The beginnings of #FuckParis
Breitbart claims #BlackLivesMatter is behind #FuckParis. Breitbart is wrong.
The #FuckParis hashtag has been around for months at the very least. When looking through the history of the hashtag, you’ll see that there’s a ten day pause between it’s last usage and the attacks in Paris.
This tweet from ImKrazeYT is the first usage after the Paris attacks.
https://twitter.com/ImKrazeYT/status/665294477477679109
That occurred at 4:25 PM on Nov. 13th, the day of the attacks.
The next usage was from tumalooms, at 4:33 PM, 11/13.
https://twitter.com/tumalooms/status/665296372145496065
That account has now gone private after a whole lotta attacks (just search tumalooms on twitter and you’ll see two days’ worth of people tweeting angry shit at that person).
Here’s the screenshot of what the tweet contained:
(Fair warning: the rest of this post will tweets of slurs and archive links to 4chan and 8chan.)
Now that’s the tweet that was latched onto by Breitbart. It was also latched onto by Sargon of Akkad, a prominent member of GamerGate, two days later after the publishing of Breitbart’s article.
What’s interesting is the Breitbart article states this hashtag is being used by “resentful black activists,” when the upstart to the hashtag was propagated by white people or accounts that seem to be bots/spam. tumalooms’ tweet is actually the exception.
Lets take a look at what happened after those first two tweets:
4:38 PM, 11/13, from an account that speaks in a foreign language I can’t identify.
6:11 PM, 11/13, from an account with white men in the header, Nazi meme 88 in the username.
8:42 PM, 11/13, from an account called GayForParis, including a slur against muslims, replying to a BBC tweet. The account’s first tweet ever was on 11/13, and it has an egg as the profile pic.
7:40 AM, 11/14, from an account with a white woman as the profile pic. What’s interesting is that the profile pic shows up as being from various tattoo articles and other pages through a reverse google image search. Not surprising, since the account also has a tweet where they say they are part of ISIS.
9:28 AM, 11/14, is the fourth black person, a black man using it while claiming to pray for ISIS. This account is really all over the place.
10:48 AM, 11/14, the fifth black person, whose account claims to be from Johannesburg and their other tweets contain a LOT of racism against africans, yet also contain a lot of messages about the oppression of blacks. Really not sure what to make of it. Reverse image search turns up nothing on the picture.
11:19 AM, 11/14, an account with a picture of flowers for the profile pic, using the hashtag to talk about Gaza. Account dates back to 2008 but has less than fifty tweets, and seemed to be dormant for the last few months.
At this point, I think it’s pretty clear that any narrative pinning it all on black people is a stretch, considering just as many white people have used the hashtag.
There are also accounts like this one, where the hashtag is used but the profile picture is fake. In this case, it’s a picture of Sandra Bland.
Quite a few accounts seem to be outright trolling, which isn’t surprising when you look at the /pol/ archive of 4chan. There have been various threads calling for sock puppets and twitter raids since the Paris attacks. That’s kinda what 4chan does. That archive shows some attempts at raids almost a week old or more. Do a Ctrl F for “twitter” in there.
Also of note is how BLM and FuckParis don’t seem to have had more than one or two tweets using both hashtags until this article first started getting spread on 4chan, 8chan, and reddit.
That article came out the same day as Breitbart’s, thought it appears it was the first one because tweets and 4chan/8chan/reddit threads referencing Breitbart didn’t come out until much later.
At any rate, the fact remains that both of these articles are being hella selective in picking colors to represent their narrative. And if you scroll through the #FuckParis hashtag, you’ll find that 99% of the tweets are people condemning anyone who uses the #FuckParis hashtag, while 1% are trolls, sock puppets, or actual people of various colors using the hashtag for anything else.
And this is really the interesting thing about news articles intending to stir up outrage over something like an incendiary hashtag: they rarely point towards the beginnings or include more than five or six screenshots. They know very well that nobody is going to go digging through all of the nonsense to verify their point. They’re banking on that fact. So they can start with a narrative and then work backwards to pick tweets that fit that narrative.
In all reality, either of those articles could’ve just as easily claimed the users of the hashtag were women, or white people, or anime lovers. It’s such a wide pool to choose from due to how much it’s been flooded with people being angry at other people for using it. The people actually using the hashtag in an incendiary way are so few and far between, and even that pool doesn’t have one primary demographic.
Hopefully this has been as informative for you as it was for me and the almost four hours I spent on it.
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