As Twitchy reported, the inaugural Amber Rose SlutWalk was held in Los Angeles Saturday, hosted by the Clinton Family Foundation Amber Rose Foundation, a non-profit organization Rose, a hip hop model and actress, launched to support her core mission of “uplifting, empowering, and enhancing the platform of women across the globe.”
Rose boasts nearly 8 million followers on Instagram, but what about claims that her SlutWalk drew a crowd of 15,000? That number seems a bit high.
Breitbart.com writer Milo Yiannopoulos was there to cover the event (and do a bit of live trolling), and challenged that number, which was published in TIME magazine. The writer was Erica Williams Simon, described in her biography as deputy editor of Upworthy and “a strategist, cultural critic, speaker and media maker” whose work “focuses on communicating the personal values, ideas and habits that lead to radical social impact.”
No, @TIME @createdbyerica, there were not “15,000 people” at the #AmberRoseSlutWalk. There were 250. I was there. Why make up numbers?
— Milo Yiannopoulos ✘ (@Nero) October 5, 2015
Everyone cuts corners from time to time, but only progressive journalists brazenly lie like this. @Verdius @TIME @createdbyerica
— Milo Yiannopoulos ✘ (@Nero) October 5, 2015
Where did you get the 15,000 number from, @createdbyerica? Did someone report that to you? (They lied, if so.) Or did you just make it up?
— Milo Yiannopoulos ✘ (@Nero) October 5, 2015
https://twitter.com/Verdius/status/651145242217873412
Nope. Tickets sold = 6,000. (Though a tiny fraction of that actually showed up.) Where did 15,000 come from?@Verdius @TIME @createdbyerica
— Milo Yiannopoulos ✘ (@Nero) October 5, 2015
@Nero @Verdius @TIME @createdbyerica they were all hiding when they saw you arrive so you just didn't see them of course
— Chris (@iz_rly_Chris) October 5, 2015
I don’t buy it. They told me 6,000 registrants (barely a fraction came), not 15,000. Where did you get 15,000 from?@createdbyerica @TIME
— Milo Yiannopoulos ✘ (@Nero) October 5, 2015
If you’re amending, the number of people there was 250-300. Makes me wonder what else you just take on trust@createdbyerica @Verdius @TIME
— Milo Yiannopoulos ✘ (@Nero) October 5, 2015
@Nero It's strange how the media always inflates the turnout for liberal events,and under-reports conservative ones @createdbyerica @Verdius
— Mike Mack (@MikeMacck) October 5, 2015
Yes—a mystifying coincidence! Somehow feminist events get 100x inflation, conservative rallies get numbers shaved https://t.co/b7dHrfcpBB
— Milo Yiannopoulos ✘ (@Nero) October 5, 2015
Tell me, @createdbyerica. How do you know the “solidarity was palpable” when you obviously weren’t there? pic.twitter.com/aglTgCtuAS
— Milo Yiannopoulos ✘ (@Nero) October 5, 2015
And if you *were* there @createdbyerica, why did you knowingly misreport the # of attendees? Can’t you tell the diff between 250 and 15,000?
— Milo Yiannopoulos ✘ (@Nero) October 5, 2015
Were you at the Slut Walk or not, @createdbyerica?
— Milo Yiannopoulos ✘ (@Nero) October 5, 2015
Here’s something to help, @createdbyerica pic.twitter.com/GydeN1EPNB
— Milo Yiannopoulos ✘ (@Nero) October 5, 2015
Last I’ll say: either Time’s @createdbyerica wasn’t there, and she made up detail & didn’t fact-check numbers, or she was and she just lied.
— Milo Yiannopoulos ✘ (@Nero) October 5, 2015
@Nero It was a copyedit error. The piece was drafted using the registration number as a placeholder and didn't get changed.
— erica williams simon (@createdbyerica) October 5, 2015
So now you’re blaming someone else. Throwing an anonymous colleague under the bus. Who was it? Give us a name. https://t.co/S2urZZg8bG
— Milo Yiannopoulos ✘ (@Nero) October 5, 2015
I’m not interested in your “authentic thanks.” I want to know why you made up details about an event you didn’t attend. @createdbyerica
— Milo Yiannopoulos ✘ (@Nero) October 5, 2015
Can you explain why Amber Rose’s “team” allegedly told you 15,000, but told me 6,000? @createdbyerica
— Milo Yiannopoulos ✘ (@Nero) October 5, 2015
It’s certainly worth noting that the Los Angeles Times, which dispatched a reporter to the event to conduct interviews with participants, estimated the attendance to be “several hundred” — and that TIME has edited its piece to claim “thousands of people.”
Editor’s note: An earlier version of this story incorrectly reported a specific figure for the number of participants in the SlutWalk. A specific count was not available.
… so we went with 15,000.
@Nero ugh this is blatant white mansplaining. How dare you question them? Literally another #shoah
— literally reddit (@wewladtbhfam) October 5, 2015
@Nero @createdbyerica You know it's crap like this that makes people lose faith in journalism and hate SJW's? Truth > Narrative
— Zaelkrie™ (@thegothking) October 5, 2015
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