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Magenta my friend sent me dozens of pics over years, some he posted publically here and many more he sent me in pms. I didnt doubt they were him. Pics of his mum, friends weddings, even from a school trip as a teen.
We had a mutual friend here who had met him a number of times in RL. She sent me a pic of him and his then gf. I dont really know why i didntbimage search ealier. I didnt doubt him i guess. Then,one day after not hearing from him for a couple of months, i did a screen shot of one of his pics......and there he was....in numerous places online. From ready some of the articles I found his Insta account. I looked at the pics, almost all the pics my friend sent me were there....but tagged with different names to what my friend told me. And the pic the friend sent of he and his gf was there, except she was his sister! I nessaged Insta guy and he was gracious in that he spoke with me. It was clear he didnt know me, he'd never heard of our mutual friend and didnt know about similar worlds.
It also lead me to believe my two friends were either in kahoots fool peeps, or....more likely, actually the same person, since they both lifted pics from the same insta account.
I told SW my findings. They asked for the emails i had for my friends and links to the insta account. I did ask admin if they were able to tell me if the accounts were linked or if they could tell if they were from the same IP address, but they declined to tell me that info.
