the term for it is "information laundering"
in this case the process is:
- find information/commentary on kiwifarms
- "kiwifarms is evil and full of losers I would never go there!"
- repurpose found information on own platform for monetary/social gain + anonymous nature of kf works in their favour
- source of information now looks "clean" as they become the new source + users here already established as untrustworthy/evil
so then what happens if people want credit? in my case i was very stupid/gay/dramatic because i lashed out at one particular asshole who wouldnt let shit die on reddit so i was like ok if im a horrible evil doxxing nazi, here's your fucking name and where you work, now you can sweat about this situation for once (which i then edited out of the post in less than 10min but MBP miraculously had a screencap within minutes. but "he doesn't go here") also want to stress that i copied/pasted that shit from his twitter but oh well i did what i did and it was dumb.
anyways i just want to stress that regarding the cycle thing it wasnt the image itself per se. it was that i contributed those 4 distinct cycles to the ALR lexicon and other people were making money off it. MBP + redditors then spun it that i had just copied everyone else's commentary... which is maybe what THEY are used to doing but not me.
so at the time i was going to make a video defending myself (lmao so glad i didnt) and explaining what the exact issue was with the cycle and i was telling people to please find something that predates the cycle to prove i just copied other people. and
i already KNEW that didnt exist because i had looked it up before i said shit to make sure i hadnt (intentionally or otherwise) done exactly that. i don't doubt for a second that i wasnt the first person to point out that ALR's behaviour was cyclical. but the 4 distinct cycles were me. i know no one here has disputed it but since lurkers gonna lurk maybe they can, for once "do research" as they are so fond of saying - especially when its spoon-fed to them. anyways here's some caps of posts i made that show the lead-up to creating it.
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cycle was created/uploaded jan 2019 and look at the verbage of those posts. i didnt copy shit i referenced myself only - those posts arent me referencing a cycle that everyone else had created. i distinctly remember thinking it would be funny to put those stupid ideas into a shitty office powerpoint infographic. once school died down i did exactly that.
so basically the whole lot of them and anyone dumb enough to take shit they say at face value can fuck off lol