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http://www.cnbc.com/2015/08/24/caitlyn-jenner-halloween-costume-sparks-social-media-outrage-.html

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ne...een-costume-labeled-817515?utm_source=twitter

It's nowhere near October, but one ensemble is already on track to be named the most controversial Halloween costume of 2015.

Social media users were out in full force on Monday criticizing several Halloween retailers for offering a Caitlyn Jenner costume reminiscent of the former-athlete's Vanity Fair cover earlier this year.

While Jenner's supporters condemned the costume as "transphobic" and "disgusting" on Twitter, Spirit Halloween, a retailer that carries the costume, defended the getup.

"At Spirit Halloween, we create a wide range of costumes that are often based upon celebrities, public figures, heroes and superheroes," said Lisa Barr, senior director of marking at Spirit Halloween. "We feel that Caitlyn Jenner is all of the above and that she should be celebrated. The Caitlyn Jenner costume reflects just that."

 

[AnOminous]

"Why did you make me do this I just wanted to play video games" wasn't meant to be a lifestyle guide.

All I wanted was a Pepsi!

 

[XYZpdq]

All I wanted was a Pepsi!

Bah buhnbahbundunduhn

 

[Fuck Y'all]

Polish Variety Show Contestant Impersonates Drake In Blackface

Delivering both an awful performance and an offensive appearance, Polish musician Bogumil "Boogie" Romanowski used blackface to portray Drake with a cover of "Hotline Bling" on popular variety program Twoja Twarz Brzmi Znajomo. The premise behind the show sees Polish celebrities impersonating global stars for a 10,000 złoty cash prize (roughly $2650) that'll be given to a charity of their choice.

Despite the fact his performance was both flat and offensive, Bogumil still managed to walk away with the prize. The show's Instagram account, which has over 40k followers, even shared a picture of him in blackface, with apparently no one working for the show telling anyone involved that it was a very bad idea.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BpvGsKPjbXj/?utm_source=ig_embed

Of course, Drake and blackface can't be mentioned in the same sentence without bringing up Pusha-T's now-legendary diss track "The Story of Adidon." The cover art for the song featured a picture of Drake in blackface, which Drizzy subsequently apologized for.

Bogumil, however, has yet to apologize or even acknowledge the offensiveness of his blackface on the show, although judging from the cultural differences between the United States and Poland, it's unlikely he'll be all that fazed.

 

[AnOminous]

Polish Variety Show Contestant Impersonates Drake In Blackface

Why the fuck would polacks give a shit about something that's only offensive to Americans because of specific American history?

 

[Megaroad]

I guess an imigrant almost killed Tera not so Strong over politics or whatever bs shes spewing. Expect articles and the drivers head on a stick soon.

Keep in mind, this bitch wanted more money for voice acting so she can continue living her hollywood lifestyle with indentured servants whom she picks up awful accents from.

 

[Mrs Paul]

Officials: Man Threatens to Get Gun, Shoot Up Polling Place

Holy shit, that mug shot.

 

[PS1gamenwatch]

https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/sout...rs-after-philippines-deadliest-typhoon-haiyan
https://www.philstar.com/headlines/...ines-strongest-typhoon-scores-still-harms-way

Five years after Philippines’ deadliest typhoon, Haiyan, scores still in harm’s way

5 Dec 2015
Diofel Llamado fled for his life when Super Typhoon Haiyan devastated the Philippines in 2013, yet today he is back living in the same coastal area – even if it puts him in the crosshairs of a future killer storm.

On the fifth anniversary of the Philippines’ deadliest typhoon on record, his return is emblematic of the struggle in developing nations to move people out of homes in the most disaster-prone zones.

It is an especially urgent danger as monster storms strike ever more frequently, packing destructive rainfall that experts say is supercharged by climate change.

“You cannot think that you are safe,” Llamado, 55, said.

“Even when you are sleeping, you have to think like a soldier: one foot is in the graveyard.”


Haiyan struck in the predawn darkness of November 8, 2013 as the then strongest typhoon to ever hit land, leaving more than 7,360 people dead or missing across the central Philippines.

Typhoon Haiyan: a journalist’s struggle to convey the grim reality[/paste:font]
Yet he has returned to live in the same area where his family lived before Haiyan.

Llamado says his small business making savoury pastries would not survive a move, adding that the government-proposed housing in a safer area doesn’t even have running water and electricity.

