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Regarding @littlegreenfag

Tldr: Adina, known by the Tumblr urls littlegreenfag and prksoda, has spent the past several years lying about many facets of their life. The list of lies includes, but is not limited to, being half manouche Romani, being Jewish, and being descended from Holocaust survivors.

I never wanted to have to do this. I’ve spent months trying my best to encourage Adina to come clean themself. My methods were not ideal. I should not have used anonymous messages. I used to be friends with them, I should've talked to them openly as their friend. I also should’ve attempted to be less aggressive at times, even though I think it is incredibly reasonable to have felt the way I felt when I was sending some of those messages. I understand and regret both of these things. Unfortunately, since Adina has deactivated @littlegreenfag, I cannot provide links or screenshots to every ask of mine that they responded to, only those I saved at the time. I will do this later, upon request. This post is already going to be enough of a monster without them.

Though the last day has been a complete nightmare, I am satisfied with one thing: Adina came clean about everything, even if not publicly. My worry was always with the though of having to reveal their personal information, as many of the things they’ve lied about would require me to, functionally, dox them. Though it's technically all public, I would much rather that no one who doesn't already have access to this information gain it.

So, why am I writing this post? For those of you who were on Adina’s blog last night, you may have seen this post. I was also able to save a capture of their blog on the Internet Archive. Here is a screenshot that I took around when the post was first published. Apologies for the formatting.

To summarize, Adina begins to by admitting to a small lie, that they were born in Chicago, before admitting that they had been lying about their race. Though it was not present at the time of the blog's deletion, I would like to note that Adina had the phrase "jewish and half-romani" in their blog's bio for a very long time. This phrase was quietly removed after I sent the first anon message telling them that I was aware of their lies, on March 16th 2024. This can be seen on the Wayback Machine, by looking at the capture taken on March 5th, 2024, in comparison to the capture taken on March 24th, 2024.

That is what you may have seen. However, it is not the only major lie Adina has told. After suggesting Adina should turn off anons, I sent them another ask with my blog name visible, telling them that I could tell everyone about the other lies for them, if they wished to log off and be done with it. They messaged me privately, and this is the resulting conversation.

I apologize for the block of images, but I figured it was necessary to include the entire conversation. Here, Adina openly admits to not being Jewish. Adina has spent months receiving social benefits for claiming to be Jewish, and they've even used this claim to support arguments. Truth be told, Adina has one Jewish great-grandfather. How Adina expected me to believe they would know about this without knowing his surname, I will never know. However, I should emphasize that Adina is not Jewish by the standards of any main movement of Judaism. Orthodox and Conservative look for an unbroken line of Jewish women, while Reform asks that you be raised Jewish by a Jewish parent. Adina is descended from a Jewish man who converted to Catholicism and raised his children Catholic.

Regarding the Holocaust claim, I understand hat Adina did not directly address this. I will say that I find it suspicious that they deactivated as soon as I mentioned it, but they technically never confirmed it was a lie. However, with the information that:

The ancestors they mention as being survivors or victims quite literally do not exist and

Their Jewish ancestor was born in the United States well before WWII

I believe it is quite safe to say this was also a lie. My screenshots of their claims come mostly from their Reddit account, which is now deleted.

It is absolutely ghoulish to me to create fake relatives so that you can pretend they were tortured and killed during the Holocaust. All to receive sympathy.

Though there are many, many other lies Adina has peddled, such as being a child of divorce and having a dead biological mother, I don't think any of them matter much in the grand scheme of things when these are the other lies that have been told.

It is also worth noting that this is a pattern of behavior from Adina. As some of you who followed them may know, back in 2019, a blog was created with the intent of calling them out for lies. Frankly, this blog, @prksodalies , is what put me on to Adina's trail in the first place. Though I believe that several of the things Adina was accused of on this blog are downright cruel to accuse someone of without evidence, the fact that there were so many smaller obvious lies made me very uneasy. What specifically made me curious was the post, here, where Adina claims that they are half Lebanese. Obviously, this did not make a ton of sense with the half Roma and half Ashkenazi Jewish Adina we all knew. As it turns out, this was one of the very few shreds of truth from Adina. They're a quarter Lebanese on their father's side, and other than that and a Jewish great-grandfather, are of mostly Polish and German descent.

This being a pattern of behavior, alongside the way Adina behaved in messages with me, tells me that this will likely unfortunately not be the last time this person creates a Tumblr blog with a fabricated life story. I feel immense guilt at the thought that they may continue to swindle and hurt people, and that I will never know or be able to help again.

To everyone who was friends with this person and has been hurt by their actions, I am truly, truly sorry. This has been an absolutely miserable experience for me and I can't imagine it's much different for any of you. If you have questions, I'll be available for a least a few hours. I do not want to share any of their personal information, but I will share what I need to (privately) if some of you need or want more information.

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co-captain cuddles

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goodnight friends i’m off to sleep soundly in the knowledge that i’ve never pretended to be part of a marginalised group to get attention on the internet 😌

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what terminally online looks like will depend on your primary platform. twitter brain worms look very different from tiktok brain worms and tumblr brain worms are a whole other species

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lol we’re in bed side by side checking in on the latest

sitting and telling my bf the latest tumblr news and watching their eyes get wider with each increasingly bizarre update is the funniest fucking thing, his “👀 tell me more” face whenever the plot thickens is 10/10

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sitting and telling my bf the latest tumblr news and watching their eyes get wider with each increasingly bizarre update is the funniest fucking thing, his “👀 tell me more” face whenever the plot thickens is 10/10

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sitting and telling my bf the latest tumblr news and watching their eyes get wider with each increasingly bizarre update is the funniest fucking thing, his “👀 tell me more” face whenever the plot thickens is 10/10

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My grandma gave me this lamp and I’m in love with it

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POV: You’re Stede and you see him, wyd

Hope this Ed’s not too hot for Tumblr lmao

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(taking notes) mhmm mmm okay yep mmm so what i’m getting here is there were cats? a- a cat attack, yeah. and they may or may not have been wearing human skin suits? it’s just we had reports that they were the ones being skinned, so- yeah. okay, plenty of ways to skin them, gotcha. but you saw the whole thing did you? you and your boyfriend? yes sir i know he’s your boyfriend, you told me that once, yes i’ve put that in my notes—

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ideal man?

literally just gonna be describing my boyfriend here just fyi. kind, clever, sweet, supportive, funny, generous, understanding, not-so-secret softie, loves animals and nature, laid-back, adventurous but also loves his creature comforts, an old soul just like me. also great hair, handsome, smells good, lovely hands, pretty eyes, and most importantly: makes the perfect cuppa :•)

ask me anything

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guys please 😭 from Samba's instagram

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do you have a character (or characters because I know how hard it can be to choose just one) who you are just like obsessed with. when you think about them, it physically hurts. you love them and you think they have layers that deserve to be unpeeled and examined with more nuance than they usually get. a character you would defend because you understand them.

if not, do you prefer chocolate, vanilla or mint chocolate chip ice cream? (yes this is strawberry erasure.)

literally ed and stede <3 (also mint choc chip ofc)

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If you were to aggressively knit something, what would you knit and why?

a dunce hat for you to wear <3

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