Sock puppets

Sockpuppets or Sockpuppet accounts are accounts created to pretend to be a different person, normally with malicious or bad intent. Often, it is to get away from past problems or controversies, or to try to be someone else due to self-deprecation. While this may seem like a small problem, sockpuppet accounts can betray the trust of others and lie about serious topics.

Sockpuppet Incidents
The first known incident of sockpuppetry is the Knightbus incident. @KnightBus, AKA @my1es-, was a user who invalidated trigger warnings, lashed out, and also invalidated the identities of many Gaehiveans. After the incident, they left and deleted all comments on their profile. However, they came back as several accounts, lying about who they were and avoiding apologizing for their actions.

Another impactful incident was the @WeezeI incident, who made many accounts all around the same timespan. Many of them did not reveal that they were the same person. Alongside pretending to be a different person, they lied about their race, sexuality, and gender, as well as the death of family. On January 18th, @DogCatPuppyLover confronted them about what they had done. They promptly closed comments and left. Here is a timeline of the @WeezeI incident created by a Gaehivean.

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Finally, the other most notable sockpuppet incident was the @Ranbooinabox incident. Often abbreviated to Riab, this user had a very serious incident in which they told the entire Gaehive to kill themselves, faked having cancer, as well as said that Scratch was their 'cure for their cancer'. After hate comments got to be too much, they closed their comments, and they were later banned. They came back on multiple accounts without revealing their true identity, and have also returned now with an apology.