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i've been thinking a lot about the whole hudson williams inflammatory photo situation, about whether i want to post anything into the internet abyss, about what i can even contribute to this matter. i've decided i'm going to dump some of my thoughts because this whole thing feels a lot less like run-of-the-mill internet discourse and more like a huge, racially-motivated internet defamation campaign.

it’s disappointing to see people demand accountability from a cyberstalked celebrity for something that may very well have been racial humiliation, coercion, and/or targeting when he was a minor. and just to be clear, the symbols in the photo are absolutely offensive. i’m not disputing that. however, a huge part of the issue for me is how few people seem interested in context & how quickly a decontextualized image has been treated as definitive proof of intent, agency, and endorsement.

i’m going to try to share this without doxxing myself. i’m white. i grew up in a very white suburban neighborhood and attended a predominantly white public high school. the racist bullying in my school was so bad that a major news network made an entire documentary about it. i share the below having spent a lot of time reflecting on my own complacency as a white person & through conversations i’ve had (and still have -- the trauma fucking lingers) with long-term friends who experienced racially-motivated hate daily in our school. i know my school is not unique, which is a large part of the reason why i've decided to share this.

(i’m about to share examples, so if you don’t want to read, i've noted below where the examples end. if you're white, please sit with the discomfort & continue reading.)

in my high school, it was commonplace for students of color -- especially melanated students of color -- to be hazed, degraded, and publicly humiliated. racist harassment and acts of racial terror were normalized, and assimilation to whiteness was expected in order to maintain the school’s (and broader community's) racial hierarchy. for many students of color, belonging was conditional. social acceptance usually required minimizing experiences of racism, laughing along with racist jokes, distancing themselves from other students of color, tolerating humiliation and abuse, proving they were “not like the other [students of color],” etc.

the reward for “playing along” was limited and precarious social inclusion. the punishment was exclusion and ostracization by students and parents alike. for many of my friends and peers, assimilation to whiteness was not a desired choice -- it was survival. people of color are often taught that they must endure racism, degradation, and humiliation to gain access to spaces that white people inhabit by default.

the same weekend my school hosted its annual “diversity night,” a white jewish student drew a sw*stika on a Brown student at a party and posted it on instagram. the Brown student was suspended for three days, and the white student -- whose parents defended him like they were in court -- got away scot-free. my friends of color have repeatedly shared that they felt gaslit by our school, which proudly hosted diversity initiatives, multicultural events, and anti-bullying campaigns, yet did little to hold individual students/friend groups accountable for racist harm. instead, the students who were held accountable were often the very students of color who fell victim to this racist harm.

(examples over)

i feel like a lot of people engaging in the hudson discourse are failing to recognize how often racial humiliation functions as a social ritual that reinforces white supremacy. we now have access to a photo of a teenager who was one of the only people of color in a predominantly white social environment, surrounded by white peers, with hateful symbols drawn on his face. maybe he made terrible decisions. maybe he should have objected. maybe he felt like he couldn’t. the point is, we don't know the context. why are we so quick to dismiss the possibility that an asian teenager in a predominantly white social environment may have been the target of racial humiliation, coercion, or abuse?

i also can't help but think about the model minority myth. asian folks are often expected to navigate racism in ways that are legible to white audiences -- be respectable, agreeable, non-confrontational, respond "correctly," etc. yet racism ofc doesn't always look like open hostility, and survival doesn't always look like resistance. sometimes it looks like silence. or laughing along. or enduring humiliation because the social consequences of refusing are worse. like i said above, for many people of color, assimilation is a strategy for survival. the speed with which folks have dismissed those possibilities says a lot about how narrowly many people understand racism, victimhood, and accountability when asian people are involved.

what's clear is that people have spent months digging through his entire historical internet presence, combing through the private social media accounts of people he knew as a teenager, excavating photos that were never meant for public consumption, and distributing them online to maximize outrage. say what you will about the celebrity as a surveilled public commodity -- that's not the point i'm trying to make here. people are digging through this guy’s life with the explicit goal of finding material that can be used against him, flattening every possible interpretation of the shared image into the one that causes the maximum amount of harm. we act as though the existence of a photograph tells us everything we need to know about the circumstances under which it was taken.

a lot of people seem less interested in understanding context/what happened than they are in destroying him. and (coming from a queer jew) a lot of people are suddenly very eager to weaponize antisemitism and homophobia as "gotchas" when they've never previously demonstrated any meaningful concern for either.

