Following on from yesterday’s drama around the wildly popular shitposting Facebook page, ‘Yeah The Boys‘, a fake page with the same name (and over 600 likes) has popped up overnight.
It proclaims to be the ‘official’ YTB page, but it appears to be anything but.
And secondly, a ‘Yeah The Boys 2‘ Facebook page, which does appear to be from the original admins, have told their 33,000 followers to ignore it.
It spiralled out-of-control after a male attendee called a female attendee wanting to come a “fucken two hole”, and, in a horrendous example of group think, thousands of people decided that comment was okay.
A YTB admin announced yesterday he were shutting the page down temporarily, after media coverage continually linked the Facebook page with the event and “I’m not gonna have A Current Affair rock up to my house”.
“News.com.au, Daily Mail, Mamamia, and whoever made a news article claiming we made the ‘yeah the boys meetup event’ and that we’re some female hate page you seriously need better researchers or need to actually try with your journalism because we made multiple status and comments saying we have nothing to do with the event, none of us even live in NSW for fucks sake.”
The long-winded (and now unavailable) status rejected all claims that the group was a ‘pro-rape’ or ‘anti-women’ page, explaining that it was “made to be based on the satirical and controversial humour of the working class Australian male and his relationship with his mates, or ‘his boys’.”
“Yes the statuses are controversial, they’re crude and they’re offensive, but they’re to be taken 100% as fiction and as light heartedly as possible, but unfortunately it’s the people who have commented and taken the statuses seriously who have caused this to become the issue that it is right now.
“For the record we absolutely do not condone violence against women or anyone in general, it’s a terrible thing and the eradication of such horrendous act would be an amazing step in the right way for humanity as a whole, we’re all the same biology regardless of ideology or gender.
“For everyone saying we are ‘dogging the boys’ for this, we are clearing our name and our page morals so that we can continue the content you love; Burnouts, pokies, getting pissed and shelfing biscuits with your mates so run and tell that.”
As we reported yesterday, NSW Police is investigating the entire Facebook event for evidence of criminal wrongdoing. So yeah, fellas – if you think abusing people online is funny or cool, please be prepared to face the consequences.
Photo: Facebook.
