TIL Chris Cocker who is now Cara Cunningham went into pronography after her viral leave britney alone video.

pronography
- It's not just amateur nography, it's professional nography.
- Better than antinography
  
  But slower than chronography.
- Probe to be about bone?

you should all shut up, since that person was right about britney all allong, albeit he or she kinda messed up the execution.
i feel bad for th eharrasment he or she faced.
- Are you saying we should "Leave Cara Alone!!!"
  
  no, i said:
  "you should all shut up...blabla. ".
- What was wrong about the execution? Shit went viral. Seems pretty perfect
  
  It was viral but not likely in a "good" or "nice" way, it was honestly hilarious, my take at the time was, bruh why do you care so much that you're literally having a breakdown about people talking shit about a celebrity.
  
  you got me there, i concour

Her name was already perfect for it

Damn after all the legal cases, Cara was right!!! We should've listened! I remember thinking, holy shit yeah leave Brittney alone!

I hope she's doing well now.
- She looks good glad for her and after reading Britney Spears book. Yes we all owe her a apology.

That tracks and it’s really a shame how people treated her
- It was never put into context, just a video to point and laugh at.
  
  And a lot of the joke was “ha gay”

You must have JUST watched timeline 2001, got reminded he existed, did research, and then found out he is now a she.

Ew

Please don't deadname people
- It's a bit difficult in a case like this, as it does add context and acknowledges their new identity so as to link what was a well known video to an existing person. I'd struggle to know who this was otherwise. I don't think there's any malintent here.
  
  I think the preferred way to arrange the headline would have been "TIL Cara Cunningham, formerly known as Chris Cocker..." The way it's currently worded implies that "Chris Cocker" is their current and/or valid name. I'm sure that wasn't OP's intent at all and they were just leading with the more widely-recognized name, but I can also see where Blaze is coming from.
  
  Does it add any useful context, though? I don't know either name but I do remember the "Leave Britney alone" video being a thing (and the fact that the person in the video turned out to be right all along when the truth about Britney's situation came out years later), so the added context that she's trans and what her dead name was is meaningless to me other than to say, "She used to be a man. She's a woman now, but she was a man before. Did you know that? That she was once a man? Because she was. Here's what her name was."
  As a trans woman, whose safety is so dependent on being able to go stealth in society, if I found out people were going around talking about me like this, I'd take a rusty icepick and make sure that they never think in words ever again. Lack of malicious intent doesn't mean that no harm was caused. Your threat index is not universal.
  This could have very easily been left at "Trans woman X got into porn after her viral video Y" and there would be all the context needed to figure out who they were and what video they were in without using their dead name. Hell, you probably wouldn't even have to point out that she's trans for people to figure it out. Cis people treat the privacy of trans people the same way that the paparazzi treats the privacy of celebrities.
- It's completely fine to deadname people in the case that you're telling someone that a trans person goes by a new name. Otherwise you're playing "Guess who's trans!" for a painfully awkward five minutes while they list anecdotes about people that you weren't actually present to witness.
  
  Otherwise you’re playing “Guess who’s trans!”
  I'm just imagining the classic Hasbro game Guess Who except it's the most fucked up version there is.
  
  Except that's not at all what's happening here. We're not talking about somebody we know personally with their permission or anything, we're talking about an actress who got into pornography after having an emotional video go viral many years ago. Her dead name has nothing to do with that, and if you had even left out the fact that she's trans, most people probably could've figured it out if they even bothered to go check out the original video. Abd if they didn't? It wouldn't make a difference in their knowledge of the subject. They'd still know that a woman who had an emotional video go viral years ago later became a porn actress. All her dead name adds to this is a possibly paparazzi style invasion of her privacy.
  
  "It's completely fine" by who? Most trans people do not want to be referred to by their deadname - especially in the way this title phrases it. Most people wouldn't know the deadname anyway, everyone just knew her from the "Leave Britney alone" video. To clarify, the title could easily have mentioned she's trans but to just throw out the deadname especially phrased in such a way is just ignorant and harmful, regardless of intent.
  
  This thread is already "guess who's trans" and is the definition of deadnaming.
- It was there for context. No one knows Cara, so it wouldn't have made sense without knowing their former name. Maybe it could've been phrased better, but it is relevant information for context.
  
  Then put the dead name after the current name, parenthetically
- It's technically not deadnaming, because OP got the fucking name wrong. Chris Crocker. And that was just a stage name.
- That's not what deadnaming is.
- Deadnaming her would be calling her "Chris Cocker" and ignoring her new name. They are just saying what her identity was before she became Cara Cunningham. Makes it easier to understand the story.
- So brave
  
  She is, isn't she?
- It's funny how it seems totally acceptable to be a complete asshole towards other people, especially on social media, but we're somehow supposed to accept deadnaming as being off the limits.
  
  Is it acceptable? In 4chan maybe
  
  Being an asshole doesn't put you at a disadvantage though. You can not be an ass and also not deadname people. Theres not a contradiction here.
  Are you arguing that assholes dead name? If so then we are in total agreement.
  
  Shit on people for what they do, not for what they are.
  jonathan majors is (allegedly?) a domestic abusing piece of shit. Yet I didn't see a massive swarm of people insisting we need to start calling him the n-word.
  Yet when a trans person is in the media (also I am not sure how Cara is an asshole in this situation, but I have not followed her in the slightest), everyone suddenly decides it is their civic duty to be as transphobic as possible.
  Which mostly just says a lot about them.
- I'm going to do it even harder now