#fake narrative

[saraloveslove]

I don't even know where to start with this.

The day Liam releases his new single, the single that means his rebirth, his new life, the ex stunt arrives and tries to totally destroy his reputation by dragging him in the worst of the muds.

Nobody will even read the book, but the cover, the caption and the triggers give a very precise narrative.

The cover looks like a fanfic one, with a rainbow and a musician. It screams Liam since the beginning. Then there is the caption, wich refers to a very precise moment in time and talks about having suffered by major traumas.

So the equation is done: Liam caused her serious traumas, traumas she needed therapy for.

Let's add to this what we already know, because he himself spoke about that: he was an alchoolist and has been also in that period Maya is talking about in her book.

So the equation becomes: Liam, who was an alchoolist, caused major traumas to his lovely naive girlfriend, at the point she needed therapy to recover.

Then the coupe de grace, the final trigger warnings. And even the order in which they are written is not casual.

Hence the final destructive equation is quickly done: Liam Payne, the ex boybander become a failed miserable human being, was an alchoolist who abused - phisically and verbally - his little helpless unprotected girlfriend. Because of him she self-harmed, she suffered of eating disorder and she became addicted too, at the point that all of this caused her a miscarriage.

All of this is so serious in a way I can't even start to explain.

I have so many questions in mind: who is behind this? Who is gonna try to destroy Liam once for all? To whom he rebelled? To whom he said no? Who did he expose or tried to? What did he do to deserve this?

Because I have a certainity: Maya is not intelligent enough to do this all on her own. And, moreover, I am not even sure she by herself is powerful enough to win a battle against Liam's lawyers. Maya is just a tool. But of who?

And, last but not least: no, I don't believe the victim. Not this time. And this enrages me on so many levels, because Maya is invalidating all the true victims. She is damaging women's fights.

Liam Payne, for how it worths, I am by your side.

#liam payne #liam #Maya henry #1d #closet #stunts #fake narrative #they are trying to destroy his career and his life #book #triggers #abuse #industry abuses #alchool #alchool addiction #addiction

[l-cereta]

i think honestly the craziest thing abt transmisogyny isn't like the active moments of hate but the complete unwillingness and uninterest in anything we have to say — this assumption that if a trans woman is talking it's not worth your time and you can just scroll past. and then you'll have fuck terfs in your bio like nothing happened! wild

#if any of yall reblog that f1nnster post im gonna be heated for realsies tho #sorry! it actually was really shitty of her to perpetuate 'trap' narratives! that sucked a lot actually! #glad he's genderfluid now genuinely like good job but the amount of videos she put out that are like. just. spot the Fake Woman #like PLEASE respect tgirls even a little bit

[softersynths]

they say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery!

#this was just going to be the clones but then I drew them all. Ok #pizza tower #peppino #fake peppino #pizzano #sugary spire #my favorite narrative device: fragmentation of the self

[sagaduwyrm]

The reason I refuse to acknowledge any other batfam death other than Jason is because, narratively, none of the others mattered.

Jason's death shaped everything that came after it in how the batfam responded to his death and handled it, and completely shaped his character.

I don't even know about most of the other "deaths" because they were so comparatively unimportant.

#if you ever get a chance to write comics #and you're thinking about killing and bringing the character back #ask yourself #is this a death that will matter for the rest of this character's existence? #will it shake their character forever? #if not? find some other method of creating tension #fake their death instead or something #Jason Todd and Bucky Barnes are the only valid died and came back story lines (I know Bucky didn't die but /narratively/—) #jason todd

[feminismisstillahatemovement]

The relentless lies of the mainstream media around one man have destroyed their credibility in regard to all other things for all time.

#fake news #propaganda #media narrative #the death of journalism #nbc news #cbs news #rolling stone #TDS

[odinsblog]

Caveat Lector 🚨🚨🚨

Donald Trump supporters have been creating and sharing AI-generated fake images of black voters to encourage African Americans to vote Republican.

BBC Panorama discovered dozens of deepfakes portraying black people as supporting the former president.

Mr. Trump has openly courted black voters, who were key to Joe Biden's election win in 2020.

