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As Commencement Week continues at Columbia University, someone spent last night hanging large posters featuring a photo of Emma Sulkowicz and the words “Pretty Little Liar,” “#fakerape,” and “#rapehoax.” They’ve also created a Twitter account, Fake Rape. Guess everyone has to have a gross hobby.

The posters appeared this morning on the Columbia campus and nearby on Broadway. A few also feature photos of Lena Dunham and the words “Oberlin #RapeHoax.”

Overall, the account has a weird fixation on Lena Dunham, as well as a loose grasp on the rules of grammar that suggest English may not be the poster’s first language:

They also sent Jezebel this email from a masked address, pointing us to the Twitter account, where they’d tagged me in all the photos of Emma.

Yes, guys. We see you. There you are. They’ve also created a Flickr account, perhaps with the knowledge that the Twitter account will likely be taken down in fairly short order.

People create fake accounts like this more often than you might think, dedicated to harassing women who have gone public with rape allegations. (During the height of the UVA shitstorm, someone created one called “Haven Monahan,” which UVA student Jackie supposedly told her friends was the name of a man she was seeing. Monahan does not exist.)

For whatever reason, though, the Fake Rape account has caught on this morning, with people like noted bad person Chuck C. Johnson retweeting all the photos. Just a fun conversation for the families entering commencement today.

Columbia’s new “sexual respect requirement,” which can be fulfilled by watching a movie or doing an art project, really seems to have done its job.

Update, 12:45 p.m.: A tipster suggested to us that the posters look — visually and subject matter-wise — like the work of right-wing graffiti artist Sabo, responsible for the “Abortion Barbie” posters that greeted Wendy Davis when she visited Los Angeles. He also made a fake Lena Dunham Rolling Stone cover bearing the headline “Rape Fantasies.”

Sabo tweeted a couple times today about the Sulkowicz posters. We’ve asked him for comment and will update if we hear back.