The 4chan community has been buzzing for the past two days over an intensely weird story: A person using the handle “Reiko” was allegedly the ringleader of a group on a board called “r9k” that convinced vulnerable young men to engage in online transvestite roleplaying.

It is alleged that “Reiko” and his crew would seek to get the targets to send photos of themselves dressed in female clothing, and then use those photos for blackmail, threatening to “dox” and expose the targets unless they cooperated with a sick agenda. Earlier this year, one of the alleged victims of this ring committed suicide, shooting himself in the head with a shotgun in a livestream video.

In case anyone missed this thing with “Reiko,” there’s a Discord server run by an alleged pedophile cult that tricks vulnerable teenagers into crossdressing and posing provocatively. The pictures are then used to blackmail them into taking HRT and become sexual submissives. https://t.co/M0RCAVKMYq — Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) April 11, 2018

To my understanding, a Canadian kid from 4chan’s /r9k/ forum who livestreamed his suicide a couple of months ago with a shotgun was one of the victims of this alleged pedophile cult. — Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) April 11, 2018

PSA: Beware of someone who goes by the name Reiko. Along with several others, they’ve been exploiting, manipulating, and intimidating insecure boys/men into starting HRT. One of the victims even killed themselves as a result. [CW: suicide, potential slurs] pic.twitter.com/jcetsLyQwD — Velvet? (@LakeElysia) April 10, 2018

They’re LGBT and autistic teens. They’re vulnerable and just want love and acceptance and get duped into this by sexual predators. — Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) April 11, 2018

i’ve seen this kind of shit first-hand except it didn’t involve hrt/transitioning, just blackmail of insecure boys online, it’s believable to me sadly. there’s plenty of people out there who couldn’t care less if it results in the persons death, so long as they get what they want — ???? ??? (@eliasisdead) April 11, 2018

because it’s their fetish. there are collectors of “twinks”, “traps”, “femboys” what have you on these sites, with their own communities on discord etc, and the trans ones are by far the most militant and aggressive, shaming traps for not being feminine enough, etc — ???? ??? (@eliasisdead) April 11, 2018

Trying to get solid facts on this story is difficult. This post seems to have the best aggregation of the relevant evidence. Nowhere in the several posts I read did anyone name the victim who committed suicide, and until we can identify the victim, it is impossible to investigate whether these bizarre allegations of transgender blackmail are actually true.

So, in an effort to kick something loose, I’ll just crowdsource it, and see if any of the commenters can dig up some facts.

UPDATE: Thanks to the commenter who linked to this discussion on Kiwi Farms which includes comments about “an organized conspiracy to convert bitter autistic outcasts into feminized trap [i.e., transvestite] sex slaves; and, at the center of this plan, is Reiko.” Also, this video:

So we seem to be developing further confirmation that this scenario was actually happening. It involved outcasts known by the sociological acronym NEET (“Not in Education, Employment or Training”).

UPDATE II: Here is a discussion of “r9k” whose participants refer to themselves as “Robots” and who despise “Normies” or “Normalfags,” i.e., “individuals who in their eyes are deemed as traditionalist or boring, normally the stereotype of a socially active and fitting person that easily blend with society.” And there’s this:

On March 14, 2018, an /r9k/ user known by his online handle Shuaiby live streamed his suicide on YouTube, holding up a note written “Bye R9K 3/14/18”, and then shot himself in the head with a shotgun. A woman then enters the rooms and calls the authorities. The video was later taken down from YouTube, although several mirrors still exist online.

The earliest 4chan thread discussing this video was shortly after the stream, on the same day around 10:24 PM in the /pol/ board, along with a LiveLeak reupload which was also taken down. At 11:50 PM, a friend of Shuaiby posted on /r9k/, stating that his suicide was caused by issues with his mother. He also confirmed that the stream was real, the girl was neither his ex nor his mother, and that the board itself did not lead to his suicide.

So while it was claimed this suicide was not caused by online activity, now a conspiracy theory has developed, linking it to “Reiko.”

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