After Emma Sulkowicz, aka Mattress Girl, who walked around the campus of Columbia University carrying a mattress to protest the university’s attitude to her alleged rape, graduated and carried her mattress through the ceremony, someone started a hashtag and Twitter account called @fakerape, and subtitled it Faking Rape to Perpetuate an Astroturf Agenda.
The account published pictures of a poster placed around New York showing Sulkowicz carrying her mattress, with a caption reading “Pretty Little Liar.”
The site also featured a variety of hostile responses to Mattress Girl, including:
A Flickr post reflected anger not only at Sulkowicz, but Lena Dunham, who had her own issues with a flimsy rape story. Another tweet brought up the rape allegations against the former president of the United States: