CHAPTER 28 : From Graffiti Clique to Online Mythmaking: An Analysis of Scoregang Claims
The promoters behind Scoregang Crips appear to be a tiny handful of dedicated individuals—likely just one or two people running multiple accounts—who aggressively self-document and hype a hyper-local Detroit tagging crew online, creating an illusion of a larger, established gang through coordinated blogs, archives, and social media posts that receive virtually no independent attention or validation. • No other posts in gang-related subreddits (r/CaliConnection, r/CaliBanging, r/CrimeInTheD, r/Chiraqology, etc.) mention Scoregang as a Detroit Crip set. • Searches for related terms (W7M, Evergreen Telegraph/Telegram Gangsters, Hyena Crips in a Detroit context) turn up nothing on Reddit outside that one deleted post. • The specific usernames you mentioned (Outside-Welcome4982, Any_Channel_7487, WestsideRiprida, ripridadino) have no visible or indexed activity pushing this narrative—likely because they’re new, low-karma, deleted, or never posted...