https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/reddit-conservatives-post-trans-child-fake-b2060803.html
and I get another shoutout
Reuters responded to my request for correction but isn't keen on fixing the story, so I might write a whingepost about them later. But hey, The Independent got things right!
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LMFAOOOO this article was written by a train as well
https://twitter.com/iododds
it was so well researched because of xirs neurodivergency, a normie journoid would never get things right like this
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Ah, that explains why it was actually good. When was the last time legacy foods did anything notably good?
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Once again, neo women out performing legacy women.
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No bully! She a real one for this
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close enough I guess
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Thanks King. I've a new source for the Wikipedia page [1]
Wait, did they take that from my post in the discussion section of the article about controversial subs on Wikipedia [2]??
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Rdrama.net
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Controversial_Reddit_communities#r/drama_should_be_added_to_the_list
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Caricature?
Also, I didnโt know you were a Wikicel? You even have your CoI infobox on your profile.
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But /r/drama isn't technically quarantined, is it?
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Nope, that's why the journo put into quotes. I wrote "self quarantine" in quotes to impress the other wikicels and the journo took it seriously lol
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Wouldn't surprise me. She actually did the legwork on this one. Wild stuff.
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Some of them are good people, I assume.
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lol there's someone ( presumably) that wants them to add /r/detrans to the list, and they link AHS as a source
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That needs its own thread lmao
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Reading jou*noid's summaries of our escapades is one of the few things that still warms my gay, black heart.
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2020? Fricking journos, proof read your shit!
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Did 2020 ever end though?
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Ok, maybe not all journos
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@FunkyDuffy darn they deleted my back up lol
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Paywalled for me. Can you pastebin the full text?
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A Reddit post shared by some conservatives as proof that liberal parents are pressuring their children to undergo gender transition has been revealed as a fake created by trolls.
More than 10,000 people retweeted a screenshot of the post shared by libertarian journ*list and former US Senate candidate Justin O'Donnell last week, on top of thousands more who shared it in other places.
The post, originally made last August, purported to be a plea for advice by a trans parent who was forcing their 14-year-old child to take estrogen, a key component of hormone therapy for transwomen.
Yet evidence compiled by Reuters and reviewed by The Independent shows that both the post and the Reddit board that hosted it were invented by members of a dedicated trolling community as โbaitโ for political partisans.
Some of that evidence was first archived last September by Trace Underwood, an ex-Mormon blogger, who also showed that the same forum was behind a supposed Reddit board for Texas abortion โbounty huntersโ that fooled many progressives.
The trans child spoof echoed long-running claims by US conservatives and trans-exclusionary feminists that some trans children are being compelled or โgroomedโ by their parents to transition against their wishes, for which there is little evidence.
The governor of Texas has asked officials to treat transition healthcare for under-18s as child abuse, while Fox News pundits, Republican officials, and even members of Congress have sought to tie trans rights to paedophilia by referring to childhood transition as โgroomingโ.
โAnyone else have trouble convincing your teen kids to continue transitioning?โ the fake post asked in its title. โMy 14-year-old daughter (assigned male at birth) has started refusing her estradiol so Iโve been crushing the pills and putting it in her cereal in the morning.โ
The post continued: โIโm just not sure why she doesnโt want to take her pills anymore.โ
Other users chimed in supportively in the thread below, advising the poster to isolate their child from their friends and continue pushing them to transition against their will.
This discussion took place on a Reddit board or โsubredditโ called /r/TransParentTransKid, ostensibly set up the very same day as a โsafe and supportive spaceโ for trans people with trans or potentially trans children to share โtips, tricks, and techniquesโ.
However, readers familiar with the language of trolling communities might have raised an eyebrow at the board rulesโ repeated use of the phase โheckinโ cute and validโ, which is an internet meme often used to mock LGBT+ people.
Sure enough, a series of posts on the trolling forum RDrama.net from 5 August 2020, the same day /r/TransParentTransKids was created, show users discussing a plan to create the Reddit board and fill it with confected stories designed to generate outrage.
โSomeone please snap up /r/TransParentTransKid so it can be filled with stories about how our real/adoptive children magically learned they were also trans after finding out about their parents,โ said one RDrama user.
Another user, known as Tariq, replied โdoneโ, shortly followed by a user named FunkyDuffy posting a link to the fake advice thread along with a gif that reads: โIโm doing my part!โ
The author of the advice thread on Reddit was also called FunkyDuffy, and one of the top supportive comments was from a user with exactly the same username as Tariq.
