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- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+285a guy who exploits drunken teens for money is a dick?
I DARE SAY I WAS TAKEN BY SUPRISE! - kenton5150, on 10/12/2007, -1/+183The further the article goes the worse this guy gets.
- tonicboy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+127@szelij
Something tells me that this guy has always been an *****. Money doesn't really change people, it just empowers them to think they can get away with ***** that they never would have dared to before. But the urge to do these things has to have always been there.
Oh yeah, and anyone who buys these videos is an idiot. They are freely available on any file-sharing system. - xXShadowstormXx, on 10/12/2007, -1/+118I love it that soon as I hit Digg.com, my mom walks in the room and sees the headline of this article.
- szelij, on 10/12/2007, -9/+97Most people change when they become rich...it doesn't surprises me. It sounds like the guy had nasty experiences and was high.
One thing that mystifies me though, the videos aren't even that good...what makes people buy them? Truly mindboggling. - DisposableRob, on 10/12/2007, -6/+90If this were Fark, this submission would have the "obvious" tag.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+84And we wonder why women are so ***** up when we get in relationships with them. There are guys like this all over the place that are mis treating our future wives.
- CosmicBratt, on 10/12/2007, -2/+74As a future wife, I found your statement kind of cute in a way. :)
The whole "Girls Gone Wild" and similar phenomenons scare and sadden me. The weak girls somehow give in just to feel freed from some sort of oppression I guess they feel in their normal social lives. These girls compromise what I think they'd strongly oppose normally just to feel accepted. How sad is it that the slutty/stupid guys AND girls are setting the tone for everyone and making it 'cool'?
The stronger 'cool' girls do it because pop culture has proven time and time again that it's some sort of badge of honour to be slutty. It's like these girls don't care about their diginity, and about the most powerful thing we have- our body. I'm extremely tired of the whole crazy party/lets do something we'd regret later as adults (or at least I hope they regret it later.) I am surrounded by tons of these people in college, and I just hope that my future children won't grow up in such a setting. I want my kids to know self respect, and not have to put up with the kind of pressure this Joe Francis idiot puts on people. There's a difference between having fun as a young adult and getting exploited and corrupt.
I'm not trying to send out a 'holier than thou' message. It's alright to have sex, it's fun and normal... but porn is becoming more and more mainstream, luring young adults (and dare I say kids!) into its web. I think people forget what's truly important in life, and who they really are. Those people have to think hard and fix whatever caused them to go down that path. What happened to classy people, people who actually contributed something to the world? They are long gone from our silver and TV screens, they are long gone from pop culture as a whole. Society nowadays sucks.
/endrant - brettotte1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+64I'm just glad they got sued a few years ago for breaking the law. All my roommates & I pitched in $2 each to get 2 vids for $9.99 to check 'em out. Good for a laugh, so why not.
Turns out when you try to cancel before the next vid is auto-billed to your CC# it's a voicemail # that says to call another # to cancel. You call them up & get ppl in India that say to call the original # back making you call a neverending loop that you CAN'T CANCEL!
This was before one-time-use CC#'s, so I ended up having to file a complaint & send back the next month's movies to get a refund, but they did it 2 more times. Ended up just cancelling the credit card & reopening a new acct. He was found guilty in FEDERAL COURT of breaking all sorts of laws. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+67This guy is going to screw the wrong teenie one day and become someone's prison bitch.
On that day... I shall laugh heartily - winstonavich, on 10/12/2007, -4/+65Girls With Low Self Esteem! Woo!
- rotten777, on 10/12/2007, -5/+62What about the guy who gets young girls to show their *****? Is he *****?
- headzoo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+57@tonicboy - I agree. I've seen interviews with the guy, and some footage of him just hanging around with his "friends", and he most certainly comes off as being a life-long a-hole. He treats his "friends" like dirt, who are by the way the worst of the worst "yes men" on the planet. Any joke he cracks, no matter how stupid, they laugh at. Any option he lets out, they agree with.
Plus he walks around with his collar flipped up, doing the tough-guy strut. Anyone that does that has to be a jerk. :) And that doesn't come with money. - daball99, on 10/12/2007, -4/+60He's not a Dick. A dick has a purpose.
- toekneebullard, on 10/12/2007, -0/+51People are surprised he's a dick? He got rich off taking advantage of stupid drunk girls...you expect him to be a nice guy?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+52I would *love* to meet this piece of ***** in a dark alley.
