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A Bit Fruity with Matt Bernstein

Libs of TikTok

A Bit Fruity with Matt Bernstein

Matt Bernstein

News, News Commentary, Society & Culture

4.92.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2023

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

At the forefront of today’s anti-LGBTQ movement is one shockingly uncharismatic woman. Journalist Taylor Lorenz helps us understand the rise of Chaya Raichik, a former real estate agent who now makes a handsome living terrorizing queer students and teachers across the country using her Twitter account, @libsoftiktok. We also hear directly from some of her former targets. Buy Taylor’s new book here. Watch the video of this episode on YouTube. Find more of A Bit Fruity. Find more of Matt. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

People have always come, came after me in like these specific types of people like they've always called me a pedophile

0:06.2

They've always called me a groomer. So I was like, yeah, yeah, whatever. It's Tuesday

0:15.3

Hello, hello, and welcome back to a bit fruity the show that is responsible for zero bomb threats so far

0:23.2

I'm Matt Bernstein and I am so grateful and happy that you're here today

0:27.0

If you like the show, please consider following us on whatever app you're listening to this on

0:32.6

So you get reminded each week when we release new episodes

0:35.9

You can also find us on YouTube and on Instagram at a bit fruity pod

0:40.2

All of those links will be in the episode description last week

0:44.3

37-year-old woman named Catherine Levy from Massachusetts pled guilty to calling in bomb threats to the Boston children's hospital last August

0:52.0

There's a bomb on the way to the hospital. You better evacuate everybody use sickos

0:56.5

She set in a phone call to the hospital

0:58.4

The call was made a few days after the hospital was put on blast by a twitter account called libs of tiktok

1:03.2

Which disparaged the hospital for providing gender-affirming care to trans people

1:07.3

Lives of tiktok pushed the conspiracy that the hospital was providing surgery to trans miners, which was not true

1:13.5

After the bomb threat the hospital was put on lockdown and a bomb squad was dispatched

1:18.2

Libbs of tiktok is for the most part a twitter account or ex or whatever it's called by the time you're listening to this

1:26.1

Libbs of tiktok currently has two and a half million followers. I'm blocked

1:30.1

Which I wear as a badge of honor

1:32.0

But it's essentially a curated never-ending stream of content

1:36.5

Reposted from other people's tiktoks or other social media accounts

1:40.5

Most of these people are queer teachers or social workers or doctors or just literally random queer people

1:48.0

It could be some teacher in Colorado with 50 followers who posted a tiktok from their classroom

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