Redditor kills several Ukrainians for updoots

On March 18th, 2022, a >reddit user named "slava_ukraini_live" posted a video to r/volunteersForUkraine. The video showed a Ukrainian soldier playing a song to several dozen other soldiers



Initially, the comments were very supportive



One redditor said it was "like a Quinten Tarantino film playing out right in front of us"



Amongst the circlejerking, one redditor expressed concern that posting the video publicly would leak their location. u/Nordansikt basically said that was bullshit



After all, there's no way posting this video publicly would lead to Russia discovering their location, right?

A couple days later, a user on 4chan posted the metadata of the video that u/slava_ukraini_live had posted, which pretty much gave away their exact location



They were bombed, and the dozens of Ukrainian soldiers there died



Let me repeat that. Lives were lost because of a dumbass redditor who wanted some heckin' updooterinos

4chan reacted pretty much how you'd expect





People then went back to the original >reddit post and mocked OP



Sometime later, this information was shared on Twitter, and they reacted similarly



Now then, let's check up on the original redditors who praised OP before the bombing. Many of them deleted their comments out of shame

The "Quinten Tarantino film" guy deleted his comment, but not before another redditor quoted him



Remember u/Nordansikt, the guy who called people crazy? This is how he responded



So then, what happened to OP? Did he die in the bombing too? Well, his account was shortly suspended around the time the bombing happened, so I can't check his account history for an answer

Imagine this though: If he did survive the bombing, he has to live with the knowledge of what he did for the rest of his life

Hope the internet points were worth it

 

[mydadiscar]

we did it plebbit! slava ukraini!

 

[Andy Kaufman]

>thanks for the lead, kind stranger




HAHAHAHAA jesus Christ, my sides.
why did he even post this? even back in February 22 the first positions on both sides were struck because soldiers kept using their phones. This should be common knowledge by now.
Rëddit is so fucking stupid it hurts, LITERALLY

 

[BLOODMAGE]

yeah this one is painful as fuck to read

 

[Vetusomaru]

WE DID IT R*DDIT!

 

[nada]

I don't even have a side in this war, but damn, people dying because of the stupidity from others is something that makes me sad.

 

[Outer Heaven]

I'm glad someone archived this in detail. I remember laughing when it happened at the time but completely forgot about it. The news moves so fast things like this are often lost.

 

[EzzyCrafts]

How do you find coordinates from video metadata recorded from videos sent with Iphone, I need to know

 

[Vetusomaru]

I don't even have a side in this war, but damn, people dying because of the stupidity from others is something that makes me sad.

Even without r*dditors' stupidity, people die in this war anyway because of globalists' greed. Mostly men at least since w*men are free to run away in other countries and whore themselves while men are forced to join the war or else they'll get tortured in jail. So much for "gender equality".

 

[nada]

Even without r*dditors' stupidity, people die in this war anyway because of globalists' greed. Mostly men at least since w*men are free to run away in other countries and whore themselves while men are forced to join the war or else they'll get tortured in jail. So much for "gender equality".

That's because women are weaker than men. C'est la vie.

 

[Vetusomaru]

That's because women are weaker than men. C'est la vie.

And yet Ukrainian globalists won't stfu about the importance of feminism and shit.

 

[slowdive]

i think it's all a crazy coincidence

 

[llillilll]

And yet Ukrainian globalists won't stfu about the importance of feminism and shit.

Have you ever shot a rifle?

 

[RisingThumb]

Since it's related to the topic, here's an interview with a guy from the Ukrainian foreign legion. Honestly pretty interesting stuff

 

[Remember_Summer_Days]

Makes me think that r/volunteersforUkraine is probably a Russian psyop. I remember viewing the Kiwifarms cringe thread on the subreddit. Is there even anyone that joined the Ukranian war effort explicitly through r/volunteersforUkraine?

Probably no t.

 Though what fascinates me about the Ukraine discourse, when it started, was how performative it all was. People unironically using Harry Potter/Marvel refs to make illustrations about the Ukraine/Russia conflict was peak clown world

 

[_TF]

Legendary W

 

[RisingThumb]

Makes me think that r/volunteersforUkraine is probably a Russian psyop. I remember viewing the Kiwifarms cringe thread on the subreddit. Is there even anyone that joined the Ukranian war effort explicitly through r/volunteersforUkraine?

Probably no t.

Social media posting affected both sides, and it was more for targeting where to bomb or fire arty on. As for whether people joined from a subreddit... maybe a very small number of people did. Most people who'd join the Ukrainian foreign legion probably knew in their heart it was what they wanted, needed or had to do. More likely they wanted to go to Ukraine to do some looting. Whenever a new war kicks off and a lot of people join a foreign legion, you'll usually see a lot of them are actually just criminals in it for looting or absolute numbskulls expecting to be armed by the Ukrainians and not bringing even basic insulating materials for a Russian Winter hellhole.

As for whether it's a psyop... probably not because there's no psychological... operations that's happening here. It'd probably be the target of ELINT groups on both sides because the information is useful, especially the location meta data attached to images.