Comments on: Malaysia Media Promotes Web Mania

By: jjames1

jjames1 — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 13:59:03 +0000

Shumway: Ang and Chow haven’t said what area they’re searching in Johor because A) they’re not searching anywhere, and B) as has been mentioned previously, they don’t even know where the pictures were taken.

By: shumway10973

shumway10973 — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 06:26:36 +0000

I just had a thought, have they ever mentioned the area in which they are searching for johr? I mean I can see why they wouldn’t. I wouldn’t want anything to happen to any of these (if there are any) creatures, especially seeing how we know nothing about them. I do hope that there is something there to wake up the conventional evolutionary world into realizing that what they have been taught and clinging to might not quite be fact (the way the conventional evolutionists have been going lately it almost sounds like a religion).

By: twblack

twblack — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 02:08:48 +0000

I for one hope all this is the real deal. But I also think this is starting to smell like a hoax/tourists trap kinda of thing. And to think after all this being in the media that no one else has been in these parts with a camera and got a pic or 2 by now. I am starting to lose my faith in these 2 and their is no pics or they themselves have been duped.

By: youcantryreachingme

youcantryreachingme — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 00:23:56 +0000

I just found this gem of a quote from Sean Ang in the discussion about movie stills:

“Please dont throw sh*t at us if everything turned out to be a hoax.

Cheers..

Sean Ang”

There seemed to be no further discussion relating to that comment.

By: youcantryreachingme

youcantryreachingme — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 00:03:16 +0000

jjames1 (1) – I can’t recall if it was the homepage comment box, or the FAQs (although it’s not in the FAQs now), but they answered the question about allowing all the negative comments to continue – they basically said it gave them a reality check to remember they have to get this right.

dtart(2) – don’t place too much emphasis on their expressions in the photos; take a look at any newspaper for media images of people they want to depict in good or bad light and compare the photos they choose to use.

By: voodoochild

voodoochild — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 19:56:28 +0000

I just hope that in the end, there really is something to all of this. Whether it turns out to be a new (or previously unknown) species of ape, or whether it turns out to be our evolutionary long lost cousin, or Malaysia’s Sasquatch. Whatever this being is, I hope that it is something previously unknown to exist. As to the ongoing debate over the release of the photos, I’ve been keeping track of all of the comments, and I have to say, I would rather have not known about any of it until they were ready to release the actual photos. They (Chow & Ang) should not have said anything about the photos at all unless they could display them for all to see.

By: Trevor Markwart

Trevor Markwart — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 17:55:40 +0000

Look, these guys are trying to sell a book that’s to come! They have no real budget for promotion, they’ve got no multi-media megacorporation backing them (yet), and they have no access to mainstream media outside of, er, Malaysia.

In hours after they publish, any photos in it will no doubt pop up on the net and then they will be worthless from a publishing standpoint. Good luck at stopping up that dam!

It would be stupid of them to release any of these photos (real or fake) until the book is published. It also doesn’t make a lot of sense to invite a whole bunch of self-proclaimed experts to look at them before hand, or even accredited biologists or Hollywood effect guys to offer critiques. They can vary all over the place in their opinions and be right or wrong based only on a few photos. And real experts won’t stick their neck on the line in the positive with certainty anyways without conclusive, exhaustive evidence. It is way safer to give it a soft shadow of doubt. Which does nothing for book sales except hurt them.

It’s all about book pre-orders and intial orders with something like this.

By: dtart

dtart — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 16:42:49 +0000

I find it interesting that both Chow and Ang have their eyes shifted to the side while commenting on the pictures.

Human nature dictates that a person is usually lying when their eyes are focused to the side as if they were looking at their ears. It would be more convincing if they were looking up or down as this is a better indication that they are trying to remember what they saw or held in their hands.

By: jjames1

jjames1 — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 13:45:52 +0000

Well, that helps explain why the chat room area was disabled on the site. I’m assuming Chow and Ang wanted more control over what was being said on the site, since their site traffic is up significantly after the article.

You can actually see their site statistics if you click on a link on the right side of the home page. Even this early in the day, they’ve already gotten more than twice as many visitors as they get during an average 24-hour period.

More hype, with nothing new…With every passing day, I question more and more what they’re even trying to accomplish. If they’re scammers, they’re doing it poorly. If they truly are what they say they are–then they’re still handling the situation poorly.