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Blocked and Reported

Premium: The Death Fakers

Blocked and Reported

Katie Herzog and Jesse Singal

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4.64.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

This week on the Primo episode, Katie and Jesse discuss the phenomenon of online pseudocide and Munchausen by Internet, including the case of legendary gamer/mercenary the Dark Id, who tragically did not die of cancer.

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0:00.0

Hello, you're listening to a preview of a premium episode of Blocked and Reported.

0:04.6

Katie is going to be telling me about people who fake their own deaths, something we are both

0:09.8

desperate to do just to get a fresh start.

0:11.6

If you want to hear the whole thing, go to BlocktonReported.org, where for just $5 a month

0:15.5

and up, you can get extra content like this episode.

0:18.2

Every month, three extra episodes a month, at least, as well as gaining access

0:21.8

to an amazing community, weekly comment threads, a vibrant chat room, all that good stuff.

0:28.0

Thank you.

0:28.6

Enjoy the preview.

0:29.5

It's 3.5 extra episodes.

0:31.1

I'm sorry, Katie.

0:39.5

Katie, I'm proud of you.

0:40.9

You did something you don't normally do,

0:43.1

and you went and interacted with some other human beings.

0:43.6

I did.

0:44.2

I left my house.

0:45.1

I went to the grocery store.

0:47.0

Thank you for acknowledging that, Jesse.

0:49.1

And I didn't go through self-check.

0:50.8

And then after the grocery store, what did you do?

0:52.0

What are you trying to get at?

1:00.3

You met up with some of our listeners, think for the first time ever yes there is a puget sound area meetup group and they met uh not that far from my house at a a little dog friendly bar so janet and moose and i went it was a lovely group of people I did think that like

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