washington post reporter taylor lorenz
has uh
done such an effective job at her
journalism that she has allowed for
these conservatives to have a meltdown
meltdown simultaneously and i'm here for
it
so she
reported on the person behind the
account known as libs of tick tock
it's an account that wasn't really on my
radar but it turns out that this person
specifically tweets out or posts about
various individuals
and frames them
as groomers and pedophiles because they
happen to be part of the lgbtq community
now it's one thing to repost what
someone is saying in a video it's an
entirely different thing to
intentionally defame them and frame them
as groomers and pedophiles and so this
person was doing these posts anonymously
and taylor lorenz figured out who it was
now before we get to the right wing
meltdown on this story i think it's
really important to do what i think a
lot of people are are failing to do
today focus on the story itself and the
details in the reporting which make it
abundantly clear that what she did here
in her reporting and by revealing who
this person is in my opinion
she did nothing wrong
so the title of the piece is meet the
woman behind libs of tick tock secretly
fueling the rights outrage machine a
popular twitter account has morphed into
a social media phenomenon spreading
anti-lgbtq plus sentiment and
shaping public discourse
now this isn't some random account that
has absolutely no power as lorenz
reports this account has become
incredibly influential in right-wing
media and it's been influential in
force
influential and essentially persuading
right-wing lawmakers in red states to
draft and pass legislation based on
these posts so libs of tick tock reposts
a steady stream of tick-tock videos and
social media posts primarily from lgbtq
plus
people often including incendiary
framing designed to generate outrage
this is graphic 2.
videos shared from the account quickly
find their way to the most influential
names in right-wing media the account
has emerged as a powerful force on the
internet shaping right-wing media
impacting anti-lgbtq legislation and
influencing millions by posting viral
videos aimed at inciting outrage among
the right
now the account has been promoted by
prominent figures including joe rogan
megan mccain and
glenn greenwald who uh apparently
uh wanted to take some ownership of the
account at one point the online
influencer by the way glenn greenwald
not happy about that label the online
influencer glenn greenwald has amplified
it to his 1.8 million twitter followers
while calling himself the account's
godfather look can i i gotta interrupt
for one second uh to talk about that uh
the account mainly uh goes after uh
people in the lgbtq community and
private citizens by the way and and and
they
the person behind the account chaya
raichik i want to be clear about who it
is chaya raichik okay
uh she's a hateful person a terrible
terrible person who calls people who are
gay predators uh who says anyone who's
allies of the lgbtq community
is mentally ill
she says that anyone who even mentions
uh someone
even being gay that the fact that a gay
person exists in a school is grooming
etc any educator who yes
accurately describes their sexual
orientation as anything other than
straight should immediately be fired
this is a person who incites
uh violence toward
ordinary people who are doing their jobs
but they have their own political
opinions right what i find so
fascinating about all of the right-wing
outrage over taylor lorenz's reporting
here is that these are the individuals
that oh yeah the left the left they
can't have a conversation they can't
stand opinions that are different from
their own oh they're always trying to
cancel people they're always trying to
fire people this woman behind libs of
tick tock went out of her way to get
people fired from their jobs educators
fired from their jobs for simply wanting
to
be open about what their sexual identity
is while they're educators while they're
whatever right they want to silence
people who have sexual orientations that
they don't like that's what the right
wing is all about and to take away
someone's livelihood over their identity
is disgusting yeah and if look she
wasn't doing anything wrong okay if she
was just simply reposting what people
are saying on social media
well then why does she want to be
anonymous
is it because she goes out of her way to
defame innocent people as pedophiles and
groomers that's what that account did
that's what libs of tick tock did i want
to just give you a few more details hold
on hold on so glenn who is gay
is calling himself the godfather of this
account
so he signed on for this glenn how much
money is worth it
jesus christ man
you want to go dance for them glenn
are you ever going to admit that you've
now become a sick right winger that
attacks your own community
he doesn't need to i mean everyone knows
everyone says
but the thing is of these
idiots in the right wing the dumbest
people alive
so when i point that obvious fact out
that you point out is come on jake it's
too obvious to even mention right
they're like no glenn greenwald's more
to the left than you are
you morons i know but they know he's not
they know he's a useful tool for the
right wing the left knows he's a useful
tool for the right wing the right wing
has an interest in presenting him as a
leftist to say see we're right the
leftist agrees with us they know what
they're doing that's part of their whole
strategy that's why glenn goes and
dances for them
so go ahead glenn defend the fascists
the fascists coming after your own
community but oh hey you're safe you're
good you're good don't worry tucker's
always going to protect you you're one
of the good ones glenn i bet they won't
come after you at the end right you're
sick and you should get mental health
counseling and now this chair uh woman
claims oh oh golly gee i'm just sending
out hate all over the world and i'm
trying to get everybody fired cancel
culture well i don't know golly gee the
right wing would never do castle culture
fire them they're gay they support gay
people fire them you idiots you are
