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A little peek into some very depressing happenings on reddit-logo

See the first link at the bottom, for the main evidence dump and collation.


For a brief tldr, a convicted pedophile abuser, Brynn, got uncovered as a mod in a subreddit for trans women, /r/mtf. In leaked discord convos, the head mod, CedarWolf, was shown downplaying it, and suggesting they swap their account for a new, anonymous one. Cedarwolf is a mod on over 100 subreddits, most of them LGBT related.

With the news blown, instead of like dealing with it responsibly, they just locked down, deleted, and banned anyone who mentioned it on subreddits they controlled. They're going all in on damage control and pedo defense. They made a few posts trying to downplay the news as misleading or harassment, but the community was not accepting it. For a while, they locked the subreddit entirely, but apparently Cedarwolf stopped looking at it for a bit, as it's now entirely filled again with posts calling for them to resign.

The news stayed relatively quiet for a bit, but now it's to the point that Elon discovered it and is tweeting about it. Needless to say, this is fucked in so many ways. It's likely people were put at risk or harmed by the mod teams behaviors and actions, and it's also perfect propaganda bait for right wing shitheads as the news continues to slowly grow. Predictably, Reddit admins are choosing to stay uninvolved, given their "libertarian" lean.

(Also the pronoun use in regards to CedarWolf is deliberate. They aren't a trans woman, despite running a trans woman subreddit. They're he/they/she non-transitioning bigender).


I don't have the full list of all assorted evidence, as this is more just me being depressed and venting, but here's a few bits and pieces.

Main collection of evidence. User since deleted their account, so it's an archive link. Has pictures of discord screenshots, plus snips of the mod's sex offender registry. An ex, who's a reddit mod of /r/egg_irl, posted in the thread alleging that the modremovedd and abused her.

Post with various response/discussion links

Sex offender registry of Brynn

Elon Musk discovering the story through a TERF propaganda outlet and massively amplifying it.

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[–] WokePalpatine@hexbear.net 26 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I TOLD YOU. I TOLD YOU ABOUT THE MODS. i-told-you-dog

[–] Ildsaye@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago

stairs it keeps hapening

[–] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 25 points 1 month ago

Boil all Redditors

[–] cosecantphi@hexbear.net 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Reddit has such a long and storied history of replacing mod teams on left wing subreddits with hand picked stooges that this is almost certainly a psyop. Reddit is not at all tenable for left wing agitation, and everyone to the left of Bernie should entirely abandon the site if they don't want to be useful idiots for the Epsteinite admins.

There's a reason why all the long lived communist subreddits on that site are constantly on jesse-wtf shit, and the rest end up banned like r/chapotraphouse

[–] yellowfattybean@hexbear.net 15 points 1 month ago (2 children)

We've been scattered to the wind between getting off Facebook, off Twitter, and off Reddit. The poster diaspora

[–] BearerOfPickles@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago

Reddit was promised to us 3000 years ago

[–] poopsmith@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 month ago

Tale as old as time. I'm sure they're already coming for Lemmy.

[–] Ildsaye@hexbear.net 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The next best time to leave the Ghislaine Maxwell site is now

[–] somename@hexbear.net 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)

To be honest, with all the infiltration of Reddit, and the various revelations, I do kinda wonder if they were purposefully allowed to be in this spot.

[–] JustSo@hexbear.net 18 points 1 month ago

Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The seven hundred and eighty fifth time is enemy action.

[–] whiskers165@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago

Absolutely a paid wrecker

[–] LaughingLion@hexbear.net 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

an animal sanctuary i follow was targetted by sick redditors. the poor woman was harassed to ending herself. i fucking hate reddit

[–] Inui@hexbear.net 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You're talking about SaveAFox? Agree, Reddit is no functionally different than 4chan or SomethingAwful when it comes to harassment.

[–] LaughingLion@hexbear.net 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

yeah i literally still cant believe they did that to that poor woman. absolute monsters

[–] Cysioland@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Supposedly a bigger part of harassment were people that knew Mikayla personally, and the counter-witchhunt blew up because one of the alleged harassers was trans

[–] LaughingLion@hexbear.net 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

there were some other sanctuaries around her that had beef and contributed because the hearts of men are small and petty

[–] Cysioland@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 month ago

There are some nasty people in the companion animal rescue community too so I am not at all surprised

[–] KobaCumTribute@hexbear.net 19 points 1 month ago (2 children)

CedarWolf has been at the center of so much incredibly unforced drama, just an absolute fucking up for no reason magnet. I met them once a very long time ago, they're a veteran and felt the need to talk about how great being in the military was and how well accommodated their particular nb identity was for some reason.

[–] inTheShadowOf@hexbear.net 12 points 1 month ago

Ugh, the absolute biggest red flag of all time is someone who has to make being a vet part of their personality. I can't stand them.

Not surprising at all to hear that on top of all the other bullshit, Cedar is also a vet.

[–] blobjim@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago

So you're telling me they work in psychological operations...

[–] BattleshipPokemon@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Literally everything ive seen from cedarwolf is them writing entirely irrelevant inane bs as either a sobstory or a humble brag about how much irl volunteering they do (seemingly in addition to having the time to work a full time job and mod >100 subreddits posting a ton every day). Its so fucking grim that these front facing spaces for trans women are held hostage by ego trippers like him wanting to force it to include literally everything that will make us look as bad as possible.

[–] whiskers165@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago

All the volunteering + fully time job + reddit power mod in this context feels like a wrecker on someone's payroll

[–] PKMKII@hexbear.net 12 points 1 month ago
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