Near’s harassers relentless tormented them to the point that they eventually doxxed Near’s friends and even targeted people who happened to suicidal. This seems to a followed a sustained campaign of harassment carried out by users of KiwiFarms, that infamous anonymous chat website where people go to laugh at anyone who they find worthy of ridicule, often people who have already had a difficult life themselves due to mental illness or just fail to conform to their of normal society in some way (in fact their Twitter account used to literally say that their purpose is “gossip and exploitation of the mentally handicapped for amusement purposes”), and collect or share anything they can find about that person for the purpose of stalking and bullying them on the internet. On June 27th none other than Near, the developer of the bSnes and higan emulators as well as fan translations of games like Bahamut Lagoon, committed suicide after overdosing on codeine and guanfancine. In either case, I think that there is a recent tragic and disturbing story that just might be filed under either of those definitions, but which will never be brought up by anyone who wants to make “cancel culture” their single-issue political cause. In practice, though, so-called “cancel culture” has evolved to a point where it really means nothing and essentially serves as a device by which to resist being called out in any fashion - the most egregious and enlightening example of this would be Matt Gaetz invoking the spectre of “cancel culture” to defend himself from charges of child sex trafficking (of which he is sure to be convicted). “Cancel culture” is periodically defined as a broad range of things - the practice of getting someone removed from social circles, institutions, or careers, or concerted efforts to ruin a person’s life by depriving them of their livelihood, usually for publicly making a statement that a broad group of people find offensive, or it can be defined as basically the same thing is a boycott. I see them as shitty alternatives to the discoure of political correctness, which I think should be reclaimed by the left in line with its usage by anti-authoritarian leftists during the 1970s and 80s (that is, before it was successfully co-opted by both the mainstream and fringes of right-wing conservatism). To be honest, that’s not a new thing for me, because I never really liked terms such as “cancel culture” or even “wokeness”. I don't know if they were a member of this community or not, but Byuu was a prolific programmer (most famous for the BSNES/Higan emulator), hardware engineer, and videogame preservationist.Over the course of the last year I’ve had significant reflections on the discourse regarding the phenomenon known as “cancel culture”, more specifically my inclination that it all seems rather artificial. I used to talk to Byuu online, so it's hit me a little harder than this kind of thing usually does (which is still pretty hard). I can't even read that stuff anymore, every time I do, I just get upset again. There are many websites reporting on this if anyone wants to look it up. I'm not going to link to any of the details, but suffice to say, David's life ended the other night. These trolls attack online, and then sleuth out personal information, so they can share it and attack people and/or their friends/family in person. Thread can be moved if necessary.įor those who don't know, there are several "anonymous" groups of trolls/cyberbullies online who delight in preying upon people who are autistic, non-gender conformant, LGBTQ, furry, or just generally "weird".ĭavid/Near/Byuu was all of these things, and has been a target for years, as well as some of their friends.
I didn't know where it would be okay to post this, so I thought I would play it safe, I saw some similar threads here.
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