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  • 2021-03-24 (xsd:date)
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  • Kaitlin Bennett ‘WAP’ Tweet – Truth or Fiction? (en)
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  • Kaitlin Bennett ‘WAP’ Tweet Claim Kaitlin Bennett tweeted: Yeah, I love my WAP. White American Privilege 🇺🇸😘 Rating True Like this fact check? Reporting In March 2021, screenshots of a tweet attributed to Kent State gun girl Kaitlin Bennett began circulating in which Bennett interpreted the song WAP , an explicit and sexually provocative song that has become grist for the far-right performative outrage mill , as white American privilege: Very frequently, the purported tweet was shared in screenshot form — leading to Facebook discussions over whether the tweet was satire or a hoax: In the Facebook comments above, a top-level commenter said of the screenshot: This is a fake account, she’s a terrible person don’t get me wrong, but she didn’t say that Another user replied: You sure about that? I’ve never seen anything to suggest kaitmarieox is anyone other than Kaitlin Bennett. Florida is where wokes go to die... Please enable JavaScript Florida is where wokes go to die Another version of the tweet was shared to (and later deleted from) the subreddit r/ToiletPaperUSA — to which we have linked in the past in the course of other fact-checks around parody content and conservative media personalities. Some content shared to r/ToiletPaperUSA has prompted confusion over more than one viral post attributed to a specific group of commentators (typically far right personalities and their organizations, such as Ben Shapiro, PragerU, Charlie Kirk, and TurningPointUSA): She s got the WAP from ToiletPaperUSA In that version (for which cached versions still exist), the tweet was edited (or further edited) to reference a popular meme about Bennett purportedly defecating in her pants at a college party: does any one have the pic/evidence that gun girl pooped herself from KentStateUniversity In an attempt to gauge interest in the veracity of the tweet attributed to Bennett, we searched Google Trends data for the week ending March 24 2021. Most related searches were not to do with the tweet about the song WAP, but rather whether Bennett had legitimately soiled herself at a fraternity party in college: Although White privilege and Social privilege were listed under Related topics (along with Feces – Topic), Related queries told a different story. They included: Kaitlin Bennett accident; Kaitlin Bennett poop her pants; Did Kaitlin Bennett poop her pants; Did Kaitlin Bennett poop herself, and; Kaitlin bennett shits her pants. As for the WAP ... White American Privilege tweet, we were able to quickly track down the original version, the original of which we easily found using the @KaitMarieox handle seen in the screenshots: Yeah, I love my WAP. White American Privilege 🇺🇸😘 pic.twitter.com/xx1runAYNr — Kaitlin Bennett (@KaitMarieox) March 22, 2021 Due to the popularity of screenshots of the tweet versus direct links, some confusion over whether it was real and attributable to Bennett ensued. The tweet was real ; Bennett shared it on March 22 2021. Posted in Fact Checks , Viral Content Tagged kaitlin bennett , kaitmarieox real , kent state gun girl , viral facebook posts , viral tweets , WAP , wap white american privilege (en)
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