There’s drama on Reddit again, with a veritable army of Redditors rising up in righteous indignation to fight off those evil man-haters who’ve challenged their ineffable right to free speech to post creepy and intrusive and possibly illegal pictures of women and girls.
I don’t have the energy to catalogue the whole murky mess so let me just point out a few of the key events here, all of which have inspired multiple mega-threads full of sound and fury and lots of misinformation.
1) Reddit user Violentacrez, the founder of r/jailbait and r/picsofdeadkids and countless other skeezy subreddits, deleted his account after learning that Adrian Chen of Gawker was working on a story about him that might include his real name.
On Reddit, where bullshit travels at the speed of light, Redditors convinced themselves that Violentacrez, who took pride in being Reddit’s “creepy uncle,” was being “blackmailed” by either Chen or ShitRedditSays, conceptualized by most Redditors as some sort of collective supervillain not unlike Star Trek’s Borg. (On the Men’s Rights subreddit, moderator Ignatiusloyola, a major purveyor of misinformation on the current controversies, even suggested that I might somehow be mixed up in all of this, which is of course not the case. ) Violentacrez has come forth to say that Chen was not in fact blackmailing him in any way.
Naturally, Redditors have risen up to defend the honor of Mr. Acrez, who despite because of his incredible skeeziness was a beloved figure amongst the Reddit masses. Indeed, the moderators of a number of popular subreddits – including r/politics and, of course, r/mensrights – have banded together to ban Gawker and Jezebel and all related sites from their alleged free-speech zones.
A few links if you want to explore this further:
Redditors Stand Up to Gawker to Protect Child Pornography (AtlanticWire)
[Mod Post] A tribute to Violentacrez, who was doxxed and was being threatened in real life, and an important message to ALL subscribers (please upvote this self post) (NSFW subreddit thread; unreliable information within)
2) The CreepShots subreddit, devoted to surreptitiously taken pictures of attractive young women (and possibly a few men), has vanished, apparently either banned by Reddit’s admins or taken down by the subreddit’s moderator after someone threatened to expose his name.
But this was not the only attempt to creep-shame the creepshotters: A tumblr blog called Predditors posted the personal information of 20 or so Redditors who were active posters in r/creephots; all the info was gleaned from other Reddit postings of theirs. (Most of this information has since been scrubbed from the site.)
Naturally all this has inspired much indignation amongst Redditors, who are seemingly unaware of the irony inherent in their indignation about the invasion of privacy of those who ran and/or enthusiastically participated in a subreddit explicitly devoted to photographic invasions of privacy. (I don’t support revealing the personal info of these people, but at the same time I’m having a little trouble working up any sympathy for them.)
Rumors have spread on Reddit that one Redditor was physically attacked after being exposed as a CreepShot regular, but the only source of information on this is a user with the Reddit handle of POTATO_IN_MY_ANUS, so let’s just say that this is unconfirmed for now.
Links:
How to Shut Down Reddit’s CreepShots Once and for All: Name Names (Jezebel)
Internet Wars Over Women’s Bodies (Forbes)
The Internet War Over Creeps on Reddit (AtlanticWire)
/r/creepshots mod blackmailed into shutting down the sub a.k.a. The Admins Sure Doxxed The Ball On This One (ShitRedditSays thread)
r/creepshots has been removed due to doxxing of the main mod (SubredditDrama thread)
So it begins. Creepshots member beaten up following the Jezebel article which doxxed 20 Redditors (SubredditDrama thread)
There are naturally many more threads on the various aspects of all this on SubredditDrama right now.
Naturally, the good people of Men’s Rights have some thoughts on all this, many of them based on things that aren’t true.
/r/Creepshots and /r/violentacrez taken over by SRS by blackmailing with doxxing info. Apparently r/MensRights is next. (NOTE from DF: Nothing in this headline is true.)
Update on ViolentAcrez/Gawker/Adrian Chen/CreepShots (Substantially more accurate than the previous thread.)
Why does SRS feel the need to fuck with everyone? (Assorted SRS vilification based mostly on misinformation.)
Can the recent doxxing events be seen as an act of terrorism against this (or any) subreddit?
I’ll update this post with more info as necessary.
EDITED TO ADD: Here’s a giant list of links to media coverage of all this.
EDITED AGAIN: Chen’s article has been published on Gawker.
Meanwhile, the now-infamous Redditor POTATO_IN_MY_ANUS, the source of much of the dubious information discussed above, has been banned from Reddit; more importantly, he has been caught doctoring a screenshot of a conversation between him and a Reddit admin explaining why he’s being banned. So pretty much all of his claims, including the one about a creepshotter getting beaten up, are now suspect.
Also, here’s a screenshot that purports to be from Violentacrez explaining why he left Reddit.
