Fraudulent otherkin confessed, publicized

[frameacloud]

Trigger warnings: Bad publicity, derision, hoax, harassment, heterosexism, racism, social drama.

On Thursday, The New York Observer ran an opinion article about how on Wednesday, a blogger on Tumblr.com revealed themself as actually a sock puppet (hoax) account. A trio had run the blog. They had pretended to be a person who had several  unusual identifications, including being otherkin.


Source:

Nitasha Tiku, "Teens Admit to Trolling Tumblr: JK, There’s No Such Thing as Transethnic Autistic Pangender Asexual Demiromantic Otherkin." 2012-07-05. The New York Observer. http://iw.newsbank.com/iw-search/we/InfoWeb?p_action=doc&p_theme=aggdocs&p_topdoc=1&p_docnum=1&p_sort=YMD_date:D&p_product=AWNB&p_docid=13FD8BAA2B214A50&p_text_direct-0=document_id=%28%2013FD8BAA2B214A50%20%29&p_multi=NYOB&s_lang=en-US&s_email=alert&p_nbid=L53A54LMMTM0MTYxNzg5OC44NDgyMjoxOjc6bmNkODIzNg&p_text_base-0=%22otherkin%22&p_text_base-1=&p_bool_base-1=and&p_field_base-2=YMD_date&p_bool_base-2=and&p_params_base-2=date:B,E 

Comments

[ashgaelsonaria.livejournal.com]

Some people are troglodytes.
It really irratates me how suposidly rational people claim that because something that does not fit their paradigm can be faked it can not be real or claim that by explaining a phenomenon they have somehow disproved it - like in the case of kerlien photography.
So much bogus.

[jarandhel.livejournal.com]

Great, so there are now news articles connecting otherkin with pedophilia. Thanks tumblr-kin.

[myotishia.livejournal.com]

I'd like to point out that 90% of us did in no way defend pedophilia. Those that did have not been seen recently so I'm unsure whether they were trolls too.

[jarandhel.livejournal.com]

Quite a few defended him who are prominent members of the tumblr kin community, not trolls:

http://felkes.tumblr.com/post/24998165665/friendzoning-ninja-a-quick-reminder-to-the-otherkin
http://chasingcaribou.tumblr.com/post/25991472771/recently-a-member-of-the-tumblr-community-received
http://swanblood.tumblr.com/post/25991600761/recently-a-member-of-the-tumblr-community-received
http://bigbearpaws.tumblr.com/post/24998925025/whats-this-thing-going-on-about-a-pedophile-in (see also morbidosity's reply)

And that's just the ones that actually made posts defending him, not all the ones who liked said posts...

[myotishia.livejournal.com]

Well, I cannot speak for them but most of the tumbler kin I speak to were completely disgusted and horrified that anyone could come to the defence of this ... thing

[firehauke.livejournal.com]

The link to this is requiring a log in to even get to the website. However, that this is going on is disturbing.

[vickydragon.livejournal.com]

Here's an alternate link for the article: http://betabeat.com/2012/07/prince-koyangi-tumblr-troll-otherkin-transethnic-eric-draven-07052012/

[frameacloud]

Thank you for finding a site that hosts that news article publicly.

[frameacloud]

Whoops, sorry about the link. I'll have to remember that the permalinks offered on NewsBank aren't public after all. I tested it to see if the link still opened when I wasn't logged in, but I guess I didn't do it right.