The term ch*gga is a slur specifically against Asians, not black ppl. I’m sure white ppl stole it but in my life I’ve only seen it used by black ppl against Asians

Ik that Baker guy that's likely behind this is white, but if I didn't know that I would assume there's a black person behind all this who is prob pissed at Hudson and his team bc of the grillz (the timing too makes me think that , it’s right after the met gala)

The slur originated in rap culture and black people use it to insult Asians that are "too into hip-hop" (to keep it pg). Yes it derives from nigga + ch*nk, but it's a way for black ppl to mock and insult Asians that don't stay in their lane basically . It’s like saying “look at this ch*nk, he thinks he’s a nigga” , it’s mocking , insulting , derogatory

There was an Indonesian rapper that used something-ch*gga as a stage name, ppl called him out, he changed it, but from that moment on the black rap community has been using that slur against Asians they feel are appropriating black culture

Chinese or not doesn’t matter, just like ppl call Asians ch*nks regardless of their actual race. Lots of black ppl call k-pop rappers (who r usually korean, japanese, thai) ch*ggas as a slur. You wouldn't believe the amount of black ppl that called H a ch*gga BEFORE this whole bs and expected me to agree because I'm black 🤷🏿‍♂️ (back then it was just because he said "y'all")

To me it looks like that account was being racist yes... but towards Hudson. And tbh I feel towards Aika too. Bc they wore grillz at the Met gala .

(ik that grillz are historically part of Aika's culture & she's his stylist and his other stylist is black, but a lot of people prefer to play dumb and ignore all that)

The name "original duo" w another Asian in the pfp could be a shady reference to Aika and not H's actual friend in the pic w him , that was just a lucky coincidence to find a pic w H and another Asian from high school

2 days later and looking at it from every angle , to me this seems planned, coordinated and like a punishment for the grillz and using AAVE (queer ppl use AAVE all the time , which is a discussion we should have, but I feel not rn , rn ppl are pissed abt the grillz and racist haters jumped on it to try and cancel him )

When I first saw the screenshot of that account my first thought was not "omg he wrote something anti Black" it was "ah shit ppl are taking this grillz thing too seriously . throwing slurs against him now ?"

I legit thought that bio was hating on Hudson, that it was a hater account set up by black people, because that was anti Asian racism, not anti Black racism

Then I checked twitter and ppl were like "black fans are so hurt", "how could Hudson do this" and I was like uh?? Black ppl are so hurt by... an anti Asian slur used against Hudson?? And not hurt in the sense that you feel bad for him, but in the sense that now you hate him?? And nothing abt the Asian fans and H’s team too that had to see that anti Asian slur thrown around for 3 days

Anyway black hr fans are too reactionary and white hr fans on twitter are too racist and performative , they sniffed blood and went for his throat instead of using some critical thinking . And they expect us to believe they care abt racism after 6 months of racism towards HW , sure...

To me it's clear Hudson was the target here (and Aika and all the Asians that had to see that slur) and the victim. tbh even if the word was nigga and not an anti Asian slur , that account changed pfp and mocked his korean in the midst of the witch hunt? that’s enough for me to see it’s utter bs

Someone said that whoever is behind it couldn’t resist insulting HW. Just nigga would have caused more outrage , but they couldn’t help it and had to throw ch*nk in there to make sure they shaded H, his teams and all his Asian fans too and I agree ( it’s also why I immediately thought the person responsible was black )

Some of his biggest haters on twitter are black + ch*gga originated in rap culture = I assumed this was just another hater setting him up and punishing him for the grillz 🤷🏿‍♂️

But there could definitely be a white person behind it , an envious ex friend or something , who knows turning black ppl against him is a quick way to tarnish his reputation. Or maybe he was contacted by the white guys’ fans and decided to help them w the smear campaign

I have been wishing more people would acknowledge that ch*gga would exclusively be directed at Asians. I don't think that means it's not anti-Black or at least, never anti-Black (like, obviously when a non Black person uses it, it's anti-Black). I've been conflicted about how derogatory the word is meant to be as I've seen conflicting explanations from Black people and Asian people, but it is clear to me that only Asian people would be called ch*gga.

