- Shauna's shoulder is cut off
- The arm is missing from the frame of the glasses
- See how Shauna's face is uniformly sharper than Ramona's.
- Flash direction isn't right - alan57
- Who or what, reflection is this! - alan57
- Someones reflection? - alan57
- Ramona's background is blacked out and extended to fit a cut and paste on layer of Shauna. - ArtSilva
- Who is she, I mean Who REALLY IS this lovely woman we call Ramona???
We may never know :-( - ArtSilva - earing looks out of place, like it belonged to the person whose spot shauna was photoshopped into - recompiler
- The earrings are Shauna's. She wore them to the New Year's Eve party.
- I See You...and You...and you...and yes, You too. - mistyreanna
- I need a cig........ - mistyreanna
- I see It willie - mistyreanna
- oh, beautiful! - Liloca Safatino
- EWW - imyopimp378
- Add your note here. - jbonnetb
- Add your note here. - jbonnetb
Ramona & Shauna
Flickr woke up on Tuesday to the sudden departure of one of it's brightest stars - Ramona Dixon (pictured left).
Denizens of Flickr had been following the soap opera of Ramona's bout with a brain tumor for over two weeks.
See link below for a nearly play by play coverage of Ramona's dramatic
fight against the brain tumor.
72.14.209.104/search?q=cache:qiRzZlJ7OuoJ:www.flickr.com/...
Only guess what?
It wasn't real. No tumor and no Ramona. It was all a hoax, the product of the imagination of Shauna.
Some of you may remember Ramona as the beautiful brunette who posted pictures of herself and two darling girls along with massive amounts of soft porn and cheesecake shots. Ramona was listed as having an MBA and as managing an international law office in New Zealand. She was described as having both a girlfriend, Shauna and a boyfriend who I won't name because he's already suffered enough. Suffice it to say that by all accounts he's a good guy.
Ramona had a very tear jerking story. It started off with Aron. Aron was her husband who had died of cancer. The problem with that story was that his date of death in 2001 had him dying before his two adorable girls were born. "Think Science" was the reply. Apparently Ramona was artificially inseminated before his tragic death of cancer. Good thinking on Ramona's part. There was a romantic set of pictures of Ramona on the beach with Aron. They were backlit without a flash so their faces were darkened. The only problem was when you increased the brightness or gamma on the shots; it became obvious that the man on the beach wasn't Aron. When this was brought up, these pics simply disappeared. This would happen to several inconvenient pics.
The big show was the tumor though. This is where she got to milk people's sympathies in a way she hadn't been able to do before. The heroine calmly announced through a cartoon that she had a brain tumor. A surgery was set and well wishers began posting their hopes that it wasn't cancerous and that she would have a full recovery. People posted pictures of flowers in tribute to Ramona. By the time it was pulled this page had logged over 5,000 views.
Still there were problems. Pictures of body painting on Shauna's stream were discovered to have been taken by another photographer. She had simply cropped out the bottom with the proper photo credits.
Doubts were beginning to spread about the credibility of Ramona's story. As Ramona went in for surgery, several people asked for the hospital and room number. There was no response for several hours. One person suggested that people make a donation to their local hospitals in Ramona's name. Shauna who was now directly managing Ramona's stream immediately echoed those that idea saying that Ramona agreed. Later there was an announcement from Shauna that the tumor was benign. There was a sense of relief and optimism in the thread. The prayers for Ramona's recovery continued.
On Friday night after Ramona supposedly answered her email less than 24 hours after brain surgery to remove a tumor, I confronted Shauna directly and told her that it was impossible for Ramona to have answered so soon after surgery and that she could be sued for defamation of character for what she had done with this woman's pictures. I was blocked on Ramona's and Shauna's stream.
Oddly enough I wasn't blocked on the boyfriend's site. Believing him to be another victim of this hoax, I emailed him with a list of discrepancies that indicated that Shauna was in fact Ramona. The main point was that if they were lovers why wasn't there a picture of the two of them together? I didn't hear back from Robert, but pictures began to disappear. Finally on Sunday night this picture above appeared on Ramona's stream. After a mere three days of recovery, Ramona was back in old form to tell her boyfriend that she was real and that she was tired of all the drama on flickr. Since the boyfriend hadn't blocked me, I emailed him a list of the flaws in this picture which are marked in notes above.
