Date: 08/18/2025
Mood: amused
Listening to: Slutgarden - Marilyn Manson
Breaking News: Woman Can't Recognize Man's Persona
There's this infamous Paulchard woman online who bugs me. I generally try not to pay too much attention to her anymore. But wow, it's hard to ignore the problems she causes when I hear about it echoed. Then realize the origin of the issue is her. Again. Sigh. This one random post about the Asche intro has me in shambles right now that she wrote that absurdity. I'm in disbelief. It's too ridiculous this time and touches on issues I can debunk easily.
She's talking about the 2011 Dusseldorf shows that lasted three in a row in December. This was about 30 days into the start of the MiG tour. This moment is kind of famous via gif format because Richard "bit" Paul's shoulder for 1 second.
The video in question is here.
And here's her commentary (edited to shorten it).
"As I constantly emphasize, I have my own vision of the relationship between guitarists. And in the period from the 1990s to 2016, I don't see anything sexual in this relationship. Chemistry – definitely. Caring for each other, even in the most difficult times – yes. They were connected, there were feelings and emotions between them, but all of this was in the spiritual realm; the physical component was severely suppressed. Except that sometimes there were some ambiguous gestures that two heterosexual males would never allow themselves, but behind those gestures was a mixture of chemistry and stage shock that was incomprehensible to the guitarists themselves, rather than a desire for truly intimate contact.
Richard's antics in Düsseldorf were not an attempt to arouse Paul or the female fans. It was Richard's reaction to Paul's condition.
That day, Paul came on stage subdued. In complete nirvana. I watched a number of videos from that concert, and the diagnosis is clear. There are doubts about what exactly Paul was high on, but the fact that he was out of it is a fact. That concert was the third in a row in Düsseldorf, and it is quite understandable that at this stage Paul needed some kind of doping.
In principle, Richard agreed with this and did not scold his guitarist, but instead bit him. Maybe Paul was too out of it (his face at the beginning of the intro certainly suggests this), started playing something wrong (with such sound quality, you can't tell what they're playing at all) — and Richard decided to bring Paul's attention back to the concert, to wake him up. And since he couldn't shake Paul's hand, he reached out with his mouth. Or maybe Richard, seeing Paul's condition, got angry and decided to joke, because at that stage of the MiG tour, Richard was extremely friendly towards Paul, and biting his shoulder was their traditional joke since the days of Sehnsucht."
>And in the period from the 1990s to 2016, I don't see anything sexual in this relationship. Chemistry – definitely.
Whenever I look at this, all I see is something like how you bond with a cousin and become close with them. It has this artificial familial vibe to it. I don't get the hype. But I do like watching videos of the stage!
However the big thing here is... none... none of this stuff about this Asche clip is accurate. No idea what she's talking about regarding this concert or video in particular. I can debunk it, actually. So, I'm going to. That's the post.
1. Paul "tired" is not evident in the footage.
Show me the clips or videos she's referencing to have said that because I found nothing of the sort anywhere on December 6th. I looked at 1/2 the concert's set and everything Paul is doing is standard MiG, his norms per song, or high energy beyond what was needed.
>That day, Paul came on stage subdued.
Intro + Sonne? What are you talking about? Why are you literally lying? He plays around to move to the opening intro beats. In good spirits apparently with energy to have fun. Goes hard in Sonne as usual. Nails his final riff ending to go full-bodied energy as he does. Standard stuff here and absolutely none of it is subdued in the slightest. This is peak Sonne energy for this tour cycle. I can debunk this in a YouTube link. What the hell is she talking about? We're off to a great start.
Mutter? Looked normal of him even for a slow song where I thought maybe he'd seem more tired or drop the facade. Nope.
Du hast? Doing his usual headbanging. Totally into it as usual. Does his lean forward at the explosion of the bridge as I expected.
Mein Teil? He goes absolutely unnecessarily hard (mute this but watch it) in the intro when he walks backwards from Reesh, actually. Totally beyond his standard of how that is done. It exerted him more effort to do that than I expect of a tired man. He is all over the place in that song having fun.
Engel? Nothing. Standard stuff. Not even at the end of the show does he falter.
What the hell is she talking about? Where is the tired footage? What songs? What links? At this man's point of career, I really don't think three shows in a row is abnormal or going to break him. In the future of the Stadium tour we had shows in a row like that and nothing was abnormal about him either. Who is gonna break the news to her that Paul has performed four shows in a row in Berlin in 2009 without having a bad performance?
