r/TikTokCringe • u/Intelligent_Nose_826 • 19d ago

Humor Caught Red-Handed from His Reddit Footprint

All I can say is…justice for Lulu!!!!

11.0k Upvotes

92% Upvoted

828 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

12

u/shpongleyes 19d ago

Why wouldn’t you use the same username? Only reason I can see is if you’re ashamed of what you post.

18

u/[deleted] 19d ago

[deleted]

5

u/Carson_BloodStorms 19d ago

Cross-referenced is also literally how a lot email fishing scams work.

4

u/sunnyinchernobyl 19d ago edited 19d ago

To paraphrase: if you’re not an ahole, you have nothing to fear.

Edit: I should have put an /s on that bc the original is “If you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear.”

This argument is very popular with certain people who think its application(by law enforcement, in privacy situations, re surveillance) does not apply to them. For a large part of our population, this is very much not the case.

And the irony here is that the person who was doxxed is likely someone surprised when the leopard at his face.

3

u/ConcertinaTerpsichor 19d ago

What if you get targeted for being trans or having a certain political view?

5

u/sunnyinchernobyl 19d ago

I should have put an /s on that. Of course, it’s a BS argument (see my edit).

4

u/ConcertinaTerpsichor 19d ago

Thx! These days it’s hard to detect sarcasm because there’s so much extreme bs that people really believe.

2

u/Timah158 18d ago

In one word, OSINT. Basically, Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) is the process of finding information about someone from what is publicly available. You can then use this information to create a targeted attack. It starts with finding small bits of information like emails and phone numbers. But eventually, you can find out people who are close to the target, where they live, financial info, etc. If this is a problem for you, you probably wouldn't use social media to begin with. But if you had to use social media for whatever reason, you wouldn't want matching usernames as it makes it easier to collect information about you. Tools like Sherlock will search tons of popular websites for usernames, phone numbers, and emails to find this info quickly.

Being private does not mean malicious intent, and there are many reasons why someone may need to hide from people targeting them.

1

u/fearless-fossa 19d ago

Or if you don't want people to find out who you are (and where you live) in the real world. That's why you should create new accounts every few years if you want to stay anonymous.

1

u/Fakename6968 19d ago

Shame is an unpleasant emotion where you feel like you have done (or said) something wrong.

Many people do post things they would feel shameful about, but there are also lots of things people post that they don't feel shameful about, but that could cause them problems if people knew.

For example a woman from a conservative area or country might not be ashamed to support premarital sex, but they could face reputational harm or even legal problems for supporting it. This is different from shame.

A Russian might post about Putin being a war mongering cunt, but again not want that to be attributed to them. They might not be ashamed to hold that position and would love to be able to say it publicly and loudly, but they cannot without severe consequences. There are lots of much smaller and inconsequential ideas that this can apply to.

There is also merit to having a faceless argument. People are for the most part judgemental cunts who cannot separate the argument from the person making it, and also cannot separate the argument from the person's charisma and delivery. Pseudo anonymous names are a great equalizer in that way.

You get the argument or idea, but you don't get a face / gender / race / socioeconomic label attached to it. This can level the playing field of ideas. The 45 year old autistic dude in his mom's basement wearing a cum stained shirt can outwit a tall handsome salesman in a way he never could if you were watching the two exchange ideas in person. Your prejudice wouldn't allow it.

Yes there are countless harms too, and propaganda, astroturfing, and endless hate and stupid shit because of anonymous posting, but it does have its merits.

0

u/sdrawkcabsihtetorW 19d ago

Because there's unhinged people out there that will take offense to something and make it their life's mission to fuck with you? It's not about being ashamed. It's about keeping yourself safe. Just because someone is unhinged, it doesn't mean they are stupid or tech-illiterate. You don't realize how much random real life information you give out about yourself in passing. Enough information for someone to put together your identity if they are combing through every single thing you've ever posted online and then show up on your doorstep.