Then on Tuesday morning there was no more Ramona. During the night a message appeared for a few hours saying that the tumor wasn't benign. Several of her fans were stunned. Where had she gone? Was she a hoax? Why hadn't she left an explanation?
It might seem easy to dismiss those fooled as gullible, but someone else was fooled also. Someone who you probably wouldn't consider gullible. His name is Glenn Reynolds and he runs instapundit.com
instapundit.com is a rightwing political blog that runs such headlines
as:
"MICAH WRIGHT AGAIN? The Milbloggers say they've spotted another
fake antiwar veteran" has itself been faked out. Congratulations
Glenn you're doing a great job of keeping everyone informed of the
latest, most accurate and most important news. Exactly why Ramona was
considered as important as the problems in Congress eludes me.
This pic is for the people who got sucked into this hoax, including a friend of mine who lost a wife to cancer and wanted to lend his support to Ramona. It's also for the people on flickr like Sara Heinrichs (awfulsara) who is actually dealing with cancer right now. It's also for the people who helped me do the fact checking that Glenn couldn't be bothered to do. Lastly it's also for a woman out there who's pictures were used to gain the attention and popularity that Shauna was never able to garner for herself.
Update: Two days after the photostreams of "Ramona" and Shauna were removed, two previously existing streams began commenting that "Ramona" was in fact a real person. One claimed to have been an ex boyfriend who had been used by her. Neither were able to provide a picture of themselves with "Ramona". They alternated between seeking sympathy for "Ramona" and mocking those who believed in her.
Comments and faves
ososment, melvinbadon, ♥ shhexy corin ♥, Ben Lawson, and 16 other people added this photo to their favorites.
silviothemilvio (73 months ago | reply)
and the mission continues...
lets play: find the 5 errors in this picture!
♥♥♥ Lady K!! ♥♥♥ [deleted] (73 months ago | reply)
something sure: They aren't sisters---
are they?
Alan Jordan (73 months ago | reply)
Ill explain later Lady Kubrika.
hawki00 [deleted] (73 months ago | reply)
I see the eyeglasses, the shoulder, and the cheeks-- what else?
Meta-morphosis (73 months ago | reply)
hawk........Shauna's face is distorted with the thickness of the lens of her glasses, the glasses displaces the side of her face to the right This should ,therefore, do the same to ramonas face, displacing the edge. Ramonas face is perfect through the glasses.
Dave&L (73 months ago | reply)
Wow!! Amazing the lenghts people will go. I must say I feel pity for the person that thinks so little of their life that they must resort to this. Found this thread...
www.flickr.com/groups/addictedtolove/discuss/ 720575940669...
Have to admit though, amazingly detailed scam.
WomanChild (73 months ago | reply)
Ah.....brings back memories of Plain Layne, anyone remember that?
Alan Jordan (73 months ago | reply)
Thanks Dave & L!
That's exactly the sort of thing we would have liked to have been able to through back in her face.
It's still an enjoyable read now.
WomanChild, I just got to Flickr in January. Was she before that? I don't recognize the name. I am sure that there are hundreds out there though.
Sandy Kelly. (73 months ago | reply)
I was reading through the a thread on "Women with Weapons", and found this......So, her ex was in Prison with cancer?? Just confusing. Now I will re-direct my prayers to the "boyfriend", who I do know, and to all those directly effected. Awfulsara, and those actually dealing with cancer, bless you and be strong!!! Our thoughts are with YOU!! :)
ramonadixon [deleted] says:
Good for you, Chrissy! I have a story like that with my ex...except it was my gun and he never knew I had it! He's not only in prison but he's also walking with a cane. :D Girl power! ;)
Posted 2 months ago. ( permalink )
Alan Jordan (73 months ago | reply)
I think she's a person who defiitely has to be the center of attention.
Thanks for that *Daisy. There was definitely a lot of stuff that we missed.
Lola Lyndon: Stone Cold Fox! (73 months ago | reply)
Hahahahha! The most unlikely romance on Flickr comes to it's predictable conclusion...
I remember the first pic I ever saw of Ramona and Shauna, I showed it to my group and we groaned a collective "There's no fucking way...".
RobW_ (73 months ago | reply)
Amazing! I am stunned. I shall keep coming back as more is revealed.
