@skrishna @jerpirate because you're spoiling _the big account's_ grift.

I've seen it repeatedly and been patronised about how I don't have 40k followers and don't know how these things work. I've seen people with 20 times my follower count join in a big "pile on" against someone and their counts rise.

Mastodon is much nicer and there's far less incentive for "allies" to pollute my timeline by performing "dunking" on fascist propaganda.

See #HateGrifters for more

@DrALJONES

Where are the Right getting the funding to drive #AntiBlackness #Transphobia and support #conspiracyTheories like #QAnon ? Its not just #HateGrifters bankrolling them. They literally don't have the numbers to afford so much work without billionaire support.

*smh*

It's so wide ranging but it makes a lot of sense. T/T

@nvsr @malwaretech Man got himself 100k followers to add to his 3.4m.

#HateGrifters know what they're doing and they _count_ on the reaction.

@joss_prior nah.

Body shaming is bad. But a "influencer" misogynist 2-3 times her age seeking to bully a young girl trying to save the planet? That's much worse.

Mind you, he successfully used her much wider platform to massively increase his follower count and influence. His propaganda about his success and values have reached me and you.

That's how #HateGrifters operate on Twitter and the discussion about this wedge issue shows how embedded they are.

@corbin I would say this is probably something I'd curate under:

#GretaThunberg
#GretaThunbergForever
#AndrewTate
#HateGrifters
#MissedQuoteTweet
#MissedQuoteToot
#MissedQuotePost
#MastodonQuoteTweet
#DontSpreadHate
#DontSpreadFascistPropaganda

Damn, that's a good post. 👍 Well done!

@serenissima @seachanger @taylorlorenz @gwensnyder

Platform and broadcast fascist propaganda whilst attempting a rebuttal and playing into the hands of #HateGrifters

However in the absence of Dorsey's algorithm, it is a social problem.

@KimCrayton1 I put the link to how to QT in the QT of your post.

The _social_ problem of posts being used out of context for driveby dunkings is back. Yay. Back to watching everything I say in case it is misrepresented in the _,least_ charitable way.

Back to having unCW screenshots of literal fascist propaganda boosted into my timeline. Propaganda works and #HateGrifters like Trump knew to use it.

Still, I guess it'll help you, and your work is important.

@Feders_dub I also would really like it if people didn't screenshot fascist propaganda and post it to "dunk" on it.

1. It bypasses my blocks.
2. Propaganda works. We're not immune.
3. The fascists know the above. That's why they post stupid things like "there are no pronouns in the Bible". It's an "easy dunk." And bingo you've given your audience to the #HateGrifters

(For the purposes of this post we can treat Nazis, TERFs, racists, homophobes as fascists.)

#DontSpreadFascistPropaganda

@erinfulmer exactly.

All the "dunks" on their propaganda?

Didn't embarrass them. Spread their propaganda. Of course they know what a pronoun is. They're just amusing themselves by getting "allies" to QT and RT and give them publicity that money can NOT buy to get past the blocks and hurt their targets and spread their word. #HateGrifters relied on and reveled in it! Openly saying so!

#DontSpreadFascistPropaganda

@iyalei Thankyou so much for this thread! Thought I was going crazy with all the "oh no QTs never do any harm" rhetoric flying around.

It's spreading hate on behalf of the fash! Does my nut! And the "allies"! Gah! I've blocked the bigots, why are you screenshotting and showing me there stuff?!?

#HateGrifters
#DontSpreadFascistPropaganda
#Transphobia
#DeplatformHate
#DeplatformingWorks
#MissedQuoteToot
#MissedQuoteTweet
#AntiFascist

@futurebird My lived experience is that QT are used for fascist propaganda. Allies "dunking" or "calling out" led to the _repeatedly seen effect_ of spreading fascist propaganda. The #HateGrifters knew about it and used it, again and again and again.

QT, _as used on Twitter_, will be excellent news for fascists. Different restrictions? Maybe good.

#DontSpreadFascistPropaganda #DontSpreadHate
#MissedQuoteTweet
#MissedQuoteToot
#AntiFascist

I cannot support this campaign.

@Icevice @lolennui

It's easier to be a cat relaxing when mofos aren't squirting you with a firehose!

I haven't seen anyone promoting #HateGrifters and giving them free engagement and polluting my feed with propaganda, sorry, "dunking" on someone in ages.

13 million users do 90% of Twitters content. Real shame if a fraction of people who tweeted at least once a day left for a non-Nazi site with mods. Real shame. 😀

@dangillmor
Yes. You're on the money there.

#Journalists #HateGrifters #ElonMusk #Twitter #DeplatformHate

@hazelnot @futurebird I mean...

If you're trans you had TERFs coming after you, or you saw them going after people, daily if not hourly.

If your black you apparently had a different experience?

But if I counted times I saw QT for good and QT for harassment, harassment was the primary use case.

I also saw it being used to dunk on non-trans people too by large accounts directing followers to harass people.

#HateGrifters counted on it in fact to boost follow count.

@dgold @Tupp_ed It seems like a very privileged and comfortable perspective.

#HateGrifters weaponised it and "allies" "dunking" on it helped spread it round blocks.

#DontSpreadHate #DontSpreadFascistPropaganda
#DontSpreadNaziPropaganda

John Oliver talking about Tucker Carlson.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMGxxRRtmHc A classic example of the #HateGrifters genre. It's 25 minutes but does actually trace the evolution of the demagoguery of the #whiteSupremacist movement.

At 13.40 Oliver notes that WS is baked into a lot of projects, including, I would argue #Mastodon not deliberately but unconsciously. Carlson makes noise that reminds me of "just make your own server." and "If you don't like it. Move."

1/2

@schwa You might enjoy the #HateGrifters and #DontSpreadFascistPropaganda tags because whilst many (white male) parts of twitter didn't have constant hate directed at them those that did are familiar with, the dogpiles and the Hate grifters who used and weaponised the feature to get the sort of engagement money literally cannot buy. Enriching the haters, hurting their targets and making it a hostile space with the constant discussion by "allies".

#MastodonIsBoring but safe.

@schratze don't mind me, I thought maybe I could curate this as:

#antiFascist #antiFascism #FascistPropaganda #DontSpreadFascistPropaganda #NaziPropaganda #DontSpreadNaziPropaganda #HateGrifters #HateMemes #DontSpreadHate #DontSpreasHateMemes #antiRacism #Transphobia #Misogyny #Ablism

To include # obvious variations and the frequent targets of fascism.

Seems important and you're bang on the money.

@futurebird @colincornaby

Virality is nice, but it's rarely positive. #BLM was a force for good but the day to day was #HateGrifters using "allies"'s rage to boost their own clout by drawing eyeballs through hate speech.

Maybe there's a social solution, maybe there's a tech support thing that would help with that. IDK.

@hiscursedness

Would you mind if I curated this for visibility?

I can delete if annoying.

#Twitch #LGBalliance #AutismSpeaks #AutismSpeaksSucks #HateGroups #HateGrifters #transphobia #transphobe #transphobes