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On 27 September 2015, the web site the Portly Gazelle published an article titled A Man Saved Me from Drowning, But Now I Am Suing Him for Rape Because He Touched Me. The text of that article was a verbatim reproduction of an article published by the web site The Stately Harold on 7 June 2015, which read, in part: This article about Cassidy Boon suing the swimmer who rescued was not a report of real-life events. It originated with the satirical web site The Stately Harold, which carries the following disclaimer on their About page identifying all of their material as fiction: The Stately Harold is a satirical website. None of the stories have a grain of truth to them and the opinions do not belong to real people. Likewise, The Portly Gazelle, which republished the fictional story, characterizes its content as follows: Disclaimer: All stories on this site are satire and the opinions expressed do not belong to any real people. If persons appear in the picture they have nothing to do with the story. In addition to supposedly publishing additional articles written from the perspective of a straw feminist, Cassidy Boon maintains a Twitter account. The photograph used both for that account and her feminist articles is identical to that of a webcam model who uses the handle FreckledFox. The fake Cassidy Boon articles bore similarities to earlier hoaxes involving a woman who purportedly had an abortion after learning the fetus was male, and another that included the (fake) Twitter account of a disgruntled black McDonald's employee named Bubba Conroy.
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