Does anyone know of any specific examples of people who got fired from their jobs (especially in the gaming industry) because some nutjob Twitter user went through their internet history and found that they posted something that goes against the liberal cult, possibly years prior? Things like if they said they voted Trump, didn't support trans people, etc. Bonus points if their employer made a public apology for hiring that person.
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Me. For not taking the fake vaccine.
Hope you found better employment afterwards. I was lucky enough to have a boss who bought me enough time for the mandates to expire (I work for a company that has city contracts). He was also willing to transfer me places that weren't affected by the mandate for a pay cut, but it never came to that.
Not better, but I did find employment for certain. It helps that I'm well regarded in my field. And likely it's better to not work for the department of defense at the time anyway.
I rode it out in an office full of Marines and nobody gave a shit about any of it. My boss actually had to call three of us in to tell us to stop trying to quit over it because they just weren't going to enforce anything.
Good times.
Sam Hyde - had a show on Adult Swim that was cancelled before its first season ended due to him being on the right.
JonTron - had his cameo appearance in the game Yooka Laylee removed as well as losing some sponsors after he came out as a pro GamerGate right winger while debating destiny over race realism.
Tim Soret - developer of the game Last Night was cancelled by Zoe Quinn after his pro GamerGate tweets from 2014 were dug up. His game has been in development hell since then.
Diversity And Comics/YaBoiZack - is a comic book youtuber who had a campaign for his comic sabotaged by industry veteran and rabid SJW Mark Waid who petitioned to get his publisher to drop him.
Wasen't there a lawsuit by YaBoiZack for tortious interference? What happened?
To the best of my ability here's my memory of it: Despite the near daily hype by some internet lawyer who kept folks up to date with the case (and raked in a lot of donations) eventually most people realized Zack's lawyer was all hat and no cattle (sucked bigly.) During covid lockdown Richard Meyer (Zack) dismisses the case voluntarily, neither party admitting liability or responsibility.
So basically Mark Waid won even though he did contact a comic book distributor to tell them not to work with Zack. Zack won by having the public fund the lawsuit, gain viewers and sold a shitload of comic books in the process. GamerGate and ComicGate lost because shit lawyer and Zack didn't hold up their end of the bargain and see it through. Simping for some justice and didn't even get to see the titties.
I never brought another RCM book afterwards. Also sold my autographed copies at a profit, so thanks yaboi.
IIRC it was dropped because ironically YaBoiZack ended up being very successful despite Mark Waid's interference.
With something like tortious interference you have to prove major damages.
to specify, Jon was accused of being a white supremacist (despite being an iranian? don't remember too well, immigrant) after saying that rich blacks commit more crimes than poor whites, which is simply a correct statement lmao
Yeah hes half Iranian and half Hungarian. I remember even some leftists were criticizing him because his middle name is Aryan lol.
Even though he was correct, the problem was hes very much a layman on the subject and came off as a bumbling goof when arguing with Destiny, whos notorious for arguing in bad faith by constantly filibustering and moving the goal posts. Leftists are also too scared to verify their opponents claims, especially the one Jon was arguing since you can no longer rely on "muh socio-economic conditions" to excuse black criminality when even richer blacks commit a higher rate of crime.
James Damore, Google Engineer. He compiled a internal writeup on how google can hire more women, citing multiple peer-reviewed studies. The writeup was leaked to the press with academic references removed and deemed double-plus misogynistic. His writeup had existed within Google for several months before the leak, with no action taken against him. once it was leaked to the press, however, he received death threats from his co-workers before google fired him. There was no disciplinary action taken against the leakers.
I don't even know what his political affiliations were, but his ousting was completely political.
Watch this video on James Damore -
(just from 40:30-41:30)
https://youtu.be/a2-JOINlddM
Stephen Pinker destroys Howard Dean who slanders James Damore. Howard Dean NEVER read anything James Damore wrote. But felt qualified to bad mouth what he wrote (from 29:30-30:30 if you want to hear his stupidity)
Howard Dean is a senior academic. He can’t be bothered to read the real reasons before inventing shit.
Is this the same Howard Dean that is a former Presidential candidate who blew up his own campaign with The Scream?
Yes!
Didn't the guy behind the soundtrack for the first Subnautica go through this?
Martin O'Donnell as well, the composer for the original Halo soundtrack.
Roseanne Barr was fired from her show's revival (which was cancelled completely afterward) for making a joke about one of Bathhouse Barry's advisors.
Gina Carano
The guy who made NITW got #metoo'd by Quinn herself and driven to suicide
Alec Holowca?
The Five Guys woman retroactively falsely accused him of grotesque horror p0rn sexual abuse and imprisonment, from a time period during which she still was constant Twitter-posting with pictures in public.
Then she "clarified" the "imprisonment" was offering her to pay her bus ticket, but not offering to pay for a plane ticket. He was totally forcing her to stay, guize!
Even the journoïds got uncomfortable at that point and most quietly took their distance ( after Alec killed himself ).
Alec's own Feminazi sister threw his warm corpse under the bus to position herself as a Good Feminist.
The CEO of the game Killing Floor dev team Tripwire, I think he supported pro-life and that was enough to cancel him. He wasn't just a CEO, he seemed to be vital part of a team. According to Wiki, he worked as a programmer and designer.
wait, the five nights at Freddy's Creator resigned? what a cuck
It will be difficult to compile, because a lot of the time people with the wrong opinions are pushed out through other means. Given impossible tasks, the fired for failing, for example. You'll only hear about a small subset.
Martin O'Donnell comes to mind
Would be good to include them as well; at least in their own list as "People who were pushed out in other ways" to educate readers on some of the tricks.
The trick that always comes to my mind is "Don't fire them; make them quit."
Tom Ashbrook from public radio. Hosted the at-the-time acclaimed show On Point that he built and ran without incident for 15+ years.
His case is particularly poignant because the me too allegations against him were investigated, proven false, and yet he was still fired anyway. The worst thing he was credibly accused of was hurting the feelings of some employees that brought retarded show ideas to him.
But he was conservative-leaning, Trump had just been elected, and public radio is full of intolerant liberals.
We call those leftists.
Sound designer on subnautica
Not in gaming, but a good example nonetheless: Brendan Eich. $1k to Prop 8 in CA years prior, get fired from the Mozilla board as a direct result.
There are hundreds of other examples, of nobodies running afowl of scream mobs, but their names aren't remembered. As an example, most of the people who went on the Tiki torch march in Charloettsville were fired, the left made it a point to crowd source names to faces and went on a rampage to get them all fired. No one cared, no one remembered their names.
Most such cases are simply rebranded as MeToo accusations.