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Tweets from totally real feminists supporting FEMCON2015, a totally real conference and not a 4chan scam

Seems legit
Seems legit

So over the weekend some enterprising 4channer decided to try to create some mayhem and make a few quick bucks by concocting a fake feminist conference, and selling tickets to it.

He — I’m pretty sure it was a he — headed to /b/ to round up some accomplices.

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The co-conspirators assembled in a TinyChat to work out the details of this brilliant scheme.

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BE SURE TO SPELL FEMINIST CORRECTLY OR NOBODY WILL BELIEVE YOU.

Alas! Someone must have spelled feminist incorrectly, because as it turns out, no one did believe them, and word quickly spread on Twitter that FEMCON2015 was indeed a CON.

It didn’t exactly help that, their entire knowledge of feminism seemingly derived from antifeminist memess, none of the FEMCON2015 promoters had any idea what real feminists sound like, and the fake feminist Twitter accounts they set up were about as believable as Steve Buscemi’s undercover teenager on 30 Rock.

Here are some of the highlights from the would-be FEMCON artists’ brief careers on Twitter.

“Veronica” tweeted “her” first TOTALLY REAL HUGE FEMINIST comment at 2:12 (my time) Sunday afternoon.

Literally one minute later, “Jessica” here tweeted HER first TOTALLY REAL feminist comment.

Two minutes later, she tweeted about the TOTALLY REAL conference.

This TOTALLY REAL liberal showed how liberal “she” was with TOTALLY REAL liberal tweets like these:

https://twitter.com/ProgFembo/status/624684086720897024

https://twitter.com/ProgFembo/status/625034891491545088

Then followed up with a plug for FEMCON2015.

https://twitter.com/ProgFembo/status/625487206090715136

The OFFICIAL fake account of the fake conference — which has now apparently been banned — tried to whip up fake enthusiasm for the fake conference:

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Looking at @Femcon2015’s tweets last night, before the account vanished, I noticed “she” had 85 followers, pretty good for a brand-new non-celebrity account. Let’s see what some of these followers had to say!

This was Mr. Cockx’s only Tweet.

But some of @Femcon2015’s other followers tweet a bit more regularly. Like Claudia here:

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This seems to be a popular topic amongst @Femcon2015’s followers.

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I crossed out the info, BTW.

There are more like this, but I think you get the idea.

SPECTACULAR SUCCESS, FELLAS!

H/T — r/GamerGhazi, Sari’s Whimsy, and @srhbutts

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misseb47
misseb47
9 years ago

Wow. How the hell did they expect ANYONE to fall for that one? O.O

http://i1.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/facebook/000/719/509/0ad.png

And no-one did. Imagine my surprise, or total lack there of.

PS

And what the hell is wrong with gay bars? Why would that be upsetting? I mean, why?! I just don’t get it.

Tessa
Tessa
9 years ago

@ej: It’s projection. If they thought they were going to a 4chan meetup or convention, they’d see it as some horrible insult, as if they were being called gay. Considering how they use gayness as an insult constantly in their chat, I imagine they couldn’t think of a much bigger hit to their egos. So they assume feminists are the same.

The tweet from “Jessica Alice” telling women they don’t have to listen to their boyfriends is the most amusing thing in that post. It captures their perception of feminism perfectly. That and the whoke chat log make it clear they have no idea what feminism even is. It’s sad.

Moggie
Moggie
9 years ago

Maybe it was meant to be upsetting for the gay bar? You know, a lot of new customers suddenly turning up and spending money, some of whom are not gay! How mortifying!

AnAndrejaPejicBlog (@A_Pejic_Blog)

I’m looking at their sad little Tumblr, which only has three posts, one of which is a reblog of their first post. One of the tags they used is #DownWithMales. They also used #WomansRights. So only one woman gets rights? Who is she, and what makes her so special?

dhag85
dhag85
9 years ago

I sometimes comment on how awful these people are, but I don’t give them enough credit for how amazingly stupid and incompetent they are. This is just mindboggling.

One thing though: I always assumed their little rants/tantrums about “SJW feminazis just want to hate men and not wear a bra while swallowing a million birth control pills” was deliberate strawmanning. This leads me to believe maybe the actually think this is an accurate description of the average feminist woman. That’s even more mindboggling.

dhag85
dhag85
9 years ago

Off topic: Last night my country won the Under 19 Women’s Soccer European Championships, which is sort of a big deal. Sadly, the comment section of every news article I could find about this seemingly good news had been immediately derailed by dudebros whining about women playing sports. I just can’t understand what’s going on in their heads. It’s depressing.

Rei Malebario
Rei Malebario
9 years ago

I’m not any kind of a lawyer or anything but isn’t this technically conspiracy to commit fraud (albeit inept conspiracy to commit fraud)?
I’m pretty sure trying to sell something that you have no means or intention of actually delivering is a crime here in Europe, but I suppose things may be different in 4chan-manland?

dhag85
dhag85
9 years ago

@Rei Malebario

Expecting manbabies not to break the law is misandry.