On 6 August, another RDrama thread invited users to โcome help turn /r/TransParentTransKid into a lolcow grazing groundโ, using a slang term for gullible or highly reactive web users who can easily be farmed for laughs.
โSomeone came up with this subreddit yesterday. Just need a dozen more posts in there and I can post about it in /r/cringetopia or something for a fresh flow of seethe,โ said the thread creator.
โDonโt make the bait posts too obvious, but you don't have to try too hard either since Redditors will eat up anything that makes them mad.โ
Other users protested that the trolling had been too obvious. โThis is not good bait... no one cognisant enough to string a sentence together would fall for this.โ
Reddit has now banned /r/TransParentTransKid for breaking its rules against โcreating or repurposing a subreddit to reconstitute or serve the same objective as a previously banned or quarantined subredditโ.
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You sat down and wrote all this shit. You could have done so many other things with your life. What happened to your life that made you decide writing novels of bullshit on rdrama.net was the best option?
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Is the website going to save humanity? "shit, I feel for something rdrama posted sarcastically, was I an idiot for awhile? Let me get closer to the Holy Centrism"
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@carpathianflorist I was subtweeted in the last sentence here. Can I be a jannie now?
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You can have a pat
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Ex-Mormon is that part true?
Otherwise Iโm selling up with pride right now this is just awesome.
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Yeah, kinda a neat note for her to pick up on. It's not something I hide, but I don't think I specifically highlighted it in my Medium profile, so she must have poked around at my history a bit.
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This is an eternal lesson that no bait is too obvious to generate massive seethe.
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In time I will start hearing about the hacker known as rdrama on like bloomberg or some shit. Truly a sign that the simulation is broken.
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I hope rDrama posts end up being shown during a session of congress for some r-slurred reason.
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I hope they see some of the weed cat porn I've uploaded
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Link?
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God I hope not. My screen name is my actual name.
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I heard the same thing about @plznodoxxerino. That his name is bipoculars, I mean.
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its @plsnodoxerino
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Well why don't you just dox the poor guy, jeez.
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Oh no, people would find out that Iโm a fan of Tariq. What would all my friends that I text his tweets to all the time think?
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Do you really want one of pizzashill's WORDSWORDSWORDS posts to become a matter of public interest?
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Yes. I hope I live to see the day that Pizzashill becomes famous.
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Pizzashill for congress. Make those peepeesuckers deal with him.
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The filibuster king
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Heโs almost done with his manifesto
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If the only person who ends up dead is the person writing the manifesto then it's actually called a "suicide note".
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He's already out in the woods working on it.
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As long as it includes "(emoji of a cat with a horse dildo)" i will die happy.
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We need an anon mask that is marsey
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So the gigajanny founders are sitting on how much of a cash cow right now? I heard this forum was worth a cool couple mil like 6 months back.
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They turned down a offer by my sissy hypnosis into pimping operation to buy it for $10 milion recently. A shame, thgdat would have been a huge operation.
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I can't wait to see a fricking all caps red headline
or some shit like that on Bloomberg
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I'd like to think rdrama influenced the anti-train bills
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god, I hope so
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Just blame the Manlet Menace of Massachusetts
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a report about a site of gay r-slur rejects trolling gay r-slur wingnuts with obvious brain dead bait, journ*lism is about to enter a new golden age
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At this rate the marsey sticker on my car might be recognised by someone soon
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Oh shit that was me
I overwrote that comment to state that reuters was conducting a Russian disinformation psyop because it was in the thread (((they))) linked to.
Hilarious how wrong I was
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based
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https://rdrama.net/post/9132/learn-to-archive-nerds/133197?context=8#context
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Terf Island does not believe that trans lives matter
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I think that Carp is responsible for Snappy quotes. This one is a good candidate, Carp!
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I thought it was Dad.
Follower of Christ Tech lover, IT Admin, heckin pupper lover and occasionally troll. I hold back feelings or opinions, right or wrong because I dislike conflict.
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Theres a fricki g megathread on the sidebar
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vastly overestimating the critical thinking of the average redditor
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You can tell the journoid enjoyed writing that part.
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You can practically hear the gears in that journo's head turning at max speed in order to try and figure out it's satire
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Do they not see our banners? This is a pro trans website, there is no mocking here
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