“If someone will offer us a means of livelihood, we can live there. But until that happens, how will we survive?” he asked. “No one is going to give you food.”

LESSONS NOT LEARNED

His decision echoes the calculus poor people make in other calamity-prone nations in Asia and Africa, said Moustafa Osman, a Britain-based disaster management expert.

“Everywhere the single most difficult thing to do is to move people from their own village or territory and put them in a strange place,” he said. “Unless you have a proper plan and a better alternative they won’t go.”

Substandard housing, difficulties in earning a livelihood, no transport and even conflict with the existing residents of a resettlement area are habitual barriers.

India has faced criticism for building thousands of apartments in a regularly flooded part of Chennai city to house people displaced by calamities.

China, one of the world’s most disaster-susceptible nations, has been criticised for forcibly moving survivors of its frequent landslides.

In the Philippines, roughly 15,000 of the poorest families were ordered to relocate from the worst-hit city of Tacloban, yet many have not moved and those who have are struggling.

Maria Rosario Felizco, Oxfam country director for the Philippines, said the need to locate communities in areas less vulnerable to disasters had not been fully met.

“That’s the lesson we must learn. We must not wait for … a disaster before we think of that,” she said.

The peril that looms over communities in the Philippines and elsewhere is only expected to grow because of the influence of global warming on extreme weather.

Oxford University climate expert Friederike Otto said there was a clear connection between climate change and heavier, devastating rainfall.

The storms packing these intense rains are expected to get more harmful as the impact of climate change manifests itself, and because so many vulnerable communities live in threatened areas.

“How destructive a storm is crucially depends on who and what is in harm’s way”, Otto said.

 

[Positron]

From Nature.com

Why the Bank of England should put a female scientist on its next £50 note
Featuring a woman in science on the highest denomination banknote would celebrate her achievements and offer an inspiring role model.

What does Marie Curie have in common with the bacteriologist Hideyo Noguchi and the theoretical astrophysicist Victor Ambartsumian? They are among the scientists who have featured on banknotes around the world (respectively, the old 20,000 Polish zloty, the ¥1,000 in Japan and the 100 Armenian dram). Now, the British public has the chance to choose who should join them. Last week, the Bank of England announced that it is looking for an inspirational scientist to appear on the next £50 note. It has invited suggestions and will pass them to a dedicated committee, which will make the final decision and announce it next year.

Scientists and engineers have featured heavily on UK banknotes since the bank started to print historical figures on their reverse sides in 1970. Generations of Britons have been paid with notes depicting Isaac Newton, George Stephenson, Michael Faraday and Florence Nightingale. The designs have not always pleased everyone. The £10 note released in 2000 featured Charles Darwin and his trip on HMS Beagle, but also threw in some hummingbirds — which many biologists felt were irrelevant.

Whoever is chosen (the only binding criteria are that they must be British and dead) will replace the steam-engine pioneers Matthew Boulton and James Watt on the £50 note, the highest denomination in circulation. It has yet to feature a woman, and this has led to suggestions that the Bank of England should choose a female scientist. Natureagrees. It’s true that this would rule out deserving figures such as Alan Turing and Stephen Hawking (who died this year and who bank officials have said would be allowed, even though the bank usually expects banknote candidates to have been dead for at least 20 years). But here is an opportunity to celebrate the hugely important achievements of a woman in science, and to offer an important and inspiring role model at the same time.

A straw poll of some Nature staff highlighted some clear possibilities, none of whom will come as a particular surprise to readers. Mary Anning (1799–1847) was a prolific fossil hunter who changed the way we think about the history of life. Ada Lovelace (1815–1852) is credited with producing the first account of a prototype computer and its possible applications. Rosalind Franklin (1920–1958 was an X-ray crystallographer who played a key part in work to establish the structure of DNA. And Dorothy Hodgkin (1910–1994) remains the only British woman to win a science Nobel prize, for her research to unravel the structures of proteins including insulin.

We intend to determine and submit our choice before the 14 December deadline. We welcome the recommendations of readers everywhere as to who they would choose:

• Ada Lovelace
• Rosalind Franklin
• Dorothy Hodgkin
• Others, please specify

I voted James Clerk Maxwell.

 

[AnOminous]

rule out deserving figures such as Alan Turing

Fucking cishet homophobic bigots. Burn all money!

