired kosher hero desired. Hindsight making it more clear and easier to follow; from the days of yearning for RetroElectro to the final grasping at Nataly and the massive battle that would become a duel between him and Shrike...if you are a female, the Battosai would not relent. Even if it would cost him...everything. The man was also aided by ane, a former smod turn advisor who still retained all her perms and privileges and is suspected of being the staff member feeding Vino all the information he needed to attack, check out, or pursue through other users personal data and information. It is believed ane was legitimately attracted and emotionally invested in Vino but it seems very sadly unrequited.

### Early Alley

Not quite that active, made a post here and there early on but can only be described as a relative background character. However, his clash with Larcher became quite iconic (something he wasn't able to live down so he mostly rolled with it later). What was the argument about? I'm not entirely sure, since at the time posts were deleted but their respective most memed post are not gone (!):

**Vino**: "*Listen you spineless, skinny little bitch, I've ignored most of your baits whenever you feel like bringing up your sob story cause I legit felt sorry for you, but don't play the 'tough' card when you literally start shit with me AGAIN and then literally report me cause I responded to you. your beef with ane is between you and her, got nothing to do with it, so quit being a little bitch and actually own up when you start shit with someone. You seem to have a problem that I'm friends with ane, and I legit have no idea why it bothers you but whoever I befriend is none of your fucking business you delusional two faced turd. The next time you think to bring me up again in your petty baits I'll pull your balls so hard down that you'd have to go under surgery with no wifi access.*"

**Larcher:** *"N\*gga you're paranoid as shit, I'm not out to get you, cause you're friends with ane. This whole thing started was because you made a joke about Natty looking like Nep Nep which was already said like a month ago. I made a comment about you getting ninja'd by like a month. It had NOTHING to do with me trying to bait you out, it was a joke perfectly justified by context that I would have made regardless of whoever it was that was late to the party. How you could come to the conclusion this was malicious bait is fucking ridiculous. You kept pressing forward and trying to start shit, I may as well fire back and put you straight You're the insecure bitch that needs to get his shit together. Let's be fair I'm not the one having a spaz attack and unloading verbal diarrhea about how I'm trying to ruin your experience on your precious Mongolian mop painting forum. N\*gga grow a pair."*

Not long after Vino deleted his account, making his final clash with Larcher all the more memorable (probably much to his annoyance when Vino came back a year later). And thus Vino became a mere memory. Vino also survived the White Death during this period, apparently.

### Return of the Sith

But not for long. Out of nowhere he was back again, with a new account. At first probably not entirely sure what the Alley was about and why people kept bringing up his clash with Larcher, which he didn't think much of allegedly. He had some minor skirmishes (one of them being with Whitebeard, who was an advisor at the time and Vino was a sourpuss when it came to the Staff who had denied him so) with regulars. However, he quickly became one of the most active members in an incredibly active section (at the time, the most active NF's #1 section had ever been), made some good content and was generally well-liked.

When I'm talking active, I really do mean that he was active. The man had at one point 170 posts per day (remember when that was a thing?) Also, his general presence inspired a lot of good memes. While he wasn't the cause for the Alley's activity at the time, he certainly was one of the cornerstones during that short-lived golden age. He also kept pestering Jackk about a helper ribbon for whatever reason.

### The Cracks Begin to form

Vino had this habit, or tendency or whatever you wish to call it to ask people for Facebook. And when I say habit, I mean that the Visitor Message feed was full with messages of him asking (mostly female but pretty much anyone) their Facebook. Funny at the time, it still kinda is. But people didn't think too much of it. In December 2019 Kiseki "outed" Vino as a stalker. However, a lot of people (myself included) didn't take it that seriously. Vino existed in some sort of limbo between this and early to mid 2020 - with a lot of people being Pro-Vino.

During this period more people came forward that they were harassed by Vino, to the point of having to block him and even having to remove other NFers from their Facebook so Vino couldn't find them on social media anymore. Additionally, no one is sure if this is true but ALLEGEDLY he even tracked down Mbxx (no, this is not a joke).

The saga did not end there, however. As previously stated, the incident with Kiseki happened early December and he was banned shortly after but his presence loomed over the forums for quite some time. One particularly noteworthy thing is that he was asking several people for money; notably colours and Fang even.

### The End?

Eventually, Vino threw in the towel and had his account deleted. ane followed shortly after. Might have made a dupe here and there but nothing major has happened since.