A woman at my church suffered and died slowly of Huntington's after having nursed her own mother through the same illness. The sheer ethical abandon of faking that tragic disease for attention and money actually makes me angry.
What I've come to realize is that, while everyone will say that Kiwi Farms is bad because of the doxxing, they actually hate it because of the mockery. The other site is pure, unrepentant doxxing and no one wants it down. No one cares enough, even those whose information is there. What they don't like is that KF laughs at them.
Geneticist here. While I will withhold judgement on Samantha/jades specific case, Yes, it is possible for Huntington to appear in families with no prior history.
Huntington is known to exhibit a property called “anticipation” which means that over the generations, the severity of the disease tends to get worse and worse. This is because there is a bias towards more and more mutations causing the gene involved (called “huntingtin”, aptly) to get more and more messed up.
This also means that in some cases, a person who has only mild symptoms or has a sub clinical case could have a kid with full blown huntingtons disease.
How many podcasts about Kiwi Farms and I still don’t understand it. I nowout anything that has to do with weird extremely online subcultures because I find them incomlrehensible. It’s like reading about a mating ritual on Mars that involves tesseracts.
I’m telling on myself here by saying that my firm algorithmic seat on messytok lets me know that while Carrie/Samantha didn’t fundraise, she did set up a website when her tiktok went viral where she said she was 3D printing disability aids and providing materials to set up sensory rooms for disabled people. There are a bunch of angry disabled people/caregivers of disabled people on tiktok who claim they have never received their items and that Carrie/Samantha has ghosted them. So it seems she did have a grift, it just wasn’t the gofundme kind.
As with the Jack Monroe episode, I’m always slightly in awe of the balls required for bullshittery of this calibre.
How long was she planning to continue this grift (though I’m not sure where the grift is, is she being paid for “speaking” engagements?) - was she going to be miraculously cured by the experimental treatment or just move away again and invent a new persona? This sort of con must have been so much easier before the internet.
One reason the "I did the posts" guy might have wanted to launder his post through an American is that you can actually go to jail for mean tweets in England and some other neighboring countries. Cancel culture etc. aside, we Americans don't know how good we have it thanks to the First Amendment.
The trouble with steering clear of stories involving "crazy" people is that, in the absence of expert testimony, journalists aren't qualified to say whether someone is mentally ill. All they can do is report what a person does, and in this case the person hoodwinked thousands of people. That kind of activity should be investigated and exposed, regardless of her mental state. It is kind of odd that she didn't use her position to raise a lot of money; maybe that's the surest sign that she's mentally unwell.
I’m sure this was the plot of one of the dodgy Australian soaps in the 1990s.
Seriously though, I enjoyed this episode immensely.
Apart from the accents, which are a war crime. Even setting aside that Katie‘s accent is in no sense Irish, you wouldn’t need an Irish accent to read from the Northern Echo which is from my bit of the world. And Yorkshire/Geordie are almost certainly beyond Katie‘s capabilities.
A woman at my church suffered and died slowly of Huntington's after having nursed her own mother through the same illness. The sheer ethical abandon of faking that tragic disease for attention and money actually makes me angry.
What I've come to realize is that, while everyone will say that Kiwi Farms is bad because of the doxxing, they actually hate it because of the mockery. The other site is pure, unrepentant doxxing and no one wants it down. No one cares enough, even those whose information is there. What they don't like is that KF laughs at them.
You think that Carrie’s sister Samantha is the bad one? You haven’t even MET their other 2 sisters Charlotte and Miranda.
The key to an Irish accent is to remember that "forty-third" is pronounced "farty-turd"
Geneticist here. While I will withhold judgement on Samantha/jades specific case, Yes, it is possible for Huntington to appear in families with no prior history.
Huntington is known to exhibit a property called “anticipation” which means that over the generations, the severity of the disease tends to get worse and worse. This is because there is a bias towards more and more mutations causing the gene involved (called “huntingtin”, aptly) to get more and more messed up.
This also means that in some cases, a person who has only mild symptoms or has a sub clinical case could have a kid with full blown huntingtons disease.
How many podcasts about Kiwi Farms and I still don’t understand it. I nowout anything that has to do with weird extremely online subcultures because I find them incomlrehensible. It’s like reading about a mating ritual on Mars that involves tesseracts.
I’m telling on myself here by saying that my firm algorithmic seat on messytok lets me know that while Carrie/Samantha didn’t fundraise, she did set up a website when her tiktok went viral where she said she was 3D printing disability aids and providing materials to set up sensory rooms for disabled people. There are a bunch of angry disabled people/caregivers of disabled people on tiktok who claim they have never received their items and that Carrie/Samantha has ghosted them. So it seems she did have a grift, it just wasn’t the gofundme kind.
Why am I not a grifter yet? No story seems to be too dumb that people will buy into it.
As with the Jack Monroe episode, I’m always slightly in awe of the balls required for bullshittery of this calibre.
How long was she planning to continue this grift (though I’m not sure where the grift is, is she being paid for “speaking” engagements?) - was she going to be miraculously cured by the experimental treatment or just move away again and invent a new persona? This sort of con must have been so much easier before the internet.
One reason the "I did the posts" guy might have wanted to launder his post through an American is that you can actually go to jail for mean tweets in England and some other neighboring countries. Cancel culture etc. aside, we Americans don't know how good we have it thanks to the First Amendment.
Oh god, it’s going to turn into ‘I am Spartacus’.
Please no more Keffals stuff. At this point you’re just feeding trolls, surely.
Katie will be sober because she's a devout muslim, jesse you bigot!
Swede here. We are not Switzerland.
The trouble with steering clear of stories involving "crazy" people is that, in the absence of expert testimony, journalists aren't qualified to say whether someone is mentally ill. All they can do is report what a person does, and in this case the person hoodwinked thousands of people. That kind of activity should be investigated and exposed, regardless of her mental state. It is kind of odd that she didn't use her position to raise a lot of money; maybe that's the surest sign that she's mentally unwell.
Katie says she will be sober on tour; Jesse: "You and I have very different understandings of what our goals are on this this tour."
I’m sure this was the plot of one of the dodgy Australian soaps in the 1990s.
Seriously though, I enjoyed this episode immensely.
Apart from the accents, which are a war crime. Even setting aside that Katie‘s accent is in no sense Irish, you wouldn’t need an Irish accent to read from the Northern Echo which is from my bit of the world. And Yorkshire/Geordie are almost certainly beyond Katie‘s capabilities.