It looks like the trolls at 4Chan have been up to their old tricks again. In fact they may have outdone themselves with this one – creating a fake #gobaldforBLM movement and tricking people into shaving their heads in support of Black Lives Matter.
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As screwed up as this is, it was actually a genius bit of trolling. At the end of last week, the hashtag #gobaldforBLM started appearing on Twitter. The goal of the fake hashtag was “to get women, particularly white women, to shave their heads for BLM.”
4Chan users created loads of fake Twitter accounts to get the hashtag trending, and even posted random pictures of women with bald heads to make out like people were already doing it.
They even Photoshopped a fake ABC News article to make out as though Emma Watson had joined the movement. Lol:
Well that was all some people needed to see to get the clippers out and show their support for BLM.
Here are the results:
GUYS I DID IT!#goBaldForBLM
Thanks for all the support, my husband and boyfriend both support me too! I’m going to donate it to poc. #BLM pic.twitter.com/bR2Z7MRUWx— adezero 😷 (@adezero3) June 5, 2020
Amazingly, after this was all revealed to be a 4chan troll move, some people still insisted that the #gobaldforBLM movement was genuine and 4chan were actually trying to hijack it to get people to stop shaving their heads.
Please stop spreading lies. 4chan is trying to pretend they made the hashtag so that people will stop using it. Don’t let the nazis win pic.twitter.com/gXx6ebr94e
— 『STANDO TSUKAI』Savos (@StandoTsukaiMam) June 5, 2020
Dont fall for their psy ops! They didnt make the hashtag, they just want to stop you from showing solidarity!#BaldForBLM #gobladforblm
— 『STANDO TSUKAI』Savos (@StandoTsukaiMam) June 5, 2020
^ Now of course that account could also be 4Chan using a sneaky bit of reverse psychology on people to keep them shaving their heads. If so, that is an absolutely diabolical bit of 4D chess those guys are playing.
Either way, it’s probably not the best idea in the world for anyone to essentially become a skinhead for Black Lives Matter. Plenty of other ways you can go about showing your support.
To watch a man carry a “Fuck BLM” sign into the protests and receive the most predictable beatdown of all time, click HERE.
