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.
The co-conspirators assembled in a TinyChat to work out the details of this brilliant scheme.
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.
Hey girls, I'm a huge feminist, and I can't believe I didn't have a twitter! I'm assisting in the creation of FemCon2015 in NY atm
— Veronica Hanson (@FeminsitVeronic) July 26, 2015
Literally one minute later, “Jessica” here tweeted HER first TOTALLY REAL feminist comment.
Just to let you know: You don't need to do whatever your boyfriend tells you to. You're independent! #bestrong #feminism #feminist @femfreq
— Jessica Alice (@Jessikacie) July 26, 2015
Two minutes later, she tweeted about the TOTALLY REAL conference.
ANYONE ELSE AS EXCITED FOR #FemCon2015 AS I AM?! Just bought my tickets today! Flying down in a few!! @Femcon2015 #feminism
— Jessica Alice (@Jessikacie) July 26, 2015
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:
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!
@Femcon2015 Emma Watson
— Joe Cockx (@Generic_nam3) July 26, 2015
This was Mr. Cockx’s only Tweet.
But some of @Femcon2015’s other followers tweet a bit more regularly. Like Claudia here:
This seems to be a popular topic amongst @Femcon2015’s followers.
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
I bet you wouldn’t listen for the full hour, though.
I would definitely try to get through at least the first hour.
@ Paradoxical Intention
There’s a quite old song by Dresden Dolls (Amanda Palmer) about the “automatic joy”
I think what you peeps are missing is that this is OBVIOUSLY a feminist plot – this is the sort of thing that feminists do all the time – posing as bozo’s pretending to be feminists to make the menz look bad!
You know, if they really wanted to make this convincing they could have communicated using Tor or other deep web browsers. Or even better – not communicated it online where ANYONE can see their plan.
Look, if they’re going to be dickwads and run a scam, they could have at least put a bit more effort into it.
Well, I’m convinced. I hope to see you all at FEMCON2015. I’ll be selling Twitter followers from my booth in Hall A.
Ellesar: Femception?
You know, I don’t think any of them were clever enough to realize they have a nice little play on words there, where the con becomes the con from rip off and not from convention.
‘Femcon’ might make a good alert status hierarchy for women’s response against a particular article or troll.
So Femcon 1 might just elicit some mild mockery; Femcon 3 = swearing etc. and Femcon 5 means deploy the full range of Lego bricks?
@Alan
WE NEED TO CO OPT THIS.
We have a Femcon 5 troll, Tilikum, on the forums RIGHT NOW.
We need gifs for this! And a color chart!
Femcon 5 is red for red pill.
http://andthatswhyyouresingle.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/250x180xred_flag_warning.gif.pagespeed.ic.qCN0E8o6fk.png
Here we go:
http://i.imgur.com/n6hj4ip.png
It even has patterns for color blind peeps.
That’s actually backwards. If FEMCON is analogous to DEFCON, FEMCON 1 would be the maximum level of readiness, with hard chairs ready to be deployed at a moment’s notice. FEMCON 5 would be peacetime (a mythical state).
@ Pandapool
Love it!!!!
[Although we may need to dust off Femcon 6 for SHFC judging by the other thread; I think we’re gonna need it 🙂 ]
^-^
On which note, thanks for giving me the Yellow Lego Road idea. Hehe.
You know what’d be fun, guys? Fraud!
And have I mentioned I am a feminist lately.
Oh my god, I’m embarrassed for them.
If you are going to bring in content from Twitter please post it so that it is not in divs that look like it actually twitter?
I block ads on the web, and their related promotional systems. Considering high profile web based programs like Twitter are just 21st century versions of proprietary computer programs, I will not use them either. Sadly much contemporary culture is tied up in these non-interoperable systems (eg Twitter scrapped RSS), and whilst I do not care for the systems or the billions ($) behind then the culture is important.
I also don’t care for being tracked on the web and things like web buttons for services stand to enable tracking. So I block “social” media things (anti-social, due to their closed nature, is more accurate), but in this case your actual content has been picked up as needless cruft. Please make your article not look too commercial, or otherwise like fluff or other “social network” cruft? Just call the divs misogynist or fraud or anything but embed-twitter, or similar.
Have a look at Fanboy’s social list for Adblock (I use AB Edge – it is like ABP but without the adware features) to see what is safe to publish content under.
Cheers
Even if they were actually successful, they would really fail. Imagine how much fun a whole bunch of feminists at a gay bar would be!
I wonder how they can simultaneously think feminists are foolish enough to believe in this obvious scam yet intelligent enough to somehow have been able to overthrow the governments of the entire Western world and rule for the last half century without anyone realizing it.
That’s some serious doublethink right there.
oh my god when will dumbshit channers learn to organise their scams where the whole world can’t read them
@Marci I guess they believe that the Redstockings represent the entirety of feminism today, even though they were largely shunned even in their own time period.
Manosphere types often claim that feminists hate gay men because they believe feminists believe we’re misogynist for not being attracted to women and that our homosexuality is based in misogyny. Basically, they believe that feminists believe that gay men are all MGTOWs in disguise.
Some also believe that we’re “lucky” for not being attracted to women since they believe that being gay makes us immune to false rape accusations and other rare phenomena that they’re terrified out of their wits about. I wonder if they know about a thing called “homophobia” as well as the fact that domestic violence is a serious problem in gay (and generally gay male) relationships, as well as sexual assault and rape and body shaming and all that.
Then again, they tend a lot more toward homophobia, especially if we commit the horrible crime of saying that we’d like better representations of queer people in video games. As well as the idea that gay = feminine = not a Real Man (TM)
@anon
…What.
@anon he embedded Tweets. That’s how they embed – they come with their own divs. Not really reasonable to ask David to come up with his own CSS just for your browsing comfort, is it? (which he likely can’t edit easily anyway, not sure how much access one has to the stylesheets when using non-self-hosted WP). Yeesh.
@anon
Well… that was a new one…
I have no idea what you are talking about.