You can watch many clips of him here in Dusseldorf. Tell me where the problem is.
2. Asche zu Asche ALWAYS looks like this.
As someone who is the keeper-of-the-jpgs, Paul always looks like this in the Asche intro. Seriously. Many shows allowed the press and media access for photography during Asche, Feuer frei, and Mutter. And so, many images are taken during this intro. What he does and looks like in the video, is exactly how these images look regularly. Nothing is peculiar to them.
I am the one out here tagging Till and Richard on 400 MiG images. I know what the intro to this song looks like by now. If she thinks he looks tired or strange, it means she's never bothered to stare him regularly. Or hardly at all. How the hell? This image is from November 25th's Asche too. It looks the actual same as December 6th????
I am going mad via Asche press photos right now lmfao.
He just............ALWAYS looks like this. I can't.
Everything he does is Asche's standard. 99% of MiG photos taken by the press during this moment look the same. Nothing is amiss to me.
Yes, all of these are from Asche because I told you – press access.
Paul is doing his usual persona work in this December video. It's all 1000000% what is his standard and it's hot as fuck to me. Has she never stared at him doing this to not realize how normal this is? He always looks upward and into the distance to do this. Him looking upward and out is actually very very VERY important!! If he did not do this, 90% of photos would look boring and awkward. And not hot.
Here's an example of him looking downward near the front, but not at the photographer. It looks mediocre and many images would turn out like this due to not paying attention to any specific camera.
You absolutely WANT him to look upward and out in the distance as the Asche video shows him doing. That is how this happens.
Beautiful! *chef's kiss*
Just admit you don't stare at Paul or understand his stage presence behavioral patterns, and go back to obsessing over Richard. Please just go back to your side of the stage.
3. Richard can't even see Paul's facial expression from this angle.
When he walks up, Paul is already standing center alone and he was too far away from his side of the stage on the other end to even alert Richard to anything. Reesh cannot see anything from the side and approximately 9 to 15 meters away at any moment. The angle Richard is at doesn't support being able to perceive anything about his facial expression or eye contact state of anything. He is 9 to 15 meters away you know??? Has she never been to a show? That stage is huge. Is she seriously suggesting Richard can see nuances of Paul's face from even 10 meters away on the total opposite side? On a partly dark stage? Reesh apparently has the eyesight of an actual hunting tiger...
When he approaches, he's looking downward. Nothing about this angle would allow perception of facial nuances. Additionally, when Reesh looks at him; it appears to be somewhere around his neck. This correlates with him thinking about the shoulder and not focused on anyone's face.
4. After the bite, Richard doesn't even bother to check on Paul or make eye contact.
Paul wanted to look at him, but Reesh ignored it and did nothing to indicate if the message was received. So much for "concern".
As someone who has bothered to watch these men on stage in phones and random bootleg cameras for many hours, I can tell you when they want to communicate while playing they use eye contact, hand gesture (if they can), and trying to use their face because they have limited ways to speak and be heard due to volume.
5. Paul did not change his behavior after the bite.
Nothing Reesh did impacted anything. If Richard wanted to risk causing Paul to falter or make error notes – distracting him via sudden touching or startling him like that is a good way to cause mistakes.
This is the equivalent of disrupting an actor mid-scene during an intense emotion. Asche is about ~30 minutes into the show and he's very deep into his role right now. The disruption was external and not himself causing it so he wasn't ready to break concentration. Looking the way he does like that is not his default facial resting position, he has to pay attention to do it. That's why the Du hast clip has him trying very hard to return to before. It seems to be easier to break the character than it is to get back into it. Thus his face lapses tension and concentration for ~5 seconds.
When she looks to think he "woke up" - that is him changing emotion within the persona being broken and trying to shift composure to "go back" when he understands Richard is disinterested. This happens during the transition of 0:10 and 0:11 of the video of some sort of of mental thought like, "oh he's not paying attention to me. moving on." And at 0:12 he blinks, re-focuses at 0:13-14, and regains full force composure into the persona again by 0:15.
I cut the bit out for this:
I also would note that his gesture to lean his head at 0:03-0:05 with his eyes down, and a slight change on his lips in this clip is very normal of him. I've seen it many times. The recent 1997 Pinkpop video I clipped out actually shows this at 0:08. That is how normal and old the gesture is. Likely a whole career type of thing. He does it sometimes when he transitions between two behaviors because he's thinking between two ideas or focusing on what to do next or to do something spontaneous. (That's my theory given the outcomes that come afterwards every time I see it.)
