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South Park Timmy: The disabled character from 24 years ago getting me harassed today

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66% Informative

A disabled South Park character from 24 years ago is getting me harassed today .

Timmy, a disabled character from dark-humoured satire cartoon series South Park , uses a wheelchair and can only shout his name, mainly loudly and uncontrollably.

Growing up at the show’s initial peak during the turn of the millennium , Timmy followed me through school corridors, classrooms and playgrounds - no matter my friends, sociability or relatively good grades.

Now, in my 30s , he's back in the street.

Bullying and trolling of disabled people is still common online.

Three in 10 said they’d experienced it in a survey of 4,000 disabled people carried out by charity Scope .

Even if a video with an “original sound” is removed by the platform, the audio usually is n’t .

This makes it a common way of bypassing the content moderation guidelines.

VR Score

57

Informative language

48

Neutral language

36

Article tone

informal

Language

English

Language complexity

45

Offensive language

likely offensive

Hate speech

not hateful

Attention-grabbing headline

not detected

Known propaganda techniques

not detected

Time-value

short-lived

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