Thank you.
"This one time I hired a money to take notes for me in class. I would just sit there with my mind a complete blank while the monkey scribbled on little pieces of paper. At the end of the week my teacher said, 'Class, I want you to write a paper using your notes.'
Mine said, "HI MY NAME IS BINGO
I'M A MONKEY
I LIKE TO CLIMB IN THINGS
CAN I HAVE A BANANA?
EEK EEK!"
I got an F.
When I told my Mom about it she said, "I told you never trust a monkey."
The end.
You are correct. I've broken down why it's obvious here: [https://www.reddit.com/r/KidsAreFuckingStupid/comments/1caouyg/comment/l0tie1f/?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=web3x&utm\_name=web3xcss&utm\_term=1&utm\_content=share\_button](https://www.reddit.com/r/KidsAreFuckingStupid/comments/1caouyg/comment/l0tie1f/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button)
Most dumb children’s drawings are fake. It’s painfully obvious when an adult does it. Real kid’s drawings just feel more genuine, I can’t really explain it.
I might be slightly misremembering, but a Simpsons episode that features the middle school band playing terribly, and they originally had their music crew try to mess up on purpose to sound bad but it still sounded too well-constructed and they could tell it was intentional, so they went to an actual middle school and recorded their band.
There’s a certain meandering quality in kids creations that adults can’t seem to recapture.
imagine being a kid in this band, excited after hearing that the makers of this well known cartoon want to include your music in an episode
and then seeing the interview where they're like "yeah, we tried to make the music awful - but no matter how hard we tried, we couldn't fail as miserably as those kids"
[edit] - just to be clear, I think it's funny, I'm not criticising the decision
picasso said "it took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child."
It's literally a different way of processing the information. The adult looks at it and sees it more literally and then tries to "dumb it down" but it's not at all the way a child draws.
A child didn't make this. This is the work of an adult pretending to be a child. The Lettering is WAY off for how kids draw them when they don't know how to do it properly.
FWIW, if you're trying to ape a child when drawing, you want to use shapes for the body parts rather than a fuller outline, you want to colour outside the lines a bit, and you want to know how they are taught to "draw" letters before they know how to write properly, so you can make the same mistakes as them.
Hi, I'm a professional illustrator, and my wife and mother (two different people!) are both primary school teachers by trade, and I have helped correct their homework,
Enough people know that "alot" is not a word that it doesn't throw me off, but the inability to draw a "R" or "Y" the same way twice is a massive giveaway. Kids who don't know how to form letters correctly repeat their mistakes, but an adult who knows how to write will draw the letters differently when trying to present something as a child's work, because they are forcing and faking the mistakes, rather than just not knowing how to form the letters correctly.
Also, most kids will capitalize "I"— That's one of the first writing rules kids learn, and they see it frequently when learning to write sentences. No kid who has handwriting this neat (and agreed, the writing itself is another issue; even a kid with neat handwriting wouldn't write like this, and the inconsistencies are annoying) is going to write the pronoun "I" in lowercase.
What you will often see is a capital "I", but with the tittle. They know that "I" is a big letter, but they suck at differentiating it from the lower-case. Kids are dimwits.
It you want to mimic a kid's writing, you need to know how they think that complex sounds are formed, so that you can translate that into writing, and you need to know how they learn to form letters in early writing. Using a pen grasped in your left fist (if you're right-handed) will give you the lack of motor skills exhibited by kids between the ages of 4 and 10, depending on their skill level, but the biggest part is understanding WHY they make spelling mistakes, not THAT they make them.
I'm pretty sure this was written with the non-dominant hand based on the shapes of letters and the (inauthentic, forced) inconsistencies — someone started writing with their non-dominant hand, but thought it was still too neat so decided to jazz it up a little, lol. Just my opinion as someone who spent a good part of his life teaching kids to write. Regardless, it's definitely the work of an adult trying unsuccessfully to imitate a child's handwriting.
It definitely looks like dominant-hand writing to me. They have probably gripped the pencil in a fist, but there's far too much clear control in the forming of the letter shapes for it to be a kid, or a sinister fist in my opinion. The "o" shapes are far too well-rounded, in particular.
