Keffals Picrew / 'Lore Request' Controversy

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About

Keffals Picrew / "Lore Request" Controversy refers to discussions and memes made in reference to Twitch streamer Keffal's perceived attempts to recreate Kiwi Farms' tactics through her own fanbase. Accusations against Keffals range from her supposed attempt to get her followers to change their Twitter profile pictures to Picrew images to mimic her dissenter's accounts to her submitting a "lore request" to her subreddit purportedly asking for damaging information on another trans content creator. Memes about the event revolve around some people criticizing Keffals for perceiving her actions as hypocrisy given her past activism to take down Kiwi Farms in August 2022.

Origin

Picrew^[4] is a Japanese avatar maker website that allows people to customize a profile picture using a limited variety of styles. Picrew avatars began to be associated with an internet sect of young queer and left-leaning communities after the year 2018. In early 2023, Twitch streamer Keffals encouraged her followers to change their profile pictures on Twitter to Picrew images and harass her as a "joke."

A video of the request was posted by the Twitter account @BellfromBlair but has since been deleted.^[1] On February 4th, 2023, Twitter^[2] user @ajthedonut posted a thread of Picrew accounts that were supposedly participating in the aforementioned campaign, gathering over 14,000 likes in nearly two weeks (seen below, left). On February 10th, Twitter^[3] user @velvetbnuuy then posted a clip from Keffal's stream reacting to the accusations and defending the streamer, gathering over 150 likes in roughly a week (seen below, right).

At the time, other users noted that @BellfromBlair was likely a Mister Metoker follower or alt-account.^[5]^[6]

Spread

In the days following @BellfromBlair's videos, various internet users then suggested that Keffals was using an "infiltration strategy" they perceived as something previously seen with Kiwi Farms users.^[7]^[8] On February 18th, 2023, Keffals entered into a brief argument with a creator by the username @M0MMYBIGDICK,^[9] after which she made a post to her subreddit /r/keffals^[10] with the caption, "LORE REQUEST: MOMMYBIGDICK." The post has since been deleted but can be accessed via Internet Archive (seen below, left). On February 18th, @M0MMYBIGDICK posted a screenshot of the Reddit post as well,^[11] along with replies from fans disappointed with Keffals' post (seen below, right).^[12]

On February 19th, Twitter^[13] user @M0MMYBIGDICK posted screenshots in which Keffals purportedly used an alt-account to reveal the supposed "lore" she had on @M0MMYBIGDICK, gathering over 2,000 likes in a day (seen below).