Shoplifiting is one of those pastimes one might reasonably expect to have evaporated in the modern age. When you and I may've misspent our youths climbing trees and walking out of the video store without paying for lollies, these days kids stimulate their idiot brains with sexting and Flappy Doge and what-have-you. Manual pursuits are unnecessary. Still, there are some kids still wrapped up in the action, immortalised in songs like The Slits' 'Shoplifting' and Jane's Addiction's 'Been Caught Stealing' and Das Racist's 'Don Dada', as a new Jezebel report shows.
Informally referred to as the 'Tumblr Bling Ring' in homage to that terrible Sofia Coppola movie about real-life thief Alexis Neiers, the loose collective were pegged in a post by tumblr user We-Unhallowed. With names like Lift Witch, Stealer Moon, Klepto Princess, and Lifting For Survival, the anonymous users post photos of their hauls along with inventories, bigging each other up for their thefts. It's the same old game, only now it's global.
Some of the lexicon hints at an ideology behind some of their crimes, with some users referring to the would-be cost of their hauls as 'Total Saved.' Evidently, some of them are aware of how precarious their pseudo-anonymity is, however; since Jezebel posted their story, several blogs have disappeared. From a since-deleted post by username Lifting Trill:
sometimes im really afraid that the shoplifting community will be outed and become like a viral joke on the internet or something
imagine the embarrasment if you are identified and everyone at school/work and your neighbours and family finds out
hopefully it will never happen and im just being paranoid
Whoops. Read the full report at Jezebel.
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