The defense didn’t make an impression on the users of Reddit, 4chan, Discord, and an uptick in CNN memes/GIFs grew dramatically. ![]() This is POTUS’ son spreading misinformation. HanAssholeSolo is not 15 or anywhere close to it. HanAssholeSolo is an adult and not 15 which people have spread. It was intended only to mean we made no agreement w/the man about his identity. įYI “HanAssholeSolo” just called me.”I am in total agreement with your statement. Donald Trump Jr., and fellow opponents of mainstream media critical of the Trump administration, helped push that narrative as Kaczynski attempted to correct misinformation.ĬNN specifically choose not to reveal this guy’s identity and to say we threatened anyone is a total lie. Soon the narrative became CNN threatening a 15-year-old kid to stop making memes in exchange for anonymity. That last sentence sparked a new hashtag, #CNNBlackmail, and many posts had new CNN gifs/memes attached. CNN chose not to name him but has taken extreme grief for the way they worded that decision. Kaczynski was then contacted by the user and had an interview with him where he is described as being nervous for his identity to come out. I have the highest respect for the journalist community and they put their lives on the line every day with the jobs that they do in reporting the news.” I thought it was the original post that was made and that is why I took credit for it. What the President’s feed showed was not the original post that was posted here, but loaded up somewhere else and sound added to it then sent out on Twitter. “I had no idea anyone would take it and put sound to it and then have it put up on the President’s Twitter feed. “The meme was created purely as satire, it was not meant to be a call to violence against CNN or any other news affiliation,” HanAssholeSolo on Reddit. Soon after, however, he made a public apology on the subreddit /The_Donald and deleted all of his other racist/anti-semetic posts. Kaczynski tried to contact the user but was unsuccessful. ![]() In a lengthy article, Kaczynski claimed that CNN was able to learn the real identity of “HanAssholeSolo” by determining “key biographical details, to find the man’s name using a Facebook search and ultimately corroborate details he had made available on Reddit.” Once that tweet took off, the source of video became the target.Īndrew Kaczynski, a CNN political reporter and leader of the KFile investigative team, published a story on Tuesday about finding the identity of the Reddit user who took credit for the CNN wrestling GIF. The video was from Trump’s days working with the WWE and is now being used as a tool for the 71-year-old Commander-in-chief to take a stance against what he refers to as the “Fraud News Network.” Just four days ago, President Trump tweeted a video of himself tackling a person outside a wrestling ring whose head, once belonging to Vince McMahon, was now a CNN logo. The only thing that seems to be moving faster than the escalating war between the media and Trump (and those on the far right) are the production of memes meant to represent a full scale war against CNN. July 6th, 2017 – Political discussions have turned from questioning how presidential Trump’s CNN bodyslam GIF was to the seriousness of inciting physical violence to CNN blackmailing a Reddit user back to threats of violence all within a few days. ![]() ![]() “ Somebody’s gonna do something stupid at some point.”
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