Moggie
Moggie
9 years ago

I literally can’t get enough of that Anita gif.

Alan Robertshaw
Alan Robertshaw
9 years ago

But my new Mexican trans woman friend says the conference will be really good…

Newt
Newt
9 years ago

Maybe this obvious fraud is intended to be laughable as a distraction, and few slightly more competent 4chan “activists”, who have watched the odd heist movie, are working on a more convincing scam?

LordCrowstaff
LordCrowstaff
9 years ago

F – that’s for fucking
R – that’s for reckless
A – that’s for abominable
U – that’s for unethical
D – that’s for dipshits

What’s that make?

Mike
Mike
9 years ago

The depressing thing out of this is that these are the same idiots who pretty much incited #GamerGate. Kind of depressing so many MRAs and anti-feminists are even dumber than this.

Yeah, honestly I think that if they were trying to convince other channer/anti-feminist types that this was a real thing, they’d have had no problem. The problems come when they try and actually convince people outside their chan-bubble.

j12432324
j12432324
9 years ago

God those tweets were about as convincing as a fake moustache disguise. Did they seriously think they could fool anyone?

Scented Fucking Hard Chairs
Scented Fucking Hard Chairs
9 years ago

Maybe this obvious fraud is intended to be laughable as a distraction, and few slightly more competent 4chan “activists”, who have watched the odd heist movie, are working on a more convincing scam?

No way. #GamerGate’s proven that this is the most they’re capable of; they worked their fedoras off on that one and still only convinced people who wanted to be convinced.

David N-T
David N-T
9 years ago

From the dudes who brought us ethics in video games journalism, comes freshly scented conspiracy to commit fraud. Is anyone surprised that dudes who lack intellectual integrity also fail in the general integrity category as well?

David N-T
David N-T
9 years ago

[quote]The depressing thing out of this is that these are the same idiots who pretty much incited #GamerGate. Kind of depressing so many MRAs and anti-feminists are even dumber than this. [/quote]

Honestly, my reaction regarding their general ineptitude is more akin to relief.

Holytape
9 years ago

I’m like a totally real feminist. And I totally like feministing with my girl friends. And we are like empowered because we have uteruses and those other tubey bits, you know, Philippians tubes. So I am so going to FemCon. Down with men!

dslucia1
dslucia1
9 years ago

@dhag85

One thing though: I always assumed their little rants/tantrums about “SJW feminazis just want to hate men and not wear a bra while swallowing a million birth control pills” was deliberate strawmanning. This leads me to believe maybe the actually think this is an accurate description of the average feminist woman. That’s even more mindboggling.

It’s probably a bit of both. The “ringleaders”, so to speak, likely deliberately strawman for the sake of pandering to their audience, and said audience doesn’t care about the actual facts so for them that becomes an accurate description of the average feminist woman.

I mean, what are they going to do, talk to an actual feminist woman to get the truth? Pfft.

sarity85
sarity85
9 years ago

I have to wonder if #DownWithMales was really meant to convince anyone or if it was just some half-witted gotcha attempt to expose MISANDRY. Failed on both fronts either way.

And holy shit, a commenter on the Buzzfeed report actually thinks the only reason this amazing plan failed was because the original post was spotted on /b/. x’D Where’s a Scooby-Doo villain meme when you need one?

RosaDeLava
RosaDeLava
9 years ago

… I refuse to believe they honestly thought this would work.

Someone in r/GamerGhazi said that they announced Vivian James as a speaker, and I refuse to believe anyone is that incredibly stupid. I find it more likely that they would try to make everyone think they were really trying and are just really bad at everything (and then… profit?) than that they would name a fictional character created by gaters as a speaker in a feminist conference, in all seriousness, and expect anyone to buy that.

If people like that existed, reality should’ve been broken into tiny little pieces in ground it into dust. A thousand times.

Also, Hello everyone! And shut up, Woody.

Buttercup Q. Skullpants

Yes, real convention planners put out the word just three weeks before the actual date. Feminists will impulsively drop everything and book expensive last-minute flights/hotels as soon as the tampon bat-signal goes up. It’s not like they have meaningful careers or families that are hard to take time off from. Just fake office jobs and ninety cats.

This really points up how badly they overestimate their own intelligence, and disrespect the intelligence of feminists. They’re not even putting in the slightest effort to make it look real. Half-assed graphics, a handful of sockpuppet Twitter accounts, and lazy copypasta stolen from NOW: all good enough, because feminists are stoopid, amiright? They think feminists have the brains of fish, and easily mistake shiny objects for food.

Even misspelling “feminist” is a not-so-subtle form of disrespect, akin to the Republicans’ irritating tactic of referring to the “Democrat” party in public discourse. It ends up backfiring and making them look stupid, petulant, and lazy, instead of superior. If you can’t even manage to get your opponents’ name right, tell me again why you should be entrusted with running anything?

Moggie
Moggie
9 years ago

Have these guys ever attended a conference? One which doesn’t involve dressing up as your favourite fictional character? One where you’d want a list of speakers and sessions before committing?