Ron Collins Posts a Digitally Altered Selfie

It is now the third week since Ron Collins announced that he was "done talking." Since that time, he has done nothing BUT talk, desperate to rewrite history after being humiliated by Don Roley in Kentucky. Collins, who fantasizes about being a martial artist and street fighter, tried and failed to challenge Roley -- only for his courage to fail him when both he and Roley were mere steps from mats on which Roley invited Collins to spar. Collins has been obsessed with his failure since that time. His solution? Talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, at times engaging in reckless and malicious libel. He hates Roley so much that it is eating him alive... and he hates that Roley's friends make fun of Collins online.

In late June, 2017, Ron Collins published several seemingly libelous, creepy, and threatening videos about Don Roley. One of these videos was immediately taken down from YouTube for violating the site's terms of service. He then began uploading videos to another site in the hopes that the new site's TOS would be more lenient. The videos were immediately age-gated as "explicit content."

Bizarrely, Collins took a break from his non-stop campaign against Roley and his family to publish the following "selfie" to Facebook. To our knowledge, Collins has never before taken a photo of himself showing off his flabby gut or his sunken chest.

Observers familiar with Ron Collins were immediately curious. The photo looked strange, as if Ron Collins were taller than he normally appears. He is roughly 5'3" or thereabouts and generally quite heavy. Witnesses who encountered him in Florida reported that he appeared to be in poor health and wheezing with the effort of moving around. So who is this seemingly much taller, much thinner person, and why do the tiles in the wall next to him seem to be so distorted? Specifically, the tiles in the upper portion of the photo appear longer than the tiles in the lower portion of the photo.

Submitting the photo to an online analyzer, which checks for distortions created by photo editing programs, produced the following results:

In other words, the photo was likely edited in a freeware program like Gimp -- exactly the sort of software someone like Collins, who lives at or below poverty level, would tend to use. Compressing the photo to more "normal" dimensions and comparing the two produces the following image, in which Collins appears to be sucking in his gut in order to appear thinner:

The clincher, however, is found in comparing the size and apparent length of Ron's head (with its distinctly unattractive male-pattern baldness) to the many mugshots of Ron found online. His head is very round in shape -- not oblong as it appears in the seemingly edited photo.

All this begs the questions: Why would Collins suddenly be uploading altered pictures of himself, made to look thinner, in which he preens vainly in front of a mirror with his shirt up? Why is he doing it in a public bathroom? We know that Collins is desperately poor. Is he, in fact, homeless? This would explain the bathroom antics and also why he changed his address in his court case to his PO Box: he does not have a stable residence address and probably couch-surfs with whomever takes pity on him. Stripping down in a public bathroom is the sort of thing someone reduced to turning tricks for pocket change would do. Has Collins sunk so low? We cannot say.

More to the point, it says a lot that Collins thought he could get away with this deception. He must know that anyone who meets him in real life would not be fooled by this distorted photo. Clearly, he spends much more time and effort on his fictional Internet persona (calling himself "Sensei Collins" in the third person even though he has never earned that rank) than on improving himself in real life. He must have very few real friends, and likely encounters almost no actual people, preferring instead to reinvent himself with Internet fantasies. This photo is simply a testament to that fact.