Update

MaffewofBotchamania died a month or so ago. The new account is now the MaffewFucksMen backup account.

http://www.youtube.com/user/Maffewfucksmen

Realising that jumping from account to account is going to be a pain in the arse now that youtube is actually acting on it's threats, a man named Jon Colon is helping me (He's making it all and I'm converting videos for him) make an official Botchamania site.

http://botchamania.net/

It's nowhere near finished yet, but he has a full-time job and so it's going to be a while until it's completely finished so I might as well link to it now.
Currently getting the videos onto the site is the main thing but I've got lots of other ideas that I'm keeping to myself for the time being!

There's also this bloody Twitter account which I don't run which is why there's so many stupid comments and things on it.

http://twitter.com/Botchamania

The slim, trim, buff, cut, ripped, chissled and jaaaaaaackkked Claudio Castagnoli keeps mentioning Botchamania on his blog, such as:

http://www.claudiocastagnoli.com/2009/11/halloween-twittourage-q.html

I've liked him ever since he was the Triple Crown Tag Champion with Chris Hero, so this pleases me. His blog is fun to read too!

I was interviewed a while ago by the nice people at TheRingsideLive, and have forgotten about it seeing as I hate listening to myself after these interviews. Here's the link, as it's only fair to show yourself sounding stupid when you become (in)famous for making videos based around others doing the same.

http://ringsidelive.podbean.com/2009/09/25/ringside-september-25-2009-botchamania/

Sadly, I was reminded about the interview recently by reading about the passing of one of the show's hosts, Adam Firestorm:

http://www.f4wonline.com/content/view/11242/

I'm not going to pretend I knew him well, but he was very cordial and welcoming when he interviewed me for the show and according to his co-host The Mackem Man "he was a great fan of your videos". You will be missed Firestorm.

On that slightly downbeat note, I'm off. If you want to ask me more questiosn than yay go for it. The 'Definitive list of songs' is still being compiled and will DEFINITELY be posted next time I blog. I swear.

Until then, take it easy.

Who is Mr. Red?

http://www.dailymotion.com/Mr_Red_1

This guy has posted a whole load of Botchamanias on dailymotion yet has never contacted me.
Elusive fucker.
If you're him reading this: THANKS MAN, YOU SAVED ME A LOT OF WORK!

Death to Vimeodrome! Long live The New Flesh!

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9z1hq_botchamania-81_sport

Well Vimeo can be added to the group THE ALLIANCE TO END BOTCHAMANIA, so here's Botchamania 81 on Dailymotion instead.

I'll try Blip.tv and Megavideo soon. I'll update on here when done.

Your Questions!

Daniel asked...
Why don't you go back to uploading them to wrestlinggonewrong.com You shouldn't have any problems there.
I don't do that, the guy (Davin?) on WGW uploads/links to them. He doesn't return my e-mails either, so I'm not relying upon him to be honest.

Limericklad asked...
Would you consider podcasting them?
I don't know how.

Marsh asked...
what's the name of the Botchamania font? I've been curious for a while, so I just thought I'd ask.
Earthworm Jim.
http://www.geocities.com/rcm_ca/ewjsite/font.zip

boutitbenza699 asked...
why don't do what The8bitboy did, launch a website with all the botchamania vids
I'm unemployed, thus broke. Starting up a website is the least of my concerns at the minute.

fizzucker asked...
Now that you are posting on Vimeo, alot of your blacklisted promotions like ROH, PWG, and TNA PPVs are OK now
PWG and TNA were never blacklisted...just ROH.
Hmmmm, a special ROH only video? Great idea! Jack Evans matches, here I come.

If I've not answered your question yet it's because I don't know the answer and there's no point having five questions with"I don't know" as answers.

Hopefully next time I post I'll have that track-list uploaded.

Art Thou Bored?

Dailymotion and your questions answered!

Youtube has a real hard on for Botchamania at the minute and isn't allowing either MaffewofBotchamania or MaffewFucksMen to upload anything, no matter what it's name or the type of file or size. Yet both accounts are still there, just unable to do much. A bit like Porky at the end of Mother 3.

