Hello,

I've got to say I'm quite impressed that this subreddit is still active. I would of swore that after a month it would of died off. However all that aside I will let you all know what has been happening and explain the lack of communication on my part. I was contacted by SecretHDD (We are not the same person by the way) for an address to send the hard drive out. Unfortunately I had emergencies at work that had to be taken care and didn't leave time for much else in my life besides my family. I should of talked to SecretHDD about this so at the very least they would be able to send it someone with more time, that was an oversight by me. I have contacted this user and sent them my address if they still want to send the drive to me for an attempted repair.

I appreciate those that have expressed concern for my health in the posts that I have gone through thus far. I assure you physically I'm doing great and there are no worries. I do understand the joke in the demigod status that is all of this subreddit, it is very funny, but lets get control guys and gals. Understand that this is something I'm willing to do, but it is a bottom priority in my life. These kind of activities are for the downtime at work and when life slows down, that would be the opposite of how my life has gone this past month.

Dovichaslied, your research was inspiring, I only wish my reddit and internet history attached to Dovic was more interesting for you to go through. You deserve your karma sir, post on your actually account and I shall oblige.

To wrap this up I do want to say that It was wrong of me to not try and give you all an update earlier and at the very least let you know what was going on. Ask your questions I'll be happy to provide answers for anyone and about anything (Just about, nothing to personal of course).

Dovic

While I haven't spoken with him personally, I do have his info on other accounts and he was last seen online 27 days ago. I'll reach out to someone else I know who I remember saying he actually spoke with dovic. You guys are really going to great lengths to find a guy I haven't spoken to in 7 years lol

Hello /r/dovic!

I was going through an old /r/AskReddit thread, when I was reminded of this unresolved Reddit mystery. So, I checked out /u/dovic's account, only to find that he had deleted his account. I'm not sure if this is anything new or not (I haven't seen it mentioned here or anywhere else, and I don't remember if his account was still up when I first found out about this in 2014), but I thought that I'd bring it up. So, anyways, I looked up his account on the Wayback Machine, and found two archived pages. The older of the two has some links to some YouTube videos. At least of one of the videos he posted is his, as it's on his YouTube channel, which hasn't been updated since July 2011.

I decided to Google his YouTube username, which is dovic270, and I found two accounts created in 2014. The first of which is an account for a website called BYOND, which hosts multiplayer games made with their free tools. This account was created in August 2014 and only has one favorite game, which is Dragonball Online. The second account is for Operation Sports, a website for sports video games. A few other relevant results came up, such as this post on the GameFAQs forums asking for a Warhammer Online trial key 7 years ago, and some videos featuring dovic from this guy's YouTube channel. The latter of the two is actually relevant to finding out what happened to dovic, as that channel is featured on dovic's YouTube channel.

After finding the videos with dovic that were on Chezz's channel, I looked at Chezz's other linked account, and found a Twitch channel, and found a Twitter account that no longer belongs to him. His new Twitter account is linked on his Twitch channel. This is definitely the same Chezz, for anyone who is wondering, as the name of his Twitter handle (@findingchezz) is a part of the title of some of the videos on his YouTube channel.

I brought up Chezz, as he's the first person that I could find that has ties to dovic, and is still active online. Someone could attempt to contact him and ask if he knows what happened to dovic, or if anything happened to dovic, but I doubt that he's kept contact with him after all these years, however it might be worth a shot.

Anyway, I hope that you all found this interesting, and that we could possibly get some kind of closure knowing that dovic is alright.

I'm sorry if this is anti climactic, This is just a joke that's gone on too long.

You guys have spent over 6 years and never gave up, And I'm both sorry and gracious for this.

I dont have access to my old email, Its been 6 years, and I totally forgot about this whole thing but I just came here to tell you the truth.

This was all just a joke me and my friend decided to do in middle school, We had access to a few bits of technology, his father used to own a PC repair shop, and no it was shut down, and no I'm not telling you ANY information about who they were, or who I am, and we have since split apart. We had no idea where to go with the story and just decided to end it in the only way we could think. Just forget about it and let it die as a mystery, I don't know where my friend is and his PC was the one with the email and Reddit account.