I wouldn't really say this isn't a possibility either. I mean, I think a white person could do it, and I also think part of the reason ch*gga was used and not just the n-word out right was probably in an effort to make it more believable or plausible seeming (lol) but I can see why you would make this assumption when the grillz and AAVE discourse was also happening.

So I already covered them showing Kalem was following that account. But they also showed that two other friends were following the account: _mamajai (will be referring to as MJ) and benphanderson (will be referring to as Ben; can't be seen in the screenshot but its account under the pic of Hudson + friends).

As MJ is still a public account I decided to snoop around. It's important to note that MJ hasn't been active (or doesn't seem to have been) since their last post on that account. After going through their posts and their follower + following list, it became clear that they were following duo accounts (so yes 'thebakers_1' account was real and was followed by the three friends), and that's because MJ is also a duo account!

Let me explain. Duo accounts is basically a trend that was happening amongst the youth at the time (2016). It's essentially making a spam account with a friend and you just post whatever. These were teenagers making these accounts, not some grand mastermind that knew in ten years, this would be relevant to an actor from a gay hockey romance TV show. So keeping that in mind that these were again, teenagers, what gave the duo account trend away? A pattern in the usernames of the account. Quite literally, the duo account usernames are just a mash up of the names of the individuals in the ‘duo’. So MJ? Yes, it is a combination of the names of the girls who owe that account.

And here are other examples of duo accounts (with such obvious names) and the individual accounts for the duos. All paired except for fifi (It’s nice that Canada’s got really good privacy laws.. so I’ve heard).

Bringing us to ‘thebakers_1’, if this is suppose to be Hudson’s duo account, why doesn’t it follow the same naming convention? Clearly no one was going out of their way to be different or creative. Did Hudson and whoever else owed this account just felt like being different? Doubt it! So I started searching ‘bakers’ in MJ's following list. Because there has to be a ‘baker’ individual account to accompany the duo, ‘thebakers_1’. And I know the individual account had to still be there because MJ’s following count has only changed by 1 (127 -> 126). And it has stayed this way this ever since the screenshots came out (more on this later).

Searching for ‘baker’ gave this account: bakerbobi. Okay, it matches the naming convention, because there’s baker in an individual account.

So then I thought, okay it did say ‘thebakers_1’ plural. Did that mean there are two Bakers? So then I went back to Kalem’s account and found 4 accounts by searching ‘Baker’ in his following list, including 'Bakerbobi". I was able to quickly deduce that the other 3 were not the second ‘Baker’ I was looking for. Remember these are teenagers doing a trend. They all follow each other creating this little paper trail / web of connection. So out of the three likely ‘baker’s (highly doubt a verified account of an older woman was participating in this trend), only one of them has the follow from MJ and other duo accounts: Bakerbobi.

(I feel a bit terrible abut not blocking out the pfp's and part of their names here, so please don't harass them, this is just for the purpose of getting clarity)

It did take me a bit, to be honest, to peace together why I was not finding this other Baker. Baker #2 had to exist, if ‘thebakers_1’ was a duo account. So I started looking more closely at which account in the following list of all these other accounts was also a part of this paper trail/ web. Basically, what other accounts are MJ, Kalem, BakerBobi, and other public duo accounts following?

I included BakerBobi because I noticed that duo accounts will follow the accounts of the individuals in the duo. Screenshot below.

And not only do the duo account follow each individual account, the solo accounts will follow each other! (And duh! They’re friends). So BakerBobi had to follow their duo pair. And as I kept cross referencing (basically just seeing which profile picture kept showing up in different following lists), the one I kept seeing consistently was: momahbobi. An account that clearly was part of the friendship web / paper-trail! Momahbobi.

Zoomed in on the profile picture of BakerBobi, and it clicked that Bakerbobi is not a solo account. It’s the duo! ("we made it" in the bio). Momahbobi is ‘Bobi’, so who the is ‘Baker’?

Reminder that BakerBobi was the only ‘Baker’ I could find connected to the paper trail. And then I remembered the account that was deleted…..’thebakers_1’. So not only does Bakerbobi follow the naming convention (again, they’ve all been pretty straightforward), it also follows the 'duo follows individual accounts' pattern. So we have Bakerbobi following Momahbobi (due to this account being private, I can’t check who Momahbobi follow but this is enough for me).

