For the last eight years, baseball fan-turned-writer Becca Schultz has presented herself online as Ryan Schultz, a false identity she assumed when she was 13 years old, duping and harassing women on Twitter along the way.
On Wednesday night, a woman named Erin tweeted a series of screenshotsannouncing that Schultz is not actually Ryan, a married father of two studying to become a pharmacist. Instead, Schultz is a 21-year-old college student in the Midwest, whose entire career as an aspiring baseball writer has been under a fraudulent byline.
Schultz began contributing to Baseball Prospectus’s local White Sox blog at the end of the 2016 season and wrote for BP South Side and BP Wrigleyville throughout the 2017 season. Additionally, Schultz wrote for the SB Nation sabermetrics site Between the Box Score throughout 2017.
People who knew Ryan Schultz online say that in retrospect, some of his behavior seemed odd, but no one expected that this moody White Sox fan from Missouri would actually be a teenage girl.
Schultz’s fraud was as true to the catfish genre as can be. She told the people who discovered she was not who she said she was that she assumed the identity because she felt as if she couldn’t write about baseball professionally as a woman, especially at the age of 13. As the deception went on, she couldn’t figure out how to get out of the middle of her web of lies.
you may have seen me mention this last night - this is literally one of the craziest things i have ever experienced online. the community of baseball writers on twitter is pretty tight-knit, and literally all of us had interacted with this person in some way, as well as personally knowing the people she harassed
she assumed the identity because she felt as if she couldn’t write about baseball professionally as a woman, especially at the age of 13.
this is the person our parents warned us about with all those ‘everyone on the internet is lying to you about their passion for baseball’ speeches
this is like the opposite of that TV show where you enjoy a little sexual flirtation with a creepy married man only to discover to your shock and horror that it’s actually a 13 year old girl luring you in under false pretences
For the last eight years, baseball fan-turned-writer Becca Schultz has presented herself online as Ryan Schultz, a false identity she assumed when she was 13 years old, duping and harassing women on Twitter along the way.
On Wednesday night, a woman named Erin tweeted a series of screenshotsannouncing that Schultz is not actually Ryan, a married father of two studying to become a pharmacist. Instead, Schultz is a 21-year-old college student in the Midwest, whose entire career as an aspiring baseball writer has been under a fraudulent byline.
Schultz began contributing to Baseball Prospectus’s local White Sox blog at the end of the 2016 season and wrote for BP South Side and BP Wrigleyville throughout the 2017 season. Additionally, Schultz wrote for the SB Nation sabermetrics site Between the Box Score throughout 2017.
People who knew Ryan Schultz online say that in retrospect, some of his behavior seemed odd, but no one expected that this moody White Sox fan from Missouri would actually be a teenage girl.
Schultz’s fraud was as true to the catfish genre as can be. She told the people who discovered she was not who she said she was that she assumed the identity because she felt as if she couldn’t write about baseball professionally as a woman, especially at the age of 13. As the deception went on, she couldn’t figure out how to get out of the middle of her web of lies.
you may have seen me mention this last night - this is literally one of the craziest things i have ever experienced online. the community of baseball writers on twitter is pretty tight-knit, and literally all of us had interacted with this person in some way, as well as personally knowing the people she harassed
she assumed the identity because she felt as if she couldn’t write about baseball professionally as a woman, especially at the age of 13.
this is the person our parents warned us about with all those ‘everyone on the internet is lying to you about their passion for baseball’ speeches
this is like the opposite of that TV show where you enjoy a little sexual flirtation with a creepy married man only to discover to your shock and horror that it’s actually a 13 year old girl luring you in under false pretences
this website is so funny because every couple years we repeat the discourse of “which marginalised group is it morally okay for us to shit on?” and somehow nobody ever learns from it. we just look back and go, “hey, remember that time when everyone was joking about how ace people should all be put in meat grinders? that was so messed up. we should not have done that. anyway, here’s my topical joke about how polyamorous people should all be put in meat grinders.”
starting an anti-skincare routine where i eat whatever i want and never wash my face and spend at least 3 hours a week picking at my skin in the mirror. join my movement
A thing that I’ve learned in my life is that American pizza franchises have an extraordinarily robust set of protocols in place to prevent people from placing pizza orders internationally, and the reason I know this is probably the same reason those protocols exist.