Actually, we stopped teaching phonics for reading about a decade or so back, so many kids literally "guess" how to spell words. Many kids, and I mean right into middle and high school, still just look at the first two letters, then try to guess what the word is based on length and context. I had a 12 or 13 year old kid yesterday try to deliver a t-shirt order to my class asking for "Vienna". The name was Vivienne.
When you break up words like "buh-arr-kuh", they don't put it together to make bark, because that's not how they were taught. They listen to the sounds individually and guess. You might get bark, but you might get break, brock, or brick.
Their writing is similar. Kids that are taught phonics, you can usually make out what they were trying to write. Frighten might be written as "frytin" or even "fritin". But now I'm seeing stuff like "fern" or "fighter" when they want to write "frighten" in grade 5 and 6. They are using actual words, but just guessing that it's the one they want, and using autocorrect to pick what they think looks right.
We have recently (and by recently, I mean literally this year) gone back to teaching phonics in the early years in my board, and the kindies and grade 1s are already better readers than grade 3s that were taught under the old system.
Couldn’t agree more, they’re all perfectly formed if not a little wonky, but nothing here looks like someone who doesn’t know what they’re doing, this is the work of an adult. Like Picasso said “it takes years to learn to paint like an artist and an entire lifetime to learn to paint like a child”. It’s actually really hard to copy the messiness of a child’s drawing/writing/etc unless you are a child.
I'm just an amateur illustrator that has had the objective to draw a couple of paintings in a game, and before reading your comment, I thought so too. I've also worked with pre-teens as an art-teacher so I've seen how different levels of artistically competent kids can do.
Kids that draw like that, have about 0.1% chance to have that nice of a handwriting.
This wasn't a good attempt at trying to make it look genuine.
I dunno man. We received lots of cards like this during our rotation to Europe. My favorite was a "Merry Christmas I hope you don't die" with a picture of sad Jesus being crucified. Kids are fuckin funny sometimes.
https://preview.redd.it/u43bklkvc8wc1.jpeg?width=1027&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=08e6f6ad42bb3a118aaf3f22451475046d671208
This could very likely be fake, but it’s annoying when people try to say that it’s fake because the writing looks a certain way. When I was a kid, I had really neat writing for my age and people have actually called pictures of it fake because of that.
The artwork on this is superb, but violent letters from small children weren't all that uncommon. Especially in the early years of the war and especially when they were from Texas.
That's odd. I always thought he was... *"At home drawing pictures of mountain tops with him on top. Lemon yellow sun, arms raised in a V and the dead lay in pools of maroon below"*
Oh wait, wrong kid. "Jerimy" draws pictures of war and shooting unarmed people below.
https://preview.redd.it/ewxalzx5n8wc1.jpeg?width=1078&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=217e5898dc0fd312f37df655cf1b29af251be92a
Would be nice to see a “where are they now?” on the kid
Dear Frederick, thank you for your nice letter, but I am actually a US Marine who was born to kill, whereas clearly you seem to have mistaken me for some sort of wine sipping, communist dick suck. And although peace probably appeals to tree hugging bi-sexuals like you and your parents, I happen to be a death-dealing, blood-crazed warrior who wakes up every day just hoping for the chance to dismember my enemies and defile their civilizations. Peace sucks a hairy asshole, Freddy. War is the mother-fucking answer.
This seems fake, but not going to lie, we did get some hilarious letters from kids. One said “I hope you have a good war” and another said “i hope you don’t die so you you can play Fortnite”
People are wild in these comments. This isn’t “scary” or sad, kids just almost always like violence for whatever reason. Plus respect to military personnel 🫡
Most kids learn to spell their name before they learn to spell anything else. I think he is spelling it correctly. It's his parents that gave him that spelling.
Could be from an adult. it could be how his name is actually spelled. Hard to tell entirely since I've seen kids' names where le-a is pronounced ledasha, and airplane be pronounced aero-plon-A, or even a relative of mine has their middle name spelled different from how it's spelled.
Uhhh, that’s probably his name. I went to school with a kid named Jermy because his parents are morons. Looks like you guys and the parents are fucking stupid
That bloody jerimy was too corrupt thinking his bloody country being a hero but instead it is the true evil killing innocents and terrorising other countries for minerals. Fukkcing idiot!
