One of the big problems with hashtag activism is you’re never sure if it’s genuine or not.
It often starts on a forum like 4chan.
Anonymous image board 4chan has a section called /pol/. Sometime around Thursday or Friday of last week, users on /pol/ decided to try and get the hashtag #EndFathersDay trending on Twitter. Users at the time compared it to similar fake activism tags like #WhitesCantBeRaped, which, as a quick search on Twitter reveals, appears to have been a failed prank attempted last week.
The above account was debunked by David Futrelle, the writer behind the men's rights activist watch-blog, Man Boobz . Futrelle tracked the account's avatar to a stock photo website. Also, as Futrelle points out, in her Twitter bio, "Phoebe Kwon" spelled her hometown wrong.
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