News for the gullible
Making it look a little too easy there, Sport. People are bound to get suspicious.
Random person says “I was beaten up” and shares random photo. Is the photo of the person who claims to have been beaten up? I see no reason to think so. I see no reason to believe what random person says, either. I don’t even believe random person is in Coventry! When I get skeptical I don’t mess around.
And then the instant follow-up with “Here’s where to send me money” doesn’t make it more believable. It provides a motive, you see – a motive beyond mere attention-seeking. If people are gullible, why not slap random photos of bruised faces up on Twitter and then give directions on where to send $$$? It’s like taking candy from a baby, but without the drool.
Furthermore, if you read some replies, you find that this jessica has done it before, and not once but several times. Ooh ahh ow I got beaten up send me money.
It’s kind of trans ideology summed up, in a way. “Hello I’m trans I’m special reward me now.”
Well….right wing homophobic violence doesn’t observe fine distinctions. There really are men out there who’d bash the occasional T as well as the L and G. But by now, my first reaction is suspicion.
And where is trans outrage EVER directed against men?
Back in the pre-social media internet, there were constantly stories about folks hoaxing message boards and other communities with tales of cancer diagnoses or imminent evictions or whatever. Well-intentioned folks would hand over money to “internet friends” who they’d never even seen a picture of, let alone met. I never fell for any of that (my inherent cynicism and cheapness protected me!), but it’s made me even more suspicious of people who immediately start holding their hand out.
Of course, modern “influencer” culture is so shameless about hitting followers up for money that I don’t think anyone stops to question any of it
Here’s ‘Jessica’ soliciting donations eighteen months ago.
I have always found it hard to separate the genuine needy frum the lowlife: bludgers, frauds, mountebanks, charlatans, posurs, quacks, lawyers, scammers, etc, etc. And the Internet has given them a whole new dimension in which to operate.
Ah, how I yearn for those good, good old days. Life was so much simpler then. ;-)
Now, admittedly I have prosopagnosia; but the people in the pictures at the link in Night crow’s comment don’t even resemble one another, let alone the one in the OP here.
You’d think that someone making a begging tweet would at least use a photo of the same person as in their avatar, or change the avatar to something else entirely. And then use a photo of the same person in the next begging tweet – and definitely not a photo of someone demonstrating only moderate skills with horror makeup.
Night Crow’s link is dead, along with Ophelia’s original. The GoFundMe link is still up, but only begging to fund transition…