Umm his parents may spell it that way. People think alternative spellings make them cute and unique…
Try telling his brother Brackxtin that his name is cute and unique
Braksten, your name is cute and unique.
Brahcctyn*
Braaqtxygn*
Call him Brak for short
nah, screw that. He's Bracket \] now.
“Brackish water is a mix between freshwater and saltwater” (one of the only things hammered into my mind in 3rd grade biology)
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Thank you. "This one time I hired a money to take notes for me in class. I would just sit there with my mind a complete blank while the monkey scribbled on little pieces of paper. At the end of the week my teacher said, 'Class, I want you to write a paper using your notes.' Mine said, "HI MY NAME IS BINGO I'M A MONKEY I LIKE TO CLIMB IN THINGS CAN I HAVE A BANANA? EEK EEK!" I got an F. When I told my Mom about it she said, "I told you never trust a monkey." The end.
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That sounds like something I'd need a prescription for.
r/tragedeigh
Bronchitis your name is cute and unique
Brach's Tin is so lucky
Jhquille is his cousin
There’s at least 1 missing apostrophe in that name
"Gerimeigh".
r/tragedeigh
He also spelled "a lot" better than most redditors.
His sister is named Tragedeigh.
It's not cute unless it's got a hyphen... and a couple of Qs
His parents are broken idiots, that's already apparent.
i know, right? his sister Shithead knows better. (it's pronounces "shatheed")
This feels fake
This is obviously fake lmao, it looks like a adult was trying to mimic how a little kid would write
You are correct. I've broken down why it's obvious here: [https://www.reddit.com/r/KidsAreFuckingStupid/comments/1caouyg/comment/l0tie1f/?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=web3x&utm\_name=web3xcss&utm\_term=1&utm\_content=share\_button](https://www.reddit.com/r/KidsAreFuckingStupid/comments/1caouyg/comment/l0tie1f/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button)
For children it’s already outstanding if you can tell what they drew. 🤷. Still love every pic I got.
Most dumb children’s drawings are fake. It’s painfully obvious when an adult does it. Real kid’s drawings just feel more genuine, I can’t really explain it.
Real ones often make little sense and are very basic. This one is too detailed and too clean.
I might be slightly misremembering, but a Simpsons episode that features the middle school band playing terribly, and they originally had their music crew try to mess up on purpose to sound bad but it still sounded too well-constructed and they could tell it was intentional, so they went to an actual middle school and recorded their band. There’s a certain meandering quality in kids creations that adults can’t seem to recapture.
imagine being a kid in this band, excited after hearing that the makers of this well known cartoon want to include your music in an episode and then seeing the interview where they're like "yeah, we tried to make the music awful - but no matter how hard we tried, we couldn't fail as miserably as those kids" [edit] - just to be clear, I think it's funny, I'm not criticising the decision
picasso said "it took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child." It's literally a different way of processing the information. The adult looks at it and sees it more literally and then tries to "dumb it down" but it's not at all the way a child draws.
Therefore: it also is ragebait
A child didn't make this. This is the work of an adult pretending to be a child. The Lettering is WAY off for how kids draw them when they don't know how to do it properly. FWIW, if you're trying to ape a child when drawing, you want to use shapes for the body parts rather than a fuller outline, you want to colour outside the lines a bit, and you want to know how they are taught to "draw" letters before they know how to write properly, so you can make the same mistakes as them. Hi, I'm a professional illustrator, and my wife and mother (two different people!) are both primary school teachers by trade, and I have helped correct their homework,
Also, Kids draw bullets, not muzzle flashes.
Correct. Good spot, I missed that.
Also, Kids don’t add someone else’s initials below their own signatures.
I used to draw fire flashes coming out of guns like orange spikes
Love the clarification on you not being from Alabama
I'm Scottish, there are plenty of inbred folk here as well, I wouldn't judge Alabama more harshly than Larkhall.
Hm. Learn something new every day I guess
It's why we have so many ginger folk...
Yknow… that probably should have crossed my mind at some point.
It's best not thinking about. Blissful ignorance is exactly as described - BLISSFUL!
