In the wake of the Washington Post’s Taylor Lorenz doxing the creator of the @libsoftiktok Twitter account in a hit piece, supporters of the account’s work have rallied around her in protest of this attack by establishment media forces.
Some have even taken to replacing their Twitter names and profile pictures with Libs of TikTok branding. But ultimately the organized protest has advocates spreading the message that the account deserves to hit the one million followers milestone.
Within five minutes of watching a real-time graph on SocialBlade, @libsoftiktok gained roughly one-thousand followers.
Follow: @libsoftiktok to take a stand against the Washington Post. https://t.co/T6AUTpn3Ev
— Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) April 19, 2022
Follow @libsoftiktok lets get her to 1 million followers! pic.twitter.com/F1WnpU6Cqr
— Yanky ? ? (@Yanky_Pollak) April 19, 2022
Retweet if you stand with @libsoftiktok ! Get her to 1 million followers!
— Tim Swain (@SwainForSenate) April 19, 2022
On Tuesday, @libsoftiktok responded to Lorenz’s reporting. She highlighted how Lorenz reached out to other social media accounts with threats that they’d be "implicated as starting a hate campaign against LGBTQ people" if said sources didn’t reply to her.
The claim made by Lorenz online was that Libs of TikTok was responsible for so-called "anti-LGBTQ+ sentiment and fueling the right wing media’s outrage machine.
The crux of Lorenz’s write-up boils down to the claim that Libs of TikTok is in the wrong for posting videos on to Twitter, taken from the TikTok platform.
Libs of TikTok reposts content from TikTok. This is important work because that’s the site millions of kids use. The Left is mad at her because they don’t want us to know what our kids are being exposed to. We’re not supposed to see that stuff. Only our kids are.
— Dr. Matt Walsh, Women’s Studies Scholar (@MattWalshBlog) April 19, 2022
In response to people’s reactions on Tuesday, Lorenz wrote off the "harm" of covering Libs of TikTok, despite the fact that the account’s owner had to flee her home because of the Post’s story. Lorenz was documented showing up to the houses of Libs of TikTok’s relatives. The noted irony being how Taylor cried during an NBC interview about how the likes of Tucker Carlson and Glenn Greenwald were her apparent internet bullies.
This is the same woman who showed up at a private citizen’s home to harass them over @libsoftiktok, an anonymous twitter account, but I hope her “severe PTSD” is getting better https://t.co/8hVP095ujf
— Jordan Chamberlain (@jordylancaster) April 19, 2022
The Babylon Bee’s CEO Seth Dillion described what Lorenz did as not "journalism; it's pure intimidation. They're threatened by her effectiveness, so they hope to silence her by making her too afraid to continue. They want to raise the cost of doing her work so high that she has no choice but to quit."
4/ They may have exposed her, but they'll never stop her.
— Seth Dillon (@SethDillon) April 19, 2022
Long live @libsoftiktok.
He also announced it’d be impossible to cancel Libs of TikTok because she has job security with his company for the foreseeable future, no matter what.
The support for Libs of TikTok continues online into Tuesday evening.
WaPo wants to destroy @LibsofTikTok because she is totally independent and has more influence as an anon than 95%+ of regime journalists. They use dupes like @TaylorLorenz, who is entirely dependent on her employer's prestige and willing to degrade herself to maintain it.
— Christopher F. Rufo ?? (@realchrisrufo) April 19, 2022
It's interesting how WaPo cares more about a private citizen, @libsoftiktok, who reposts/exposes groomer TikToks, rather than the groomer TikToks themselves. Good times.
— Sydney Watson (@SydneyLWatson) April 19, 2022
The Official @libsoftiktok has now surpassed 700,000 followers! It has gained nearly 70,000 today alone! Thank you 49 year old Taylor Lorenz!
— TheQuartering (@TheQuartering) April 19, 2022
On April 17, @libsoftiktok had 632,000 followers.
— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) April 19, 2022
Today, after The Washington Post published their bogus hit piece, @libsoftiktok has over 704,000 followers and growing.
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The Post Millennial’s Libby Emmons interviewed Libs of TikTok earlier this month about her beliefs surrounding the state of America’s public education system.
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