But there's no evidence directly linking these images to Mr. Trump's campaign.

The co-founder of Black Voters Matter, a group which encourages black people to vote, said the manipulated images were pushing a “strategic narrative” designed to show Mr. Trump as popular in the black community.

A creator of one of the images told the BBC: “I'm not claiming it's accurate.”

The fake images of black Trump supporters, generated by artificial intelligence (AI), are one of the emerging disinformation trends ahead of the US presidential election in November.

Unlike in 2016, when there was evidence of foreign influence campaigns, the AI-generated images found by the BBC appear to have been made and shared by US voters themselves.

One of them was Mark Kaye and his team at a conservative radio show in Florida.

They created an image of Mr. Trump smiling with his arms around a group of black women at a party and shared it on Facebook, where Mr. Kaye has more than one million followers.

At first it looks real, but on closer inspection everyone's skin is a little too shiny and there are missing fingers on people's hands - some tell-tale signs of AI-created images.

“I'm not a photojournalist,” Mr. Kaye tells me from his radio studio. “I'm not out there taking pictures of what's really happening. I'm a storyteller.”

Disinformation tactics in the US presidential elections have evolved since 2016, when Donald Trump won. Back then, there were documented attempts by hostile foreign powers, such as Russia, to use networks of inauthentic accounts to try to sow division and plant particular ideas.

In 2020, the focus was on home-grown disinformation - particularly false narratives that the presidential election was stolen, which were shared widely by US-based social media users and endorsed by Mr. Trump and other Republican politicians.

In 2024, experts warn of a dangerous combination of the two.

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#politics #republicans #donald trump #deepfakes #disinformation #republican dirty tricks #misinformation #ai #a.i. #artificial intelligence #media manipulation #false narratives #black republicans #caveat lector #black voters matter #mark kaye #fake ai

[spacedlexi]

people who think clem surviving makes no sense are so funny. "they were literally foreshadowing her death the entire season" let me introduce you to the concept of a red herring. she tells lilly she isnt lee and shes right. the narrative was forcing her down that path, a path she saw as an inevitable fate waiting to take her too, but its a narrative broken by aj, who is also his own person and not S1 clem

"it happened to lee, and itll happen to you" lilly tells clem she'll die protecting aj from some mistake he makes, when in reality his defiance of her will is what saves her life after she had already accepted her fate. he breaks clem free from the lee cycle and they get their relatively happy ending. good for them

#anyway in the commentary they talk about how they Were going to have a death ending but didnt like the idea of the good/bad ending #and how people would moreso try to avoid the 'bad end' which i understand and appreciate bc thats usually what happens #so instead they gave us both :) idk why some people seem to have such a huge problem with that #they broke the cycle :) the ericson kids broke the cycle by being a loving community :) they all break the cycle by refusing the delta #lilly and minnie were both lost to the cycle. lilly with her dad and minnie with lilly #minnie couldnt let go. clem almost did the same and it would have killed her too. but aj makes a Choice and it saves her #god even tho clem is noticeably happier in s4 shes still so gd depressed and Tired. she accepted it so fast im so glad he saved her #like idk you saw her come back on screen after that massive fake out and you got Mad?? i was crying twice as hard #i know ive made this similar post before but like i still see this criticism in 2024 and i just have to laugh now #it speaks #twdg #i just love the narrative threads of S4 bro.... seasons 1 and 4 are two sides of the same coin and i love that. its satisfying

[chlix]

calendar alert

bf!felix x reader: felix forgets a date you planned

genre: fluff warnings: swearing (ofc) A/N: based off the instagram post of him working on that custom keyboard. this was written before the interview with him talking about it was posted

#skz x reader #skz x y/n #felix x reader #skz fake texts #felix fake texts #felix x you #the way this is narratively the exact opposite of my jisung texts lmao

[ladystoneboobs]

no of fence to jon snow fans who for some reason care about his exact age, but these discussions just annoy me no end. not only bc there's no way any weirwood flashbacks bran has to rhaegar/lyanna will come with time/datestamps, but also bc there's always comments like this:

