I wasn’t planning on doing Yet Another CNN Post. But CNN decided that repeatedly shooting themselves in the foot with a .38 wasn’t sufficient, got out a shotgun and took aim at their own torso.
After embarrassing themselves by freaking out over Trump retweeting a wrestling meme, CNN decided they just hadn’t embarrassed themselves enough and dectupled down by openly threatening to unmask the creator of the meme President Trump retweeted if he didn’t offer up a Mao-era “struggle session” confession of his signs against the class struggle CNN’s fragile ego.
Because that’s a totally normal thing news networks do.
And thus was the #CNNBlackmail tag born.
And did I mention that the person CNN is evidently trying to unmask is reportedly a 15-year old kid?
Bonus: CNN’s Andrew Kaczynski, who made himself the public face of the threatened doxing (“that will teach you to make fun of your awesome media betters, you puny peasant!”) evidently had a key role in a very early Twitter mobbing:
Worth remembering via @exjon https://t.co/QPDAgpKfj4 pic.twitter.com/f1D0ew35Jn
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) July 5, 2017
THAT'S A NICE NAME, KID. IT WOULD BE A SHAME IF SOMEONE WERE TO, I DON'T KNOW, PUBLICIZE IT. https://t.co/qXWhoxG5YN
— Slater (@slatermaus) July 5, 2017
remember this face its the face of @kfile who threatened to doxx a 15 year old for @cnn #CNNBlackmail pic.twitter.com/EJYDj5C05G
— Lemay (@BattleOfChelsea) July 5, 2017
You're pretty quiet over there, @KFILE. No access to twitter in the general counsel's office? #CNNBlackmail
— Arthur Schwartz (@ArthurSchwartz) July 5, 2017
The kid CNN threatened to dox shouldn’t have apologized, he should have had his parents set up a Patron account to make more anti-CNN memes. By lunchtime he’d have been rich enough to retire.
Moreover, CNN’s bragging about they had threatened a random Internet user over a meme was their lead story for hours. Either they have no idea how distasteful the average Internet user would find this wildly disproportionate response, or else their collective egos have been so bruised by constantly losing to Trump that they feel an acute psychic need to celebrate swatting a fly with a howitzer.
And they seem to have no idea just what’s about to happen to them. They just went from “having a bad week” to “worst week for a media company since Hulk Hogan body slammed Gawker clear out of the Prime Material Plane.”
CNN picked a fight with the internet. This is not a fight they can win.
— Tim Pool (@Timcast) July 5, 2017
#CNNBlackmail Oh the irony of an outlet that yells about fascism trying to ruin the life of a random reddit user for a humorous video.
— Styxhexenhammer666 (@Styx666Official) July 5, 2017
So CNN stalked a 15 year old and made him apologize or be shamed publicly for…..a meme?
Next on CNN, "Kicking pro-Trump Puppies"
— Leah the Boss (@LeahRBoss) July 5, 2017
CNN blackmails a private citizen to stop posting offensive memes, now even more people are doing it.
Another epic fail. #CNNBlackmail
— Michelle 🇺🇸 (@michelle4trump) July 5, 2017
If this kid is 15, I'm going to have to go rewrite tomorrow's @Townhallcom column.
Dammit CNN, stop making people hold your beer. 🤔#caring— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) July 5, 2017
I feel bad for Project Veritas.
They put all this work into taking CNN down & in the end CNN knocks themselves out! 😂#CNNblackmail
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) July 5, 2017
CNN can track down a random guy from Reddit, but they totally have no idea how Donna Brazile got the debate questions guys #CNNBlackmail
— Trump Train (@nobrakesontrump) July 5, 2017
Wow
/pol/ has just declared war on @cnn#CNNBlackmail pic.twitter.com/IuALa6rEex
— Luke Rudkowski (@Lukewearechange) July 5, 2017
Getting into meme war with 4Chan is like getting into a land war in Asia. Except that occasionally someone wins a land war in Asia.
"I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve." pic.twitter.com/qBvBQmEpdg
— TheFederalist Tweets (@federalistmemes) July 5, 2017
Anonymity is fine if you're:
✅ A news source accusing the president of treason
❌ Tweeting wrestling memes— neontaster (@neontaster) July 5, 2017
Donald's happy day #CNNBlackMail
Keep the tweets coming 😂🤣😅 pic.twitter.com/CJmkEFQsHO— Kim Dotcom (@KimDotcom) July 5, 2017
The targeted pushback has already begun.
8chan just doxxed a bunch of CNN's people.
— nopenope (@nopenop78310388) July 5, 2017
Here's a list of CNN advertisers. Contact and tell them why @CNN 's behaviour disturbs you. Remember to be respectful. #CNNBlackmail pic.twitter.com/T6u4dsBRZv
— NocturneBlaze (@NocturneBlaze) July 5, 2017
🚨🚨RETWEET🚨🚨
A partial list of CNN's advertisers and their phone numbers. More coming soon. Let them know what you think about #CNNBlackmail. pic.twitter.com/QkMeLzd5VU— Newt-Trump Fan Club (@NewtTrump) July 5, 2017
This will not end well for CNN.
In fact, it may actually end CNN entirely…