Hi everybody.
My brother @transfaguette went missing last Tuesday. The family was left a suicide note on a hard drive similar to the one posted on this platform 2 nights ago. His last known location was Chittenango Falls, New York, our hometown. You may have seen the selfie of him standing in front of the falls. The park was turned upside down by the most qualified personnel in the state, including SWAT and cadaver dogs. Ansel is nowhere to be found. You may have seen the news reports.
We suspect he may be alive somewhere with somebody. The police have been on top of this investigation 24/7 and have gone to every length to help us. There is one major piece missing to this puzzle that we feel could provide us some answers - his online presence. If you interacted with Ansel on Tumblr, X, and specifically Discord, *please* reach out to me. Accessing this information would require dozens of subpoenas that would take months. If you have any screenshots or anything you’d like to share, pm me and I will give you my personal number. If you would like to just talk to the police, you can call the tip hotline at 315-366-6000.
Take care of each other. Look out for each other. Thank you.
are you fucking kidding me
those fucking pricks
that's insensitive as hell
This is the first article google!
To a very vague extent I can kind of understand the phrasing, but how it is phrased in the ladder one makes it sound like Ansel was a nickname instead of his name.
A lot of of the news outlets also seem to be avoiding using pronouns altogether, or use they/them(which, at least from my understanding his pronouns were specifically he/him), instead referring to him by his last name in a possessive form (as seen in the images above, Blaszkow's) even in places where it would make more sense to use pronouns such as he or his.
Also this might be more, like….. less purposeful…. But all of them are referring to him as a missing person, not missing man, missing person. While missing person is generally used across the US no matter the person‘s gender, in a lot of cases like this as well these people are referred to as missing women, missing girl, missing man, missing boy….. the consistent traits of calling him person, instead of man…. even in other parts of the article is something that I have noticed.