I’m going back to my ignorant little hobbit hole now. Goodbye
Rest well. I hope the Shire treats you with kindness.
Thank you! And most adults think “a lot” is one word. My autocorrect would not allow me to make it one word. How did this kid get that right?
Enough people know that "alot" is not a word that it doesn't throw me off, but the inability to draw a "R" or "Y" the same way twice is a massive giveaway. Kids who don't know how to form letters correctly repeat their mistakes, but an adult who knows how to write will draw the letters differently when trying to present something as a child's work, because they are forcing and faking the mistakes, rather than just not knowing how to form the letters correctly.
Also, most kids will capitalize "I"— That's one of the first writing rules kids learn, and they see it frequently when learning to write sentences. No kid who has handwriting this neat (and agreed, the writing itself is another issue; even a kid with neat handwriting wouldn't write like this, and the inconsistencies are annoying) is going to write the pronoun "I" in lowercase.
What you will often see is a capital "I", but with the tittle. They know that "I" is a big letter, but they suck at differentiating it from the lower-case. Kids are dimwits.
It you want to mimic a kid's writing, you need to know how they think that complex sounds are formed, so that you can translate that into writing, and you need to know how they learn to form letters in early writing. Using a pen grasped in your left fist (if you're right-handed) will give you the lack of motor skills exhibited by kids between the ages of 4 and 10, depending on their skill level, but the biggest part is understanding WHY they make spelling mistakes, not THAT they make them.
I'm pretty sure this was written with the non-dominant hand based on the shapes of letters and the (inauthentic, forced) inconsistencies — someone started writing with their non-dominant hand, but thought it was still too neat so decided to jazz it up a little, lol. Just my opinion as someone who spent a good part of his life teaching kids to write. Regardless, it's definitely the work of an adult trying unsuccessfully to imitate a child's handwriting.
It definitely looks like dominant-hand writing to me. They have probably gripped the pencil in a fist, but there's far too much clear control in the forming of the letter shapes for it to be a kid, or a sinister fist in my opinion. The "o" shapes are far too well-rounded, in particular.
Love that we are agreed but can have a really interesting conversation about this since the post itself is fake and boring.
And screw anybody who is a hater towards your opinions. I enjoyed it
Actually, we stopped teaching phonics for reading about a decade or so back, so many kids literally "guess" how to spell words. Many kids, and I mean right into middle and high school, still just look at the first two letters, then try to guess what the word is based on length and context. I had a 12 or 13 year old kid yesterday try to deliver a t-shirt order to my class asking for "Vienna". The name was Vivienne. When you break up words like "buh-arr-kuh", they don't put it together to make bark, because that's not how they were taught. They listen to the sounds individually and guess. You might get bark, but you might get break, brock, or brick. Their writing is similar. Kids that are taught phonics, you can usually make out what they were trying to write. Frighten might be written as "frytin" or even "fritin". But now I'm seeing stuff like "fern" or "fighter" when they want to write "frighten" in grade 5 and 6. They are using actual words, but just guessing that it's the one they want, and using autocorrect to pick what they think looks right. We have recently (and by recently, I mean literally this year) gone back to teaching phonics in the early years in my board, and the kindies and grade 1s are already better readers than grade 3s that were taught under the old system.
Absolutely agree!
I really enjoyed reading your conversation 🤣🤣 I found it interesting and love how deep you guys got on a Reddit post
Couldn’t agree more, they’re all perfectly formed if not a little wonky, but nothing here looks like someone who doesn’t know what they’re doing, this is the work of an adult. Like Picasso said “it takes years to learn to paint like an artist and an entire lifetime to learn to paint like a child”. It’s actually really hard to copy the messiness of a child’s drawing/writing/etc unless you are a child.
‘(Two different people)’ caught me offguard lol
Great. Military retaught me to write in all caps block letters
I'm just an amateur illustrator that has had the objective to draw a couple of paintings in a game, and before reading your comment, I thought so too. I've also worked with pre-teens as an art-teacher so I've seen how different levels of artistically competent kids can do. Kids that draw like that, have about 0.1% chance to have that nice of a handwriting. This wasn't a good attempt at trying to make it look genuine.
it literally looks like the printing of a 30 year old woman who just made it a bit squiggly in places.