Okay okay if I have the Pinkpop footage here, let me show you him in 1997's Asche lmao. Because he's THE SAME as MiG.
Here's another perspective for consideration.
You know, she wanted to make the disclaimer on her blog in general that she believes.
"All we can do is carefully analyze the slightest nuances in each of their moods, deviations from their usual daily behavior patterns (details can say more about a person than their words. A person can lie, but their facial expressions and gestures never can). For such work, you need to have a solid foundation in the form of hundreds of hours of videos, interviews, and other similar materials filmed over many years.
You have to be a true fan of your idol to be able to determine at a glance, based on the smallest details of their behavior, what state they are in, what mood they are in, and what relationship they have today with one or another member of their team. In short, it is the practical work of an amateur physiognomist psychologist."
I don't know if she's a fool, but physiognomy is not what this is. The dictionary says she literally wrote physiognomist as transliterated from English's terms. Which is incorrect and makes no sense. The correct term in English is personality psychology aka personality reading and perception of emotion to behavioral patterns. The correct thing she should be doing is studying things like MBTI, behaviorist theory, or body language theories on YouTube. If this was physiognomy, she would be saying things like: "Richard has a strong brow ridge and that makes him prone to having more anger than other people." That is not what she is doing. Non-sense word to use.
If she really is studying body language with her whole >but their facial expressions and gestures never can claim, can she please explain to me why Paul has repeated tics after he's finished with these staged kiss moments? His most common tics are: stiffer body position, gesturing with his hands (pointing, wagging his finger), uncertain of how to back away from Reesh without just turning abruptly to walk off, and "petting" Richard's shoulder awkwardly in the most bizarre mannerism ever as if he's a dog. Which I think is hilarious every time it happens.
Okay, listen. I can tell you how/why Paul does this. It's what he wants to do. It's what he wants to be. He always has called R+ a type of "theater" and showmanship thing to some degree as well. Which is true, they're very much an entire act and concept on stage. You never feel like it's "dudes on stage playing music". You know there's artistry and theater here for an act. The thing is, every man is different about it. Different eras have differing levels of cohesion. The way he acts on stage is on purpose. He knows he's doing it.
October 2005:
Q: Would it be a dream you'd have to be recognized solely for your music and to be able to do without all the other stuff?
That is a difficult subject. How much of our success is due to the shows? I believe that we would be relatively successful even without the stage show since our music has its quality. But such a question doesn't get raised much anymore. On one hand, every effect distracts from the music and turns the whole thing into a type of circus. On the other hand, that's just how we are. We'll never go on stage in lumberjack shirts, playing hour long solos, mutually goading each other - that doesn't fit us. Because we play using sequencers, we are bound with musically rigid guidelines on the stage. We tried to break out of that and do improvised parts, but after three attempts we went back to playing the same thing again. This may be due our German roots. We love to do reiteration and repeat the same thing over and over with a blank expression on our faces.
Q: This monotony is also a large part of your style.
Yeah. There are some of us who get sick of certain songs. So sometimes we remove a song from a set. Most of the band loves doing the same thing over and over again. The dull repetition of the constant thing. Like in theater, maybe it's a tad harsh but I see us like we're music theater. When you play as Hamlet, you can only deviate from the role to a very limited degree. And that's how it is with us as well, we're not casual. No one imposed that on us. It's a voluntary corset [metaphor for tight restriction on the self's body]. Perhaps a railing we coast on safely. That's beautifully said! I'm impressed. (laughs)
Or this answer at the bottom,
He has compared himself to Hendrik Hofgen before. That lends credence that I am remembering this concept accurately that he's repeated the sentiment more than once.
"Q: Does it cause problems for you to maintain that the image of Rammstein of hard, angry men who are always strong and can never cry?
Before Rammstein I played for ten years in a fun punk band, and that was much more demanding. Because as a fun punker, as Die Ärzte can attest to, you always have to be funny. The fans tip beer over your head and you have to come across nicely. With Rammstein I can be 99% whatever I want. Being stern is simple, it requires no disguise. Even in a bad mood, it's still awesome. Everything pissing me off 100% enhances the show. I can stand there the entire concert like a pawn in a game of Chess, without batting and eyelash, but the show is still great." - February 2002, Metal Hammer
Great example of his usage of simile and metaphor again! Both of these translations are my attempts to make him come across in English properly of tone and my own work. I will 100% stand by my translation of "grimmig" to be "fierce" and "stern" in English. Fight me 1v1 in a Lidl parking lot.
