{"id":1470558,"date":"2022-05-10T16:15:28","date_gmt":"2022-05-10T20:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1470558"},"modified":"2022-05-10T16:15:32","modified_gmt":"2022-05-10T20:15:32","slug":"the-taylor-lorenz-lizard-person-scandal-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-taylor-lorenz-lizard-person-scandal-explained\/","title":{"rendered":"The Taylor Lorenz \u2018Lizard Person\u2019 Scandal, Explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-taylor-lorenz-lizard-person-scandal-explained%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1470558&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/satire\/\">Satire<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">TikTok reporter&#8217;s shocking revelation prompts Free Beacon investigation<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/andrew-stiles\/\" title=\"Posts by Andrew Stiles\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Andrew Stiles<\/a> \u2022 May 10, 2022 4:10 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Social media users and other internet aficionados can&#8217;t stop talking about the Taylor Lorenz &#8220;lizard person&#8221; scandal. If you&#8217;re an ordinary person, you probably have no idea what all the fuss is about.\u00a0Wouldn&#8217;t it be nice to learn enough to take part in the conversation? (It would.) Ok, then, allow us to explain.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What all the fuss is about<\/strong>:\u00a0<em>Washington Post<\/em> reporter Taylor Lorenz on Monday revealed a number of bizarre details about her life, raising questions about her humanity. The nation&#8217;s preeminent TikTok journalist <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TaylorLorenz\/status\/1523849835069140992\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> she is constantly thirsty despite drinking &#8220;about 3 gallons of tap water daily&#8221; and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TaylorLorenz\/status\/1523853894127788033\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">keeps<\/a> the temperature of her Los Angeles apartment at a balmy 87 degrees.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why it matters<\/strong>: Reptiles are &#8220;cold blooded&#8221; creatures, which means they require a warm habitat in order to maintain a suitable body temperature. Most lizards and snakes, for example, thrive in temperatures of between 80 degrees and 95 degrees. An abundance of water is also essential to a reptile&#8217;s ability to survive in captivity.\u00a0According to the reputable <a href=\"https:\/\/www.petplace.com\/article\/reptiles\/general\/reptiles-need-water-water-water\/#:~:text=Water%20containers%20should%20be%20cleaned,on%20leaves%20in%20the%20tank.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">website<\/a> Petplace.com, &#8220;Nothing is more important in keeping a reptile than providing an easily accessible, clean water source. In fact, water is the most important nutrient.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Be smart<\/strong>: Lorenz has previously admitted to suffering from trichotillomania (hair pulling disorder) and dermatillomania (skin picking disorder), which sounds like precisely the sort of maladies that would afflict a reptile inhabiting a human body. Additionally, reptiles tend to age at a faster rate than humans, which could explain why Lorenz has such a hard time discussing her true age.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/satire\/taylor-lorenz-age-investigation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>READ MORE:\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Taylor Lorenz Age Controversy Sparks Free Beacon Investigation<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The bottom line<\/strong>: Lorenz eventually acknowledged the truth after some internet sleuths started connecting the dots. &#8220;The rumors are true, I am a lizard person,&#8221; she <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TaylorLorenz\/status\/1523886733829443585\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote<\/a>, definitively.<\/p>\n<p><b>Reality check:<\/b> The notorious journalist, who <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/washington-post-taylor-lorenz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">describes<\/a> herself as &#8220;the most online reporter that you can find,&#8221; has a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elianayjohnson\/status\/1521501959735414787\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">history<\/a> of making things up for attention. Perhaps this is yet another calculated move designed to cultivate Lorenz&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/taylor-lorenz-meme-girl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">personal brand<\/a> as a media influencer.\u00a0If she is, in fact, a bonafide lizard person, it would answer a lot of questions about the journalist&#8217;s shenanigans. It would also raise a lot of troubling questions and challenge many of our assumptions about the human race and our place in this vast universe.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rest assured<\/strong>: The <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> will continue to investigate!<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Satire TikTok reporter&#8217;s shocking revelation prompts Free Beacon investigation  Andrew Stiles \u2022 May 10, 2022 4:10 pm Social media users and other internet aficionados can&#8217;t stop<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":97,"featured_media":1894258,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1470558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/97"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1470558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1894258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1470558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1470558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1470558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}