This just shows again that Momahbobi is part of the paper trail (thanks MJ). And that while Bakerbobi is complying with the other duo accounts in following it's individual owners, there are no individual account found for 'Baker' in Bakerbobi's following list.

Seems pretty simple to me. But not wanting to leave any stone unturned, I wanted to see if it was possible find a personal IG account for Baker from Bakerbobi. Maybe the personal account didn't want BakerBobi to follow them anymore? After more digging and I was able to find a VSCO account for a Gray baker. Seems very generic, could be anyone. Except that they’ve reposted a Momahbobi. And when I searched the IG handle in their bio, nothing came up.

So at last, I have found “the original duo”. Bakerbobi!

So 'thebakers_1' account couldn’t have been Hudson’s, despite the profile picture. Because, as the account demonstrated by taking its time deactivating, a profile picture can easily be changed.

However, you can only change your username on IG a max of 2 times within 14 days. Remember that a hudcon ('allegedly', I don't know, that's what the account who posted the screenshot said) provided a screenshot that they knew of the IG account on April 26.

That gave them enough time to change the username the max allotted number of changes. Change 1: [Original username] -> “thebakers_1” (this is my guess)

Change 2: “thebakers_1” -> “beepboopbopbopbeepboopboop”.

Which by the way is a reference to Hudson’s pronounciation of bibimbap.

Okay that’s it for: I don't buy that the account was related to Hudson. If anyone was going to be in a duo with Hudson, it would have been Kalem. And giving that everyone else followed the same naming convention, I’m sure their duo account would have been a mashing of their names. Not “thebakers_1” which was easily found to be linked to an actual duo account.

[Rapid Fire Q&A]

Who is Luis? That is one of Hudson's HS friends. I have no idea if they are the other person in the profile picture with Hudson. I don't think it matters though because profile pictures can be changed anytime. It's the username of the account that's relevant.

So was 'thebakers_1' a duo or a solo? If it was a solo why the plural? My hunch is that "thebakers_1" was an account that belonged to a single individual. But somehow it started posing as a duo account just in time for people on twitter to get some screenshots framing Hudson to be a co-owner of this account.

Okay but his friends were following the account and it was made in 2016? Yes, I believe that this account was a real account that belonged to an individual in Hudson's social circle. I don't know how close this person was to Hudson but for teenagers, it's really not hard to start mapping out who's in their social circles base on their following on social media. That 'thebakers_1' was an old account and that it was followed by Hudsons's friends would have been the perfect set up. Because it's all linked to him, yes. Except, they didn't think about the finer details, whoever set it up.

Okay so what does this mean? Why was the profile changed? Who's behind it? That I don't know. I don't have receipts for anything regarding that. Who's being the scenes etc. I just have my tinfoil hat based on the 7 months of pure hell being part of this fandom has been. It's a pattern for sure, but again, I don't have anything other than what I've #noticed.

A little bonus, Hudson’s finsta is clearly part of the friendship web (followed by MJ and another duo account). He doesn’t follow any duo accounts from his finsta (but there are some individual accounts he does follow). BakerBobi does not follow _heyyyguys__. It's clear that some of these duo account still follow Hudson and he's fine with it (the concept for having a private account with >1K followers...Hudson please!). And Bakerbobi and MJ follow a lot of the same duo and individual accounts. Make of this was you will.

[EXTRA]

Since today, Saturday, hudson’s finsta became suddenly relevant, let’s talk aboout such a glaring omission on Thursday, when they set up the leaked the screenshot of 'thebakers_1'.

Again, this account shared screenshots of MJ and Ben following ‘thebakers_1’. "More friends" indeed.

And you can see they posted a photo of Hudson. And there’s a tagged icon. As people who wanted others to believe that Hudson was definitely close to the people behind these accounts (MJ and Ben), why not show the tagged accounts in the screenshot?? (Is it maybe because the person who took them knew what account would show up? and that would have made this screenshot worse *for* them instead of more damning for Hudson?)

Because guess what I did. I went to MJ, found the post, and clicked on the damn tag to see which account was tagged. And wow, it was Hudson’s finsta.

