Butters 1188

Butters_1188 is a user on Current Events.

The Early Butters
Butters started out on the major social boards by posting on Random Insanity sometime in the summer of 2006. Eventually, he also found Current Events in late 2006. He became generally disliked on CE for his constant trolling. Butters stopped posting on RI in mid to late 2007 after growing bored with it.

One aspect that CE enjoyed about Butters were his, "Rate this CEtizen" series of topics, in which users could rate other CEmen on a scale of 1-10. Eventually, Butters had CE rate himself. Most users gave him low scores, but Butters claimed that he put all of those that gave him low scores on his ignore list, which boosted his average score to around 8.50, when in reality his average score was 1.46. CE now hated Butters even more.

The Account Closure Incident
In the middle of February of 2008, Butters made a bet with CE. He said that if CE could spell his name, one letter per post, he would close his account. This would prove to be rather difficult on CE, due to how fast the board moves. First, CE succeeded, but Butters created a loophole where "B" had to be capitalized. Once again, CE managed to spell his name, but Butters made ANOTHER loophole. This time, he said that no sigs were allowed. Knowing it was impossible, this angered CE. Eventually, the topic made it to 500.

CE's Reaction
After the topic made it to 500, a dozen topics about the Butters' Incident were made. At that time, whenever butters posted anything, the context of the message was completely disregarded and users simply responded with "Close your account". After a while, whenever someone told Butters to close his account, he would blatantly tell them "no". Butters had in fact became a fad on Current Events. As of June, all topics that directly tell Butters to close his account will be moderated. Also, one user made up a joke about Butters' failure. The topic was "Why did Butters get fired from Dominos Pizza?" "Because he wouldn't deliver". (deliver meaning he wouldn't close his account) This was found hilarious by CE and more joke topics about butters were spawned.

The Trolling Increases
It wasn't until around March or April that Butters took full advantage of his attention. Already most of CE hated him, and so he decided to increase his already excessive trolling. Butters would often make topics about how awesome he thinks he is. He is also known to make topics that spark up intense discussions in CE, such as religious or cultural topics. He thinks that everyone loves him, and that he is a "God" (which is ironic considering that he claims he's an atheist; however, a leak of his Facebook confirms him as having went to a Catholic high school). He has been moderated several times, especially by Meowthnum1, who has shown his intense disliking for him. It is not uncommon for Butters' account to be Warned, but when it is, he posts under his alt, TheKosmicMuffin. Considering that Butters has lost at least 300 karma from the frequent moderations, it is a wonder that his account went so long without getting banned.

With all the Butters' topics being made, Butters was sure to post in all of them. What was very weird about that was that he would almost always post many hours after the latest post, leading everyone to believe that he searches his name. Butters claims that he doesn't search his name, and when asked how he found these topics, he pathetically responds with "Oh I just clicked on this topic and stared at it for hours until I decided to post in it."

Butters has also started putting "(Butters)" after every personal pronoun, ex. "You guys remember me (Butters), right?". When asked why he does this, he responds with "Because it's just what awesome people do. You're not awesome so don't do it."

Butters can also be seen on the NFL and Religion boards pretending to be an angstheist, though a leak of his Facebook confirms him as having went to a Catholic school, as noted above.

SamStone22's Finding
On April 27th of 2008, the user SamStone22 stumbled upon Butters' MySpace page, which was named after Butters' alt, TheKosmicMuffin. In it was a picture of a very ugly looking kid wearing a Cowboy jersey. Sam posted it on CE, which lead to everyone making a mockery of Butters. Not only that, but some people still think he is underage. Butters quickly removed the picture from his MySpace, but not before Sam took a screencap of the MySpace page, which has been spread all around CE. Butters has since deleted his MySpace page. He also posted a picture of a teenage looking kid with a mop-top haircut and bad acne, claiming it was him, but very few users believed he was telling the truth.

Banning
On March 2nd, 2009, Butters' alt TheKosmicMuffin was banned. This came as a bit of a surprise to CE as many expected that the actual Butters_1188 account would be banned before his alt, due to the main account having been suspended at least three times, but still escaping the actual ban. Eventually on March 30th, 2009, Butters' main account was finally banned.