- ridgelawrence, on 10/12/2007, -3/+47@szelij
People buy them because they show the absolute best clips on the commercial, and they somehow think it will be like that throughout the video. - blacklilyninja, on 10/12/2007, -1/+42...and one day he'll die from a drug overdose or he'll piss off the wrong woman or the wrong woman's father then be found the next morning in a pool of his own excrement. Then the F*ck you money will be useless.
just a prediction
fortunately i don't know this man or any of his associates and i'd like to keep it that way. - tankko, on 10/12/2007, -4/+43Over on fark.com
- ij00mini, on 10/12/2007, -1/+39Best part of the article is when, in response to rape charges, the lawyer is quoted as saying...
"Though Mr. Francis cannot speak to Ms. Szyszka's discomfort during the encounter, other news stories have commented that Mr. Francis is reputedly well-endowed."
WHAT THE ***** DOES THAT HAVE TO DO WITH IT?! - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+39Why am I not surprised that the guy who got rich getting drunk girls to flash their boobs at the camera is an *****.
- TeKoverride, on 10/12/2007, -2/+36I've met the guys sister before and from what it sounds, their family isn't too fond of him either. Who would have thought
- pantuky, on 10/12/2007, -1/+34Excuse me, did he say softcore empire? Did he say softcore? What is softcore about full-on lesbian 69 position cunnilingus and tribadism?
- MadEnvoy, on 10/12/2007, -9/+42@szelij
Because they don't have Internet access? - bennyboy371, on 10/12/2007, -2/+35The fact that he filmed underage girls while getting them drunk and the story of him raping a girl further down paint this guy in an even worse manner than I'd already thought of him in.
- yoda715, on 10/12/2007, -3/+34And we needed the LA Times to tell us this? Pff. It's obvious the money has gone to his head.
- bennyboy371, on 10/12/2007, -2/+29@jedi0utkast
No no, those are just the hardcore scenes that are acted out by bad pornstars. The rest of it is getting teen and college girls so drunk they'll pull their shirts up for, ironically, a shirt. If that. Yeah, thats money well spent. - tolbs, on 10/12/2007, -2/+28My favorite part of the article is when he is forced to sodomize himself at gunpoint. Talk about what goes around comes around.
- fleetskeet, on 10/12/2007, -2/+28Remember when he was getting blackmailed by a guy that said he had a video of Francis getting F'd in the A with a dildo?
- holifila, on 10/12/2007, -6/+31Yeah, you are right. It really seems that she had it out for him, I wonder what she had stuck up her butt...oh yeah, maybe it was the PHYSICAL ASSUALT. The guy is a dick and you sir are an a-hole.
- fourletters, on 10/12/2007, -2/+26my friend used to scout girls for this guy in malls "want a free trip to mexico?" was the opening line. he says the guy is a total wanker. he would take pics of these girls and the guy would go through all of them personally... too fat... teeth too jacked up... etc. he would yell and scream at staff all the time. completely full of himself. total douche.
- loveandrockets, on 10/12/2007, -5/+25He sounds like a complete dick, but why do women get involved with him? In the article, it says a woman tried to sue him because she argued with him over the morality of the "Girls Gone Wild" videos and then WENT TO HIS ROOM to have sex! The next morning she claims rape.
He wouldn't have an empire if women saw him for the scumbag that he is and avoided him completely. But the lure of money and 15 minutes is too great for some people I suppose. - illegalchuck, on 10/12/2007, -2/+21Wow. That is an amazing and deeply disturbing article.
- benjholla, on 10/12/2007, -3/+21Man I had no idea about this, I think that everyone should digg this because:
1. To expose his true nature and stop these poor women from being taken advantage of. ( I mean if they chose to do it (and some did) that's fine, but others were tricked and manipulated into doing so)
2. I think it would really piss this A-Hole off, which is what he deserves
Excellent article, this author really knows how to right a story. I can't believe I read it all the way through, it much longer than I felt like reading, but nonetheless a good informative article. - phenolholic, on 10/12/2007, -7/+25it comes with the territory. the guys selling hot young girls (some of them underaged) do explicit acts. what do you think the boyfriends have to say (not all of these beautiful girls can be single), or big brothers, or even dads? what do the girls have to say when the drunken state wears off and become publically humiliated all they have to show for it is a lousy tshirt. you'd have to be a dick to be the top of that empire. actually, if i was him, i'd be the same way as well. uncollege educated, millionaire, getting laid by tons of chicks and theyre throwing themselves at you, flying around in private jets and having tour buses and cruises. the man took a simple idea and exploited it. don't hate joe, hate society for making people like him millionaires and their product a household name and people like myself who are physicist and published a handful of papers and i barely have enough money to break even. enough said.
