So USA today wrote this insane hippie for and actually agreed to an interview for it. And I spoke with, well, he's a journalist for 45 minutes. - I recorded the whole thing. - All right. Libs of TikTok creator Chaya Raichik is back in the news [00:00:15] after USA today published an article basically tying the content that she posts on social media or on her Substack to the LGBT community in experiencing increased threats of violence. Now, USA today reported that in the summer and fall of 2023, at least two [00:00:35] dozen public schools and libraries started to receive bomb threats in California, Colorado, Oklahoma and Wisconsin. Classes were canceled due to students, and students were evacuated as a result of some of these bomb threats. Now, these cases shared a common link. [00:00:51] The victim of each threat had also been targeted in the days before by libs of TikTok. So that was basically the point of the USA today piece. Some of the connections dated back to 2022. Now, for example, between August 11th and 15th of 2022, libs of TikTok had tweeted [00:01:10] about the Boston Children's Hospital at least seven times. Media matters found. And then in one post, Raichik shared, you know this wildly popular video claiming that the hospital was performing hysterectomies on children? There is no evidence of that. [00:01:26] They do not perform hysterectomies on children. Now, almost immediately, far right message boards and Twitter caught fire, with one poster threatening to start executing these doctors. And then on August 16th, the official Twitter feed for Boston Children's Hospital posted a statement saying it had been the target of a large volume [00:01:45] of hostile internet activity, phone calls and harassing emails, including threats of violence toward our clinicians and staff. Raichik didn't take any responsibility for it whatsoever. Reached by Twitter direct messaging, Raichik didn't respond to a question [00:02:02] about whether she felt responsible for the threats to the hospital. She said, quote, we 100% condemn any acts or threats of violence, she wrote. So keep that in mind for later, okay? That statement that she made. And then this is just one example of her tweets, you know, allegedly leading [00:02:20] to harassment and threats of violence. USA today cited research from media matters for America, which created a timeline showing harassment and threats of violence against multiple institutions, events or individuals following. You know, the post that she would put up on social media? [00:02:37] Media matters documented 25 institutions, events and individuals who reported threats after being targeted by libs of TikTok and eight who reported harassment, which is a total of at least 33 instances of threats or harassment. And USA today verified the bomb death or other threats [00:02:56] in more than two dozen cases. I want to just give you a quick example and then we can open it up for discussion. So one of the more recent posts she went after a teacher at Pulaski High School in Wisconsin. [00:03:11] This is what she posted on X. So we blurred out the images of the teacher in question. But drag queen teacher allegedly told students to search his drag profiles where they were subjected to graphic, sexualized content. Full story here. [00:03:26] So Bryce Thomas Van Reede is the special education teacher that she targeted there a teacher that she's not a teacher. I'm sorry, a parent that she spoke to for her post was concerned and and that parent [00:03:43] claimed that this educator had directed the students to his social media posts. I don't know, Jake. I don't think you should be posting this kind of stuff on social media. If you're going to have a public social media profile and you're going to have it [00:04:02] accessible to your students, it's probably a bad idea to post this kind of stuff. Like, am I being crazy for saying that? Well, look, so it's one thing to say, as an administrator at the school, let's let's try to minimize that. Okay? Let's take that down. ET cetera. It's another thing to do with Rychik and Matt Walsh and people like that do. [00:04:21] Fearmonger about it. Yeah. Like, oh my God, this is going to do damaging your kids. ET cetera. When they talk about the hospitals, they talk about how they're chopping kids up. Well, what do you think people are going to do when they think that kids are being chopped up inside the hospitals? [00:04:38] Yeah, they're going to do extreme things, especially a lot of people in those audiences are not mentally well. And so, look, guys, 1 or 2 random acts of violence. There's nothing that people can do about it. So anybody can watch CNN and decide that they're going to get enraged [00:04:54] by what Anderson Cooper said or because of something Anderson Cooper said, and then go do acts of violence. That's not on Anderson Cooper. He didn't mean that. He didn't encourage that. ET cetera. And it's random. I'm not saying that it's happened. I'm just using it as an example. But when it happens 14 times, 25 times, 33 times. [00:05:11] Yeah. So you should be deeply, deeply concerned that it's a pattern that you're appear to be creating. Does she look deeply concerned? She looks so proud that they're basically, hey, I made it into the papers as a person who's encouraging bomb threats. [00:05:28] Yes. Ha, ha. I mean, what does that smile about? You want to get angry at the piece and say, it's not fair? No problem, I get it. But when you seem like you're the happiest person alive that they wrote this piece. Because now you're a little bit more famous. Let's keep it real. That's what you're interested in? [00:05:44] Yeah. So that's what you want. That's why you're smiling so