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YouTube trolls advertise fake homeless shelter, tricking 'desperate' California residents and harassing a social media personality
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- Authors
- Sam Levin
- Published
- Jul 30 2019
- Word count
- 952 words
the moment that i saw "ice poseidon" in the body here, i immediately went "yeah, that sounds about right." dude's been through the ringer of bullshit to the point where he got his own longform new yorker article about it (and the stresses of being a massive IRL streamer in general) last year, and his community/hatedom is particularly fucking awful.
and to think that just 4 years ago he was closing doors in peoples faces on runescape...
Runescape has a weirdly toxic community to it (think edgy 12 year old racism, but they didn't grow out of it) so it's never been surprising to me that he's been plagued with all this shit. He was a beacon for toxicity, and there are a few other personalities that follow a similar but far milder trend.
Then he peeled off to do irl things and seemingly just opened pandoras box. Now he's gotta preemptively assume he's going to get swatted and let the local police know what's going on. I don't follow that stuff at all, but there was a time were you'd see posts on the frontpage of reddit constantly, nearly weekly he'd get swatted or the police called on him. What a strange career path indeed.