There’s this person, I won’t name him, let’s call him T. T’s infamous online for stealing photos of red haired women to use for his avatars, “photos”, and his whole online persona. For instance, he will claim to look like the women, saying that he has red hair and pale skin.
People have called T out on this because a real photo of him accidentally got leaked which shows he looks nothing like how he describes himself, and his rebuttal was “I never said those photos are of me”
T will also steal voice recordings from women who have exposed him in the past, using those samples to answer questions on Reddit, and when called out for this he will respond with “I never said the voice was mine”. Some people noticed how his accent is constantly changing or his voice sounds AI generated at times, and he blames it on “foreign accent syndrome” when really what he’s doing is stealing people’s voice recordings. When people tell him he doesn’t have foreign accent syndrome and is making excuses, he makes posts claiming people are “denying foreign accent syndrome exists” while leaving out the context that he used other people’s voice recordings, to make himself look like he’s being persecuted or is a “targeted individual”.
He also is known for repeatedly making creepy comments to a forum member who he knew was barely 14, (he’s in his 20’s) requesting a story being written of him going on a date with him, saying “you’re mine” to him, and “shipping” himself with him. When people call him out on this he says “it’s slander” even though there’s links to the things he posted. Then he’ll say things like, “you cannot speak for a person’s intentions because you aren’t the proxy of their mind”
Also, when people point out that T’s real selfie and the stolen selfies aren’t the same race, he’ll claim people are being transphobic to “transracial” people, and he’ll also claim that people are being transphobic to him, even though he has never once claimed to be trans and is known for sending death threats to trans people in private message sessions.
This person does this kind of tactic a lot, and people get the impression he thinks he’s being slick, and I’m wondering if there’s a name for it.
It’s called being a disgusting creep.
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The simple answer is catfishing, but this amount of time and effort dedicated to trying and be perceived as a woman seems like unrealized gender dysphoria and internalized racism. Their own self hate manifesting as external vitriol at out trans folk isn’t even remotely okay, but not unheard of.
I’d call the police lmao
I’d call it plausibly deniable catfishing.
They are presenting themselves as a specific person without explicitly saying so, leaving you with less to stand on (in their mind, not in actual reality) when you claim that they are not who they say they are, because they didn’t say that the photo/audio was of them.
It’s pretty obvious to anyone with a brain that if your avatar is of a specific woman and you are using a feminine voice, that you at least think of yourself as a feminine person and identify at least a little bit with the imagery of the avatar.
So… for what other reason could they be using these photos and audio? Not many other reasons come to mind, so Occam’s razor (i.e., the simplest answer is most likely) applies, in my mind.
Someone needs to sue him for identity theft.him.
As fast so know it won’t matter that he claims "I never said it was me ". It’s that a reasonable person would take it that he was implying it was him. A reasonable person would believe it was him.
Sure the crap out of him.
An asshole. Maybe a pervert. Definitely someone I’d block. Not every negative example of humanity needs a specific name.
Best answer here
I believe the pejorative is “creep” or “pervert” with the beginning called catfishing.
I’d suggest you let the cops know. He’s being that creepy.
Catfishing by Gaslight
It’s called illegal, at least in the US. That’s identity theft, and if he ever used that false persona to enrich himself in any way, it’s fraud. Probably a few other crimes as well, but I’m not a lawyer so that’s just the obvious ones.
Honeydicked
Habitual liar
