Reddit Permanent Ban 🤣
Just what it says! Reach out ot follow @GishgallopGirl on all the other socials, including Mastodon, Bliesky, Twitter. Or over email, ThomasAnderson@GishgallopGirl.com
Just what it says! Reach out ot follow @GishgallopGirl on all the other socials, including Mastodon, Bliesky, Twitter. Or over email, ThomasAnderson@GishgallopGirl.com
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Different Reddit Groups
00:06:29
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| Hello everybody, one more time. | |
| Yeah, so this is another update to the last update. | |
| I'm recording this as I'm driving through my neighborhood in north of Minneapolis here. | |
| Anyway, yeah, so let's discuss the Reddit ban. | |
| So I finally managed to speak with someone on the Reddit mod team or whatever they are, you know, just for the overall Reddit thing. | |
| And I got into a conversation with them. | |
| So here's what happened. | |
| And I'm going to let the band stay. | |
| I'm not going to fight it or anything like that. | |
| That's stupid at this point because I know I'm not going to stop doing what got me banned. | |
| Not specifically. | |
| What originally got me a ban from one of the subreddits was, as I said before, I told a Nazi exactly how to unalive themselves. | |
| And that didn't go over well. | |
| So, yeah, that got me a boot from one. | |
| And then self-promotion of the podcast on now the second podcasting group that had booted me out. | |
| The first one was R slash Podcasting. | |
| And I noticed a lot of people on there were commenting with things like, oh, you know, I want to do this with my show or that with my show, but I don't know what to do, you know, X. I mean, it's really, you know, general help forum kind of shit. | |
| And I would tell people, you know, regarding like this or that, if it was a political show, like, hey, man, I run, you know, Gish Gallop Girl and yada yada yada. | |
| And it didn't matter what the quality of my content was. | |
| It didn't matter that I'd get a lot of upvotes, etc. | |
| The mods on R slash podcasting came down on me pretty quickly and they're like, you know, no self-promotion, etc. | |
| I'm like, well, that's fucking stupid. | |
| And I did that. | |
| I just did that. | |
| Fuck them. | |
| You know, I don't, I don't care. | |
| It's a dumb rule and it's not breaking an actual law. | |
| So yeah, I let them throw me out of that one. | |
| And that was well over a year ago. | |
| Fast forward to more recent times. | |
| And as I had mentioned before on the show and in social media posts, I was booted from R slash Candace Owens after going in there and telling them, you know, who I am and what I do because my username on Reddit was not Thomas Anderson. | |
| I had not quite figured that out several years ago when I made the username. | |
| You know, I hadn't figured out that I was going to be doing a podcast two years later, that kind of thing. | |
| Anyway, so yeah, some of the people on R slash Candace Owens, you know, they, they were civil. | |
| There were a couple of knuckleheads in there, but most of most of the people that spoke with me about the show and what I do were civil. | |
| Well, within about four hours, that post was removed and I was banned by the mods in that group, which wasn't a big shock, but I was like, all right, man, whatever. | |
| You know, so moving forward, R slash podcasts, separate from R slash podcasting. | |
| You know how Reddit groups go. | |
| If you've ever been on there and looked for anything, if you're one letter off or even capitalization, sometimes I think you can wind up in a different group entirely than the one you thought you were going to. | |
| Well, anyway, R slash podcasts, I did a lot of talking on there with people. | |
| And I would always plug the show because, hell, we're free, you know? | |
| Why not? | |
| Well, anyway, R slash podcasts, one of the moderators there didn't like that. | |
| And yeah, took me off of that one too. | |
| No self-promotion, blah, blah, blah. | |
| All right, fine, man, whatever. | |
| Moving on. | |
| Well, this entire time, ever since I got banned, as it were, from R slash Candace Owens, as I've mentioned on the show before, I'd been reaching out to people on there directly. | |
| You know, like I would see their post and I would say something to the effect of, hi, I saw your post on R slash Candace Owens. | |
| I run Gish Gallup Girl, a podcast dedicated to debunking Candace Owens. | |
| You know, and then I would go through whatever I could say directly about their posts. | |
| Whether it was Candace looking, you know, whether it was someone wondering why Candace was pursuing the Brasheet McCrone bullshit or, you know, one of my favorite ones that I responded to pretty regularly on there was people asking, yeah, people saying things like, I think I got a different version of this book. | |
| And they would mention, you know, Hollywood Babylon. | |
| I'm sorry, Hollywood Babylon is a podcast. | |
| Not that. | |
| Hollywood Babylon. | |
| See how different that is. | |
| Hollywood Babylon written by Kenneth Anger. | |
| Or they would ask about Chaos written by Tom O'Neill or whatever other book Candace was currently talking about. | |
| And they would say things like, I think I got a different book than the one that she's pushing because the things she's saying, I don't see them in here at all. | |
| You know, and I would usually respond to those kind of people with the initial paragraph that I talked about. | |
| And then I would say something like, look, the odds are very good. | |
| You did not get a different version. | |
| Candace is a bad student. | |
| Candace's reading comprehension sucks on purpose. | |
| And then I would go into why. | |
| Well, it turns out that five people, they had reports of five people to the Reddit mod team that reached out to them and mentioned that I had been banned and I shouldn't be able to contact them, you know, over DM, which is fair if you get banned from a forum. | |
| See, I'm used to the way that Facebook works, right? | |
| You get banned from a group on Facebook. | |
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Blue Sky Ban Avoidance
