Alejandra Caraballo

Elon Musk directly replied to an explicitly anti-trans Kiwi Farms linked account named "TroonyToons." "Troon" is an anti trans slur associated with Kiwi Farms, the site that cyberstalks trans people to the point of suicide.

This is beyond the pale. https://t.co/bWkMxLLaOb

This is the Twitter ID and prior usernames of this account. It previously went by "LeftistsRPedos." It switched to the current name after Elon took over and turned into an explicitly transphobic meme account and growing from 5000 followers to 45,000 now.

https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://twitter.com/troonytoons/status/ https://t.co/ijPmQqFjCM

We are seeing the 4chanification of Twitter in real time. Vile slurs and rhetoric are being rewarded instead of moderated. Vicious hate has a direct pipeline from Kiwi Farms and 4chan to Fox News.

This follows the increase of explicitly transphobic meme accounts that were either created or changed focus in November 2022 following Elon's takeover. Several of them have gained tens of thousands of followers despite many of them explicitly violating Twitter content policies.

One of these accounts, "ValidLs" was originally "Transphobes taking W's." This account celebrated and mocked the murder of 16 year old trans girl Brianna Ghey. It regularly posts content mocking trans people facing difficulties such as rejection from their parents.

Mon Feb 20 21:47:22 +0000 2023