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I don't think this is real. remember the first rule of reddit: "The stories and information posted here are artistic works of fiction and falsehood. Only a foo

I don't think this is real. remember the first rule of reddit: "The stories and information posted here are artistic works of fiction and falsehood. Only a fool would take anything posted here as fact."

jethro_tell 5y ago
That account's post history is pretty consistent. I would highly doubt that's made up but it could be? :shrug:
maxbond 5y ago
It jumped out to me as fake immediately, as well. It's impossible to say for certain, of course, but it rhymes with other Reddit fakery. Specifically in being a one-note account that seems entirely focused on providing testimony to the awfulness of a particular group, that being QAnon. Here's a pretty interesting video essay about online fakery, with a heavy focus on Reddit fakery. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiU7aGZ-o68 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiU7aGZ-o68
- raxxorrax 5y ago
  It is the writing style that makes me tend to not believe him. Sounds like an essay of an inexperienced author more than a recapitulation by a medical professional. Doesn't mean the story itself isn't true, but I would expect the author writing about someone else and not himself.
ugh123 5y ago
Read their comment history. Doubt they'd put that much effort in just to fake posts about being a doctor in the trenches...
- maxbond 5y ago
  You may be interested in digging into some internet cultural history. I don't pretend to know if this person is lying or not, but people making a strange hobby out of lying on the internet is nothing new. I can't imagine doing that, I'm guessing you can't either, but there's some other perspectives out there that find this appealing. I don't pretend to understand, but it's just how it is. Some examples from the top of my head: A woman named MsScribe spent years fabricating harassment against herself so that she could gain influence in her community and join the moderation team of a fan fiction website. She would create sock puppets to attack herself, so that the community would rally around her, over and over again. A reddit user spent years creating "fake fake stories". They made obviously fake stories, which they put a lot of effort into, such as writing poetry and drawing comics. They would post these stories to places like r/thathappened, as if someone had genuinely tried to pass these off as real stories. Their goal seemed to be to present the communities these fictional authors belonged to as ridiculous, they were building straw men. I don't remember the name of this user, but this is presented in the video I linked in a sibling comment. (Both of these people eventually admitted to this behavior when confronted.)
halfmatthalfcat 5y ago
Isn't that the 4chan motto?
- jareklupinski 5y ago
  you know the rules :)
- TeeMassive 5y ago
  No, that's Ebaum's world's :)
lemmsjid 5y ago
One doesn’t need to look far to find similar circumstances in the public record. While the Reddit post could be an elaborate creative writing exercise, there’s many recent news articles about upswings of violence against healthcare workers where circumstances similar to the Reddit post (patient visitation restrictions) were implicated in both verbal and physical violence. Below are examples. https://www.businessinsider.com/covid-19-patients-family-member-threatened-nurse-over-ivermectin-2021-9 https://www.businessinsider.com/covid-19-patients-family-mem... https://www.sfreporter.com/news/2021/11/23/christus-st-vincent-reports-uptick-in-violence-at-hospital/ https://www.sfreporter.com/news/2021/11/23/christus-st-vince... https://www.wkyc.com/amp/article/news/health/violence-against-health-care-workers/95-21a46603-ab9c-401f-b22b-7715932a3f87 https://www.wkyc.com/amp/article/news/health/violence-agains... https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/hospitals-refused-prescribe-ivermectin-threats-lockdowns-followed-rcna7330 https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/hospitals-refused... And here’s a doctor describing the conflict, frustration and regret of unvaccinated late term patients: https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2021-08-12/doctor-anger-vaccinations-covid-surge?_amp=true https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2021-08-12/doctor-ange...

jethro_tell 5y ago

That account's post history is pretty consistent. I would highly doubt that's made up but it could be? :shrug:

maxbond 5y ago

It jumped out to me as fake immediately, as well. It's impossible to say for certain, of course, but it rhymes with other Reddit fakery. Specifically in being a one-note account that seems entirely focused on providing testimony to the awfulness of a particular group, that being QAnon. Here's a pretty interesting video essay about online fakery, with a heavy focus on Reddit fakery. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiU7aGZ-o68 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiU7aGZ-o68

raxxorrax 5y ago
It is the writing style that makes me tend to not believe him. Sounds like an essay of an inexperienced author more than a recapitulation by a medical professional. Doesn't mean the story itself isn't true, but I would expect the author writing about someone else and not himself.

ugh123 5y ago

Read their comment history. Doubt they'd put that much effort in just to fake posts about being a doctor in the trenches...

maxbond 5y ago
You may be interested in digging into some internet cultural history. I don't pretend to know if this person is lying or not, but people making a strange hobby out of lying on the internet is nothing new. I can't imagine doing that, I'm guessing you can't either, but there's some other perspectives out there that find this appealing. I don't pretend to understand, but it's just how it is. Some examples from the top of my head: A woman named MsScribe spent years fabricating harassment against herself so that she could gain influence in her community and join the moderation team of a fan fiction website. She would create sock puppets to attack herself, so that the community would rally around her, over and over again. A reddit user spent years creating "fake fake stories". They made obviously fake stories, which they put a lot of effort into, such as writing poetry and drawing comics. They would post these stories to places like r/thathappened, as if someone had genuinely tried to pass these off as real stories. Their goal seemed to be to present the communities these fictional authors belonged to as ridiculous, they were building straw men. I don't remember the name of this user, but this is presented in the video I linked in a sibling comment. (Both of these people eventually admitted to this behavior when confronted.)

halfmatthalfcat 5y ago

Isn't that the 4chan motto?

jareklupinski 5y ago
you know the rules :)
TeeMassive 5y ago
No, that's Ebaum's world's :)

lemmsjid 5y ago

One doesn’t need to look far to find similar circumstances in the public record. While the Reddit post could be an elaborate creative writing exercise, there’s many recent news articles about upswings of violence against healthcare workers where circumstances similar to the Reddit post (patient visitation restrictions) were implicated in both verbal and physical violence. Below are examples. https://www.businessinsider.com/covid-19-patients-family-member-threatened-nurse-over-ivermectin-2021-9 https://www.businessinsider.com/covid-19-patients-family-mem... https://www.sfreporter.com/news/2021/11/23/christus-st-vincent-reports-uptick-in-violence-at-hospital/ https://www.sfreporter.com/news/2021/11/23/christus-st-vince... https://www.wkyc.com/amp/article/news/health/violence-against-health-care-workers/95-21a46603-ab9c-401f-b22b-7715932a3f87 https://www.wkyc.com/amp/article/news/health/violence-agains... https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/hospitals-refused-prescribe-ivermectin-threats-lockdowns-followed-rcna7330 https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/hospitals-refused... And here’s a doctor describing the conflict, frustration and regret of unvaccinated late term patients: https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2021-08-12/doctor-anger-vaccinations-covid-surge?_amp=true https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2021-08-12/doctor-ange...