 

[CWCissey]

why are they even removing watt in the first place? the guys contributions were so groundbreaking that his name is still used as the SI unit for power in science and engineering around the entire world.

They do it every now and then in an attempt to prevent forgery as well as to implement new technologies and techniques in currency generation. JMW Turner will replace Adam Smith in 2020, Jane Austen replaced Charles Darwin last year and Winston Churchill replaced Elizabeth Fry the year before that.

The £20 and £50 notes are also not made of the new polymer yet, so it does need an update.

As for who should be on it, I've genuinely always been a fan of Rosalind Franklin making an appearance.

 

[millais]

Jim "Fake News" Acosta is banned from the White House press conferences after laying hands on a female White House aide in an attempt to hog the microphone for unallotted questions.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-46133268

 

[Yandere Science]

Ocasio-Cortez Says She Doesn’t Have Congresswoman’s Salary Yet. She Asks: ‘How Do I Get An Apartment?’

Democratic socialist and Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York announced Thursday that issues like finding an apartment in Washington, D.C., before receiving her congressional salary are “very real.”

“I have three months without a salary before I’m a member of Congress, so how do I get an apartment?” Ocasio-Cortez said to The New York Times. “Those little things are very real.”

However, she noted that she and her partner have been saving money since before leaving her job as a bartender in New York. (RELATED: Ocasio-Cortez On Paying For Expensive ‘Medicare For All’ Plan: ‘You Just Pay For It’)

“We’re kind of just dealing with the logistics of it day by day,” said Ocasio-Cortez. “I’ve really been just kind of squirreling away and then hoping that gets me to January.”

While Ocasio-Cortez told TheNYT that she “can’t really take a salary,” filings by the Federal Election Commission (FEC) show that she has at least taken one “payroll” check during her time as a candidate.

Following publication of her interview with TheNYT, the Democratic socialist tweeted about the issue.

“There are many little ways in which our electoral system isn’t even designed (nor prepared) for working-class people to lead,” Ocasio-Cortez tweeted. “This is one of them (don’t worry btw – we’re working it out!).”

Lord, but this woman is stupid.

 

[millais]

Ocasio-Cortez Says She Doesn’t Have Congresswoman’s Salary Yet. She Asks: ‘How Do I Get An Apartment?’


Lord, but this woman is stupid.

she can just crowdfund it since she is the darling of the progressive left.

 

[Marvin]

Ocasio-Cortez Says She Doesn’t Have Congresswoman’s Salary Yet. She Asks: ‘How Do I Get An Apartment?’


Lord, but this woman is stupid.

Living down there is retardedly expensive.

OR

She can live in PG county, like Hyattsville or some shit, and enjoy the MS 13. Whichever.

 

[Super-Chevy454]

Meanwhile in Australia.

ISIS Takes Credit For Melbourne Knife Attack That Left 1 Dead, 2 Wounded

One witness told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation radio that, as the police officers engaged the attacker, "bystanders were yelling out 'just shoot him, just shoot him'."

Authorities believe the attacker, 31, moved to Australia from Somalia in 1990s, and that his family members have been suspected of being involved in terror-related activities.

Inside the burning car, investigators found gas cannisters, which suggested that the man had deliberately set the fire.

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison condemned the attack in a message posted to twitter.

Time for Aussies to follow Italy's example.

 

[AnOminous]

Living down there is retardedly expensive.

OR

She can live in PG county, like Hyattsville or some shit, and enjoy the MS 13. Whichever.

Or just sleep in her offices like many do. Congressmen are a degenerate lot.

 

[XE 600]

Fake band tours UK

At first I thought this was an onion article but nope, it's legit. A man decided to make up a band (and has apparently been going at it for over 2 years) and tour Europe. He's done a few shows in the UK already where no one turned up as all his "fans" were just bots paid for by him.

Article:

Spoiler

Talking up your own band a little bit to make it appear that you’re more popular than you are is a rite of passage for young acts. We’ve heard of plenty of bands that’ve exaggerated sales or live show numbers to land a gig or two, or talked themselves up to national media for some press attention. It comes with the territory, and it’s usually harmless.

But the Los Angeles band Threatin have taken that idea to a level previously thought unimaginable: the band was able to book an entire tour of Europe despite having no fanbase whatsoever, and it’s all in the process of crashing down around them.