SEVERAL turns of the moon (ie, months)?! have these people never seen a human baby before or just have no concept of their ages? even if we take into account travel time from the toj to wf, meaning jon was not a newborn too fresh out the oven when catelyn and robb arrived, there's still a difference between a newborn and a 3mo and an even bigger difference between those infants and an older baby 5-7mo. there's very good reasons these lines were cut. whatever birthdates can be worked out internally for jon and robb from when they're first mentioned as 15 and 16 don't matter in the end, bc grrm doesn't care about a consistent timeline and the actual text of catelyn's pov and ned's convo with robert about cheating on her should outweigh any guesstimates about jon's official nameday wrt robb's. catelyn may not have cared for jon, but she would sure as hell have noticed his nameday if it came before robb's and made him ned's firstborn. if jon's birthday canonically came before robb's then either ned's cover story would not involve adultery (not impossible for him to sire a bastard before his wedding), or he'd just give jon a new nameday along with his new name to fit the adultery lie. it makes no sense for him to lie about one and not the other, undermining the big lie with a little public clue of his story not adding up. whatever else she was as a stepmother, cat wasn't stupid and a bastard who was actually the eldest son being raised alongside her trueborn heir could be an even bigger insult than whether he was born of adultery or not.

BUT, the unknowability of jon's true birthday is not the only reason this annoys me, it's bc this is all based on the assumption that jon must be older since rhaegar/lyanna ran off together before ned married cat, as if both boys must have been conceived asap as robb canonically was when his parents consummated their marriage. and that's not how human reproduction works! even if you don't understand how fast babies grow in the first year, you should know that people who get pregnant do so through ovulation cycles and a lucky sperm finding an egg and all that, not just immediately getting knocked up as soon as one has p-in-v sex for the first time. not unless you only know mean girls sex ed where if you have sex you will get pregnant and die. (even tho lyanna did die, there's plenty of canon examples where pregnancy did not lead straight to death. also examples of people who did not get pregnant right away and even some who are/were sexually active and childless without always having moon tea on hand.) we can't know how long lyanna was having sex before that sperm+egg match happened or even how long she was with rhaegar before losing her technical virginity. if they were married, doesn't it make sense to think they didn't consummate their relationship until the wedding night either? that's the only leverage there is to ensure a status as wife rather than just mistress.

and while i just said grrm doesn't care about exact timelines and a lot is still foggy surrounding the rebellion and esp rhaegar, there is one timemarker wrt robert's rebellion he voluntarily threw in, time and time again: that stannis was besieged at storm's end for almost a whole year. that siege, which mind you, did not match the duration of the entire war. it only started after robert won his battles at gulltown and summerhall, returned to storm's end, and then went out and lost the battle of ashford, leaving his homeland open to the reachermen. the same siege which only ended when ned made a detour there after the sack of king's landing, before going to the toj. even if lyanna may not have given birth that exact day ned found her, she could only be waiting in that bloody bed for weeks at the most, not months. so if rhaegar knocked her up the very same night he carried her off and jon was still a newborn when ned found her after the siege of storm's end had ended, wouldn't that mean lyanna was pregnant for well over a year? that's not how human pregnancy works either! so, maybe that's proof that jon and robb, whichever order they were actually born in, were actually very close in age as babies, much closer than if they were both conceived asap.

and really, jon's actual birthdate does not matter imho, when he was raised not just as the bastard to robb's trueborn heir, but with robb also known by catelyn and the world as ned's firstborn (which he was, in any case, as jon was ned's nephew by birth). what difference could a birthdate before robb's make (even were there some means of discovery) after ned, cat, and robb are all dead? if one is looking only at his birth parents then he's only a firstborn child on lyanna's side, but definitely a second son on rhaegar's side. maybe he was always meant to be a second son with a not much older half-brother! even if the aegon fka young griff is not in fact rhaegar's son, he'll still be known as aegon vi targaryen, meaning jon will never be known as any father's elder son. if i may reference mean girls again, it's not going to happen.

