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.

[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.