Which they conveniently did not bring up or address AT ALL on Thursday. When it would have definitely made sense to do so when ‘thebakers_1’ was still active! But instead, they waited until today, Saturday, after ‘thebakers_1’ was deactived, to bring up the finsta's following count, in the hopes that their doctored screenshots would support their claim of “thebakers_1” being his account. Well guess what? I’ve been taking screenshots of his account since Thursday and the following has been the same! Even as after 'thebakers_1' deactivated and the glitched on IG was fixed. And even if the following count had changed, why not bring up that Hudson's finsta was tagged on THURSDAY.

Another thing I want to point out about that screenshot. Hudson’s comment. Hudson’s COMMENT! Comments from private accounts can still be read even if you don’t follow the account. Comments from private accounts have TIMESTAMPS. The comment in that screenshot irrefutably dates Hudson to being active on that account 433 weeks ago. Yes?

Okay so for ‘thebakers_1’. It is private, yes? But you can still read comments left by private accounts. ‘thebakers_1’ followed by: Kalem, MJ, and Ben. All public when ‘thebakers_1’ was active. Are you expecting me to believe that no one, in the two weeks that they knew about ‘thebakers_1’, combed through the posts across THREE public accounts to see, hey did ‘thebakers_1’ leave a comment anywhere? Because ‘thebakers_1’ is suppose to be Hudson’s duo account. Hudson comments on his solo account so why wouldn’t he comment or have some sort of activity from the duo account? Could it be that, there probably were comments from ‘thebakers_1’ and most likely under their original name because ‘thebakers_1’ is not a duo! Also, comments carry timestamps.

If I was #them, I actually would have left comments in that two weeks window or told whoever was behind ‘thebakers_1’ to do that. Because it would have made it more believable for this account to be aware of when they got exposed (the same night!) if they had been recently active.

This brings me back to, remember what I said about MJ. That this entire time, the only change in their account has been their following count decreasing by 1. This account was exposed in the leak. It's public. I’ve snooped through it left and right, followed and unfollowed, and re-followed. And nothing. MJ has no fucking idea what’s going on. And that’s to be expected because the account is a fucking spam account they made a DECADE ago. They have their own individual accounts, and I imagine that’s the account they would have notifications on for. Out of all three friend accounts that were exposed, only MJ has done nothing. Kalem was responding to DM's and he turned off his comments. And Ben made his account private some time Friday morning. MJ remains the same as it was.

So I already covered them showing Kalem was following that account. But they also showed that two other friends were following the account: _mamajai (will be referring to as MJ) and benphanderson (will be referring to as Ben; can't be seen in the screenshot but its account under the pic of Hudson + friends).

As MJ is still a public account I decided to snoop around. It's important to note that MJ hasn't been active (or doesn't seem to have been) since their last post on that account. After going through their posts and their follower + following list, it became clear that they were following duo accounts (so yes 'thebakers_1' account was real and was followed by the three friends), and that's because MJ is also a duo account!

Let me explain. Duo accounts is basically a trend that was happening amongst the youth at the time (2016). It's essentially making a spam account with a friend and you just post whatever. These were teenagers making these accounts, not some grand mastermind that knew in ten years, this would be relevant to an actor from a gay hockey romance TV show. So keeping that in mind that these were again, teenagers, what gave the duo account trend away? A pattern in the usernames of the account. Quite literally, the duo account usernames are just a mash up of the names of the individuals in the ‘duo’. So MJ? Yes, it is a combination of the names of the girls who owe that account.

And here are other examples of duo accounts (with such obvious names) and the individual accounts for the duos. All paired except for fifi (It’s nice that Canada’s got really good privacy laws.. so I’ve heard).

Bringing us to ‘thebakers_1’, if this is suppose to be Hudson’s duo account, why doesn’t it follow the same naming convention? Clearly no one was going out of their way to be different or creative. Did Hudson and whoever else owed this account just felt like being different? Doubt it! So I started searching ‘bakers’ in MJ's following list. Because there has to be a ‘baker’ individual account to accompany the duo, ‘thebakers_1’. And I know the individual account had to still be there because MJ’s following count has only changed by 1 (127 -> 126). And it has stayed this way this ever since the screenshots came out (more on this later).

Searching for ‘baker’ gave this account: bakerbobi. Okay, it matches the naming convention, because there’s baker in an individual account.

