Given the dynamic influence of Libs of TikTok upon the rightwing community and the triggering of anti-liberal talking points that pour out of it, LOTT founder Chaya Raichik can’t be too surprised that her anonymity has gone south.
Yesterday Raichik was outed — doxxed — by Washington Post reporter Taylor Lorenz, in a story titled “Meet the woman behind Libs of TikTok, secretly fueling the right’s outrage machine.” You can be anonymous if your social media account is low profile, but once it dramatically grows in size and influence you’re obviously going to be outed sooner or later…c’mon. It’s just part of the natural rough and tumble.
There is irony, obviously, in Lorenz having publicly wept over online harassment a few weeks ago, and then turning around and drilling one of the rightwingers who, she felt, had made her life so traumatic.
Friendo: Libs of Tik Tok is great because people on the left have become so crazy. But it does sometimes border on phobia and bigotry, I’d say. Like everything, it’s not 100% great. It’s half good, half terrible.”