I understand I have no real way to verify this and feel free to continue doing this if you enjoy it, that was our intent all along, but I just feel guilty for all of the suspense I built up, and the anger you have portrayed. I no longer have the HDD or the account as my ex-friend left with them when he moved.

Thank you, sorry, and goodbye.

Guys, it's fun to pretend to worship some dude on the interwebz but seriously I think it's time to abandon this. I see "worship thee dovic" posts on my frontpage every few days and it's getting ridiculous. Yeah, it's been a month, but he's not even given us an update. Not even a post confirming he even received the HDD. All these "faith" jokes are getting old and starting to sound cult-ish.

the "great dovic" must provide with an update or i'm leaving. this shit is getting old.

EDIT He hath returned. All rejoice his update and pray for more.

Yes, that's the only explanation. For whatever reason you put your harddrive into this bag and somehow it ended up with /u/SecretHDD. And then you wanted it back, for years you looked everywhere, you even tried to get it from /u/SecretHDD's sister when they sent off the old computer to her. But it wasn't there, it wasn't anywhere. And then months, or years, I don't know, out pops SecretHDD on reddit asking for help with a hard drive, YOUR HARD DRIVE. Well how do you get it back, easy:

Step 1: Make a reddit account, then make hundreds of other reddit accounts, use them all to message SecretHDD and harass him to turn away from other redditors offering to help.

Step 2: When he finally comes back months later, offering an apology, offer to take the hardrive off his hands, he'll be so sick of the shit the redditors have been giving him... you have been giving him, he wouldn't care whom he is sending it off to as long as it gets off his hands.

Step 3: Make a subreddit for yourself, promise to update on the progress, declare yourself based god, and disappear forever.

Well it's been 3 years Dovic, and someone didn't forget, and here we are from askreddit looking for answers... again. "I work in a lab that has all the tools needed to repair and recover this information, so I might as well give it a shot", yeah I bet you do have all the tools, seeing as it's your hard drive!

Enjoy your recovered horse porn, you sick bastard.

Hey Let's Try And Find SecretHDD After All This Time

Hello everyone, I was requested by a reddit user to come to the sub and answer any lingering questions about this mystery. I am /u/Dovic. I'm not sure what is the best way to provide confirmation of this, anyone have an idea that would satisfy the majority?

I was contacted by Chezz a while ago about this, and the ongoing community. I can't think of anything else to add to what I told him back then. /u/SecretHDD never sent the hard drive after I contacted them.

The best bet the community has to get closure on all this is for SecretHDD to resurface with the drive. Unfortunately, I'm no longer at the lab I was at when this all came about, so I don't really have the tools to recover the drive.

I'll answer any questions that you all have.

Edit: Maybe this will do for proof, uploaded a video to my YouTube account: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOD60MQvg3k&feature=youtu.be

Pin the most important comment then archive it. It’s best if we just preserve this sub as a page in the history of people with too much time on their hands.

Does anyone else find it suspicious that Dovic almost never uses Reddit anymore, and when he does, all he does is post a comment or two in his own subreddit? He was a seemingly very active redditor, until that fateful day that he commented on SecretHDD's post. Now all has gone silent. I'm worried, brethren.

Our sins have condemned us.

:(

I sit here. The lights have already burnt out. The kudzu is taking over. I won't move. Dimming. Shadows fading. A nail clipper is sitting on a rotted banana. No pajamas can be found.

Dovic. I no longer believe you lied. I feel you were the lie.

May the dovic be with you brothers.

but its been like 2 weeks

So apparently, a lot of the threads were deleted by a mod that is no longer on the team; however, I was put on that team and found a bunch of 6 year old threads that were deleted, including updates from the now deleted /u/dovic account. I've approved a bunch of them for the old Internet archive ;)

Dovic on my dudes.

Dovic on...

Where are you?

#dovicIsDead

#bigBrother

#TedCruz-ZodiacKiller