castle culture you are cancer culture i
can't stand how unintelligent
right-wingers are
just the dumbest people on the planet i
water fire because i don't agree with
her i don't like cancer culture you
look at what you just said look at
what you just said you're the dumbest
person okay i just want to be clear and
why am i so angry no these fascists are
here they're they're targeting gay
people right now that's exactly what the
nazis did
they're targeting gay people and saying
passing laws against them saying that
they're so evil and bad no one should
even utter the fact that they exist
no i'm not gonna stand for it i'm not
gonna stand for it we fight back here
and i love that taylor lawrence fought
back and look the fact of the matter is
she's being attacked as aggressively as
she's being attacked because
she's good at her job and because the
right wing
as sad as i am to say it is just not
used to anyone fighting back
right you see these ineffective
democrats in congress one embarrassment
after the next it's just pathetic and
then for once we see someone a do her
job well
okay and then b more importantly after
she's been attacked relentlessly over
and over and over again she doesn't stop
she keeps doing her job and they hate
her because she's effective so i hope
she keeps reporting on these things and
again if chaya
doesn't think she did anything wrong if
all she's doing is reposting what other
people are putting up on social media
why does she want to be anonymous why is
it such a big deal that her identity has
been revealed and she's not just some
you know innocent private citizen who's
uh being targeted in this unfair way
this is someone who has essentially
served as this you know
defamation factory that influences both
right-wing media and right-wing
legislation and i want to give you
specific examples in just a moment um as
um ari drennon who works over at media
matters says libs of tick tock is
basically acting as a wire service for
the broader right-wing media media
ecosystem it's been shaping public
policy in a real way and affecting
teachers abilities ability to feel safe
in their classrooms also a media
strategist for the aclu says the role
i've seen this account playing is
finding new characters for right wing
propaganda it's relying on an the
endless stream of content from tiktok
and the internet to cast any individual
trans person
as a new villain in their story because
you know
targeting a group of people who have no
power in america right now who are
dealing with the worst forms of
harassment already who have a high
suicide rate because of how terrible it
is to be a trans person living in the
united states yeah let's go after those
people let's make those people the enemy
and our targets and many of them again
are educators they're people who are
working class who aren't trying to cause
any problems but don't want to hide
their identity because of right-wing
bullying and harassment and
again libs of tick tock does that and
only that that's the only point for that
account
um so i want to go to
more details about who chaya is so chaya
has been working as a real estate
salesperson in brooklyn
when in november of 2020 she created the
account that would eventually become
libs of tick tock
when registering the domain libs of tick
tock dot us last october she used her
full name and cell phone number linked
to her real estate salesperson contact
information
so
if you want to be anonymous
maybe think a little
ahead of what you're doing right so this
is easily accessible information taylor
lorenz was able to
access it and she reported on it under
her first handle uh shia and all those
numbers she minimized covid cast doubt
on the election results and promoted a
dubious story about a child sex
trafficking ring of course she did
because she's a liar and a conspiracy
theorist and that's why the right wing
loves her
on november 23rd of 2020 uh raychick
changed handles this time going by shia
rae and identifying herself publicly as
a real estate investor in brooklyn she
began doubling down on election fraud
conspiracies using q a non-related
language early that december she joked
about launching a clothing line titled
voter fraud is real
so that's who she is you get a little
sense of uh what she likes to do she was
there during the capital riots on
january 6 because of course she was and
of course she lied about it and how the
police were using rubber bullets
god knows if she was even there i mean
she's a notorious obvious
pathetic liar
now um she
decided to pivot to libs of tick tock on
april 19 2021 and it really started to
blow up after joe rogan drew attention
to it on his show so just four months
after getting started libs of tick tock
got a big break joe rogan started
promoting the account of course to
millions of listeners of his hit podcast
because he's a meat head who hates trans
people he mentioned it several times on
his show in august and then again in
late september libs of tick tock is one
of the greatest effing accounts of all
time he said with his seal of approval
raychik's following skyrocketed and
again she loves to brag
about getting educators fired so here's
an example screenshot from the account
any teacher who utters the words i came
out to my students
should be fired on the spot and joe
rogan and bill amar canceled culture
enthusiasts boy they love to fight
against cancer culture they're like oh
it's my favorite account the one that
gets people fired for being gay i mean
we hate gay people of course you should
fire them for being gay or even talking
about people that are gay or
acknowledging anyone who's gay fire and
fire and fire him that's what rogan and
bill maher said oh but no no it's not
about them see that's the thing with
right wingers right
if it affects them then it's important
oh i don't i don't want to be canceled
for uh you know call someone the n word
on purpose uh i don't want to be
canceled for saying awful hideous racist
things right
but you i want you fired immediately
because i i don't like that you're gay
imagine if there was an anonymous
left-wing account on twitter that went