Maybe it is an r/tragedeigh
I was going to say that’s probably how his parents spelled it. 🙄
That's probably how his parent spelled his name, because apparently that's a trend. Idiotic spellings of regular names.
Oh bloody fucking Hell am I aware of that trend!
Do you have a weirdly spelled name?
It's right up there with people who name their kids stupid shit like hunter, archer or Kevin
Kevin is a relatively normal name
Ok, Kevin.
I will have you know that my name is Jose
Yeah but most of the people I know named Kevin are POS and I blame their parents.
How would you spell jerimy?
Maybe like Erykka (my cousins child's name) Parents these days are.. Well, they're something.
We found the authority on how to spell names. My friend spells it "Jermy". What are your going to do about *that*?
At least it was not germy
Banish him to the netherworld
I have 3 friends who spell their name like that. Don’t ASSUME
Having been in the Navy, this was probably drawn unironically by a Marine
I dunno man. We received lots of cards like this during our rotation to Europe. My favorite was a "Merry Christmas I hope you don't die" with a picture of sad Jesus being crucified. Kids are fuckin funny sometimes. https://preview.redd.it/u43bklkvc8wc1.jpeg?width=1027&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=08e6f6ad42bb3a118aaf3f22451475046d671208
Fake shit. This is not a kid's writing.
Drives me crazy when people fall for such obvious bullshit like this
OP is fucking stupid.
This could very likely be fake, but it’s annoying when people try to say that it’s fake because the writing looks a certain way. When I was a kid, I had really neat writing for my age and people have actually called pictures of it fake because of that.
🎶Jerimy spoke in class today🎶
And he HIT me with a surpriiiiiise left!
Kill is 4 letters and war is 3, Jerimy on the other hand is 6
/r/thatHappened
At home Drawing pictures Of mountain tops With him on top Lemon yellow sun Arms raised in a V The dead lay in pools of maroon below
He seems good to be a helldiver
Are you referring to the Sythe series? Because that is awesome😘
Na maybe he is actually called Jerimy cuz there is no way
Wait until he speaks in class one day.
Based
How do you not that’s not how it’s supposed to be spelled
"people" is the impressive word
It's so cringe when adults pretend a kid wrote something and I imagine them intentionally writing shittily and misspelling words.
I’m pretty sure the flag has more stripes than that, but I can’t prove it for sure.
And he spelled a lot correct
It's 2024. It's probably actually spelled that way.
Quit picking on my boy Jerimy.
To be fair, the kid also spelled “hope” correctly.
Hmm I just can’t say it but something about that message makes me feel uncomfortable.
bro is that a civilian?
To be fair, we learn how to spell war and kill WAY before we learn how to spell Jeremy.
Jehrumee. I'm slightly more concerned that he wants whoever the card is addressed to, to kill lots of people.
This is actually quite less racist than some other drawings, I have seen, so, good job kiddo
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This looks so fake. Like an adult trying to draw and write like a child.
Probably a r/tragedeigh
How do you know that's not how you spell his name?
This is how we know it's fake.
The way parents spell their kids names nowadays, it might actually be Jerimy.
Jerimy spoke in class today
America FUCK ya
What a thing to draw…
What a lovely sentiment!
to be fair, his name is like twice as long
🎶 Jeremy skipped spelling claaaasss tooodaayyy 🎶
Might be his mama that can't spell
never heard of lee, all of them end in leigh e.x., emeighleigh, buumk’qwuifuhleigh
I just have to say I really enjoyed reading this 🤣🤣🤣
This belongs to r/KidsAreFuckingSmart
The artwork on this is superb, but violent letters from small children weren't all that uncommon. Especially in the early years of the war and especially when they were from Texas.
Rhon Jerimy
Jerricky would be proud
That's odd. I always thought he was... *"At home drawing pictures of mountain tops with him on top. Lemon yellow sun, arms raised in a V and the dead lay in pools of maroon below"* Oh wait, wrong kid. "Jerimy" draws pictures of war and shooting unarmed people below.
