For those of you that don't know, Tyler Lim was a dupe.

But at first he appeared to be real, so many believed he was legit.

As soon as Tylerlim appeared on the scene at DD, it seemed like an obvious gimmick/dupe account, so of course I checked the IP. Not only did the IP fail to match any known users, but it was located in Macau. Further investigation revealed that it was tied to a legit ISP in Macau, and was not a proxy. So whomever it was really was logging in from Macau.

I still wasn't convinced, because Macau is a vacation destination, so I figured someone logged in from there while on a trip, knowing I'd check the IP. But Tylerlim continued posting for months, and was still showing up in Macau.

I had suspected Tapper as being the one behind the account, but I knew he lived in Australia, and clearly this person lived in Macau.

For some time, I was on the fence whether it was a dupe or whether it was real. Tyler was done well at first. He progressed from a broken-English-writing Chinese guy who understood little about the community, to slowly understanding more and more about it, and starting to make jokes. Perhaps his peak was a funny comic-style, crude photoshop, featuring me being concerned my girlfriend was cheating on me, confiding in Brandon, suspecting Brandon was the one banging her, finding out Brandon was innocent, and then at the end it turned out it was Tylerlim himself banging her.

However, after that, Tylerlim started trying too hard to troll me -- and a lot more in a mean way than a funny way. It was clear it was someone from Skatz who didn't like me, and again I suspected Tapper. The account also started to break character when doing this trolling, and it started to fall out of public favor. It had clearly jumped the shark. I then learned that Tapper had temporarily moved to Macau shortly before Tylerlim showed up on DD, so that was game/set/match for the account. I'm forgetting if I banned it, or if I just called it out as Tapper and Tylerlim left.

Unfortunately, Tapper had a much more obsessed/creepy side which wasn't nearly as fun or amusing as Tylerlim.

He tried another gimmick character in 2011 or 2012, this one being a fake Texan, but again he was too obsessed with trolling me and broke character quickly. He also posted some kind of creepy death threat against me under that account -- something along the lines of him being a gun-totin' Texan who wasn't going to take my BS. That one showed up after I had left DD, so I couldn't ban it, but no one found that account very amusing, so Tapper gave up on it.

Tapper is one of the few Skatz people I still wouldn't want on PFA. He was repeatedly making dupe accounts to post my personal/family info on DD after I had left, sometimes including physical threats. I knew these accounts were him, so I was never worried about the threats, but I always saw him as a little weasel who did this type of shit under the cover of anonymity. The only credit I can give him is that he eventually got bored of it and quit entirely, and he doesn't seem to be on Skatz anymore, either.