scam LA photographer Mark Laita of Soft White Underbelly and his rube fanbase out of >$100,000
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Mark Laita runs Soft White Underbelly, where he interviews and photographs people generally from the seedier side of life. Some interviewees are cops, excons, mentally ill people, etc. but he also tends to offer random people on Skid Row a few hundred for their stories. Sometimes/occasionally it's very interesting, often it's just a rambling junkie.
Mark found the Whittaker family in a <1000 pop town called Odd, West Virginia when he asked a cop about interesting local people. Their family tree is a clusterfrick with far too many overlapping lines, with the bulk of the children coming from two cousins of identical twin brothers.
They are severely inbred to the point they look like cartoonish caricatures of inbred hicks, some of them are nonverbal and have the minds of children. Mark's first video of them is here, I won't spoil it but it's worth watching until the end. Ray, who doesn't talk outside of grunts and barks, shows that he understands what people around him are talking about.
As described in the video, when he first tried to photograph them one of their cousins Jason who lived nearby threatened him with a shotgun and told him to stay the frick away from them. Eventually he was able to talk him down and later interviewed him - he's a career criminal and drug addict with sexual assault charges against a minor.
Based on the positive response from the first video, Mark had more follow-up videos with the Whittaker family and they began a very wholesome chungus relationship with him buying them groceries and taking them to the state fair. 
The follow-up videos started to include a gofundme link where people could donate to the family as they apparently needed a new home.
With money and attention coming in, some other vulturous soytuber clickbait cute twink took it upon himself to visit Odd Virginia and the Whittakers. 
Timestamped is when he starts talking about Mark and the Whittakers. He says that over $77k was raised on just one GoFundMe and they should have funds to buy a $139k house in cash. When asked about the house Betty Whittaker squawks that she doesn't know anything about any house and that Mark said there are no more funds available. Their caretaker says she doesn't seem to understand either. This guy creates another gofundme for the Whittakers.
Mark responds and explains that the Whittakers kept asking for money from the GoFundMe. Since it's their money, he couldn't really refuse. He has receipts that he's sent a bit over $100,000 and they've pissed it all away with no house to show for it.
Although Mark was supposed to have washed his hands of the family after this, tragedy struck later in the month when BJ Whittaker reported that her father Larry had died. She called him emotionally sobbing and crying. requesting $800 for help with funeral expenses and a little over $250 for clothing for her and her family. She said the service would be on Facebook Live.
Betty confirmed the death on the phone, but Mark, seeming to smell something was off, flew across the country that day and showed up to the house to attend Larry's funeral. Larry drove up to the house in his truck about 13 minutes in.
Mark confronts BJ and Betty, who despite typically answering any question with something akin to "Ah dunno" was apparently lucid enough to play along with a lie about a family member dying. Apparently Betty also gives cash from the "family funds" to Larry's grandson Brandon (seen here in the back).
Mark had a followup with Jason the other day. Most recently, Larry asked for cash to try to get BJ help and out of state away from the family, being the worst influence. She, of course, didn't go anywhere, and the Whittakers who are capable of communicating in words were all able to stay consistent on another lie that got them money.
The shotgun toting felon chomo who originally threatened Mark agrees that they're actually untrustworthy and he probably should no longer try to help them.
Moral:
DO NOT TRUST WHITE """PEOPLE"""
of history.
- MinecraftBeeitch : Threatening to beat a man to death with a hammer
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Hypermuscular Hindu Beast 
moment
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Allah ke Bande Hasde..
— BJP Telangana (@BJP4Telangana) May 10, 2024
400 paar ye hoke rahega!#AbkiBaar400Paar pic.twitter.com/SVm6H1MQdZ
Mera abdul wapas ayega
!bharatiya wtf do you think is going on in BJP hq? Most schizo campaign I've ever seen, at least Rahul is sticking to simple class war lol.
