So I have been lurking intermittently for a while now, without making an account. Ever since this thread was created, I had something to contribute, but I was hesitant to do so. This is because it would require me creating an account, which could be a liability if discovered in the future. More importantly, I do not have an independently-verifiable way of proving that my information was legitimate / not faked, since marcan had privated his twitter by this point. Also, I was hesitant to share for opsec reasons and due to the risk of messing with an internet tough guy.
However, there has been a lull in marcan content here as of late. Also, nitter is allegedly dying (see
https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/1175), and I assume that once it stops working completely, it will also be impossible for archive.ph to be an independent source to verify authenticity of information for anything twitter-related. Given that we might need to rely on a lower standard of proof and trust that anything directly archived to the website is not photoshopped, I figure that my information might be worth posting.
Basically, before / in the early days of Elon owning Twitter, I was irregularly using an application called TumblThree (see
https://github.com/TumblThreeApp/TumblThree). Originally made to archive tumblr, it also was a way to archive tweets on one's home computer as well (although it did this with .json files and other files, which I never figured out how to use to reconstruct the actual timeline). I used this program to backup a few accounts which I considered possibly worthy of backup. Due to the near/byuu thing, marcan's twitter was one of those accounts, although I regret to say that I did not run backups often at all. But this does mean that I have some further documentation of marcan that might be useful for this thread.
This backup consists of a bunch of json files that I never read, a bunch of image files that he posted, a bunch of weird video, and one text file named texts.txt. The text file consists of plain text of his tweets, without the images and json and stuff.
One thing that shocked me (when I first saw it on twitter) but probably did not shock any of you is what is documented on lines 34161-34162 of the texts file. He refers to people with multiple personality disorder / dissociative identity disorder as "plural" people. He claims to have a bunch of "plural" friends.
To me, this looks like the next step of the culture war, after the left manages to normalize transgender people. Fifteen years ago, this transgender stuff would have been almost unthinkable. Today, it is unthinkable to acknowledge multiple personalities as legitimate identities, rather than mental delusions. But fifteen years from now, you may be forced, upon threat of being canceled or called a bigot, to pretend that your coworker is multiple people inhabiting one body. It is a scary thought, but marcan seems to have no problem with playing pretend with them.
This also raises another issue. In line 34162, marcan claims to not be plural. But if he is secretly suffering from multiple personality disorder, this might explain some things. For example, when he claims that he is not Asahi Lina, he might feel like he is speaking the truth. In his mind, Asahi Lina could actually be a different person than him. That might be why he is so insistent that Asahi Lina is not him, despite Asahi Lina obviously being him. Does marcan have dissociative identity disorder, or is he just lying?
Anyways, at the very least, the text document might help with adding more data points to the stylometry analysis on the google doc. And the images and videos might interest some people. So I am attaching a zip file containing the contents of my backup. It is 1 GB in size, so if you do not see it, it probably exceeds whatever size limit the forum has. Maybe someone more tech-savvy than me can figure out something useful to do with these json files.
edit- okay, so the zip file is too big. I am just posting the texts.txt file for now. I will try to contact null and figure out a way to upload it. Does null use OnionShare? I am familiar with OnionShare and can use it to share it with him. I do not have enough email space to send a 1 GB file. I am not willing to share a file like this without the protection of the tor network.