Yeah he contributed to ruining a man's life but like, stop bitching about it. Let the 33teen year old man be. I guess
This is what I mean when I say that it feels like some people are completely out of touch with the absolute severity of this situation
I have been keeping some dumb feelings in for a bit and I think now is about time to let them out
I feel like we have completely lost the plot. It's like there is this very confusing inability for some people to grasp the genuine seriousness of everything that happened recently. The current consensus is that the situation has concluded and everyone can wrap their things up and move on like nothing happened.
But the thing is that something did happen.
I keep coming across familiar names, and it is very, very difficult to hear these names without remembering everything. Gianni especially comes to mind, although he is not the only one.
Just a couple of months ago, which would only be about 4 months ago, I saw horrible shit being said about a guy, without people having even bothered to wait to hear his side of the story yet. I saw what felt like performativity, and I saw anger being prematurely hurled at a guy whom already had a label slapped on him before the full context of the situation had been realized. All to the detriment of real victims, prioritizing doing "the right thing" as soon as possible - to which I wonder, what really is "the right thing" now?
I had read the document and stared at the pages of animal pictures being recontextualized as something evil, and I had felt a deep confusion. I don't know what other people saw then and there, that made them feel like they didn't need to wait for more context to this story before lashing out.
I saw the shit that Gianni decided to do, the reactionary statement and the ones that followed. I pointed out the website he put up, and had people distrust me when I tried to provide evidence of its existence when it still existed. I saw someone, who people relied on for their interpretation of this very convoluted situation, believe in and perpetuate a very deeply flawed story. I saw him share it with so many, before waiting for anything. He was the one who messaged the other voice actors on the team if I recall correctly. He listened to a man crying for hours, and still did the things that he did.
I can't just forget it, but now people act like that's what we're supposed to do. Forget it and move on, it's over. I can't forget it, this situation struck me so hard because what happened was truly awful.
I'm being very unstructured, but I have come to realize that I do not even want to hear apologies, I do not want attempts at accountability. I had that interaction with SharkyLeo on Twitter where he got mad at me for my documentation of his behavior. I had missed his apology, but after that I no longer care of it. These people are better off removing themselves from websites such as Twitter.
Everything that people said and did, I feel like would've been better off never having been done in the first place. No amount of apologies can take back what they have caused a man and his family, the scale of the damage which they created without a care in the world. I cannot assess the authenticity of any apology, but I can observe the response that I received at my reasonable anger.
I received not an ounce of understanding, but deflection, and the attention redirected once more to somebody's career or livelihood. What about Gianni's career. What about this developer teams reputation. What about this persons subscribers. Nothing about a guys life.
I feel like I'm going insane, and I think I might be done with it.