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1. This is "Hollie The Card".

She's a Doctor, Physician, PhD, MA, Clinical Psychologist, Hospital Consultant, PTSD consultant, Long Covid Consultant.

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 2. Although sometimes she’s also an AUTHOR and English Academic.
3. A Hospital Consultant and ex Gymnast.

(Pinterest public profile)
4. A Physician, Doctor, or hospital consultant.

A “Hospital Consultant”, would probably mean a senior doctor, in the UK at least.
5. Hollie changes her Twitter picture and bio so often, it’s hard to keep up with her qualifications.
6. Hollie has become popular on right wing twitter and perhaps beyond.

With some high profile followers, like TV's Eammon holmes. And radio host Mark Dolan.

Former Kremlin advisor Alexander Nekrassov (Twitter username: StirringTrouble), follows Hollie too.
7. Two people that Hollie targets with Tweets, more than pretty much any other, are:

@Femi_Sorry, a British political activist

and

@DavidLammy, a British MP.
8. Hollie has tweeted negative things at @Femi_Sorry over 100 times.

She’s tweeted mostly negative things and insults at @DavidLammy, more than 300 times.

Neither of them have ever replied, so the messages could be defined as unwanted trolling.
9. What does Hollie say to @DavidLammy and @Femi_Sorry in her unsolicited messages?

Not nice.
10. The KFC trope.
11. What does darken the continent mean?
12. It goes on and on, 100s of messages.
13. And to @Femi_Sorry, the content is similar.

"Exported"
14. “Mental health” and “suburban terrorist”

There's a near daily barrage.
15. Can Hollie claim to having a transparent social media presence and “real” online life?
16. “Who Funds You!?
The real people want to know!”

- Signed the Oxford/Luxembourg Doctor Academic Author Gymnast PhD Long Covid Medical Consultant Lecturer.
17. It goes on, and on, and on.
18. A separate, near-daily, stream of insults.
19. Hollie’s profile might be somewhat vague about her medical career, variously a “physician” a “medical consultant” or a PhD / Lecturer.

But her public comments are unambiguous.
20. ”I am a doctor as well. You are a fat doctor”
21. "Fantasist"
22. A front line doctor.
23. Before 2020, Hollie didn't claim to be a doctor. She was a bit negative about the NHS and doctors back then.
24. Confirming Hollie’s status as a medical doctor is difficult.

As she has used many different spellings and names over the past 15 years.

Including “Hillary Faversham” in the mid 2000s. On her old website from that time.
25. Or Hollie Cardiff.
26. Hollie The Card’s unique Twitter ID is 770226141839974400

The account used to be called @ HollieCardiff before it was Hollie The Card.
26. There are a few other variations, but none show up as registered with the GMC.
27. Hollie isn’t listed on the University of Oxford’s staff and grad student listing directory, under any of her names, either.

There doesn’t appear to be anyone called “hollie”.
28. If Hollie is a medical doctor, or even an academic, wouldn’t it be better to post her views under her real name?
29. If Hollie posted her medical advice with a GMC registration number, or a name that can be looked up with the General Medical Council, her 18,000 followers would probably feel a lot more comfortable.
30. Hollie’s Facebook account is cryptic too and doesn't shed much more light on the medical / doctor question.
31. Welcome to Oxford-shire
32. Someone who has access to Hollie’s Facebook account, seems to have mistakenly captured a couple of seconds of his own face at the end of a video clip.

The last couple of seconds of this video, show his face, as he tried to upload a video of Hollie.
33. "Hello Sir!

Can you please tell me which hospital your doctor….friend…is currently a front line NHS doctor at?

Thankyou!"
34. Hollie’s medical advice might be appear a bit rude at times, when she calls other doctors fat, for example.

But thankfully her Doctorly advice doesn’t seem to include covid denial, or anti-vax stuff.
35. Everyone has the right to reinvent themselves, obvs.

But not everyone has the right to claim to be a doctor.

Or send near-daily harassment to political opponents.
36. Hollie used to call herself a “full time academic in the field of creative and performing arts", on her more recent website, now offline since 2019.

Which would be surely be a less risky claim to make, even if untrue.
37. Very normal. Very transparent. Totally Legit.

Welcome to the @TrollZoo ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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