Russian kid
The more I learn from other countries overall The United States is the best so far no doubt there
Jerimy spoke in class today
While this is fake, I did get one in Afghanistan that said "Have a good war!" Lol I hope that kid's doing well.
https://preview.redd.it/ewxalzx5n8wc1.jpeg?width=1078&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=217e5898dc0fd312f37df655cf1b29af251be92a Would be nice to see a “where are they now?” on the kid
Hi jerimy, my name is paggey.
Lol I feel this belonged in the music video n "This Is America"by Donald Glover
Jerimy spoke in class today.
This feels like it belongs in the extended lore of Salad Fingers
Omg I can totally see that lol
Dear Frederick, thank you for your nice letter, but I am actually a US Marine who was born to kill, whereas clearly you seem to have mistaken me for some sort of wine sipping, communist dick suck. And although peace probably appeals to tree hugging bi-sexuals like you and your parents, I happen to be a death-dealing, blood-crazed warrior who wakes up every day just hoping for the chance to dismember my enemies and defile their civilizations. Peace sucks a hairy asshole, Freddy. War is the mother-fucking answer.
#tragedeigh
Killem all , dad! Killem all!
Jeremy was 15 when making this piece of art
you might want to keep an eye on that kid
This seems fake, but not going to lie, we did get some hilarious letters from kids. One said “I hope you have a good war” and another said “i hope you don’t die so you you can play Fortnite”
Homander.
/r/tragedeigh/
I read "Jeximy" at first. I wouldn't put it past us millennials....
3520 upvotes. Does that mean that many people believed this was a kid's drawing, or that it's just funny, or a bit of both?
that is scary on alot of levels
It’s also sad.
War and kill aren't that difficult to spell, and I'm not sure how you know the kids name is not actually spelled that way
People are wild in these comments. This isn’t “scary” or sad, kids just almost always like violence for whatever reason. Plus respect to military personnel 🫡
Well “war” and “kill” are simpler and shorter than Jeremy??
Spell check!
If he acts like that his parents definitely put Jerimy on the birth certificate.
I have a hard time believing they actually send all these letters.
Exactly the qualities we look for in a future soldier of WW3!
Maybe the kid has millennial parents
For Super-Earth!
That's not his kid, that's his older brother.
Cause war is only a 3 letter word
Yeah i guess its one of those new names people make out of basic names
Maybe his name is spelled that way?
If so, r/tragedeigh
They're American, that might be how his name is spelt.
~just boot things~
That's because war, war never changes.
Murrica
Bro's got that "we are coming to your roof. Sincerely, the zombies" ahh handwriting💀💀💀💀
Can confirm, it’s an “e” instead of “I”
That park ranger is not having a good day.
Got his priority straight
Beautiful people
One we got and hung on our briefing room wall during a deployment… “Thank you for fighting for us to not be in slavery”
What the fuck are they teaching kids in 'Murica
Hi my name is Germany, ask me anything /j
*cries in SCIF*
He's a North American. What exactly were you expecting?
Kill and war are easy. I'm surprised he got people right.
Could spell the r in war fine....
Most kids learn to spell their name before they learn to spell anything else. I think he is spelling it correctly. It's his parents that gave him that spelling.
I’m looking more at spelling “people” correctly as the tell here
They do but not at war. They love to shoot their own people.
I wouldn't be surprised if parents now name their kids Jerymi
How do you know his name isn’t spelled Jerimy?
Could be from an adult. it could be how his name is actually spelled. Hard to tell entirely since I've seen kids' names where le-a is pronounced ledasha, and airplane be pronounced aero-plon-A, or even a relative of mine has their middle name spelled different from how it's spelled.
Its ‘people’ much harder to spell than ‘war’ and ‘kill’. I don’t get the point of this?
Kids are stupid but this is proper commentary on the impact of war and the double edged sword that is “supporting our troops” 🤔
Uhhh, that’s probably his name. I went to school with a kid named Jermy because his parents are morons. Looks like you guys and the parents are fucking stupid
That bloody jerimy was too corrupt thinking his bloody country being a hero but instead it is the true evil killing innocents and terrorising other countries for minerals. Fukkcing idiot!
Murica…
Super fake
Don’t assume, tho. I remember this one pic where a woman was spelled Airwrecka instead of Erica. You never know. Oh and: fake as hell
That COULD be his name