It’s just pizza for some reason, too. For any other form of online ordering, I can place an order from Canada and have stuff delivered to an American address. Even for most other types of food I can do this, as long as the delivery address is in their service area. Pizza delivery franchises specifically? No dice – they really, really don’t want non-Americans ordering pizza, not even if it’s going to a valid address.
they’re letting me run around in the research lab to boost morale (because of how cute i am) even though i have several mysterious properties. the safety committee is PISSED lol and they’re right to be because no one knows about my spores
they’re letting me run around in the research lab to boost morale (because of how cute i am) even though i have several mysterious properties. the safety committee is PISSED lol and they’re right to be because no one knows about my spores
Poll: if your mom remarries when you’re 26 years old is that guy still your stepdad or is he just your mom’s husband.
The poll winner seems to be “depends on whether you like him” which is super valid.
Mine watches fox news so “mom’s husband” it is!
My family has a great way of distinguishing between a new spouse you like and new spouse you disdain!
Your mom/aunt/grandma/etc remarries and they are actually a cool person, you use their first name. So if you were to introduce them they would be: Aunt Jane and Bob.
If your mom/aunt/grandma/etc remarries and they are a fuckwad you introduce them as: this is Aunt Jane and her second husband. The implication being that they are very replaceable and that we’re all just waiting for her to wise up to the situation and serve you divorce papers, she did it once, she can do it again.
MAGNIFICENT
Alright, but what if my mom on her third marriage found a decent man, but my mother herself is shitty
gaining followers pretty fast and that should not be happening i think. tumblr have some restraint. youre embarassing us
tumblr please. we have guests. control urself
oh shit those ARE the guests. hot damn. will have to contemplate this
Hello tumblr new arrivals! welcome, it is so good to have you here, some tips before we get started! u are coming across as, (what is colloquially known as,) “desperate,”
every time i remember this video exists im not even exaggerating when i say i wheeze until i cant breathe its the fuckijgn funniest thing in thw world to me it gives me a migraine every time i watch it
Tuesday, January 21st: Hello, everyone. I’m Gem, a bi, mentally ill, and disabled woman in desperate need of help as I’m struggling to pay off my debt and get groceries!!
I apologize for asking for help again; as most of you know from my previous posts, I have been struggling quite a lot to make ends meet while on welfare benefits and due to my rent arrears and ever-increasing debt. And to be quite honest, these past few months have been absolute hell for me, and with no other income, I’ve been relying on the kindness of others to get by.
However, I desperately needthat kindness again; as some bills came out early and fees were added to my account, this balance has been bouncing between my PP and my bank, accruing fees that I am struggling to pay. I don’t receive my welfare until the 31st and could really use some helpbecause, if I can’t pay this balance off by then, my welfare will be taken and I won’t be able to pay my rent later on!!
Again, I know this is a lot to ask, especially in January, but if anyone could spare any amount to help me, even if it’s just £1/$1/€1, it would save my life, and sharing helps just as much.
