Of course, the PayPal RT didn’t go exactly as planned.

1 like, 1 RT. Nice.

It was never really revealed how or why Johnson’s name was signed without her consent. But Imani Gandy, another signatory, provided a truly puzzling explanation.

What’s love but a counterfeit signature emotion?

Sometimes you fall in love and sign people’s names onto documents they’ve never reviewed. It happens.

What remains unclear is exactly how many of the remaining signatures are legitimate.

Trans* Problems

Almost immediately upon publication, the manifesto was found to have problems with its language about transmen and transwomen. Specifically, it stated that transmen are victims of “misogyny.” Backlash was swift.

A correction quickly appeared. It wouldn’t be the last.

Continued Trans* Problems

Being a Twitter-confined phenomenon, the doomed WeAreTheLeft brand came with its own Twitter account, which was destined by way of its audience to be swiftly condemned. And it was, when the account retweeted Cathy Brennan:

Brennan, for those not in-the-know, is what is commonly known as a “TERF”, or a trans-exclusive radical feminist. That is, a feminist who doesn’t recognize the legitimacy of transperson’s gender identities.

Backlash, apology, etc.

The horror, the horror.

In the first apology tweet, the account seems to suggest that the person who RT’d Brennan did so because they didn’t associate the handle with Brennan. In the final tweet, the account seems to suggest that the person who RT’d Brennan did so because they did know who the handle belonged to, but didn’t know Brennan’s history. Apparently whoever was in control of the account in that moment couldn’t put out a sequence of three tweets in two minutes without producing two mutually exclusive stories to excuse one retweet. Remarkable.

Sex Work Correction

The bottom of the document at some point came to bear among its several corrections a note concerning sex work.

In what might be a scathing parody of the tokenizing tendencies of the letter’s whole political enterprise, the term “sex work” appears more in the correction than in the actual article.

The Fallout

After a day of modifications and apologies, some of the letter’s signatories no longer want to be associated with the project, others have apologized for signing, and the hashtag belongs wholly to Trump fans.