Butters Returns
On April 11, 2009, Butters returned to CE on the account Butters_1189. He has since resumed his normal trolling routine despite getting banned numerous times since then, but things have never been quite the same thanks to Dead Guy Hubbin. Hubbin is suspected by some to be one of Butters' alts due to his worship of all things Butters, but this has never been conclusively proven. The suspicions were raised when, during one incident, Butters, not DGH, replied with, "I'm not Butters." to another user's post.



Because of Dead Guy Hubbin, most topics relating to Butters are now just from SamStone22 putting "(Butters)" in his topic titles that normally don't have anything to do with him to get a free bump from Hubbin later on.

The Suicide Scare
A week before Super Bowl XLVI, Butters complained to the NFL board about his college debts piling up and that his disappointed parents might cut him off. At one point he claimed in an AIM chat that he was going to kill himself. At the time of this writing, his last login on his latest account, Mike_Stanton, and on AIM was on February 5, 2012, the day of the Super Bowl. The user Tony_Scheffler also tried to call his cell phone, but it was out of service. It is possible that he simply cut off all his Internet services to save money.

It later turned out that Butters had welched once again, for in early April 2012, SamStone22 found that he had recently changed his Facebook profile pic.

What Really Happened to Butters
On May 29th, 2012, the mod bloodhawks return finally told Dead Guy Hubbin what really happened to Butters in a PM. Butters had dropped out of college mainly because his debts really were piling up, which just goes to show you that everyone tells the truth at least once in their lives. Also, he kept spending the money his parents gave him for college expenses on weed and other, harder drugs. He developed an addiction to weed and his mom had to send him to rehab. On December 1, 2012, Butters finally returned to CE, still under the name of Mike_Stanton.

Butters' suicide scare is comparable to Hermiione's scare a while back, since they both claimed they would kill themselves online. Butters' claim is possibly related to his drug addiction, but it was most likely yet another troll tactic seeing as how bloodhawks return made no mention of it.

Other Butters Facts

 * Butters has recently gone to at least two events at the Space Station, a music venue in New Jersey.
 * Butters graduated from Hudson Catholic High School on May 30, 2009 with 96 other people. His class was the school's last all-boys class and the 42nd class to graduate.
 * Butters went to Ithaca College in New York with the mod bloodhawks return before he went to rehab. He tried to major in Sports Media so he could pursue a career in writing about sports, so it can be assumed that he took lots of sports and writing courses. He also took a course on American commodities at one point. In it, he did a group project about apples with three other students.
 * Butters' grandparents are named Richard and Marji Bentley. They married on June 14, 1947, celebrating their 65th anniversary in 2012. Richard served in WWII in 1942-1945. They had three children named Richard, Beth, and Martha and two grandchildren named Phil Bentley-Gates (known to CE as Butters) and Hope Bentley-Hutchison. It is probable that Butters was an only child based on this information, but it really depends on how surnames like that are adopted. His great-aunt, Betty Ticho, founded the Los Angeles County Epilepsy Society in 1957.

Butters Outside of GameFAQs

 * Aside from random posts on CE, some users have looked for more public ways to tell Butters to close his account. So far Butters has been told to close his account by a MapleRadio DJ, 3 Drunk Guys and a Hurricane, Tay Zonday, and the mod bloodhawks return.


 * Some users have the hypothesis that the creators of South Park secretly browse CE and intentionally make references to the character Butters Stotch delivering, such as a sign reading "He delivers!" in a shop window next to Butters. There is also an episode about Butters being diagnosed with multiple personality disorder, a possible reference to the accusations of Dead Guy Hubbin being Butters_1188's alt. Another episode had Butters attending a seminar about the dangers of Internet memes, in which the instructor used scare tactics to try and convince the characters to stop participating in memes. To do this, he gave Butters a gun and told him to put it in his mouth, but he never told him to take it back out again, so Butters sat there for days with the gun in his mouth. This is a possible reference to Butters_1188's suicide scare.


 * Butters' infamous MySpace pic is on MyFaceWhen.


 * On the now defunct GameFAQs spinoff, x213, there was a rule stating:

"No excessive trolling. (The Butters rule)"