NWO, there is no math TO do, because the study said “1 in 4 sexually assaulted since the age of 14.” You can’t fucking read, and I’ll thank you not order me to do a fucking thing for you.
@hellkell
“NWO, there is no math TO do, because the study said “1 in 4 sexually assaulted since the age of 14.”’
And Iraq has weapons of mass destruction. Sacharin is good for you. And let’s not forget.
Whatever, NWO, ya still can’t do the math. Don’t you have some crackpottery to slaver over somewhere else?
Iraq has weapons of mass destruction. NWO pays attention to facts. Mars needs women.
One of these things is not like the others.
I didn’t report being raped, so, as we used to say in high school debate, EMPIRICALLY DENIED!
I could actually believe that at one time, more doctors smoked Camels than any other brand.
But then, unlike NWOaf, I actually have paid attention to history.
And on that note:
My mother never reported being sexually assaulted, nor did she report her rape.
My aunt tried to report her sexual assaults and rape, and was called an outright liar and a seducer(she was just a little girl)
My grandmother never reported the rapes she went through.
Many of my friends have been sexually assaulted (and some of those assaults I witnessed) and did not report them. Nor was the attempted rape at a camp site reported, although I can tell you both my friend(who the guys were really after because she was blind drunk) was very lucky that I was sober and able to get both of us to safety.
I have been sexually assaulted several times in my early teens. I didn’t know what to call it then and believed the much older men when they told me they were just horsing around. I was left on my own because it was afternoon hours (and slow business) to serve coffee and donuts. Later, strange but painful accidents started happening when these “jokers” started messing around. Plausible denialbility works both ways.
And it the idea of “plausible deniability” that makes it so hard for assault and rape vitims to come forward. Because NO ONE wants to believe they know a predator.
You know, I’ve been reading through the comments on old Manboobz posts for fun, and what the hell happened to you, NWO? You used to show up in every thread and spew new, absurd conspiracy theories or misogynistic rants. Now you’re barely ever here and when you are it’s the same tired old talking points over and over.
Yeah, Owly. You used to be cool, man.*
*Not really.
@lauralot89:
I bet he’s two-timing us, the cheating bastard.
LOL Amused!
I was thinking he was one of those trolls who burns with a hard, gem-like flame for a while and then … just burns out. All that early promise, gone.
I say only this, and say no more: If any harm should come to Michael B******’s person, Mr. Chen will have blood on his hands.
Promise?
Your idiocy and stupidity, have no place in this thread, cloudiah. This is a man who was outed, humiliated, and endangered by a morally berift, piss-drinking, taint-licking mangina. It is a subject of substance, and I’d ask you to treat it as such.
Bullshit, Steele. Brutsch made his bed, he can roll around in it. I have zero sympathy for this guy and zero patience with YOU, skidmark.
Yeah. All that valiant man did was heroically promote the heroic practice of taking sexually suggestive pictures of non-consenting children and swapping manly stories of sexually abusing his stepdaughter. And now, for all the good that this man has done for the world, he’s risking bad publicity. Oh, the horror.
Says the guy who just called someone a “morally berift[sic], piss-drinking, taint-licking mangina”.
Butthorn, you mad? To quote PZ Myers (just to make steam come out of your ears),
You know who is responsible for the fallout from public exposure about Michael Brutsch’s actions? The person who committed those actions: Michael Brutsch.
I especially liked how Steele brought up morals, of all things. I just love it when defenders of child-rape talk about morality.
B****** acted as a troll on the Internet, albeit on a large scale. The vile disgusting feminist-arsehole-licking mangina Adrian Chen has taken it upon himself to apply his M-feminist principles universally; this is one step away from totalitarianism in its attempt at crushing dissent.
This is an attempt at silencing, nothing more. Standard feminist procedure. As if I needed more insight into feminists’ character.
Amused: Amen. And let’s not overlook the delicious irony of Steele harping on idiocy and stupidity.
My heart pumps purple piss over the plight of a predator being “silenced.” Steele, you win Jag of the Day.
Cloudiah, and the rest of the Boobzers defending Chen, are frankly evil, and indirect enablers of all the suppression and oppression that led to the Holocaust, the Dark Ages, the Crusades, the Inquisition, and virtually every other horror known to humankind. Because all wrongs can be traced back to suppression of those who would point out its evil. Which is what Chen is doing. And you’re on the wrong side of history.
No one “silenced” Brutsch. Adrien Chen has the right to free speech, which includes the right to out Brutsch — which should be understandable to someone who believes that the taking of photos of non-consenting children for the purpose of distributing them to pedophile rapists is protected speech.
Which evil was Brutsch pointing out, exactly, by aiding and abetting child rapists?