r/me_irl 🦑🦑🦑 Apr 26 '16

me🍯irl

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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/AppleSpicer 🦑🦑🦑 Apr 26 '16

She's also a public figure who's really transphobic. She doxxes people telling everyone their former names and gender assigned at birth and doesn't see any irony in finding this meme rude.

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u/[deleted] Apr 27 '16 edited Apr 30 '17

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u/AppleSpicer 🦑🦑🦑 Apr 27 '16

She's also a fake goth 👎