South Park: Decent to Madness

Part 18: Investigator Dougie (Dougie's POV)

The town of South Park is falling to evil, descending into the firey pits of Hell. My old best friend has died and succumbed to that evil. Another friend of mine has lost his freedom to that evil. It is said that for every great villain, there is a great hero. And that hero shall be me.

I've been following Eric's strange behavior since it began last year. I've been studying him from afar, discovering strange things and logging them. I've started a few forums on the deep web dedicated to stopping this evil. And I think I've discovered something very intresting.

Every evil leader has had their followers: Stalin, Hitler, Lex Luthor, etcentra. Eric is no different. There's a secret underground subculture of Eric followers, or as they call themselves, "The Cartmen," who wholeheartedly believe that Eric is the next incarnation of Hitler. These are the types of people who hang Confederate flags on their bedroom walls, place Trump signs outside their houses and attend machiene gun conventions. And get this: these are all young people. Like, between the ages of 14-17. They felt that their conservative beliefs had no place in our liberal world, so they discovered this small community where they could freely be as racist and as bigoted as they wanted. I decided to do some investigation into this community, and disguised myself as a 14 year old white kid from Wisconsin named Jerry. I entered the forums as Jerry and snooped around a little bit. And believe me, there were some horrific things that were posted there. Some things that I couldn't imagine coming from the minds of young kids.

Some of the scarier threads I saw were:

Hitler did nothing wrong!!!! Change my mind

Ginger hate meme thread

Anyone know of any places to buy Nazi t-shirts?

Petition to make shooting minorities legal

The worst part about all this was that it didn't stop there, oh no. There were people who started making posts about how they wanted Cartman to kill them and even cannibalize them. They described in great detail how they wanted to be killed, how they wanted their remains to be used, and other such disgusting things that I won't mention here. And I seriously believe that all these posts were 100% serious. Usually you can write these sorts of things off as "satire" or "trolling" but I don't think trolls have access to such realistic photos of people cutting themselves as an offer to Cartman.

After Butters died I think the website blew up in popularity, it got more than twenty new members. People started making posts about how much they wished they could've died like Butters and how they'd do anything to be cannibalized by him. I think it was at that point that I began to loose my faith in humanity. I saw one of the more...shall we say...disgusting threads and commented on it.

ItsssJerry667: you people are sick. How could you say something like that?

Of course, I almost immediately got tons of backlash from all the users, they were calling me things like "JEW FAG!" And "PUSSY!" But that didn't really bother as much as this one reply here did:

Anon: Really? Would you mind telling us more about how much you hate us, Dougie O'Connel?

I felt my stomach drop as I read that comment, and as soon as I tried to type a reply, a message box came up, reading:

You have been banned from this thread. Please check your PMs for more information.

The website then kicked me out of the thread, and straight into my private messages page. Only one PM was there, once again from an anonymous user. It read:

Anon: you lied to us, Dougie. You said you were one of us and you lied. There is nothing that Cartman hates more then liars.

I tried typing up a message.

ItsssJerry667: who is this? What do you want?

Anon: You are ginger, aren't you?

ItsssJerry667: I don't need to tell you anything.

Anon: He is always watching. He has big plans for people like you. You are inferior.

ItsJerry667: Leave me alone!

Anon: Watch your back, Dougie O'Connell. You are never safe. You can run, but you cannot hide from reality. The Fourth Reich is coming, my redhead friend.

My deep web browser then crashed.

Since that fateful event on the forum, I haven't given up on pursuing this evil. But still, every now and again, I get an odd feeling. The feeling that someone is standing right behind me. But when I look, nobody's there. And sometimes, I catch a glimpse of a strange figure out of the corner of my eye. But when I look, nobody's there.

Why is this happening to me?