r/me_irl 🦑🦑🦑 Apr 26 '16

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u/vacuumsaregreat evil SJW stealing your freedom Apr 26 '16 edited Apr 26 '16

I don't get it

edit: SHUT

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u/andreaplanbee hates posting Apr 26 '16

ok a real explanation:

Fake goth scandal

In 2016, she has repeatedly had people's accounts on Facebook banned for calling her a "fake goth".[18][19] Several hundred people have been banned from Facebook for posting the phrase 'Cathy Brennan is a fake goth' or variations thereof; in a perfect demonstration of the Streisand effect; this has resulted in the phrase 'Cathy Brennan is a fake goth' becoming a growing Internet meme that was shared publicly on Facebook approximately 45,000 times in the three days since the original incident.

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u/[deleted] Apr 26 '16

How can she get people's facebooks banned?

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u/ogdredweary Apr 27 '16

she reports posts and they get taken down because they use her full name (and because fb knows she'd try to sue them if they didn't; she loves to sue people). if you have a couple posts taken down in a small amount of time you get post-banned (and if you have an unusual name or seem trans she'll probably report your name as fake too)

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u/mypersonnalreader cathy brennan is a fake goth Apr 27 '16

Mass reporting would be my guess