I say he doesn't mean "grim" (same as grimmig in German of root word) because grim has several usages in English. I took my synonym from the definitions of relevancy. It is the meaning - fierce, stern, firm. Or even harsh. He goes on to express ideas of angry, pissed off, or frustration. Which grim's other meanings in English does not correlate with. Thus I think a synonym used would help clear up this discrepancy to a native speaker to eliminate the ambiguity.
My point is... he KNOWS that when he's on stage that he is 1) acting and 2) angry, stern, firm, or fierce looking. Or that sometimes he doesn't need to act and the emotion felt is real in some shows. Or in this woman's mind she thinks he looks "tired". When that is not how he perceives himself on stage doing this especially in the MiG era where his persona work was the standard.
Has she ever stopped to ask, consider, or perceive how Paul wanted to be taken on a stage like this? Because if she's ever read his words about it, she'd know his own description of himself and then realize "tired" wouldn't make sense. That she should first consider his own stage act and stern behavior before she makes any other conclusions or conspiracies about it. That it is far, far, far more likely Paul was persona acting stern and firm like usual to be the most reasonable conclusion. Shouldn't she be taking this into account for all her "hours of material" studying???
"All we can do is carefully analyze the slightest nuances in each of their moods, deviations from their usual daily behavior patterns (details can say more about a person than their words. A person can lie, but their facial expressions and gestures never can). For such work, you need to have a solid foundation in the form of hundreds of hours of videos, interviews, and other similar materials filmed over many years.
Excuse me, I am asking you to respectfully tell me how many concerts, audio recordings, and bootlegs you have watched from previous years. If you started with him in the 90s and then went forward on the timeline, you'd know that nothing about MiG's Asche in Dusseldorf is commentary worthy.
Because Ezzy's camera captured him again at 2:07 and 2:57. Tell me what's so "tired" about it.
Like damn girl if you did your homework and equally respect or understand the nuances of Paul, tell me what his odd self-taught hand posture of his palm mutes look like. Because he does them in a non-standard way than a majority of guitarists. Reesh does them standard by the most common example of how you're taught.
He does them here. Tell me where.
We can sit here and have 50 debates about him "off the stage" all we want. But when he's holding that guitar; the proof exists right there and I am extremely intimately familiar with what he does with his face or body.
I do not understand how anyone who wants to appreciate Paulchard could or would manage to fail the basic 101. Yet thinks she's going to psychoanalyze this man. The MiG tour is important for us Paul girlies because he does two things that are important musically as his equivalent of a "solo". That being Asche's intro and Mann gegen mann's interlude. These are pristine moments for us that I can't imagine anyone who likes him to not be familiar with MiG tour cycles because of it. I don't know how someone could be unfamiliar with Asche or MGM footage standard norms.
His MGM moment in this video is around 2:55.
If this woman wants to commentate him in MiG playing Asche; tell me why you think you're qualified to say he's in a tired condition. What do you know about his persona's norms? What have you studied? Share your findings with the class.
In all honesty from my time watching LIFAD and MiG footage, he is most likely to be tired looking around the encore. You know like MHB, Amerika, Pussy, Ich will, Engel. There. That cluster? If you want to see a man look anywhere near tired, you'd need to go there. He often slows down in those songs. He's still doing well but he's like 50/50 chance to do less depending on the show. Sometimes he's still totally at 100% and then sometimes, I can see a "I'm tired" decline to like 60% energy level. Usually Amerika or Pussy starts getting really by the numbers. He's prone to doing this half-tired vibe in Pussy where standing still is normalized. And Engel which is a more subdued song thematically and the focus being on the giant wings. I've seen him exit and tap out of Amerika sometimes to go stand by Schneider and let Olli take his stage placement lol. It's okay to pull back then sometimes. I wouldn't say it's a constant thing though. I just happen to sometimes notice he gets a bit more sluggish at the end in some random shows every now and again.
All of his stage persona and nuance has been thrown out the window for this woman's mental fanfic to make up Asche conspiracies to benefit the behavior of Richard in her eyes. It's not about Paul in her fanfic theory. It's about fawning over Richard being ~*caring*~ rather than her actually giving a shit about Paul's "condition". Because if she truly cared about his "condition" in the show being of concern, she would have done her deep research and realized... this is normal of how Paul performs, how he does Asche, and how he looks in MiG tour. Then felt better about it to never write this paragraph about the concept.
