Keffals

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About

Keffals, real name Clara Sorrenti, is a Canadian Twitch streamer and YouTuber known for her commentary videos on politically left-leaning and trans topics. Keffals is a male-to-female transwoman. In March 2022, Keffals gained notoriety for ratioing conservatives and people who make anti-trans remarks, or TERFs, including people like Steven Crowder and J.K. Rowling.

History

Feud With Destiny

On March 21st, 2022, Twitch streamer Destiny took part in a debate about trans people in sports surrounding the Lia Thomas swimming controversy. During the discussion, Destiny took the side against Lia Thomas being allowed to compete against athletes biologically born female (shown below).

Destiny was banned following the discussion. Allegedly, Keffals' followers reported Destiny multiple times for bullying over his statements about Lia Thomas, although this is unconfirmed. On March 23rd, Keffals posted a series of tweets^[3]^[4] bragging about getting Destiny banned (shown below). On March 25th, Destiny was reportedly banned from Twitch indefinitely.

Ratio Arc

On March 21st, 2022, Twitter^[1] user and conservative broadcaster @estherk_k posted, "Nobody ACTUALLY thinks transwomen are women. We are just being respectful," gaining over 38,300 likes in two weeks. The next day, Keffals quote-retweeted^[2] Esther, writing, "like this tweet if you ACTUALLY think trans women are women. let's prove her wrong," gaining over 86,000 likes in a similar span of time (shown below). Keffals published the tweet during a Twitch livestream, encouraging her viewers to like and retweet it.

On March 23rd, Twitter^[5] user and conservative creator Lauren Southern quote-tweeted Keffals tweet bragging about getting Destiny banned, writing, "Oh wow trans advocates censoring and destroying the income of people who slightly disagree with them? Wow this sure is making me love the online trans community more!," gaining over 1,400 likes in two weeks. That day, Keffals commented, "i have always wanted to ratio lauren southern," gaining over 7,800 likes while rationing her (shown below).

On March 25th, Keffals uploaded a clip from her Twitch stream to YouTube showing her posting the ratio against Esther K, gaining over 15,800 views in just over a week (shown below).

Over the following days, Keffals ratioed a number of notable conservatives and social media figures, including Ben Shapiro,^[6] Keemstar^[7] and Dave Rubin.^[8] On April 1st, Keffals then ratioed J.K. Rowling in a tweet reading, "History will judge whether Dr David Bell was a hateful transphobe or trying to alert people to a medical scandal, but he's far from the only health professional raising these concerns (and I have the letters and emails to prove it)," gaining over 28,000 likes in five days. Keffals tweet^[9] gained over 70,000 likes in a similar timeframe (shown below).

August 2022 Doxxing / Swatting Incident

On August 5th, 2022, Keffals was reportedly doxxed and swatted at her home in London, Ontario, Canada. The news broke on August 9th, with Global News^[10] publishing a story on the incident. On that day, Keffals posted a video on YouTube where she described the incident, saying she was woken up to an assault rifle in her face.

According to Keffals, someone sent an email to every city councilor in her hometown impersonating her, claiming she had an illegal firearm, killed her mother and planned to carry out a mass shooting on cisgender people. Purportedly, the email was shown to Keffals and it used her dead name (the name she used before transitioning). She believes this was an attempt by a troll or trolls to get the police to humiliate her. The police booked her in the station using her dead name and used that name the full time of the arrest, which Keffals perceived as evidence of prejudice towards trans people in the police force. The police seized a number of items, including her streaming laptop. She also shared that a week earlier she had been the victim of an attempted swatting attempt in Toronto. The video gained over 199,000 views in 10 days (shown below, left).

Global News posted an interview with Keffals to YouTube^[11] the next day, garnering over 13,600 views in nine days (shown below, right). On the same day, Keffals posted several tweets^[12]^[13] sharing news of the swatting that gained tens of thousands of likes, including screenshots of a report by CBC News that the conduct of the officers involved with the case.

On August 18th, Keffals posted a video on YouTube^[14] where she revealed that she was the victim of another potential swatting attempt. According to the video, on August 14th, Keffals posted an image of a cat on her hotel bedsheet to her Discord server. Trolls allegedly began cross-referencing the patterns on the bedsheets with bedsheets at hotels around the Toronto area and determined where she was staying. They began sending pizzas to her hotel room, after which she and her fiance checked out of the hotel quickly and moved to an undisclosed location.

The police then began investigating the incident as a hate crime, attempting to trace back the addresses of the people who sent the pizzas. Keffals claimed the swatting attempts were linked to Kiwi Farms, a gossip website known for its discussions of lolcows, as the swatting controversy continued building online. The video gained over 45,000 views in a day (shown below).

On that day, Keffals posted a tweet^[15] tagging web hosting service Cloudflare and its CEO Matthew Prince, suggesting that Cloudflare should stop hosting Kiwi Farms due to the alleged doxxing, garnering over 14,000 likes and 1,700 retweets in a day. Numerous media outlets reported on the story, many specifically mentioning Kiwi Farms, including Kotaku.^[16] Three days earlier, The Washington Post^[17] published an article about how Keffals, along with streamers iShowSpeed and Adin Ross were all swatted within the same week.

Prior to the swatting attempt on August 16th, numerous messages were posted to Keffals' Kiwi Farms^[18]^[19] page by users discussing the hotel sheets and sharing the alleged location of the hotel, with user HorseGirlSupremacy seemingly being one of the main perpetrators of the doxxing, offering evidence for Keffals' blaming the site's users (examples shown below).