so about your contribution to this post: https://www.tumblr.com/dreamyhopes/822414547498516480/im-like-90-convinced-this-is-a-troll
i did a bit of a deep dive and chances are, that redditor is not a troll. here's why:
first, if you look at the subreddit, and then OOP's user flair, you'll see that their flair says "proshipper." that already tells us that they are *not* the artist in the image posted.
from there, i did a reverse image search and it led me to a few different twitter/X accounts. one of which is... an account (who i'll call user B) dedicated to keeping "receipts" on some proshipper (who i'll call user A) who's apparently an art thief or whatever. idk. that's irrelevant. however, one post on user B's account is a screenshot of a post from user A, in which A is calling out the artist who's openly confessing to scamming someone. the original post is linked in A's post.
but, unsurprisingly, the scam artist's post and account are missing, so i can't trace anything from there.
therefore, the reddit account you mentioned is an entirely different person than the scam artist, and likely screenshotted the scammer's original post and then posted it on that subreddit. it seems to be commonplace to repost things from antis as a means of making them look bad or whatever.
tl;dr the redditor is not a troll, and is instead a proshipper who was merely reposting a screenshot of an antishipper's post from twitter/X, presumably to bring it to light.
first, if you look at the subreddit, and then OOP's user flair, you'll see that their flair says "proshipper." that already tells us that they are not the artist in the image posted.
...unless they're a troll. Do you know how trolls work? idk how to tell you this, but some people can and do just go on the internet and tell lies.
Anyway, now that I'm not on mobile, I also did a reverse image search, and
This person is in no way dedicated to keeping receipts of pr0sh1pp3rs (censored to avoid coming up in searches). They're a twitter user who's account is dedicated to being angry about proshippers and comfortable calling other (real!) people slurs. And the account is only a few months old.
So you're either making things up to try and justify falling for bait, or you didn't search exact image matches, saw these results
which are all very obviously different women from the original, and thought they were the same. The generous explanation here, if that's the case, is you're face blind.
The original post is ragebait, and, like I said in my tags, it's deeply insidious that the original post decided to use a black woman's face for their trolling.
If you can't provide me a link to the original post the "screen cap" was taken from, don't bother. Don't let your wish to feel morally superior to a group blind you to what is clearly racist trolling meant to farm engagement through anger.
