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by zoklet-enjoyer 1202 days ago
Some of us from the forum totse emailed local news stations, schools, and police departments pretending to be concerned parents. I wrote my high school and local news and said that my child was using jenkem and linked to an article from a local news station from somewhere else in the country to kind of back up my claims.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/jenkem/
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kragen 1202 days ago
Wow, so jenkem was largely a TOTSE creation? Do you have any idea how the original stories from Africa got started — were there TOTSE members in Zambia?
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zoklet-enjoyer 1202 days ago
There's a BBC article from 1999 about jenkem in Africa. It's messed up and sad. Someone saw that and turned it into a meme. Jenkem in America was a totse creation

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/406067.stm

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kragen 1202 days ago
I suspect jenkem in Zambia was also a hoax
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zoklet-enjoyer 1202 days ago
I hope so. I found the author's email address. I'll ask her
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kragen 1188 days ago
did you find out?
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