Katy Faust’s org’s “ThemBeforeUs” Reddit account banned from Reddit!

That’s basically it. As detailed in comments on the Sunday post about the Seattle Times’ feature on Katy Faust, who leads hate group Them Before Us and lives here in Seattle, I was in a Facebook West Seattle moms’ group with Katy Faust until early 2019. As Faust’s fame grew, people in the group started talking about her presence in West Seattle and the horrible things her “organization” Them Before Us stood for.

I shared some of this information in the main /r/Seattle thread, then decided to re-engage with that old Facebook group, which I learned Faust was still part of. I posted the article and tagged Faust. The group requires moderator approval of posts, but luckily mine was approved. And… The moderator immediately posted a comment also asking Faust to explain herself. Then Faust arrived and provided her response.

At this point I thought this was interesting and deserved its own post, so I posted it here. Within five minutes it was removed as “repetitive,” so I posted it to /r/WestSeattleWA and /r/SeattleWA, which resulted in great discussion. See my post history for those.

But most interesting? Earlier this afternoon Reddit account /r/ThemBeforeUs went on a commenting spree, spamming any thread discussing Katy Faust. After about 15 minutes of catching up on all the comments, I clicked on their username to grab a screenshot of all the comments, and they were banned and all comments now say “removed by moderator” across all subs they (supposedly Katy’s “social media team”) posted to. So there you go, in case you got notifications from that account but couldn’t see them.

BTW, at some point in the frenzy she said she plans to sue the Seattle Times 🤣

But, while wondering how the account got banned, because she didn’t actually make threats or anything that serious… I learned that Them Before Us has been recognized as a hate group by the SPLC since 2024. So, yeah. Just know that’s who we’re engaging with in this “discussion.”