Alan Jordan (73 months ago | reply)
Lola, I have to agree with you on that. I kept trying to point that while women often date down in the looks department, there will be at least one major compensating factor such as wealth, intelligence, education, prestige or talent of some kind. I saw nothing in Shauna to compensate. I'm not trying to be mean, just realistic.
The best defence anyone came up with was a fat fetish. A bisexual with a fat fetish.
RobW - check your email for a link. And check the link quick before it's deleted.
Lola Lyndon: Stone Cold Fox! (73 months ago | reply)
Yes.... a fat fetish. But yet... none of the hundreds of cheesecake photos that Ramona downloaded per day ever betrayed an obsessive desire with perspiring women in humungous overalls.
In addition, Ramona's interest in girlie mags did seem a bit... excessive... more in keeping with someone... shall we say.... lacking in moderation and self-control?
Eclipse Pics (∆ncient) (73 months ago | reply)
This begs the question of where the pictures of Ramona actually came from. Somewhere out there is a woman was at the center of all this and may not even be aware of it.
Alan Jordan (73 months ago | reply)
Excellent point Lola. I wish I had thought of that. Yes Ramona's interest in girlie mags was obsessive. I have to say that I didn't pay much attention to her at first because of that.
Eclipse - I think that's what we all want to know.
Sandy Kelly. (73 months ago | reply)
That's funny Alan - putting this pic in the "Women with Weapons" pool ;)
Alan Jordan (73 months ago | reply)
It hasn't been thrown out yet? Considering who the admin was, I figured it would be. :)
Lola Lyndon: Stone Cold Fox! (73 months ago | reply)
Mhm. Yep. Fraudulent use of a person's image.... that's gotta be illegal beyond copyright law. This has potential as some kind of.... defamation suit or something. Identity theft, mayhaps.
Alan Jordan (73 months ago | reply)
Lola that's possible. I would sue someone for degamation of character if they posted porn with my picture. I hadn't thought about identity theft. I wonder that the laws are on that anyway.
nyc eye [deleted] (73 months ago | reply)
Amazing story, Alan. I just got and email from her address saying:
I will no longer be a burden to anyone. I've lost my boyfriend, my
girlfriend, and my children. I've lost my health. The tumour is
malignant. I refuse to allow those I love to see me sick so I've
taken care of all of that. Goodbye.
Ramona
I guess she's still at it.
Lola Lyndon: Stone Cold Fox! (73 months ago | reply)
Amazing... but sadly, not at all uncommon.
www.selfhelpmagazine.com/articles/chronic/fak ing.html
Alan Jordan (73 months ago | reply)
CWPnyc - You're not the only one who got that. It's still repulsive every time I hear it.
Wow!!! Thanks for that Lola. What a great article. I am saving that for future cases when I run into them.
Thanks for posting.
littlelakey (73 months ago | reply)
what an amazing story ... would make a good movie of the week
i am sending a hug to your friend fighting cancer
rhythm302 (73 months ago | reply)
hahaha that picture of shauna was taken on New Years eve by me!!!!!! LMAO that is funny
silviothemilvio (73 months ago | reply)
really? so you should know it's been photoshoped then. what kind of camera were you using?
rhythm302 (73 months ago | reply)
It was taken with shauna's Cam
silviothemilvio (73 months ago | reply)
of course! but just to make sure, ramona wasn't in this picture when you took it, right?
rhythm302 (73 months ago | reply)
oh hell no......she was in NZ
silviothemilvio (73 months ago | reply)
oh yeah that's right she was in nz. therefore it is photoshoped and you agree to it, which makes shauna a liar.
so you took this photo w/ her camera on new years eve, you don't know what kind of camera it was and you don't have any photos of you 2 together, right?
rhythm302 (73 months ago | reply)
I deleted all my photos of Ramona ........i had tons of stuff but I got rid of it when Ramona and I split up.....in this photo My friend Don was in Ramona's place.......it is definatly a fake anyone can tell that!
ArtSilva (73 months ago | reply)
What a great read here and the links are awesome...amazing how a story unfolds.
You all are fantastic :-D
You all have to realize though that Ramona IS Shauna in a personality sense;
All those cheasy hot women posts are shauna's way of expressing her fantacies in women and the fact she has created this "Ramona" who is also very attractive, who is so called in love with shauna, who is bi-sexual and appears to have desires for hott women as well but it doen't explain the ugly fat fettish and why the would in real life be together, THAT part never made sense to me.
