Mastodawn

Del Apr 29, 2017

"you reek of pseudo-intellectual. youre just another ugly slut that uses the title of gamer girl to attract all the omega autists of the world.
I hope you get raped and beaten in front of the person you love the most in this world."

This is what it's like being a woman on the internet, by the way. This is an unprovoked comment I got on my youtube channel where I'd post content about videogames and computers. This was by no means a rare occurrence.

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Tomas SA2TMS Apr 29, 2017

@welshpixie I tend to respond to people like this with variants of "you must be fun at parties". But then I also don't get gendered abuse. "Nerd." is also simple yet effective

What @mmn said also, at least in the long term. In the short term double-posting to YT and say a self-hosted MediaGoblin tied to your Mastdon account (so it re-publishes the MG feed or so) could be quite effective and helps bring about the inevitable end of GOOG

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Del

@tomas @mmn Nerd is something I'd approvingly call friends passionate about specific fields of interest, hehe.

I strongly dislike that the go-to suggestion is for the people suffering abuse to leave the community and not for more pressure to be put on the community's leaders/owners/whatever to take more action. Things like YT and Twitch are important sources of revenue for a lot of people who'd otherwise struggle, and moving isn't feasible.