>For such work, you need to have a solid foundation in the form of hundreds of hours of videos
I have watched several hundreds of hours of MiG and LIFAD tour footage. I have spent hours and hours of my life staring at Paul jpegs. Including many from MiG and Asche specifically due to press photos.
>You have to be a true fan of your idol to be able to determine at a glance, based on the smallest details of their behavior
I can tell you at a single glance of clicking this YouTube link she provided, on my first viewing, first watch, a single ~15 seconds I said: "this is nothing. it looks like typical Asche zu Asche intro."
Seriously, when she said >I watched a number of videos from that concert, and the diagnosis is clear. Girl, SHOW ME THE VIDEOS. Show me. Link me!! Put up or shut up. I have provided my own video and photo citations of why this claim is utter non-sense. I want to see the videos.
5. >implying Paul would mess up the Asche intro and >implying you can't perfectly hear the notes being played accurately
Because that part is Paul's "solo", it's incredibly easy to check if he's accurate. Yes, he's nailing Asche's notes in his sleep right now. It all sounds correct and nothing is wrong with this video's sound quality to not figure this out.
6. What are you even saying when, >and biting his shoulder was their traditional joke since the days of Sehnsucht.
Literally, I am showing up to this claim with a heavy massive [citation needed]. The only goddamn thing on this planet she could be referring to is 1999 June Montreal and Spiel mit mir performances. There are no other sources or proof of such a thing. Neither of which sources are shoulder biting.
The 90s are very wild and undocumented time. Technically "anything" can happen, but I have never seen any concert report from a fan, bootleg, or photo that shows such a behavior being normalized. She doesn't even cite her source about the 1999 video...
Spiel mit mir was the bridge where they'd stand closer or lean to each other.
This is a correlation to the song lyrics themselves. Go look that up. Nothing of importance to speculate on. Biting would make no sense for the lyrics anyway. The thematic ideas presented in the song is two children in a bed with one child giving the other a handjob. That's the song. It's thought that the one male child is older than the other such as a teenager and a younger one. The perspective of the song is told from the older one's words if you asked me what I think.
In 1999 Montreal Canada, Reesh barely grazed Paul's shoulder with a pretend lick. It's not even a "bite" as cited. The lick is very faint if you check the frames and angles.
My theory is Paul's reaction is subdued because he barely felt it and most of his perception of the event was via the corner of his eye to see it, rather than feel it. The lick looked as a graze if you go frame by frame. I doubt this woman did because she doesn't seem the type to even understand how to get a hold of bootleg raws in a good quality to do that. Let alone have the patience to watch them outside of clips. So much for hours of studying... Reesh spent a lot of 1999 bootleg footage being overly showoff-ish if you ask me. He even did homoerotic stuff with Till in this one tape. He was also very show-off with the ladies sometimes whenever I look at the 99 bootlegs and whatever caused him to mess up DRSG in this clip. If you go back to the eye contact non-verbal concept, on the correct side of what is supposed to be played for the song, he does what? Tries to get visual eye contact with what Schnei is doing as they can't speak at that volume so he can correct the song and fall back in sync. During that entire debacle, Flake noticed it instantly as well and he kept his eye contact on Paul and Schnei back and forth trying to know what to do next. If something is amiss on stage, eye contact is crucial. That is my point. RZK looking down during Asche is not helpful in the slightest if he was trying to communicate anything.
7. She knows it's a joke, but still goes conspiracy about Paul's behavior anyway.
Hold the hell up. When you get to her final idea, she finally realizes what she's saying is absurd bullshit and walks it back.
>Or maybe Richard, seeing Paul's condition, got angry and decided to joke, because at that stage of the MiG tour, Richard was extremely friendly towards Paul
This is actually the more obvious answer. But I'd do without the hysterics about pretending anything was wrong with Paul. I'd phrase it like this, "Or maybe Richard, because at that stage of the MiG tour he was extremely friendly towards Paul, decided to joke." Nailed it! Her entire concept can be a single sentence and a video link to it. Maybe a gif. No Asche conspiracies and fanfiction.
I will not stand for this MiG tour era slander about his amazing hot stage persona behavior lol. Have we no culture?? The disrespect right now for this sacred era of muscular bicep arm shirt will not be tolerated.
Okay, okay. I will be serious. I have been pent up and frustrated over this woman online for like five years. Excuse me that I have a lot of random thoughts to say about it. You cannot have conversations with her or call anything out. All she does is block your comments. Whenever people get confused or ask genuine questions, she gets annoyed all "I have explained so many times" despite the fact her opinions are confusing like this sometimes.