Did you ever noticed how Ramona in pictures with her other friends that those women are lovely, hmmmm makes you wonder...Shauna basically was living a double personality on Flickr.
I would REALLY like to know who this woman is that we called Ramona for all these months!
silviothemilvio (73 months ago | reply)
yeah we know that -art- :) but rhythm here is claiming that he and ramona dated, and that she's real! unfortunately he deleted all his photos of her after the break up... which is pretty convenient i'd say!
ramona doesn't exist and we all know that. so my take rythm is that you're either trying to cover and protect someone or you're looking for attention?
rhythm302 (73 months ago | reply)
this was a picture i posted for Ramona a while back.....perfectly explains how I feel
silviothemilvio (73 months ago | reply)
imagine, just imagine. if you were in a court room do you seriously think that this picture, stolen from the internet by the way, and your comments would prove that you knew ramona and had a relationship w/ her??? where exactly are you going with this?
rhythm302 (73 months ago | reply)
I am not looking for either Don someone posted to my Yahoo 360 page that brought up Ramona so I came on here and saw all this stuff..........that bitch cuased me plenty of grief....maybe it is my way of venting
ArtSilva (73 months ago | reply)
So Rhythm, please enlighten us on this connection between Ramona and Shauna, whats the story here, Im sure ALL of us want to know.
rhythm302 (73 months ago | reply)
I dont have anything to prove.........I have no need to.......I knew Ramona way before she even joined flickr and became a so called "STAR" I dont care if you believe me or not.........haha.............I find all of this amusing.........she even admited to me she has a problem with lieing? she is lieing that is all there is too it and she got caught doing it so she fled.....................believe me this is not the first time this has happened.......
rhythm302 (73 months ago | reply)
I know both Shauna and Ramona............I met Ramona first, we started dating, and then I met shauna after Ramona left to NZ
silviothemilvio (73 months ago | reply)
but we only have your word for it, so please allow us to be completely skeptical.
Lola Lyndon: Stone Cold Fox! (73 months ago | reply)
*Cue scary music.
silviothemilvio (73 months ago | reply)
he has no pictures willie, he deleted them all. this is going no where!!!
ArtSilva (73 months ago | reply)
Rhythm, I for one am not asking you to prove yourself I am just very curious about Ramona and Shauna and who is who and what they are...Like most of us we are a bit lost on who these women might be and where they come from in a personallity sense.
rhythm302 (73 months ago | reply)
Dude look at the date of this post
www.43things.com/comments/thread/191413
I deleted everything including my response to this when we split up
silviothemilvio (73 months ago | reply)
yeah and her dad lives under bridges like a bum too!
-art-, you're playing her game and giving her (them?) more attention than she deserves!
rhythm302 (73 months ago | reply)
I can understand your curiousity Art..........and all I can offer you is this: she has alot of problems and she lies.........she is real but she lies, and she got caught lieing here..........she is an attention whore and the more you feed her the more she wanted..........and you guys in flickr fed her plenty!
rhythm302 (73 months ago | reply)
so I am done with this whole Ramona thing I am going to continue on with my life and post an occational picture here on flickr and come in and surf photos every now and then..........I have grown rather fond of taking pics but it isnt my life...........CYA:)
ArtSilva (73 months ago | reply)
Alright, fine I understand, so basically Ramona and Shauna are in cahoots together about this cancer thing?!
I hear ya Don, thanks man...it was my last piece to the puzzle that needed to be fitted in place.
silviothemilvio (73 months ago | reply)
"you guys in flickr fed her plenty!"
so now you're blaming all of us, about 2000 + people, for feeding her and allowing her to be a liar and a thief? i do not feel sorry for this person and most of us, unlike her, have a life and real people and problems to worry about, and certainly no time to waste over this anymore!
Alan Jordan (73 months ago | reply)
Some people were asking why someone would go through all the trouble of creating a hoax. The answer has always struck me as fairly simple.
Attention
In the 36 hours that this pic was posted, it became my most heavily commented on (54), Most viewed (514) and Ninth most popular/interesting pic out of 149. Thank you seriously (no sarcasm, I promise) for not favoriting this. If a few had faved it then it might have made interestingness and that would have made me sick.
I put the pic up to show some people that it was a fake. I wrote the commentary because I realized I had spent so much time on this that I didn't really have anything in the hopper for the day. I almost wish I hadn't.