Liz Upton is as skilled at hitting the PR lines that the British media like to hear as she is wholly useless at social media. Every sentence of hers in the Buzzfeed article is a greatest hits of the classics. A quick breakdown:
1. Blaming the "snowflakes". This bit is a dig at content warnings, which the most tedious people in the world go wild for, with an additional little dig at vegans. Bores love it.
2. "Dogpiling" is an absolute favourite word of theirs. They don't really know what it means. It doesn't matter. It's *expected* to use that the second even one person says "um, I disagree with you, British person."
3. imo this is the most masterful bit in the entire statement. She's killing two birds with one stone, addressing the fact that literally nobody can buy one in the middle of the whinge. And she's managed to be vague enough that it can land with several audiences: some bores will be like "yes, it's Putin's fault" while other bores will go "yes, it's Brexit's fault". Gives the bores space to bang their own drums (and quietly link the drama to Putin)
4. A conspiracy theory, naming websites that the British media class have probably heard of but have no idea what they do. A creepy, scary bogeyman. Bonus points for having tried to prime thinking about Putin in the paragraph above, just to add to the "manufactured" attack line.
5. Claiming to have been doxxed and received death threats is a mandatory element of the "evil abusive social media" line. Doesn't matter that she is literally famous for doing Raspberry Pi's comms. That's doxxing, apparently. Doesn't matter if none of it is true. It's what they want to hear and Liz is supplying it. Worth noting this is highly, highly irresponsible to lie like this and link critics to illegal and violent activities, but they all do that.
6. This bit is a greatest hits of cop apologia. It is basically a word salad, but it consistently lands among bootlickers, even if it makes zero sense.
@stavvers yeah,
he was catching people who were doing really, really bad stuff is such a generic cop support phrase.