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@ejdickson · New York, NY · joined 18 Apr 2009
senior culture writer @wired. ONE BAD MOTHER, my book about bad moms, out now: https://t.co/6P2W7Aqb4n
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does anyone have the footage from the Zoom meeting for the lesbian long Covid bar? asking for a friend
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@ejdickson @WIRED "with her hot husband's permission of course"
like sorry we all dont have the privilege of getting nutted in by this guy on the reg https://t.co/V1G7Wvc3qW
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@ejdickson @WIRED See what evil does? Girl looks 28 going on 45
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@ejdickson @WIRED you can’t say her husband is hot and then include a photo of him
he’s not bad looking, don’t get it twisted but he is not “hot”
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The @WIRED headline team simply cannot be beat https://t.co/xD9EZ8BjRZ
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Normalize being thoughtful and introspective and taking accountability for your mistakes in a way that can help others learn from them as well
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People are dragging Nikole Hannah-Jones for this, but I think this piece is incredible. Trying to live your values, discovering it’s not working and having an open conversation with your kid about that is eminently laudable — Pubbing about it even more so. https://t.co/aMJuKt9QnR
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truly no one is doing it like @youwouldntpost https://t.co/NoSqlpzkUZ
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@ejdickson She wasn’t “exploited” she made plans to have sex with multiple men for cocaine and is just dodging accountability by playing the victim
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So Maddie decided to fight back. With the Gainesville Police Department and with a lawyer, she tried to find out the men behind the anonymous accounts — and what she learned stunned her.
You can read my full investigation about the community of anonymous men who try to destroy
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Deeply traumatized, Maddie was furious no one had been held accountable. Her life was ruined, and no one — not the men who shared the video, nor the ones who filmed her without her consent in the first place — was facing the consequences. "No one gives a fuck," she told me. http
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The whole time, Maddie had no idea who had posted her video, or why, or how they had found it. She didn't even remember it being made, as she was visibly intoxicated at the time. "I didn't recognize myself at all," she told me. Her school, the University of Florida, launched a
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One guy who posted the video made a cryptocurrency out of Maddie's name, which was allegedly worth $11k. X did very little to curb the spread of the video, even making Maddie's name a national trending topic. “They’re financially incentivized by followers, by views, by clicks …
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Maddie and her family were harassed nonstop. Men called her dad, a stage 4 cancer survivor, calling her a whore and saying she gave them AIDS. She had to leave school. She developed rashes on her face, lost hair, and was diagnosed with PTSD.
The goal the whole time was to make h
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The men were part of the SEC burnerverse, a community of anon college football fan accounts. For years, many of these burners have been focused on a singular mission: doxxing and sexually humiliating college girls, and making them go viral nationwide.
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Maddie Kowalski was 19 years old when anonymous men on X posted a pornographic video of her without her consent. It went viral nationally, and was viewed 8.5 million times.
For months, she had no idea who did it or why. So she made it her mission to find out. 🧵 https://t.co/12g
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Against accounts of the same size
16 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown widely, but few of those viewers react.
Median views673 566this account924median for 10K–100K
Reach, %1853.92%this account3.62%median for 10K–100K
Engagement, %0.32%this account1.52%median for 10K–100K
| Metric | This account | Median for 10K–100K | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median views per post | 673 566 | 924 | 729× |
| Reach (views ÷ followers) | 18.5× audience | 3.62% | 512× |
| Engagement rate | 0.32% | 1.52% | 0.21× |
Others in this range → Compare with another account → How these benchmarks are built →
Growth & engagement
How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.
Views per post
2.1M14 Sep
1.3M
1.3M
1.3M
1.5M
766.5K
2.9K17 Sep
311.7K20 Sep
5.9K21 Sep
580.7K23 Sep
47.1K
22.2K
32.1K
2.7K
Last 14 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.
Engagement rate per post
0.11%14 Sep
0.18%
0.15%
0.15%
0.34%
1.74%
0.59%17 Sep
0.87%20 Sep
1.32%21 Sep
0.40%23 Sep
0.29%
0.36%
0.20%
1.07%
Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.52%.
What the audience does
Likes69.9%45 026 in total
Reposts3.5%2 275 in total
Replies0.6%367 in total
Quotes1.3%842 in total
Bookmarks24.7%15 938 in total
Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.
The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.
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