Amanda Doerty is a name like no other. In fact, I don’t think it’s a real name at all. After becoming interested in Hot Abercrombie Chick I decided to do a little follow-up research to see what the Internet had to offer on our enigmatic blogstress. Of course a google search for her real name, Amanda Doerty returns just about nothing. It appears that her debut on the web was her first post to Hot Abercrombie Chick. Nothing on usenet, but then again I’d be surprised if a 19 year old had heard of such antiquated things.
In her first post she mentions two friends, one Mr. Daniel Zeigenbein and another Sebastian Bach (not the lead singer of Skid Row). While there’s no mention of Amanda on anything related to Sebastian, I did find a gleaming review of HAC by Daniel which confirms that not only do they know each other, but they’re acquainted through a mutual college friend. Daniel is wearing a Vassar cap on his website and Amanda claims her residence is Poughkeepsie, NY, so they must be chums through Vassar, right?
So one would think. I called the Vassar Registrar’s office to get to the bottom of this. It turns out that Daniel Zeigenbeim was once a student there, never graduated, and apparently no longer is. Amanda Doerty on the other hand, well, they’ve never heard of her.
So I’m assuming that HAC and Amanda Doerty are in some way a creation of Zeigenbaum and/or friends.
Game my system and pay the consequences, beeatch.
7:30pm: Foster reports that Amanda has a vanilla Movable Type site setup
8:11pm: Amanda responds to these questions, revealing her name is a pseudonym. I have responded in her comments.
April 22: Jason Carter has uncovered an original Hot or Not post circa 2002 (click 1083 votes) for a familiar face named Ashley. Props to the hive mind.
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can i have some props for the sebastian bach of skid row connection? i don’t watch vh1 just to pass out these sidenotes for nuttin 🙂
can i have some props for the sebastian bach of skid row connection? i don’t watch vh1 just to pass out these sidenotes for nuttin 🙂
I thought that picture looked familiar…
The one on her Tripod photo album is a tighter crop and not as sharp, so it seems unlikely that someone pulled the picture off her site and posted it at hotornot.com.
For what it’s worth, that pic is almost two years old, if not older (click the one with 1,083 votes).
Don’t know if that proves or disproves anything, but thought you might find it interesting.
why all the research?
IT IS OVER.
Abercrombie Chick is really a guy named Robbie Port and lives in North Dakota. Conduct a Whois search at Whois.net and you’ll get all the appropriate info.
Then do a search for Robbie Port in Google:
http://www.google.ca/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=robbie+port
He’s an old blogger worried about gas prices and Prescription Drugs.
The gig is UP!
Actually, Robbie Port is the author of Say Anything Blog and also the person who agreed to help host her new weblog. For more conclusive proof on her identity, check my most recent post or Justin Foster’s post on the topic.
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