I remember when I first came here, many people questioned my identity, thinking that I was not a real Chinese. At first, I was a bit annoyed, but later I felt that being cautious is normal. In today's chaotic and disordered internet, there are many people who disguise their identities.
>Posing as a 49-year-old teacher and “Z poet” named Gennady Rakitin and using an AI-generated profile picture, a group of activists began posting Russian translations of poems by Nazi writers on the VK social network as an experiment in summer 2023, Zakharov said.
>Replacing the original poems’ references to Germany and Nazi soldiers with mention of Russia and Wagner Group fighters, those behind the Rakitin character aimed to highlight the absurdity of Russian government notions of patriotism in what Zakharov called a “work of conceptual anti-war art”.
>By the time of Zakharov’s post revealing the true nature of the poems, over 2,200 people had become “friends” with Rakitin on VK, including former Roscosmos space agency head Dmitry Rogozin, senator Andrey Klishas and presidential culture advisor Yelena Yampolskaya.https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2024/06/29/over-100-russian-officials-fall-for-nazi-poetry-prank-pulled-by-anti-war-activists-en-newsI have used VK, and through my account left on VK, I quickly found his account:
https://vk.com/rakitin75Actually, on VK, as long as you're willing to send friend requests, getting thousands of friends isn't hard. I think they must have specifically sent friend requests to Russian officials.
I can tell that some people here who claim to be from non-English speaking countries are fake because even in the higher trafficked /pol/, you rarely see people from those regions. As for me, I have visited many websites, and appearing here is just a part of my many online journeys. However, I have not spoken much on many other websites because my energy does not allow it. Of course, I also cannot say 'Hello, I am Chinese' on some anti-China forums.
I still believe we should remain cautious towards individuals claiming certain identities or origins unless they can provide clear evidence. If they can't, we shouldn't trust them easily. I think that after surfing the internet for so long, you should be able to use some internet slang to determine where someone is actually from, especially if they are a young person who likes to talk a lot and should be familiar with internet culture. For example, a sentence filled with puns and the latest popular memes can often expose many who claim to be foreigners from the US, particularly in subcultures and political communities where memes and disguises are prevalent. These are things that AI and search engines can't teach. You should also use things that only locals would understand but rarely appear online, such as experiences with education and exams, local IDs, etc. However, I'm not very sure how to judge someone claiming to be from a certain industry since I'm not from that industry myself. I can usually understand political satire in my native language. If an account is intentionally trying to deceive people, it either has a small amount of traffic or, if the traffic increases, it will have its suspicious points noticed by people from various parts of the internet.The Russian news account previously had not much traffic, but the last post, which revealed its true nature, gained a lot of traffic.
>2023 年夏天，一群活动分子开始在 VK 社交网络上发布纳粹作家诗歌的俄语翻译，作为一项实验。他们假扮为 49 岁的教师和“Z 诗人”根纳迪·拉基京 (Gennady Rakitin)，并使用人工智能生成的个人资料图片。
>创作者用拉基京这一角色取代了原诗中对德国和纳粹士兵的提及，转而提及俄罗斯和瓦格纳集团的战士，旨在强调俄罗斯政府爱国主义观念的荒谬性，扎哈罗夫称其为“概念性反战艺术作品”。
>截至扎哈罗夫发帖揭露这些诗歌的真面目时，VK 上已有超过 2,200 人与拉基京成为“好友”，其中包括前俄罗斯航天局局长德米特里·罗戈津、参议员安德烈·克利沙斯和总统文化顾问叶列娜·亚姆波尔斯卡娅。原文来自
https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2024/06/29/over-100-russian-officials-fall-for-nazi-poetry-prank-pulled-by-anti-war-activists-en-news我使用过vk，通过我留在vk上的账号我很快找到了他的账号
https://vk.com/rakitin75其实vk上只要你肯发好友请求那么几千的好友不是难事，我想他们是应该特意去向俄罗斯官员发送好友请求的。
我记得一开始来这里的时候很多人都对我的身份提出了质疑，认为我不是一个真正的中国人，一开始我有些恼火后来我觉得保持警惕是正常的。在当今混乱无序的互联网里，伪装身份的人大有人在。
我能判断出这里一些仿照我声称来自非英语国家的人是伪装的，因为即使在流量较大的/pol/里都不曾见到这些地区的人。至于我是一个访问过很多网站的人，出现在这里是我许多网络旅程的一个插曲，不过我没在很多其它网站发过言，我的精力不允许这样，当然我也不能在一些反华的论坛说“你好我是一个中国人”。
我依然认为我们要对一些声称是什么什么身份来自哪里哪里的人保持一种谨慎态度，如果来者拿不出什么明确的证据就不要轻易相信（我认为在网络冲浪了那么久你们应该会使用一些网络用语判断他到底来不来自哪里，特别是他是一个喜欢侃侃而谈的理应懂得网络流行文化的年轻人，我想一个夹带大量谐音和最新流行梗的句子就能识破许多声称自己来自美国的外国人，特别是在梗和喜欢伪装的人盛行的亚文化与政治社区，这些东西是ai和搜索教不会的，当然也应该使用一些自己作为本地人都懂但是网络上很少出现的东西，比如教育生涯必须经历的学业和考试、本地护照等。不过我不怎么清楚怎么判断声称自己来自某某行业的人，毕竟我也不是该行业的人；属于母语的来自政治上的反讽我一般都看得懂。如果一个存心想骗人的账号它要么流量小，要么流量大起来露出马脚，新闻的俄罗斯账号之前的流量其实不大，只是最后一条亮出实质的发言收获了很多流量）