- jeremyczu, on 10/12/2007, -3/+21@ Highborn
I completely agree, digg for you! Good girls are disappearing. - madzombiekilla, on 10/12/2007, -1/+18Of course this guy is a douche bag, he grew up in Laguna Beach.
The largest manufacturers of bags of the douche variety. - pintong, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17I agree. The part about Jannel Szyszka absolutely turns my stomach.
- MindTrigger, on 10/12/2007, -6/+22"uncollege educated"?? Jesus Christ, man.
- ilikedginger, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15I thought it was interesting that the man who did it had something to do with Paris Hilton. The girl IS wild.
- Dsn989, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=tribadism
- mrhahn, on 10/12/2007, -6/+19Hello, spoilers?!
- gemlarin, on 10/12/2007, -8/+21Where is the obvious tag
- TheRandomShow, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13Wow. I knew he was bad, but holy hell, this guy is unbeliveable on how far he goes.
- TheAnti, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12They're probably trying to claim that she wasn't a virgin at the time, and that he hurt her with his large package. If they destroy her claim that she's a virgin, they destroy her case. Which really pisses me off.
I honestly think that rapists should be castrated, assaulting some one sexually is probably the worst possible thing you could do. It damages the person for years, my girlfriend is a testament to that. She's constantly paranoid around men she doesn't know, she still has nightmares about it 8 years after the fact. God ***** like that drives me nuts. - MobbyG, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13You know.. I debated if those videos were worth buying. Now I'm very glad I never bought any of them! This guy is a by far the biggest chauvinistic ***** in the world.
When he goes to hell, I hope he gets the special room where he has to watch videos of himself getting sodomized on the Internet and can't cancel his AOL account! - prihodko, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12Here are the MySpace pages of the girls in the incidents described in the L.A. Times article:
Jannel Szyszka:
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=30135257
Keitlyn Bultema:
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=16513028 - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Digg+1
This guy's the biggest slimeball I've encountered. Me and a few friends were down in Tijuana in our senior year, and Francis and his little entourage had arrived and were desperately looking for girls to bare all in front of his cameras. The method he and his crew uses is so pathetic and sickening, it works basically like this:
1) They spot a girl that is attractive and generally fits their demographic, girls that are on the dance floor are more likely to be picked then girls that are sitting at the bar or are with guys.They avoid girls that are dancing with guys, girls that are in the company of guys and girls that are in large groups (6+ ppl)
2) Having spotted the girl, they try to lure her away from anyone she knows. Most girls go to such dance clubs with friends, siblings, peers. Often they'll send out a guy dressed in normal clothing (no GGW logos or text), and he'll chat the girl up - offering to buy her drinks and food. They do everything they can to split up large groups of girls, because they feel that larger groups will affect members of the group from baring all and will be more critical of the camera crew. If the girl accepts the offer, he knows that she is trusting and he moves on to the third step. If the girl refuses, they send in a GGW staff member who tries to convince the girl to come to a special 'private party'. If the girl accepts, they go to step 3, if not they leave her alone and target other members of her group or friends (in hopes that the girl may change her mind if friends are willing)
3) At this point, a GGW staff invites the girl to a private party, meanwhile buying her drinks and sometimes even drugs (I know I saw at least one crew member offering ecstasy pills). Once the girl seems willing to go to this party, by which point they've usually had a few complimentary drinks, they take the girl(s) back to the GGW bus or hotel room.
4) This is where Francis gets involved, he usually comes in and compliments the girl while they're going to the bus. Then they do the whole camera work and prompting the girls to do whatever.
Francis is also called in when they're baiting a very attractive girl, who seems willing to bare it for GGW. From what I saw, the GGW crew is always surrounded by Security Guards and they seem to have local Police escorts for their bus. When Francis is dancing with a girl, he has his security guards remove any other guys from the dance floor. He's a big sleaseball from what I've seen. - dapperdrake, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12I'm probably in the minority of digg users but I love the title. Just a simple subject and a predicate with no confusion. Who?..."Girls Gone Wild" Founder. What?...is a dick.
- dyckdownunder, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12This just disgusts me. The part that I find (and probably everyone else) gives me the most satusfaction about this is that he will not have anybody who truly likes him for he is. He probably has only "yes men" and wannabes hanging around him 24/7. He will die alone and without friends. His funeral will be meager and sparse. How ironic for someone who promotes social interaction.
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