Reminder for when he “saves” it. He was the one who wanted this, and now he gets to be the hero and win favour with young constituents. Don’t give him the credit for fixing his own problem.
im surprised no one is talking about how elon musk paid people to make high level hardcore characters for him so he could claim it was all his work on livestream only to be immediately exposed as he couldn’t even play the game right
I tried to leave Kudos on a fic that was already deleted (i had the tab open) and I was expecting it to just bug out or not work but this is so much more unsettling
I tried to leave Kudos on a fic that was already deleted (i had the tab open) and I was expecting it to just bug out or not work but this is so much more unsettling
After dicking around on Little Red Book (apologies because I keep forgetting the phonetic spelling but obv its name isn’t English) i can say that as far as im seeing all of the Americans are being really respectful and eager to learn and all of the Chinese are super welcoming and happy to have us over there and genuinely this might be the start of the end of anti-Chinese racism at least in a portion of the internet community because everyone is having a really sweet time together just talking to each other. Idk it just makes me happy
Things that are happening on xhs (xiaohongshu) (Little Red Book) as of today:
- the cat tax is real and THIS specific image keeps getting posted in the comments of American posts
- everyone keeps making Chinese spy jokes on both sides of the language barrier and everyone thinks it’s hilarious
- something like half my explore page is beginner mandarin classes
- there’s a culture amongst the Americans forming of “do NOT fuck this one up guys, we are in their house and we will be POLITE” which I really love
- in the same vein, im seeing posts go around of people encouraging each other to google translate their posts to mandarin so the app natives don’t have to translate it themselves, again as a sort of “you guys were here first and we don’t want to make things more inconvenient”
- a lot of people very unironically being like “wow I didn’t know we all had so much in common and you guys are super based” (from both sides) is going on
-the amount of English homework getting passed over to us to do is insane
- Americans are bad at English homework and keep accidentally giving the wrong answers
- this:
pretty well encompasses the vibe of the American TikTok refugee side of xhs right now
-at this point it’s mildly unusable for me because I don’t have convenient access to google translate on my phone and Americans are so good about translating to mandarin that they aren’t even putting the English version in their posts anymore. which is epic ngl
After dicking around on Little Red Book (apologies because I keep forgetting the phonetic spelling but obv its name isn’t English) i can say that as far as im seeing all of the Americans are being really respectful and eager to learn and all of the Chinese are super welcoming and happy to have us over there and genuinely this might be the start of the end of anti-Chinese racism at least in a portion of the internet community because everyone is having a really sweet time together just talking to each other. Idk it just makes me happy
Things that are happening on xhs (xiaohongshu) (Little Red Book) as of today:
- the cat tax is real and THIS specific image keeps getting posted in the comments of American posts
- everyone keeps making Chinese spy jokes on both sides of the language barrier and everyone thinks it’s hilarious
- something like half my explore page is beginner mandarin classes
- there’s a culture amongst the Americans forming of “do NOT fuck this one up guys, we are in their house and we will be POLITE” which I really love
- in the same vein, im seeing posts go around of people encouraging each other to google translate their posts to mandarin so the app natives don’t have to translate it themselves, again as a sort of “you guys were here first and we don’t want to make things more inconvenient”
- a lot of people very unironically being like “wow I didn’t know we all had so much in common and you guys are super based” (from both sides) is going on
-the amount of English homework getting passed over to us to do is insane
- Americans are bad at English homework and keep accidentally giving the wrong answers
- this:
pretty well encompasses the vibe of the American TikTok refugee side of xhs right now
-at this point it’s mildly unusable for me because I don’t have convenient access to google translate on my phone and Americans are so good about translating to mandarin that they aren’t even putting the English version in their posts anymore. which is epic ngl
the left column’s header is “reclamation:”. below is a picture of a person who holds a poster overhead. poster says: “that’s mr faggot to you.” text below explains: “presents the slur as an identity worth defending, explicitly opposed to how most people use it.”
the right column’s header is “not reclamation”. below is a picture of a person who smiles and says, “of course i look normal, i don’t have to act faggy just because i’m gay.” text below explains: “uses the slur as something negative, worth condemning and distancing from, identical to how the general public uses it.”
the second picture is a screenshot of the tags.
#that’s part of why i can’t see the use of the r slur being framed as reclamation #not once have i seen it be used in a positive way. people just use the word reclamation to mean “being able to use a slur”
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