much. Then that's another thing. I'm so sick of this story. Okay, so that school that that educator worked at got bomb threats soon after she targeted that educator. [00:05:59] And look I agree, like I just think that it's it is unprofessional to post pictures like that on social media. Like just don't do it like, okay, but keep it to yourself or keep it in a private forum where you and other adults are enjoying that. Like I have no problem with it. [00:06:14] Among consenting adults, that's totally fine. But obviously like, yeah, you're going to get targeted like. No, no, not targeted. No. You you're going to get targeted by people like Ray chick. And I'm not saying that what she what that then leads to which is bomb threats and stuff like that is justified. [00:06:30] I'm not saying that at all. But like, I don't know, I don't know. I don't know how to say this without people automatically assuming that I'm blaming the victims here. But like bounds of reason, man. Maybe like if you're an educator for young kids, don't post your Gimp photos on social media. Is that crazy? Am I asking for too much? [00:06:47] No, no, I get it, Anna. And so I got young kids there around middle school, right? And so if one of the teachers was posting their nut sack on on social media publicly, I'd be like, brother, let's bring that all the way down, right? [00:07:03] Like, let's I'm not saying you should be fired or anything like that, but the kids are going to talk. They're going to find it. It's a little bit outside the bounds of reason. On a scale of 1 to 100, I got that concern at two five. I don't think it's going to get past 11 out of 100. [00:07:18] Right. A bomb threat to the school. To target. Hold on, hold on to target the teacher. Wait a minute. My kids are in the school. Insane! That's 100 out of 100 in concern. Can I can I also jump in on something? Hey, parents. [00:07:33] Okay, look, I get it. I don't have kids, so maybe you're not interested in hearing what I have to say. Okay, but how about you be an adult and rather than, like, tattle tale to raichik be an adult. Hit up the administrators, talk to the teacher and deal with it [00:07:49] like an adult would deal with it. Instead, it's like I'm going to hit up Ray chick and be like. Tattle tattletale. Tattle tale, tattle tale. We all know what that leads to. Maybe that's what the I don't know, maybe that's what the parent wanted. I have no idea. But that's not how you solve the problem, okay? Or whatever issue you have with the educator and the risque photos [00:08:07] that are being posted on social media. Yeah. And and also, can we do a little bit of moderation in this country? So I'll give you an example of something that just happened a couple of months ago with my daughter. So they're in fifth grade, and another kid said some things that were clearly racist [00:08:23] and somehow knew that my daughter was both Turkish and Chinese and, and said racist things about both of those. But it's a fifth grader, right? So what did we do? We didn't go storming in there and say, I want that, that, you know, the teacher [00:08:38] who didn't reprimand the kid enough, I want her fired, and I want this and I want that, and I want the kid expelled. And I'm going to create a national story around it, and and I'm going to encourage people to do something. But no, we just hey, we let the principal know. We want to make sure that it's addressed. Right? [00:08:55] And as long as it's addressed and everybody knows that it's not the right thing to do, then we'll move on, because we want our daughter to be able to stand up for herself. Right. We want to make sure that it's not normal or common or accepted. But it doesn't have to be a national emergency. Totally, yeah I agree. Yeah. [00:09:11] So what Jake was referring to earlier about raichik, you know, trolling about this and smiling and laughing about it is after the article was published. Let's go to graphic eight. She posted this online. Remember we're talking about bomb threats. It's not a joke. [00:09:26] So she changed the graphic on her profile to show libs of TikTok with a bomb or three bombs. No, let's keep it real. She loves. She does love it. She does love it. Which is why, look, I the reason why I say I'm sick of this story is because I'm kind of sick of giving trolls attention. [00:09:43] Right? She's not going to change her behavior. She loves it. She basks in it. And so I don't know what good it is to let her get under our skin. What I have a problem with, though, is that it's there's like a clear connection. And not just one, not just two, not just three, but several different cases [00:10:01] where she does these targeted campaigns. And then those targeted campaigns lead to literal bomb threats and threats of violence. I don't know what we do in response to that. Right. Because it's clearly happening, and I want to keep people safe. People shouldn't feel terrorized when they're trying to go to school and learn. [00:10:17] If one day there is an actual bomb, she's still going to be smiling, she's still going to be doing bomb. - She's not going to. - Take responsibility, that's for sure. She's gonna be like, oh, well, on the 34th time, it was an actual bomb. Not my fault, but I'm more famous. Yes. Look, we can see you. It's super obvious what you're doing. [00:10:34] You're goading people to do these things so that you can get more famous. And then when people write about what a monster you are, you love it because you got a little bit more famous. Congratulations also get massive mental health treatment. [00:10:50] It's not just the people in your audience that are sick. You're sick. 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