(I swear didn't watch it I just scrubbed through it please don't take me to the gulag)

EDIT: Link, in case you have an hour and forty minutes and hate yourself https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7aWz8q_IM4

  • vcxaasf [none/use name]
    ·
    4 years ago

    Honestly what she is describing sounds like an actual problem. If you think her videos suck or whatever then that's fair, but she's describing people making shit up about her, contacting anyone who employs her to try and get her fired, trying to isolate her and also fire anyone who associates with her. Like this is some psycho cult shit.

    • zeal0telite [he/him,they/them]
      ·
      4 years ago

      The "you're next" comments were genuinely scary.

      They're just waiting for these content creators to slip up once (or perceived to have slipped up) and they go into a feeding frenzy.

      There's no justice here. It's just extremely online people picking a victim and going over everything they've ever said in order to "cancel" them.

      It's like a parasocial relationship where, instead of a friendship, you've somehow envisioned an ongoing rivalry where you're trying to take down a horrid monster who's been getting away with awful shit for years.

    • Poison_Ivy [comrade/them]
      ·
      4 years ago

      The fact that they want to take down Jenny Nicholson who very closely curates what she says and holds her private life very private (Kiwi Farms can't find shit about her that's how thorough she is) for fake tweets was pretty telling of these people's mental state.

      • Bakuphoon [she/her]
        ·
        4 years ago

        I remember a tweet of Jenny's a while back that had a picture of her car for whatever reason. The windows looked super weird and it took me a while to realize that she had put of filter over them AND the reflections on the car because people like the KF assholes would be deranged enough to use those reflections to find that location. I can't even imagine having to be that careful.

        • Poison_Ivy [comrade/them]
          ·
          4 years ago

          She's right to do that, the general vibe of the Kiwi Farms is deeply unsettling and obsessive behaviors by people who are genuinely living examples of a hate-based parasocial relationship.

            • Poison_Ivy [comrade/them]
              ·
              4 years ago

              Honestly, I don't think they deplore it, and they aren't really suckered in.

              The owner of the website very explicitly recruits communities that are exiled or lose platforming. We're talking TERFs, Cosplayer hater communities, 8chan, Fatpeoplehate, etc. Its specifically advertised as a place to laugh at people and for some sociopaths thats desirable because I would say most if not all the people there really really aren't doing too good in life.

              The Contrapoints video "Cringe" honestly did summarize the culture there very well with her "Christorian" segment because the Kiwi Farms before being called the Kiwi Farms were the Cwcki Forums which renamed itself after the forum's scope expanded beyond Christine Chandler .

    • Zephyr [she/her]
      ·
      4 years ago

      I will never understand why I see some left spaces be perfectly okay with this kinda stuff. With how little it take before people try to get you fired from your job it means the only online figures that will remain standing are those who don't require employment to live which is already too many online figures. Its basically a tactic that only works on working class and marginalised people

      • zeal0telite [he/him,they/them]
        ·
        4 years ago

        Because it's a "victory". And leftists are desperately looking for a victory.

        We can use our collective power to... harass someone off of Twitter. That's basically Communism.