¶ To do it, the band’s frontman and leader, Jered Threatin, posed as a nonexistent booking agent / promoter to land the gigs, used faked live footage of allegedly packed shows in L.A., bought Facebook likes, event RSVPs and YouTube views and lied about ticket sales numbers to swindle venue owners and talent buyers into taking on the shows.


Posts started making the rounds on social media when the tour kicked off on November 1st in London. A post by the venue The Underworld, which hosted the show, alleged that the band’s agent claimed the band had sold 291 tickets in advance but only three people turned up.

Things didn’t get any better from there. The Exchange in Bristol realized they’d had a similar hoax pulled on them a few days later, with the “promoter” saying 180 tickets had been sold in advance only to have no one show up but a few people from the opening band’s guest list. The venue did a little digging and discovered that Threatin’s online numbers had been faked, with all 100 of the people marked as “attending” the Facebook event page living in Brazil, according to their profiles, and a number of phony comments on YouTube.

A bit more about those YouTube videos, because this is where shit starts to get REALLY weird. Threatin’s YouTube channel has a number of videos on it and they’re all bizarre in a number of different ways. To start, there are a couple of live clips designed to give the impression that the band has a room packed full of fans, but all of them either show only the band on stage or only the crowd — never both in the same video. What’s more, although there’s no way to prove this, one gets the sense from the audio on these videos that they’ve been overdubbed with the sounds of screaming fans (the performance videos) or music by Threatin (the crowd videos). Here are a couple of those videos, one of which appears on a different YouTube channel with a laughable description that attempts to explain away why the band isn’t even pictured (“Live video of Threatin. Got this video last june. i could only get a few seconds here and there the crowd was pretty wild. i kept almost dropping my phone..great show though.”).

Weird, right? But the deception continues. Jered Threatin, the band’s frontman and, it seems, only member, filmed some fake interviews with himself in which he is seen talking to a non-existent person off camera (or perhaps just a buddy) cut in with vanity footage of himself headbanging while playing all the different instruments.

This seems like a good time to point out that while YouTube shenanigans such as interviewing yourself or posting dubious live footage are ridiculous, they aren’t inherently harmful. It’s when they’re packaged with lies about ticket sales and leveraged in a way that swindles venues out of money and hoodwinks opening bands into driving long distances that it becomes a problem.

Which bring us back to the tour.

MetalSucks caught up with Adam Gostick, whose band The Unresolved had been tapped to open for Threatin at The Asylum in Birmingham last night, November 8th. Gostick gave us a first-hand account of last night’s show and explained the lead-up to how it came together:

“So my band The Unresolved played last night at Asylum 2 in Birmingham. The day before (7th Nov) we got a message from Ghost Of Machines explaining there was nobody at their Bristol show with Threatin. They thought he’d been ripped of by band booking. We spoke with Asylum who told us they’s been told it was sell out but they checked ticket sales and were at zero. Asylum made it free entry.

“We got the gig from an email titled ‘Show Offer’ from somebody called Casey from StageRight Bookings. He offered the show and bigged up Threatin massively. I just thought they were flexing from overseas and thought nothing of it.

“From what we can tell Threatin is the guy not the band. His name is Jered Threatin and he says he’s a solo artist with a hired band. They were sound checking when we got there. Throughout the whole night Threatin didn’t approach anybody or talk to anyone but his own people. I heard him speak twice. Once when Robannas Studios showed up because Threatin hadn’t payed backline hire. And once again was a quiet ‘thanks’ cos I held a door open for him. Overall everyone involved with him are very rude and ignorant.

“There were 13 people in the room when we played. The sound engineer, bartender, 10 people we brought and 1 who actually got a ticket.”

The Asylum’s staff is none too pleased with the situation, publicly putting Threatin on blast.

And that brings us up to the present day. Threatin’s next scheduled show is November 11th in Belfast, followed by dates in France, Italy and Germany, but it’s hard to imagine the venues in those places won’t cancel the shows once they get wind of the conniving, shameful scheme being perpetrated by Jered Threatin (if that is even his real name). His personal Facebook page has been deleted in recent days, indicating he’s ducking for cover while this shitstorm unfolds around him. The band Facebook page is still active with the most recent update being a quick video shot outside the venue in Manchester on November 7th.

