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Annaliese Nielsen's Lyft Rant

Annaliese Nielsen's Lyft Rant

Updated Jun 25, 2019 at 01:59PM EDT by Kevinvq2.

Added Aug 31, 2016 at 03:51PM EDT by Don.

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Overview

Annaliese Nielsen's Lyft Rant refers to a video in which entrepreneur Annaliese Nielsen orders a Lyft driver to take down a bobblehead from his dashboard, claiming that she finds the Hawaiian figurine to be "racist." After the video began circulating in late August 2016, Nielsen was widely mocked as an irrational "social justice warrior" in various online communities.

Background

On March 12th, 2016, Neilsen tweeted that she had been left on the side of a freeway after being kicked out of a vehicle by a "racist Lyft driver" (shown below).


annaliese nielsen @tornadoliese Follow Just had a racist @lyft driver kick me out of his car on the side of the freeway. What a time to be alive. RETWEETS LIKES 5 10 3:46 AM -12 Mar 2016 Los Angeles, CA t 5 10

On August 27th, conservative vlogger Lauren Southern uploaded a video titled "SJW Berates Lyft Driver," in which Nielsen aggressively demands that her Lyft driver remove a Hawaiian bobblehead figurine from his dash board (shown below). After her driver refuses, she threatens to put him on "Gawker" and calls him a "fucking selfish dumbass idiot," before he pulls over and orders her to leave his vehicle. Within four days, the video gained over 394,000 views and 5,000 comments.



"No, you will be published on Gawker. You will be like the next internet meme, it's going to be super funny."

Developments

Online Reaction

On August 28th, the Canadian News Agency "YouTube":memes/sites/youtube channel reuploaded the video. Meanwhile, Neilsen deleted her @tornadoliese[3] Twitter account, which was immediately relaunched by an impersonator. Also on August 28th, the video reached the front page of the /r/rage[6] and /r/uberdrivers[7] subreddits. On August 30th, Redditor MarcusJZE submitted the video to /r/videos,[1] referring to Nielsen as a "vocal fry Valley girl."

Neilsen's Response

On August 29th, Twitter user @CassandraRules[5] posted screenshots of a Neilsen's Facebook post complaining about harassment she was receiving, claiming she had been targeted by "Gamergate" and the alt-right (shown below).


Annaliese Nielsen 10 hrs . Los Angeles, CA、 It seems I've become the target of a gamergate style anti feminist bunch of nonsense. How fun. I literally just blocked 300,000 people on Twitter. This is 100 percent going to get escalated and probably half of Reddit will be obsessed with this for a moment very shortly. It's gonna get weird, Y'all. Please do not engage with anyone about me. At all. It will only excite and encourage these people. So, many months ago I was picked up by a lyft driver who had another person in the car. It was a sketchy ride. Whenl questioned him about the other passenger he was p-----. Blah blah. He was rude and I started an argument with him trying to explain to him that a "Hawaiian girl" bobble head doll is akin to a black face mammy and maybe not the finest tem to keep in his car. Everyone already knows that I'm an annoying monster who will talk about annoying s--- all day. Who cares. Nothing about me doing this is shocking really. But it was not my most eloquent moment. I was drunk and furious e later kicked me out of his car by the freeway. All's fair in love and war, I guesa but suddenly late last night someone with basically a billion Twitter followers who is calling their self a "fifth wave feminist" (I'm guessing this is something like "alt-right" as the white nationalists have rebranded themselves) has made an issue of it Naturally a barrage of weird harassment from strange men has been unleashed upon me. Across many accounts, on various platforms I've received a bunch of nonsense ranging from the usual "f--- u SJW" to other more intense and threatening stuff. This has been a fun week. If you share an O Write a comment.. Post 면 ㅛ @ He later kicked me out of his car by the freeway. All's fair in love and war, I guess but suddenly late last night someone with basically a billion Twitter followers who is calling their self a "fifth wave feminist" (I'm guessing this is something like "alt-right" as the white nationalists have rebranded themselves) has made an issue of it. Naturally a barrage of weird harassment from strange men has been unleashed upon me. Across many accounts, on various platforms I've received a bunch of nonsense ranging from the usual "f--- u SJW" to other more intense and threatening stuff. This has been a fun week. If you share an account or page of some kind with me and are subjected to this nonsense do me a favor and just delete it and ignore them. They will tire themselves out. Do not engage. They will just get more excited. Xoxo Like Comment → Share Tiana Spellman and 110 others View previous comments... Elyda Desiree what a primate 1 hour ago . Like-山2 . Reply Jesse Anderson I'm so sorry this is happening. May they sink back into the basement of the spicy dorito dust fire they came from 1 hour ago . Like .山1 . Reply Write a comment... Post

Lyft Driver's Response

On August 30th, Southern tweeted that she had contacted the Lyft driver, who confirmed he had been fired for several days following the incident, but was reinstated after he was exonerating by the video (shown below).[4]


Lauren Southern @Lauren_Southern Follow Was just contacted by the Annaliese Lyft driver, he was in fact fired for a few days until she sent the video to Lyft which exonerated him RETWEETS LIKES 760 2.276 e . .. 7:55 PM -30 Aug 2016 2.760 2.3K

News Media Coverage

In the days after the video was released, several news sites published articles about the online backlash, including The Daily Dot,[8] Heat Street,[9] The Daily Mail[10] and The Daily Caller.[11]

Search Interest

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External References

[1] Reddit – Vocal Fry Valley Girl Assaults

[2] YouTube – Annaliese Nielsen assaults Lyft driver

[3] Twitter – @tornadoliese

[4] Twitter – @Lauren_Southern

[5] Twitter – @CassandraRules

[6] Reddit – /r/rage

[7] Reddit – /r/uberdrivers

[8] The Daily Dot – Founder of alt-porn site gets kicked out of Lyft

[9] HeatStreet – Social Justice Warrior Abuses Her Driver

[10] Daily Mail – Shocking moment female Lyft passenger threatens to humiliate

[11] The Daily Caller – Woman Becomes Unglued over Lyft Drivers Racist Hula Doll

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The fact that he got reinstated after she sent the video trying to get him fired is the best part. That's not just failing, that's getting the polar opposite of your intended goal.

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