So I'm using Dailymotion for the time being. Hopefully "for the time being" means "until they go bother someone else" and not "forever", as Dailymotion's restrictions are the opposite of Youtube's: Longer videos, lower quality.

Botchamania 81 on Youtube is (before it was disabled) 381 MB.
Botchamania 81 on Dailymotion is 89.2 MB

But whatever, when I get my Vimeo account sorted out this should render this post redundant.

Your questions!

Robbie Nekoda asks...
Why not put Botchamania 23 on something like Dailymotion and link to it from Youtube? Could even put it on Rapidshare if necessary.
Dailymotion and Vimeo are feasible, but rapidshare only works if you buy an account so you get unlimited downloads on your uploads. Otherwise it'd be like when I put the Botchamania OST up on Rapidshare two years ago and had to repeatedly upload it as the download limit was getting maxed out until I thought "fuck it".

Matthew, Ancient Flounder and Sean asks...
Why not post the original files in a torrent somewhere?
I know nothing about actually making a torrent, but there's enough FAQs around to make one, I guess. I still haven't fixed Botchamanias 29, 31-35 but when I do I'll try one out. I'd have to see where the best place to 'put it' would be too. I could be elitist and use XWT or PWT, but I'm sure everybody who wants to torrent them but isn't a member would disagree. One the other hand, having them on there means that there'd be some monitoring going on to ensure there's a minimum of snatchers. I'd have to ask them (XWT/PWT) first too. Any other thoughts/opinions on this? I'm naive as fuck as to what people actually want, so help me out here.

bentos316 asks...
Which character is your favourite for use in crash team racing?
Dr. Neo Cortex.

That Guy From /Wooo/ asks...
Are you going to make a tracklist for the Botchamanias?
Yes, it'll be on here in the next day or two.

If there's anymore questions, just leave a comment on here so I don't have to keep on answering the same old questions repeatedly.

Stay classy.

Back!

MaffewofBotchamania has access to his account again, complete with lots of "There's some guy who's obviously not you calling himself MaffewFucksMen" messages.

I've removed the TNA production-quality videos until I can figure out what the hell happened/ have the time to upload again (I'm moving house as well as getting ready for the Download Festival on top of looking for employment so sadly Botchamania isn't my priority).

When I get the time, I will start uploading the videos on Dailymotion as well as youtube.

I finally got a copy of Botchamania 29 from TheSystemError, due to my hard drive deleting it.

Things are never dull.

First post

I don't like blogs, but creating one seemed a necessary evil, rather like Kennedy's release.

MaffewofBotchamania is down until June 4th. I uploaded 10 old Botchamanias at once using my work's kick-arse internet connection as opposed to my own, less kick-arse internet connection. However, youtube has decided Botchamania 23 is more copyright-infringing than all the others and decided to come down on my account settings duringthe uploads, making the quality awful.


I am also unable to use the 'interactive features' of youtube, which means I can't do anything other than view the image above. UH OH.

So, my third account is now up. Not due to me being physically unable to not make Botchamanias for a month ("MUST MAKE MUSIC VIDEOS!"), but it looks like my current account could be injured at any moment, rather like ... oh, I already made the Kennedy joke.


The new account is named Maffewfucksmen, seeing as my troll accounts last longer than my own accounts I decided to blend in. "I'm not Maffew, I think he's gay LOL"

The response from youtube pals has been generally "fuck you man, leave Maffew alone", which will hopefully make for a successful "if you can fool your friends, you can fool your enemies" strategy. But this blog has been created specifically to show that this account is genuine, or as genuine as an account can be with a name like that.

Given that most of my communication with fans/submitters/haters comes from youtube messages and the occasinal post on a message board, it also made sense to make a blog to have ome form of 'proper' communication with people so I can save time in answering questions and peopel can save time asking them. That's the plan anyway, and seeing as I'm on my third (fourth if you count MaffewNitro) youtube account, it shows I know as much about planning as I do about copyright law.

I have no idea how long this blog will last, but if youve got any queries bring 'em on.