It’s beyond remarkable that Threatin was able to fool so many venues into working with him. It seems as if StageRight Bookings is a fake entity — a quick Google search turns up only pages that concern Threatin’s European tour — yet venues promoters/bookers took him on his word, and to book a band they’d never heard of, no less, with 43 monthly listeners on Spotify! His boasts of advance ticket sales counts could’ve easily been measured against actual box office receipts, yet no venues bothered to check (perhaps wooed by the impressive number of fake RSVPs to the Facebook event pages).

What’s most baffling of all is that Threatin thought he could get away with this. What did he think would happen when 291 nonexistent people didn’t show up to the Underworld in Camden? Was he banking on the opening bands to bring in a crowd that would cover up his exaggerations? Did he not give a shit about any of that, simply content to live out his dream of “touring” Europe? How many thousands (tens of thousands!) of dollars has he lost on this venture?

Threatin's Youtube Channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoAm6zb9ruDaD7Ba7FZQI6g

The fake video of Threatin live from 2016:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrd4IYnt-ok

 

[CWCissey]

Fake band tours UK

At first I thought this was an onion article but nope, it's legit. A man decided to make up a band (and has apparently been going at it for over 2 years) and tour Europe. He's done a few shows in the UK already where no one turned up as all his "fans" were just bots paid for by him.

Article:

Spoiler

Talking up your own band a little bit to make it appear that you’re more popular than you are is a rite of passage for young acts. We’ve heard of plenty of bands that’ve exaggerated sales or live show numbers to land a gig or two, or talked themselves up to national media for some press attention. It comes with the territory, and it’s usually harmless.

But the Los Angeles band Threatin have taken that idea to a level previously thought unimaginable: the band was able to book an entire tour of Europe despite having no fanbase whatsoever, and it’s all in the process of crashing down around them.

¶ To do it, the band’s frontman and leader, Jered Threatin, posed as a nonexistent booking agent / promoter to land the gigs, used faked live footage of allegedly packed shows in L.A., bought Facebook likes, event RSVPs and YouTube views and lied about ticket sales numbers to swindle venue owners and talent buyers into taking on the shows.


Posts started making the rounds on social media when the tour kicked off on November 1st in London. A post by the venue The Underworld, which hosted the show, alleged that the band’s agent claimed the band had sold 291 tickets in advance but only three people turned up.

Things didn’t get any better from there. The Exchange in Bristol realized they’d had a similar hoax pulled on them a few days later, with the “promoter” saying 180 tickets had been sold in advance only to have no one show up but a few people from the opening band’s guest list. The venue did a little digging and discovered that Threatin’s online numbers had been faked, with all 100 of the people marked as “attending” the Facebook event page living in Brazil, according to their profiles, and a number of phony comments on YouTube.

A bit more about those YouTube videos, because this is where shit starts to get REALLY weird. Threatin’s YouTube channel has a number of videos on it and they’re all bizarre in a number of different ways. To start, there are a couple of live clips designed to give the impression that the band has a room packed full of fans, but all of them either show only the band on stage or only the crowd — never both in the same video. What’s more, although there’s no way to prove this, one gets the sense from the audio on these videos that they’ve been overdubbed with the sounds of screaming fans (the performance videos) or music by Threatin (the crowd videos). Here are a couple of those videos, one of which appears on a different YouTube channel with a laughable description that attempts to explain away why the band isn’t even pictured (“Live video of Threatin. Got this video last june. i could only get a few seconds here and there the crowd was pretty wild. i kept almost dropping my phone..great show though.”).

Weird, right? But the deception continues. Jered Threatin, the band’s frontman and, it seems, only member, filmed some fake interviews with himself in which he is seen talking to a non-existent person off camera (or perhaps just a buddy) cut in with vanity footage of himself headbanging while playing all the different instruments.

This seems like a good time to point out that while YouTube shenanigans such as interviewing yourself or posting dubious live footage are ridiculous, they aren’t inherently harmful. It’s when they’re packaged with lies about ticket sales and leveraged in a way that swindles venues out of money and hoodwinks opening bands into driving long distances that it becomes a problem.

Which bring us back to the tour.

MetalSucks caught up with Adam Gostick, whose band The Unresolved had been tapped to open for Threatin at The Asylum in Birmingham last night, November 8th. Gostick gave us a first-hand account of last night’s show and explained the lead-up to how it came together:

“So my band The Unresolved played last night at Asylum 2 in Birmingham. The day before (7th Nov) we got a message from Ghost Of Machines explaining there was nobody at their Bristol show with Threatin. They thought he’d been ripped of by band booking. We spoke with Asylum who told us they’s been told it was sell out but they checked ticket sales and were at zero. Asylum made it free entry.

