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[–] [email protected] 110 points 6 months ago (22 children)

A "burner" account? Never heard it called that before. "Sock puppet" or just "puppet" makes much more sense.

[–] [email protected] 66 points 6 months ago (2 children)

It’s pretty common for people to refer to these types of accounts as burners on Twitter. I recall the GM of the 76ers getting in trouble about 5-10 years ago for having sock puppet accounts on Twitter and all the reporting referred to them as burners.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Drug culture is more well known among normies than nerd culture, is what we're saying here.

[–] Noel_Skum 28 points 6 months ago

Yes. That’s exactly what’s happening here. Big shout out to drugs for winning the war…

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