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SHE/HER - culture writer // streamer // alyssamerc@gmail.com // bylines: @aftermath_site @guardian @rollingstone @kotaku @jezebel @gamesradar @digitaltrends
Oct 16, 2024 7 tweets 2 min read
"For the last two years...I’ve been slowly devolving into the most mean-spirited, rude, nasty, callous psychopathic version of myself," -- Asmongold in his latest video talking about his radicalization. This is what is happening to young men all over the internet. This is what many of us who write about video games and culture have noticed about him and others in this space. This is a pattern. This has happened before with men and the internet. It's not a coincidence.
May 6, 2024 5 tweets 1 min read
Really don’t love the recent collection of events in this industry that are emboldening its worst-behaved actors! If companies were actually considering/talking about the hate movement bubbling right now it’d be a lot harder for them to co-opt everything! Mork Korn really gonna tell you him sending harassment towards community managers is why Helldivers is fixed and you should give him more money so he can goon to women who he could have technically fathered but what do I know
Mar 12, 2024 4 tweets 1 min read
If you aren't sure this is a harassment campaign, just take a look at the content. Look at how many sock puppet accounts flock to comment on posts. Look at the language in those comments. Look at the images they're sharing, the way they're manipulating pictures of women. Look at how, when men do speak out (and they aren't enough, I fucking see you), how less intense their comments are. How little those comments focus on the way they look, how their faces aren't shoved back at them to mock.
Aug 29, 2018 23 tweets 7 min read
"Johny Johny Yes Papa": A study in child starvation, unhealthy adult relationships, and addiction—The Official Thread Part 1. You are going to want to buckle in for this, as it's going to get real ugly, real quick. I want to start today with child starvation. There is clearly a serious issue around food, food sources, food consumption, and bodily autonomy in this household. Not to mention there must have been a traumatic event that completely dissolved any tenuous understanding of trust between EVERY member of this family.