“We got the gig from an email titled ‘Show Offer’ from somebody called Casey from StageRight Bookings. He offered the show and bigged up Threatin massively. I just thought they were flexing from overseas and thought nothing of it.

“From what we can tell Threatin is the guy not the band. His name is Jered Threatin and he says he’s a solo artist with a hired band. They were sound checking when we got there. Throughout the whole night Threatin didn’t approach anybody or talk to anyone but his own people. I heard him speak twice. Once when Robannas Studios showed up because Threatin hadn’t payed backline hire. And once again was a quiet ‘thanks’ cos I held a door open for him. Overall everyone involved with him are very rude and ignorant.

“There were 13 people in the room when we played. The sound engineer, bartender, 10 people we brought and 1 who actually got a ticket.”

The Asylum’s staff is none too pleased with the situation, publicly putting Threatin on blast.

And that brings us up to the present day. Threatin’s next scheduled show is November 11th in Belfast, followed by dates in France, Italy and Germany, but it’s hard to imagine the venues in those places won’t cancel the shows once they get wind of the conniving, shameful scheme being perpetrated by Jered Threatin (if that is even his real name). His personal Facebook page has been deleted in recent days, indicating he’s ducking for cover while this shitstorm unfolds around him. The band Facebook page is still active with the most recent update being a quick video shot outside the venue in Manchester on November 7th.

It’s beyond remarkable that Threatin was able to fool so many venues into working with him. It seems as if StageRight Bookings is a fake entity — a quick Google search turns up only pages that concern Threatin’s European tour — yet venues promoters/bookers took him on his word, and to book a band they’d never heard of, no less, with 43 monthly listeners on Spotify! His boasts of advance ticket sales counts could’ve easily been measured against actual box office receipts, yet no venues bothered to check (perhaps wooed by the impressive number of fake RSVPs to the Facebook event pages).

What’s most baffling of all is that Threatin thought he could get away with this. What did he think would happen when 291 nonexistent people didn’t show up to the Underworld in Camden? Was he banking on the opening bands to bring in a crowd that would cover up his exaggerations? Did he not give a shit about any of that, simply content to live out his dream of “touring” Europe? How many thousands (tens of thousands!) of dollars has he lost on this venture?

Threatin's Youtube Channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoAm6zb9ruDaD7Ba7FZQI6g

The fake video of Threatin live from 2016:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrd4IYnt-ok

Lolcow thread when?

 

[XE 600]

Lolcow thread when?

I think the problem with making a lolcow thread on him is that there is next to no information about him out there on the internet. I'm not even sure if "Jared Threatin" is even his real name. Surprisingly he is apparently still going ahead with the tour (which I wouldn't be surprised if the next few shows become sold out due to the many articles coming out about him).

He also has so much merch on his website, everything from hats to shirts to even thongs (I'm not even kidding).
https://www.threatin.com/product-page/women-s-thong-underwear (I have tried archiving it since I'm sure he'll remove it but the store itself won't archive so I included a screenshot below anyway for people who are interested).

I must ask, who (if anyone) is actually buying the merch since according to spotify he only had 43 monthly listeners (assuming they're not bots too that is)?

EDIT:
I'm going to be archiving some pages on his website before he removes them (the front page has already been removed and just shows a logo though you can enter the homepage here https://www.threatin.com/home).
Bio - http://archive.is/ofycg
News - http://archive.is/cUKSg
Tour - https://www.threatin.com/tour (apparently Threatin has toured in a few venues across America before however I have a strong feeling that these shows, much like his fans, are fake).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myRyYIAotSc Exclusive video of him playing drums that is for "members only". Only 8 views on YouTube (including me).

 

[Clovis]

Fake band tours UK

Just came here to post this. Is this guy for real? Really? The songs and videos are just so cringe, like a parody of alt rock. And the fake live videos, with the audio distorted to sound like its being captured on a phone.
It just seems like an elaborate and expensive hoax to me. Rather than a guy who for some reason just wants to pay to perform to a bunch of empty rooms.
I want to hear from his session musicians and the promoter.

I wouldn't be surprised if the next few shows become sold out due to the many articles coming out about him.

Maybe that was the endgame? Turn a fake band with fake fans into something real via media attention?