So then I thought, okay it did say ‘thebakers_1’ plural. Did that mean there are two Bakers? So then I went back to Kalem’s account and found 4 accounts by searching ‘Baker’ in his following list, including 'Bakerbobi". I was able to quickly deduce that the other 3 were not the second ‘Baker’ I was looking for. Remember these are teenagers doing a trend. They all follow each other creating this little paper trail / web of connection. So out of the three likely ‘baker’s (highly doubt a verified account of an older woman was participating in this trend), only one of them has the follow from MJ and other duo accounts: Bakerbobi.

(I feel a bit terrible abut not blocking out the pfp's and part of their names here, so please don't harass them, this is just for the purpose of getting clarity)

It did take me a bit, to be honest, to peace together why I was not finding this other Baker. Baker #2 had to exist, if ‘thebakers_1’ was a duo account. So I started looking more closely at which account in the following list of all these other accounts was also a part of this paper trail/ web. Basically, what other accounts are MJ, Kalem, BakerBobi, and other public duo accounts following?

I included BakerBobi because I noticed that duo accounts will follow the accounts of the individuals in the duo. Screenshot below.

And not only do the duo account follow each individual account, the solo accounts will follow each other! (And duh! They’re friends). So BakerBobi had to follow their duo pair. And as I kept cross referencing (basically just seeing which profile picture kept showing up in different following lists), the one I kept seeing consistently was: momahbobi. An account that clearly was part of the friendship web / paper-trail! Momahbobi.

Zoomed in on the profile picture of BakerBobi, and it clicked that Bakerbobi is not a solo account. It’s the duo! ("we made it" in the bio). Momahbobi is ‘Bobi’, so who the is ‘Baker’?

Reminder that BakerBobi was the only ‘Baker’ I could find connected to the paper trail. And then I remembered the account that was deleted…..’thebakers_1’. So not only does Bakerbobi follow the naming convention (again, they’ve all been pretty straightforward), it also follows the 'duo follows individual accounts' pattern. So we have Bakerbobi following Momahbobi (due to this account being private, I can’t check who Momahbobi follow but this is enough for me).

This just shows again that Momahbobi is part of the paper trail (thanks MJ). And that while Bakerbobi is complying with the other duo accounts in following it's individual owners, there are no individual account found for 'Baker' in Bakerbobi's following list.

Seems pretty simple to me. But not wanting to leave any stone unturned, I wanted to see if it was possible find a personal IG account for Baker from Bakerbobi. Maybe the personal account didn't want BakerBobi to follow them anymore? After more digging and I was able to find a VSCO account for a Gray baker. Seems very generic, could be anyone. Except that they’ve reposted a Momahbobi. And when I searched the IG handle in their bio, nothing came up.

So at last, I have found “the original duo”. Bakerbobi!

So 'thebakers_1' account couldn’t have been Hudson’s, despite the profile picture. Because, as the account demonstrated by taking its time deactivating, a profile picture can easily be changed.

However, you can only change your username on IG a max of 2 times within 14 days. Remember that a hudcon ('allegedly', I don't know, that's what the account who posted the screenshot said) provided a screenshot that they knew of the IG account on April 26.

That gave them enough time to change the username the max allotted number of changes. Change 1: [Original username] -> “thebakers_1” (this is my guess)

Change 2: “thebakers_1” -> “beepboopbopbopbeepboopboop”.

Which by the way is a reference to Hudson’s pronounciation of bibimbap.

Okay that’s it for: I don't buy that the account was related to Hudson. If anyone was going to be in a duo with Hudson, it would have been Kalem. And giving that everyone else followed the same naming convention, I’m sure their duo account would have been a mashing of their names. Not “thebakers_1” which was easily found to be linked to an actual duo account.

[Rapid Fire Q&A]

Who is Luis? That is one of Hudson's HS friends. I have no idea if they are the other person in the profile picture with Hudson. I don't think it matters though because profile pictures can be changed anytime. It's the username of the account that's relevant.

So was 'thebakers_1' a duo or a solo? If it was a solo why the plural? My hunch is that "thebakers_1" was an account that belonged to a single individual. But somehow it started posing as a duo account just in time for people on twitter to get some screenshots framing Hudson to be a co-owner of this account.

