Huh. When I search using either google or duckduckgo they both show the tweet under Images. I edited the above post to include this image, per your suggestion.
I attempted to find additional sources online while writing this post, but there’s nothing out there. Perhaps the Youtuber stumbled across it at the time and wrote it down, but it wasn’t covered by any media outlets. And that’s part of the point I was trying to make—trolls can take you down with no repercussions. Keisha’s left to pick up the pieces of her tarnished reputation.
Or possibly the incident never happened. If the only evidence is the supposed screenshot of a tweet, and no trace can be found of this Keisha Daggett of the University of Maine, and searching just on the name “Isabella Maria DeLuca” (who with all respect is not much of a public figure) turns up no references to it, and all searches on the subject bring up nothing but copies of the screenshot, it looks to me like a fabrication. Whether by “DarkMatter2525″, the author of the linked video, or by someone he uncritically picked up and ran with, I don’t know.
The video is pretty strange. An hour of this deep voice slowly rumbling about (supposed) example after example of how everyone out there is lying to you. It looks like a hypnotic induction intended to sow paranoia in the viewer.
Update: I found the original tweet screenshot on Isabella Maria DeLuca’s Instagram. (You’ll have to scroll down a bit, it’s from 20 Dec 2022.) At least this is a step closer to the origin of the story than the video, but it would take more searching than I am going to do to find out any more. Did the tweet actually happen? Was it actually by this Keisha Daggett or not (who is conveniently reported to have deleted all her social media accounts)? At this point I don’t know and I don’t care. Neither of these people is anyone that matters.
That’s like saying “well, 40 people were murdered on my block, but I don’t know any of them, so it’s nobody that matters”. The fact that a random person is victimized means that the system allows victimization of random people. The next fake Twitter message could be posted in your name and ruin your reputation. (And “I don’t use Twitter” isn’t going to prevent it from affecting you.)
Huh. When I search using either google or duckduckgo they both show the tweet under Images. I edited the above post to include this image, per your suggestion.
I attempted to find additional sources online while writing this post, but there’s nothing out there. Perhaps the Youtuber stumbled across it at the time and wrote it down, but it wasn’t covered by any media outlets. And that’s part of the point I was trying to make—trolls can take you down with no repercussions. Keisha’s left to pick up the pieces of her tarnished reputation.
Or possibly the incident never happened. If the only evidence is the supposed screenshot of a tweet, and no trace can be found of this Keisha Daggett of the University of Maine, and searching just on the name “Isabella Maria DeLuca” (who with all respect is not much of a public figure) turns up no references to it, and all searches on the subject bring up nothing but copies of the screenshot, it looks to me like a fabrication. Whether by “DarkMatter2525″, the author of the linked video, or by someone he uncritically picked up and ran with, I don’t know.
The video is pretty strange. An hour of this deep voice slowly rumbling about (supposed) example after example of how everyone out there is lying to you. It looks like a hypnotic induction intended to sow paranoia in the viewer.
Update: I found the original tweet screenshot on Isabella Maria DeLuca’s Instagram. (You’ll have to scroll down a bit, it’s from 20 Dec 2022.) At least this is a step closer to the origin of the story than the video, but it would take more searching than I am going to do to find out any more. Did the tweet actually happen? Was it actually by this Keisha Daggett or not (who is conveniently reported to have deleted all her social media accounts)? At this point I don’t know and I don’t care. Neither of these people is anyone that matters.
That’s like saying “well, 40 people were murdered on my block, but I don’t know any of them, so it’s nobody that matters”. The fact that a random person is victimized means that the system allows victimization of random people. The next fake Twitter message could be posted in your name and ruin your reputation. (And “I don’t use Twitter” isn’t going to prevent it from affecting you.)
And I could be in the cross-hairs of the next serial killer. I do not walk in fear of that happening.