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From Gimlet, this is reply-all. I'm Alex Goldman.

This week's story comes from our producer, Shruthi Pinemaini, and it's a story about one

person, someone who's earned a reputation online that's sinister, monolithic, and malevolent.

Someone who wields an extraordinary amount of power, all from one antiquated website.

Shruthi.

So, a couple of weeks ago, I drove to a small town in upstate New York to meet this woman.

Hi, Marissa Hernandez. She's a 20-year-old taxidermist. She lives in an old clapboard house

with her mom, a bunch of pets, and she works out of a bedroom, piled high with dead animals.

There's a coyote foxes, there's a cougar in there. The kind of taxidermist she makes, I've

never seen before. These animals are soft, meaning they're filled with teddy bear stuffing

and they're cuddly. People like to hold them and touch them, and they think it's the

coolest experience, you know. It's great. Anybody can mount something and make it look like

an animal, but I feel like it takes actual talent to make something look like it's breathing,

you know, it's still there, you know. Marissa is all in untaxedermy. She dropped out

of college to focus on it. She's been selling her work online. Collectors have been buying

from her. She won her first taxidermy contest this year. And then last month, she hit her

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