00:05:45
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| You're never going to see stuff from them again. | |
| Not from the group anyway. | |
| Individual members maybe if you haven't been blocked on their accounts. | |
| But, you know, you get blocked from a group on Facebook and yeah, you're not going to see shit, right? | |
| Well, that's understandable. | |
| But on Reddit, if you get banned from a group, you can still see their posts. | |
| You can't upvote, downvote, or comment, but you can still see their posts. | |
| Well, apparently, what I was doing by reaching out to these people and trying to have a civil discourse with them was seen as going around the band, as it were. | |
| And so I got perma-banned from Reddit for going around the band. | |
| Now, I'm not sorry that I did that. | |
| When I was talking with the Reddit mod team guy, I was like, oh, only five people reached out to you? | |
| And he goes, well, how many times have you done this? | |
| I said, oh, in excess of 100, easily. | |
| Because I went back to the fact that I'd been reaching out to at least one person today, sometimes as many as three or four. | |
| And the guy's like, I'm surprised you didn't, I assume it was a guy. | |
| Anyway, that's on me. | |
| He goes, I'm surprised you weren't, you know, caught sooner. | |
| And I was like, well, you know, I'm not reaching out with any kind of actual malice. | |
| I'm reaching out to try to like help people. | |
| But, you know, if that's, if that's, if that breaks the terms of service and whatever, you know, I'm not, I can't tell you to not do your job, you know. | |
| I was like, plus, man, I don't, I don't really care. | |
| I've done the work that I've done and I stand behind it. | |
| I'm not sorry that I, that I went around a poorly constructed ban to try to help people out, you know, to try to get them away from a grifter that is living on their clicks and merch sales and subscriptions and all that shit. | |
| I'm not sorry I did that. | |
| And the mod was like, well, you know, okay. | |
| Yeah. | |
| The band stays. | |
| All right, fine, whatever. | |
| You know, and I just, I deleted Reddit off my phone. | |
| I did, you know, obviously, like before all of that happened is when I had immediately made a separate account and I posted up about that and everything. | |
| Well, they eliminated that one too. | |
| They also eliminated my alt accounts that I had. | |
| So unless I feel like going through the song and dance again of making an account on, you know, another like free email or whatever, you know, I will not be on Reddit. | |
| The show will not be represented officially on Reddit anywhere. | |
| And honestly, I'm fine with that. | |
| I helped as many people out as I could. | |
| I'm still obviously very welcome on platforms like Blue Sky, where I've done a little more posting. | |
| Blue Sky is fine. | |
| I've gotten a lot of followers over the last several days, which is pretty neat. | |
| But I don't, I don't really want to be on the socials that much. | |
| You know, I feel confident with what we do on the show that I don't feel like I need to build the audience up anymore. | |
| can kind of leave building the audience to people's general curiosity and maybe the audience itself you know yep there goes a police officer um so that's that's kind of it i i think that's where i'm at right now on all of this uh for anybody that i was dming with via reddit who was having a good conversation with me before it all happened um Y'all can still reach me. | |
| I'm at Gish Gallop Girl on Blue Sky and on Twitter, but I don't fuck with Twitter that much. | |
| I really just go there to see what is going on in the Nazi sphere. | |
| But yeah, if y'all want to reach out to me, you can obviously DM me on Blue Sky. | |
| There's always the email address if you feel comfortable sending an email. | |
| It is Thomas Anderson at Gish Gallu Girl. | |
| I think that's it. | |
| We're not on Facebook still. | |
| I don't really want to fuck with Facebook. | |
| I use Facebook in my normal daily life. | |
| I don't really want to switch accounts or any of that crap. | |
| So I guess that's it. | |
| You know, if you guys want to reach out to me, Blue Sky is an option. | |
| Email is a great option. | |
| I check my email several times a day for various things. | |
| So yeah, that's it. | |
| If anybody has any questions, you can take them to me there. | |
| Otherwise, we should have another episode up next week. | |
| I have to start getting into the real weeds of it today. | |
| I took a couple days off to fuck around on the new No Man's Sky expedition mission. | |
| And I'm just about done with that. | |
| So I've got my head back on. | |
| You know, I'm not going to pretend the Reddit band didn't kind of fuck with me a little bit. | |
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Why Am I Here?
00:01:11
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| It did, but, you know, man, it's like getting fired from a job you really know is toxic, but you kind of enjoy spending time there. | |
| And then you get let go and it's like, you know, you got to hang out there one more time. | |
| You're like, why did I, what am I doing? | |
| You know, I'm not getting paid to be here. | |
| Why the fuck am I here? | |
| It's that kind of thing. | |
| You know, that kind of like brain juice, I guess. | |
| I don't know how to put it. | |
| But yeah, that's it, everybody. | |
| Have a great day. | |
| We look forward to seeing you all again in a week. | |
| Of course, whatever platform you get this on, feel free to leave comments down below. | |
| I may leave this one and the other one up. | |
| I'm undecided on that. | |
| But yeah, our next official episode should be about a, well, maybe not a week from now. | |
| What is this? | |
| Tuesday? | |
| Yeah, this is Tuesday. | |
| Okay. | |
| No, our next episode will be anywhere from next Wednesday to next Friday, of course. | |
| Unless I have to go do a mountain of research like I had to do for polio. | |
| All right. | |
| That's it, everybody. | |
| Bye. | |
| Let's see if I can figure out how to shut this off safely. | |