#valyrianscrolls #asoiaf #asoiaf meta #robb stark #jonathan snowflake starkgaryen #i want him to succeed me as king in the north #jon snow #ned stark #lyanna stark #like this isn't prompted by anyone except that reddit post and its comments this has just annoyed me for so long #that's why i made that show!robb/show!jon coming of age gifset years ago bc narratively jon is always a second son #bc robb did everything first as elder bro and the only milestones jon will hit first will be the those robb can't since he's dead for good #(obviously starting with jon being first male stark to be brought back from the dead) #not that everyone interested in this debate thinks this way but it just feels tied to the idea of jon being a trueborn heir #not only was he never a bastard he was an eldest boy! eldest surviving boy with those pesky half-dornish sibs gone! point missed. #sorry i just dont think grrm means for a targ restoration with king jon any more than fake eldest boy kendall roy could win his succession #(c)lsb #i had to look up all the quotes on the big storm's end siege bc it makes me feel like i'm taking crazy pills #thinking what abt stannis starving for a year while others are like we just can't know how long rr was. was it even 9mons? #like yeah lollys's pregnancy doesn't add up but bc grrm really slowed the tl down postacok prob w/o really thinking #thats diff from repeatedly saying something lasted almost a year when he didn't have to give such a timeframe!

[ganymedesclock]

To explain The Goblin Problem and not go on a tag rant on someone else's reblog, I will explain it in the nutshell.

The Goblin Problem is when a story establishes a group of creatures to serve as recurrent antagonists (not necessarily all one species; in a lot of rpg games this can broadly apply to "monsters") THAT:

Are never negotiable, or the negotiable parties among them are Token Heroic Orcs- that is to say, they are seen as objectors or 'good' versions who have absolutely no connections to, and hold no objections toward you attacking, the rest of their brethren, who they have forsaken as the price to be paid for being good.

Have obvious unique technology; they may attack you with weapons found nowhere else in the game, demonstrate the ability to speak, have their own obvious language, tame a creature that nobody else tames so that it's thus impossible that they are stealing already-tamed specimens from someone else

Are characterized primarily or exclusively as raiders who attack others, with the justification this means they are inferior creatures parasitically dependent on Good, Civilized Settings, e.g. they cannot possibly be sustainably hunting, gathering, or practicing either nomadic or settled agriculture.

Are often defined as having no choice to be evil or are created by a greater evil to serve as thralls, and yet, will not under any circumstances be regarded as indoctrinated victims, or if that is mentioned, there will nonetheless be an overarching lack of narrative concern as to where or how the survivors should live after the greater evil is taken care of, or if effort should be made to challenge the indoctrination and give them the ability to choose their lives.

What this ultimately creates is that they are unambiguously people, who obviously check all the marks of sapience, who are quite possibly wearing clothes, but the goblin or orc exists as a stopgap. You want your fantasy hero to get into a swordfight but you don't want him to kill another human being. So you invent something that wields a sword but is in some way "not a person", which is senseless. Unless you want the nature of this swordfight to be that a chimpanzee picked up a knife, at which point they are not going to use reliable sword techniques.

#writing ruminations #the goblin problem #way too many fantasy stories take basically racist myths and then go 'well but it's different if this is Literally True' #'and applies to a species I made up that's also ugly by white western able-bodied standards' #and the underpinning motivation is you need a conflict token to move against your protagonists #and you don't want to suggest they're butchering animals- even scary ones- or hurting People #so you invent fake-animal-people whose job is only to be mean and have no apparent role in an ecosystem #and it's. I don't know how to tell you that's bad chief #even in a black-and-white good guys vs. bad guys clean cut narrative you should REALLY not split morality along race or species lines #hell in an extremely straightforward good vs. evil narrative you kinda gotta think about that MORE

[vakarians-babe]

i cannot bring myself to care about people like mary kirby and lukas 'i hate lesbians' kristjansson getting the axe at bioware in this wave of layoffs.

what i DO care about, however, is the fact that this comes just over a year since the Bioware QA team unanimously voted to unionize. as of right now, it would seem that they're being heavily impacted by the layoffs. which feels fairly obvious as union busting to me, ngl.

