On August 24th, FA user
Syphon posted a
journal stating his wife
Arina and infant son Sergei had been killed in a tragic car accident by a texting teenage driver.
My wife and infant son were killed in a car wreck last Friday. They were in a car with Arina's mother and brother when a highschool-aged kid was texting on a phone and missed a red light and ran into the car they were in on the side they were on. Sergei was killed instantly, so at least I have some solace in knowing my son didn't suffer. Arina... she held on just to see me one last time, so we could say goodbye to each other in the hospital.
Standard furry tragedy response ensues. However, the internet soon became suspicious when searches and direct requests of funeral arrangements, news stories, or obituaries came up empty.
Some
awfully extensive internet sleuthing ensued, eventually revealing that no accident had taken place, and later that Arina and Sergei had never existed at all. It came as a shock to few, as nobody had ever seen a picture of her or the two of them together, though he apparently carried out an entire internet life for her.
Syphon caved two days later when presented with the evidence and posted a replacement
journal owning up to his monumental fuckup and announcing he'd be leaving for an "indefinite period of time" and at the time of posting is blanking both his account and that of his make-believe wife.
