Hey all, I’m not weighing in on the Raya take because 1, I haven’t seen the media involved & 2, I’m white so this is really not my business. But I do want to talk about something in this video that I wish more people understood, ie this practice of compiling a “list of sins.”https://twitter.com/thelindsayellis/status/1382727057898049536 …
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I’ll call it cancel culture trope 9: Encyclopedia Problematica. There is a parallel between “diet Nazi” Internet (8chan/ED/KF doxxers) and Twitter wokescolds in this tactic of anthologizing a person’s entire history of misdeeds & embarrassments, and weaponizing it to harass them.
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Replying to @Alephwyr @ContraPoints
it's Lindsay Ellis; did you piss off/get pissed off at Lindsay Ellis at some point?
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Replying to @MasterTimBlais @ContraPoints
I @'ed her once to yell at her to fund my video games because my boyfriend told me to, otherwise no interactions I can remember
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Replying to @Alephwyr @ContraPoints
ah. yeah i've blocked people on main for that kind of thing and i don't have a tenth of Lindsay's following at scale you've gotta be brutal with twitter hygiene
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Replying to @MasterTimBlais @ContraPoints
It's unfortunate, because when my games get made they are going to be good. Maybe not popular, but good.
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Replying to @Alephwyr @ContraPoints
i feel you, bootstrapping the faith necessary to get funding for your art is HARD might be good to think about how to make manageable memey Minimal Viable Products
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Right now all I have is a modicum of writing and some badly drawn concept art, so I don't blame anyone for disinterest, but my understanding is it's a high EV low equity swing for the fences sort of thing so I periodically take stabs anyway
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