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

[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