Hundreds Of Twitter Users Believed To Be 4chan Trolls Posing As Feminists

[Blue_Tires]

Activists Are Outing Hundreds Of Twitter Users Believed To Be 4chan Trolls Posing As Feminists

Over the weekend, the hashtag #EndFathersDay was revealed to have been orchestrated by 4chan users posing as female social justice activists on Twitter.
Over the weekend, the hashtag #EndFathersDay was revealed to have been orchestrated by 4chan users posing as female social justice activists on Twitter.
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As more details emerged, it became more clear that #EndFathersDay was actually part of a larger project called “Operation: Lollipop.”
As more details emerged, it became more clear that #EndFathersDay was actually part of a larger project called "Operation: Lollipop."
buzzfeed.com
Operation: Lollipop is a propaganda campaign run largely by members of the Men’s Rights and Pick-Up Artist communities. The idea is to pose as women of color on Twitter and guide activist hashtags as a way to embarrass the online social justice community.

Twitter: @PhoebeKwon


According to one now-deleted Tumblr, this appears to have been going on since at least 2013.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/ryanhatesthis/your-slip-is-showing-4chan-trolls-operation-lollipop

[arcane1]

1. Seriously, WTF is wrong with people???

[shenmue]

2. Yeah

Assholes gotta be assholes, I guess.

[The Road Runner]

3. There's an online pick up artist community???

There used to be one guy in Toronto who called himself: Dimitri the Lover. He became a minor local celebrity for teaching workshops on how to pick up women and harassing ladies in the downtown core.

Here's a phone message he left for a woman in LA that he was trying to score with:

[arcane1]

4. There is. And a community of people who hate them. That nut who killed people in SB...

was provoked by the pick-up artist community, and jaded over their bullshit.

[Nevernose]

5. That's not accurate

He hated them not for the reasons sane people hate them -- because they're assholes -- but because their pick-up methods didn't work as advertised. He was mad at them, but actually worse than them. Yes, I read all 100+ pages of the Santa Barbara shooter's manifesto.

[arcane1]

6. That's what I meant by "jaded over their bullshit"

They thought the PUA assholes were assholes