Why would someone call themselves ValerieSolanas?

On Memorial Day weekend in 2000 Phil Kaplan, aka pud, opened the dotcom deadpool site, fuckedcompany.com. The wide-open, anything goes, nature of the messageboard attracted bright and witty people from all over the Internet, posting about everything from politics and business to religion and philosophy. It also attracted a large number of trolls and malcontents.

Claire O'Brien is a member of the latter group. She first appeared on FC in late 2002/early 2003 and posted under the pseudonym "Imagine", claiming to be a journalist and writer originally from New Zealand who was living in Florida and that she owned a consulting business specializing in domain names. Her appallingly bad grammar and spelling immediately caused the other posters on the board to doubt her claim of being a writer, and her profanity-filled rambling posts about the evils of all men and attacks on both male and female posters led them to doubt her sanity, while her homophobic and racist rants caused everyone to doubt her humanity.

Inevitably she was compared to Valerie Solanas, the radical feminist writer and prostitute that shot Andy Warhol. Claire O'Brien, who later uncharacteristically admitted her ignorance by saying that she'd never heard of Valerie Solanas prior to FC, dropped her Imagine moniker and began posting under the name ValerieSolanas.

She's obsessed about and fought with many different posters on the FC board and the spinoff boards that became popular after the FC board closed in 2006, but she's consistently chased a poster by the name of Sean (also known as Sean_in_South_Bay and SISB) around for the last five years. In 2003, she set up a "manhunt" site on Geocities, accusing him of being a molester and offering a reward for his name, address, and phone number.

She recently repeated this crime by setting up a blog titled Sexual Predators & Internet Stalkers in California & Nevada accusing Sean of being a sexual predator and accusing another board poster, a gay man who posts under the name of ARSE, of being in an incestuous relationship with his brother.

Claire O'Brien left the US in 2004 and moved to Cozumel, Mexico. She left Cozumel in 2007 after being homeless for several months. She currently lives in the Playa del Carmen area of Mexico, where she claims to work as a web designer and SEO consultant.