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Aella
@Aella_Girl
I want points - before the recent trending explosion, weeks ago someone recommended I talk w Eliza Bleu about trafficking; Jan 12th I glanced at her twitter and thought "she gives me red flags, I really doubt her story" and then googled to verify her story and came away v sus. 1/
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@Aella_Girl
I didn't say anything cause I wasn't totally *sure* her story was fake and it's bad optics to call out a sex trafficking survivor based on vibes, but I was still like "I'm gonna stay away from this lady." Not totally sure why I got the heebies, but some guesses:
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
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She seemed... not dignified? there was something kinda warlike and attention-optimizing in the way she was engaging on twitter, and I guess I have some priors on "Falsely claiming to be sex trafficked is the kinda thing warlike and attention-optimizing people do"
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@Aella_Girl
Nothing about what she was saying was subtle or counterintuitive - they were all very obvious, safe, easy-to-support things. My guess is a real trafficking survivor would be more focused on novel information more specific to the failure mode that affected them?
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@Aella_Girl
And also just.. priors. From my research, sex trafficking in the western world is extremely rare. The population of ppl in this demographic who are sex trafficked is so low that you're just statistically more likely to encounter liars from the much larger nontrafficked population
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@Aella_Girl
And she heavily signaled western culture - didn't seem to have spent significant time outside the US, and it wasn't like she'd immigrated to the US from a more trafficking-heavy area, had a very modern look. It just seems too... convenient? idk
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@Aella_Girl
Again NONE of these should be taken alone as proof of someone's honesty or not! These were just a collection of vibe things that caused me to be suspicious enough to go do a bunch of googling, solidly before I'd heard anyone else express anything negative about her.
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@Insect_Song
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I wonder how difficult it is to publish an encrypted message, and then reveal the key to decode it at a later date. That would allow you to get "called it" points without the risk of falsely accusing someone.
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