I am! I'm stupid enough to say it's definitely fake. And Gamergate and 4chan members, too. Some choice quotes:
You think all the screen captures on imgur are fake?
That reads absolutely like it was made up by a particularly slow twelve year old.
I don't believe it for a second.
The majority of us are calling fake. Too much shit about it doesn't add up.
A lot of it is bullshit- to think that he would be nervous about CRACKED running a hit piece -kek
That conversation looks pretty fake. Note the way everyone speaks and replies in “logical” order: in real chatroom-style stuff, answers are out of order and all over the place because everyone’s typing and replying at the same time. Even a two-person conversation doesn’t look that neat and tidy.
People say these logs are fake and were made by SJW trolls to sow discord and confusion among redpilled posters
The leaks also say that Cracked.com promised to run a smear article about him and about 4chan. And, although running smear campaigns has become nothing new to cracked in the past few years, smearing 4chan is like smearing shit on some more shit.
This is either a lie, proof the logs are fake, or proof that m00t is now actually making failed attempts to change his image.
That last one is Encyclopedia Dramatica.
Can you please say something clear like "I believe it's possible that Cracked blackmailed the creator of 4chan by threatening to hire feminist hackers to bring down the site in order to further the SJW agenda conspiracy"? Just to have something simple to quote once some 4channer comes forward and says "Oh yeah, I made up that chat, did someone fall for it?"
Don't you think it's a tad lazy--and disingenuous--to use faceless IDs apart of an amorphous movement to insinuate the credibility of your position without coming to an absolute conclusion on it yourself? Supposing the chat was confirmed to have taken place, the pseudo-position you've taken remains convenient enough for you to say 'it made more sense to believe
this anecdote from the horse's interwebz mouth over
that anecdote from his interwebz asshole' without having to either indict or defend the SJW culture in the process--or Cracked in particular for that matter.
Consider ED for a moment: it doesn't actually take a position on whether or not the chat is fake. That block you quoted was a part of a larger article that speculates the chat's authenticity (while holding it against a larger preponderance of evidence that m00t is/was being pinched) without denying or confirming anything. So even though the authors that contribute to ED exhibit a more apparent dislike for the SJW crowd and all its cultural Marxist doings, it doesn't rely on passively supporting/attacking anyone--or, more specifically, "concerned trolling."
While I'm sure that skepticism is the safest, and most advantageous, position to take, it doesn't actually advance discussion on...anything. Its principal application is, more often than not, to stymie the discussion.
It used to be a sarcastic term for people who pretended to care about social issues but were all talk (basically, all of Tumblr). Now it's used against anyone who even says anything about any social issue, ever, so it's pretty much lost meaning.
More hyperbole? Whatever for?