#im tired of the narrative being 'ohhhh these poor senior writers' #sorry but lukas kristjansson sucks besties #mary kirby is fine ig but like she wrote bianca iirc. everyones favorite emotionally abusive and manipulative gf. #there will always be multiple people contributing to characters but you cant fake a hefty QA team #nor can you pretend not to union bust when thats basically what youre doing #bioware

[barbiegirldream]

Dream antis are so funny like you guys spent an entire year 1000% balls to the walls convinced you were correct about nothing 😭

#like we're supposed to be cpac in this narrative???? #you guys are fake newsing a whistleblower about abusive labor conditions and don't understand quackity stepping away is so he can scapegoat

[bonefall]

a small thing about canon warriors that really rubs me the wrong way is how much play is demonized for literally no reason? there are just. so many scenes where the pov character bats something around and is immediately shamed for it by another character. or they stop as soon as they realize what they’re doing and go “ugh that was so EMBARRASSING i hope nobody saw”

the weirdest example happens in graystripe’s adventure when he chases a butterfly for 0.2 seconds and then is like “oh no being a kittypet is making me act like a kit!1!” as if play behavior is exclusive to kittens and that housecats are only playful because they’re undisciplined and soft or whatever.

realism is usually a non-issue when it comes to canon warriors, but these cats are shown to have intrinsic play/hunting instincts, yet they’re shunned and infantilized by clan culture as well as the narrative. it just makes me really uncomfortable, especially as an autistic person. there is no reason why it needs to be a part of this series, all it does is make clan culture feel that much more joyless and dystopian.

I agree, it IS weird. Graystripe should have followed the butterfly hoping it would lead him home like Moth Flight, and then when it lands on a flower he calls it a slur

Hyperbole of a point being; Clan culture should have a ton of problems, but very particular problems. It's xenophobic, battle-obsessed, ableist, and insular. Its religion is powerful, but can also be used oppressively.

As it is canonically, there's almost NOTHING good about this little society, it's miserable.

They shouldn't HATE playing and have absolutely no downtime. It's brutal and limits the story; the characters can't just hang out. They can't just get to know each other. They can't be alone with their thoughts. It's beyond dystopian.

Anyway it's something I intentionally set out to fix with my Clan Culture expansions lmao. They have games. They throw celebrations. They nap and hang out and watch butterflies. There's still a ton of problems and they value the concept of hard work, but there IS downtime.

Like, it's not capitalist lmao.

#Better bones au #Bone babble #I think it's somewhat related to the writers wanting it to feel like theyre fighting for survivial hunting every scrap of food #But. Stop that. #That sucks actually. You dont need that. It serves the narrative better if they aren't actually starving and just use Starvation Rhetoric-- #As an excuse to exclude groups of people #I am once again asking for canon to have clarity of purpose #For the love of god please stop justifying eugenicist rhetoric because youre too cowardly to admit your fake battle cat society-- #Has a real xenophobia problem

[herorkgk]

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE DRAW MORE LADY REIGEN I'M BEGGING YOU

ask and ye shall receive

#.answered #requests #my art #doodles #mp100 #reigen arataka #ekubo #ekurei #i dont want this getting confused w a genderswap its just him lol #i didnt have an exact story in mind for these doodles #but the loose narrative is reigen had to disguise himself for a job to get into a fancy restaurant that's haunted #dimple is his “fake” date #also he's ftm duh

[idleorbitals]

sandray being paralleled by their entire surroundings in ofts ep 8, exhibit a: the lighter

"why don't you just quit smoking, if you're not going to carry a lighter?"

absolutely absurd, sand. the logical framing of this q is why don't you just carry a lighter, if you're going to keep smoking? but of course this question is not really about the lighter, it's about sand. why don't you just quit coming after me, if you're not going to be serious about us?

as we will be shown in the very next scene, ray does, in fact, carry a lighter.

I wOnder what that could mEan??

#my entire reaction to that first scene was surprise at how much narrative setup sandray is getting #not the preview faking us yet again where it's not (just) sand moping over ray but ray moping over sand from jump. bb you can't have it all #ofts #only friends the series #ofts meta #raysand