around accusing
forget private citizens
prominent right-wingers as pedophiles
rapists why not how would they feel
would they want to know the identity of
the person who's defaming them
well some of them some of them actually
are pedophiles and stuff like that
they've been caught or have covered for
pedophiles but that's another story for
another time like i'm sure they would
want to know the identity of those
individuals especially if that account
was actually influencing policies that
had an impact on their lives
that did away with their livelihood let
me give you more
so again she loved to brag about getting
educators fired
taylor lorenz offers a specific example
tyler wren a former english teacher in
oklahoma posted a video telling lgbtq
kids
shunned by their parents that rin was
proud of them and loved them it was
featured on libs of tick tock last week
since being featured on the page
he's been barraged with harassment and
death threats well i thought you guys
were concerned about outing people
well okay you amplified uh that video by
rin and then uh promoted your lunatic
fascist followers to send them death
threats what happened to free speech
what happened to not outing people yeah
okay he did the original video and look
at how hateful they are look at what
terrible people they are and if you're
gonna be about oh jack don't call her
hateful just because she despises gay
people and thinks that if you're a gay
student you shouldn't be comforted by
your teacher you should be yelled at
derided and the teacher should make you
feel as bad as the parents do
and and maybe until you commit suicide
okay no i don't agree i think a person
who does that is terrible i don't want
to be polite to nazis i mean we're
talking about people who
have defended alex jones incessantly
after he
lied about the parents of children who
were killed during the mass
the newtown massacre the sandy hook mass
shooting
he got his
followers to harass and literally sent
death threats to the posner family who
lost their son in that massacre okay
i don't hear any of these right wingers
going after what alex jones did because
they love it they love the they love the
harassment when they're doing it they
love the threats when they're doing it
they love the defamation when they're
doing it okay because for them that's
power that's how they flex their power
and when someone dares to fight back
oh instead of focusing on the story what
do they want to focus on oh taylor
loren's bad taylor runs mean let's go
after taylor lorenz we don't like it we
we're used to leftists not fighting us
effectively they're used to democrats
who are cowards right and the minute
that any of these goons this gestapo
says boo to a establishment democrat
and the democrat runs away okay but when
we don't run away when taylor lorenz
doesn't run away and we actually fight
back with facts oh man all of a sudden
they catch feelings but we're making a
mistake we keep thinking that they have
any degree of logic they don't
they they they're just very simple
people filled with hate so they go
me do something that is good you do same
exact thing that is bad and we think
well that's hypocritical isn't it that's
irrational but they don't even
understand what logic is they don't
understand what rational is so they
think oh if you want to get me fired
because i hate black people and i'm a
cop and i beat up black people all the
time and it's part of my job that's
castle culture but if i get you fired
for telling a kid poor kid hey you know
it's gonna be okay hang in there well of
course i should get you fired that's not
cancer culture because i hate you
they don't care they're just so
unintelligent it's impossible to talk to
them and we live with them i don't know
what to do with them this chair right
chick lady now move to west hollywood
okay
west hollywood west hollywood
who is that's the episode moved to west
hollywood yeah i mean it's known for
a large population of lgbtq people why
would you want to live there why'd you
move there if you hate them so much why
don't you get the hell out of that
community because you're not welcome not
welcome okay you're the gestapo that is
trying to intimidate that community
you're not welcome now i want to be very
clear so there's a important part of
this where they say oh she they should
get doxxed no again i know right wingers
they don't care about facts but for the
rest of you i have to clarify doxxing is
when you say this is their address
okay and you should go do something
about it doxxing is not this is the
human being saying that okay
so
where you know who we are you know our
names you know our faces that doesn't
mean you have a right to come to our
homes right
uh especially if you're rando that has
nothing to do with anything that doesn't
mean you could publish our home address
and you could uh threaten us etc and by
the way it doesn't matter if you're
left-wing or right-wing apparently i
don't know if tim paul is another liar
but if he's telling the truth and i
don't know i i assume that he actually
is telling the truth you should not
assume that maybe i'm wrong but but he
says he's getting swatted uh seven eight
times that's an outrage that's
unacceptable i don't care who's doing it
it's unacceptable any way you look at it
but just saying who someone is is not
doxing them that's just not true
so i'm i got an anonymous person during
my campaign run uh who just started
putting out out of context videos and
she's like nope i demand not to be known
well she's an established democratic
establishment act and jake tapper and
all the other idiot in the media were
like i don't care who she is i'm not
going to do any journalism let's just
quote her
right
no you don't get to be anonymous if
you're in the public square
so in this case taylor lorenz did did go
to her house to do reporting
that does if you're not a reporter don't
pretend that you are okay
taylor's an actual reporter and she had
no idea she by the way the main story
that she broke
is that it turns out yes it's definitely
her and the reason she broke it is
because idiot glenn greenwald confirmed
it accidentally