Okay but his friends were following the account and it was made in 2016? Yes, I believe that this account was a real account that belonged to an individual in Hudson's social circle. I don't know how close this person was to Hudson but for teenagers, it's really not hard to start mapping out who's in their social circles base on their following on social media. That 'thebakers_1' was an old account and that it was followed by Hudsons's friends would have been the perfect set up. Because it's all linked to him, yes. Except, they didn't think about the finer details, whoever set it up.

Okay so what does this mean? Why was the profile changed? Who's behind it? That I don't know. I don't have receipts for anything regarding that. Who's being the scenes etc. I just have my tinfoil hat based on the 7 months of pure hell being part of this fandom has been. It's a pattern for sure, but again, I don't have anything other than what I've #noticed.

A little bonus, Hudson’s finsta is clearly part of the friendship web (followed by MJ and another duo account). He doesn’t follow any duo accounts from his finsta (but there are some individual accounts he does follow). BakerBobi does not follow _heyyyguys__. It's clear that some of these duo account still follow Hudson and he's fine with it (the concept for having a private account with >1K followers...Hudson please!). And Bakerbobi and MJ follow a lot of the same duo and individual accounts. Make of this was you will.

[EXTRA]

Since today, Saturday, hudson’s finsta became suddenly relevant, let’s talk aboout such a glaring omission on Thursday, when they set up the leaked the screenshot of 'thebakers_1'.

Again, this account shared screenshots of MJ and Ben following ‘thebakers_1’. "More friends" indeed.

And you can see they posted a photo of Hudson. And there’s a tagged icon. As people who wanted others to believe that Hudson was definitely close to the people behind these accounts (MJ and Ben), why not show the tagged accounts in the screenshot?? (Is it maybe because the person who took them knew what account would show up? and that would have made this screenshot worse *for* them instead of more damning for Hudson?)

Because guess what I did. I went to MJ, found the post, and clicked on the damn tag to see which account was tagged. And wow, it was Hudson’s finsta.

Which they conveniently did not bring up or address AT ALL on Thursday. When it would have definitely made sense to do so when ‘thebakers_1’ was still active! But instead, they waited until today, Saturday, after ‘thebakers_1’ was deactived, to bring up the finsta's following count, in the hopes that their doctored screenshots would support their claim of “thebakers_1” being his account. Well guess what? I’ve been taking screenshots of his account since Thursday and the following has been the same! Even as after 'thebakers_1' deactivated and the glitched on IG was fixed. And even if the following count had changed, why not bring up that Hudson's finsta was tagged on THURSDAY.

Another thing I want to point out about that screenshot. Hudson’s comment. Hudson’s COMMENT! Comments from private accounts can still be read even if you don’t follow the account. Comments from private accounts have TIMESTAMPS. The comment in that screenshot irrefutably dates Hudson to being active on that account 433 weeks ago. Yes?

Okay so for ‘thebakers_1’. It is private, yes? But you can still read comments left by private accounts. ‘thebakers_1’ followed by: Kalem, MJ, and Ben. All public when ‘thebakers_1’ was active. Are you expecting me to believe that no one, in the two weeks that they knew about ‘thebakers_1’, combed through the posts across THREE public accounts to see, hey did ‘thebakers_1’ leave a comment anywhere? Because ‘thebakers_1’ is suppose to be Hudson’s duo account. Hudson comments on his solo account so why wouldn’t he comment or have some sort of activity from the duo account? Could it be that, there probably were comments from ‘thebakers_1’ and most likely under their original name because ‘thebakers_1’ is not a duo! Also, comments carry timestamps.

If I was #them, I actually would have left comments in that two weeks window or told whoever was behind ‘thebakers_1’ to do that. Because it would have made it more believable for this account to be aware of when they got exposed (the same night!) if they had been recently active.

This brings me back to, remember what I said about MJ. That this entire time, the only change in their account has been their following count decreasing by 1. This account was exposed in the leak. It's public. I’ve snooped through it left and right, followed and unfollowed, and re-followed. And nothing. MJ has no fucking idea what’s going on. And that’s to be expected because the account is a fucking spam account they made a DECADE ago. They have their own individual accounts, and I imagine that’s the account they would have notifications on for. Out of all three friend accounts that were exposed, only MJ has done nothing. Kalem was responding to DM's and he turned off his comments. And Ben made his account private some time Friday morning. MJ remains the same as it was.