You see, her disclaimer about psychology and "physiognomy" is from her old blog. This disclaimer was removed from her new blog for a few years now. She doesn't warn people anymore that half of her ideas are fanfics, headcanons, and made up psychological theories. Yeah. She used to openly admit it's all a bunch of stupid behavior. Now she doesn't.
Even if we push aside the entire Asche discussion as a matter of "interpretation", this woman literally, l i t e r a l l y, made up random thin air bullshit about Sehnsucht era in her imagination. We cannot ignore this elephant in the room about that detail. We have no proof or evidence of what she's saying outside of one 1999 video of a faint lick. That's it. I know the 90s were definitely an "anything could happen" era of undocumented things with many shows without footage or photo, but come on. Stick to what we know.
And people listen to her as an authority about these things...? Huh? Why? What basis? Because she makes big claims and pretend to be "in" on some deep secrets? She claims to know Richard "personally", and I'm laughing again at her hubris. RZK has many die hard fangirls who know more or as much as this woman, who have been his fan far longer than her, and even then... he doesn't personally talk to them that way. Precisely because of women like her who will public speak and cause gossip problems from it. She causes rumors and damage all the time to anyone who listens to her ideas. She often ends up having to walk ideas backwards with placation or diffusing statements. In the hypothetical reality where she has possibly spoken to RZK via Internet chat one time, that doesn't mean she knows him "personally" or has any bearing of "authority" because of it. I really don't think if she knew him "personally" that she'd be sneaking around his home neighborhood in her spare time on vacation. Nobody who knows him "personally" would need to go see him at a hotel like she did in 2023 and 2024. Why doesn't she ever ask him to give her a friend & family concert pass then? I have seen people with less degree connection to the band end up with friend & family passes for simply being liked by Zoran who has the connection. If the person I'm thinking of can manage that with such an indirect connection, why can't this woman get a pass from RZK at least once? Why is she acting like this at hotels then? So much for knowing him "personally". Why does anyone give her a scrap of attention for behaving like this?
I will never forget her silly analysis of Paul's watch during 2016-17 era on his wrist to make it Richard-centric. Because in the photos, you can solve the brand and identify it quite easily. The band on it says "BR" and you just type "men's BR luxury watch" into Google. Wow, there it is. It's a Bell & Ross watch for someone who wants to tell time in more than one time zone with GMT. Many people who travel use them. It's very expensive like $5k. I found a BR watch for even myself! Pretty. He likes watches that are aviation watches. He also has a Breitling navitimer that is like $10k lol. He has worn it a lot!!
He only wore the Bell & Ross on stage and not in casual photos of the time. Which show the Breitling or Omega Seamaster watch. It means he deliberately put the B&R one on for the show aesthetically. In the mid-00s he also had a Chopard Mille Miglia.
She thinks she has insider knowledge or some insight from "sources". What I would say to alleged "insider" concepts is this: people who have such information do not willingly and freely share it on their blogs. They especially don't want shippers to get a hold of the information to suit their biased narratives. I also find it weird how her insider claims always side with her dislikes, her dislike of Till, or what she feels about the direction of the band. Funny how that works in her favor! I also think it's delusional how she genuinely thinks Paul has control over Schneider or Olli as if they have no thoughts of their own lmfao. Schnei completely showed in 2023 he'd speak his mind even if it wasn't wise to do so. She made a big deal out of claiming that Paul forced Olli to put his award plaques up for charity auction - but if she ever bothered to pay attention R+ have always said awards like that are a "necessary evil", they hate award shows in general. And that I know Olli literally gives them away to anyone and he has no attachment to them. I remember him saying this in the late 90s lol. That's why he put his up for charity. Man literally does not care. Paul has no bearing on that whatsoever. Either she's full of shit, or people feed her bad knowledge. I'd rather trust the bizarre skeleton fan than her. (Fandom old people know who the skeleton fan is and what I mean.)
People who tell this type of thing to others do not want it repeated or to escape very far. Because then it risks it coming back to them and being caught as the leak. I don't believe this makes any sense to do. It's simply too big of an audience risk for causing problems. Posting blogs revealing it for all to see defeats the purpose.
When Paul is being funny, fans know it's a joke and have a chuckle. When Richard wants to be funny, women are out here writing delusional fanfic conspiracies about it instead of laughing at his joke. RZK fangirls are another category of woman. No idea what goes on with them. Have mercy on me.