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Israel cant even put a singer on stage for Eurovision without a baying mob of degenerate leftists and queers for Palestine screaming about a non existent genocide.
— Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧 (@TRobinsonNewEra) May 10, 2024
Absolutely the most pathetic people in the world. pic.twitter.com/nEKKdjtwtf
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wtf is "A New Construction of Covariance Functions for Gaussian Random Fields"
or "Clustering Circular Data via Finite Mixtures of von Mises Distributions and an Application to Data on Wind Directions"
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Hello @PoliceRajasthan, child marriage is still occurring openly in Rajasthan. What actions are being taken to address this issue?
— Divya Gandotra Tandon (@divya_gandotra) May 9, 2024
pic.twitter.com/fpWGFi9K74
With that hairline too
Ara ara
Its over for me
Hot
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Since Thursday, about 1,200 activists from all over Europe have gathered at the plant. They erected tents, flags of Palestine and the German terrorist movement RAF (Red Army Faction).
— Lord Bebo (@MyLordBebo) May 10, 2024
They demand to stop the expansion of the plant.
2/ pic.twitter.com/FWCDuXrNYh
from here were drowned while your ruling cabal watched Madonna have gay s*x. 
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Rio Grande do Sul (Think Texas in size and economic importance) was hit with a month of rain in just under 24 hours, the result is that 70% of the state ended up like this:
(395k homeless, over a hundred dead, 100+ missing, 1.7 million affected in some way)
The State capital lol
Apparently all the burecrats and President were watching Madonna lez out under armed military escort and only just now are scrambling to make efforts but are deliberately arresting people who have already organised without them and already hoarding aid money and goods for corrupt pals. The human rights minister said that aid and water should go first to gypsy and black communities in Rio grande. Enviromental minister blamed voting for right wing politicians as the reason for the flooding and that we should vote for people who aren't "climate deniers".
I'm like a dog chasing waterfalls
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They want you to print that shit on a piece of paper or login to your Microsoft account in case you forget it 
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Our future king Barron Trump has entered the world of politics, and while he’s 18, he is already making a successful run for ambassador of Florida, a perfect start to one day assume the throne. pic.twitter.com/35m7zprGvj
— Gary Peterson 🇺🇸 (@GaryPetersonUSA) May 9, 2024
Once again proving the old adage
The seethe:
Of course I had to get in on the action
No way, really? That's crazy
These people make it too easy
Lmao dude had to fact check the revolutionary war four times to make sure that my idiotic comment wasn't real
There's so much more
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cute twink
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Is Lipstick Alley the new stormfront?
coomer janny fight - 13
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I'm writing about a concerning situation involving another moderator. They have banned me and removed all my posts in numerous subs on a different account. The reason? I refused to relinquish my top moderator position on a subreddit on this account. They're essentially holding access to dozens of other subreddits they moderate hostage in exchange for my top mod role. This has been ongoing for several months now.
Here's the backstory: I became the top moderator of said subreddit when the previous top mod asked me if I wanted to take over due to my consistent activity and my interest in the sub. However, this other mod is now claiming I "stole" the subreddit from them.
I have Groomercord screenshots showing them promising to lift the ban and reapprove my posts if I hand over the subreddit they claim is theirs. However, they were never the top moderator there, nor did she ever do that much moderating in the sub to begin with and seems like it's just yet another power grab. This abuse of power feels outrageous. It seems like evidence outside of Reddit itself (like Groomercord messages) are not considered in these situations, leaving me stuck.
To make matters worse, they falsely listed me as "not being 18+" in the ban reason, despite knowing I am of legal age. Isn't this essentially them knowingly falsely accusing me of posting underage content, which is a serious offense?
I'm at a loss for how this behaviour is allowed to continue and I'm stuck. Any recommendations on how to proceed?
his mopping list:
there's apparently a well known coomer cabal 
some major janny 
the other jannies don't like the harsh truth 
they want to reevaluate the mod code of conduct now that power janny banning has been used against them
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