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The Herman Cain Award: the prize no one wants to get and creators want to destroy

Title (Dublin Core)

The Herman Cain Award: the prize no one wants to get and creators want to destroy

Description (Dublin Core)

This is a news story from WBUR by Amory Sivertson, Ben Brock Johnson, and Quincy Walters. This is an interview that has been transcribed about the subreddit r/TheHermanCainAward. This subreddit has over 500,000 members. It is named after Herman Cain, a former businessman and Republican presidential candidate, who died in 2020 after getting the Coronavirus. One of the moderators, "Hammy", says that specific anti-mask and anti-vaccine people are featured on the subreddit in an attempt to influence, and in turn, take what is posted publicly, and throw it back in their faces. In order to get an "award" on the subreddit, one has to die. Nominations are for those that go to the hospital. The subreddit makes sure that all information is verified so people cannot call it "fake." They also go to lengths to black-out names, faces, and places in order to protect privacy. Though, even with attempts to make things anonymous, people are still found out. The moderator "Hammy" also does not wish to include their real name in this interview for fear of harassment. Glenn, someone that got featured in the subreddit, was also in this interview to explain his reasoning. Many of his doubts stem from the way the government has been handling it, in addition to the producers of the vaccine themselves asking for more boosters after the initial vaccine, which to him, doesn't seem normal for a vaccine. Glenn also recounts getting lots of harassment on his own Facebook page after getting featured in the subreddit, saying it isn't treatment their own kids should have to see, like people cheering on his death. Despite being vaccinated, "Hammy" contracted "long COVID." Glenn ended up with COVID pneumonia.

Date (Dublin Core)

April 8, 2022

Creator (Dublin Core)

Amory Sivertson, Ben Brock Johnson, and Quincy Walters

Event Identifier (Dublin Core)

HST580

Partner (Dublin Core)

Arizona State University

Type (Dublin Core)

Text story

Link (Bibliographic Ontology)

https://www.wbur.org/endlessthread/2022/04/08/herman-cain-award
https://web.archive.org/web/20220427025801/https://www.wbur.org/endlessthread/2022/04/08/herman-cain-award

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English Social Media (including Memes)
English News coverage
English Pandemic Skeptics

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

Reddit
irony
booster
Herman Cain
interview
transcript

Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)

vaccine skepticism
privacy
harassment
Facebook
social media
Reddit
vaccine

Linked Data (Dublin Core)

HST 580 Professional Experience/Archives course

Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

04/16/2022

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

04/17/2022
04/26/2022
08/02/2022
04/28/2023

Date Created (Dublin Core)

04/08/2022

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