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Originally Posted by Mutt
don't really think this is that big a deal - at worst Paul forgot about this guy and girl completely, the shoot looks years ago, or Paul did remember them but didn't think the guy would have the photos. At worst what was proven - that a guy and a Russian teenage girl spent a day with Paul and found him to be obnoxious and creepy.
Paul had a decent business, his content was everywhere on teen paysites plus his magazine sales. Trying to paint him as a broke as a joke loser doesn't hold much weight.
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I think you have it backwards. Paul tries to paint himself as being extremely successful business wise by bragging about all his achievements and accomplishments. He's usually throwing that in everyones face as he is putting everyone else down for being an idiot that knows nothing about how to make money or take a picture (and lets just forget for a moment that Eva was shooting 1/2 his content for him).
Think about it like this. I am a freelance writer. I get articles published in Playboy, Maxim, Time Magazine etc. Then I spend all my time using those facts to explain to others how smart I am and how successful I am and how stupid everyone else is. But it NEVER occurs to anyone that yeah, those articles were published. However, I was ONLY paid 1.00-2.00 per word for them and they each made me 1000.00 - 2000.00. Which was basically nothing other than a nice item to add to a resume and nothing more. It might appear that I am a very successful writer from the outside looking in, but the reality is that i'm still trying to hustle just to feed myself. And that, in short is Pauls story.
Just because his content WAS "everywhere" doesn't mean it was good. It means that in those early years there weren't many content providers with much decent teen content to use... lace, matrix, markham etc. I think you know this because you were there too. This is also why his content isn't "everywhere" today. It's average at best and it all looks the same and its boring to look at.
All i did was say "hey man, cut the shit... you're not everything you say you are" and this guy starts telling me i'm a liar and he lied about absolutely everything - any and every possible detail. I kept providing enough details that he could have easily figured out who I was and had to know at least that I wasn't lying. He continued to call me a liar because he was really just hoping I couldn't prove it.
And BTW... I didn't go there with a "teenage girl". I'm not that guy. She was at least 27 or so and was a manager of 3 of our offices. I brought her there because she was also a decision maker. And yeah... she made some pretty quick decisions.
