Taylor Lorenz

Yeah.

The media is clearly like kind of all coalescing around someone.

Everyone is attacking someone.

Maybe it's justified.

Maybe it's not.

I remember so clearly when the social autopsy thing was viral because to anybody with two brain cells, like it did, it was the worst idea ever.

And I think Candace herself would probably recognize that now given her comments about speech.

But I can also understand the pain and suffering and when you are dealing with hate and harassment and just wanting to feel like someone understands you and here she was trying to do something.

I don't think she had bad intentions with that site.

or who don't know the very real fact that removing anonymity does nothing to curb cyberbullying and can exacerbate cyberbullying.

I mean, it was always an ill-fated idea, but I think she was vulnerable.

And yeah, I mean, it's compelling to have Cernovich and Milo.

And at the time, okay, like...

They weren't the big deals that they are now, but they were notable on the internet and they were sort of, they did have a level of online clout.

And so I think she's getting torn down by everyone and to have these men with clout reach out and be like, you're right in all this.

Like it's compelling probably to her.

Totally.

I feel like you can see the inklings of her dipping her toes into conspiratorial thinking, feeling persecuted, feeling targeted, feeling specifically attacked, and just like the way that also she's able to spin narratives up in her mind.

it's so funny though like i mean obviously also a lot of it is like related to like brexit and trump 1.0 like it's so funny because it's just been iterated on so much yeah what would that lgbt lgb tags it

Yeah.