🧩 BND Motif Index · M560
Gatekeepers
Self-appointed insiders police who truly belongs to a community, movement, or fandom, judging others' tastes, credentials, or loyalty as not the real thing.
- 3claims filed under it
- 3claims retold online
⚠️ A story people tell, not a claim that it's true.
A motif is the shape of a story as its tellers tell it, named the way a folklorist names a tale type, so the same story told about other people, by the other side or in another year lands in the same place. Some of the claims below are true, many are false. Arguing against a story is often a story of its own, its answer (Voter fraud is answered by Voter suppression, Lawfare by No one is above the law), and we file it there; where no answer has a motif yet, the arguments against a story sit with its tellings.
🪜 Its family
what it rests on, what rests on it, and the motifs that answer it
🪜 rests on 🧩 No true Scotsman
🔗 goes with: 🧩 The bullied become bullies
🧶 Its claims
what's been told in this shape, newest first, in our words, with where each was heard
- 2026-10-14 “Using references in art is considered cheating by some people.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-07 “The Sonic fandom is toxic and engages in bullying, targeting marginalized groups like Exe fans, while also being manipulated by trolls and bad actors.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-07 “Abdul El-Sayed is a socialist or at least aligns with democratic socialist values, but the media and some leftists are mislabeling him or denying his true progressive roots.” 🧶 people online
M560 · first seen 2026-10-07 · last 2026-10-20 · what this is · how the index works