Matt Bernstein

Yeah, the idea was that she would make this website that connected people who left anonymous mean comments online to their actual identity and their employers so you could get them fired.

Which, in a lot of ways, like, you know, rest in peace social autopsy, you would have loved Palantir.

Candice puts up a Kickstarter campaign to raise $75,000 to create this website.

I have no idea how she could have established the technology she was trying to get with $75,000.

But regardless, that Kickstarter is also still up today.

And it did raise $4,000 from 54 people.

I wonder where that $4,000 went.

Peter Thiel would have been all over that.

Well, they found each other eventually.

Immediate backlash ensued from people who recognized that there was no way of ensuring that this would work as intended and not turn into, like we said, a doxing website for anyone and everyone.

People start to pile on online on this idea.

And again, they're piling on to Candace, who at the time is not a woman that people know.

She's not a public figure.

And instead of taking the L for a bad idea, Candace starts to buy into this conspiracy that the people leading the criticism to social autopsy were two women named Zoe Quinn and Randy Lee Harper, who were two of the main victims of Gamergate, which was a mid-2010s misogynistic online harassment campaign against women video game developers.

this gets a little bit like thorny and confusing so try to stay with me i scripted my part out here so you can hopefully follow along but basically let's talk about these two women zoe quinn was a video game developer and she was one of the main victims of this online harassment campaign called gamergate which some of you probably know about and as a victim of online harassment and doxing herself she had voiced her opposition to the social autopsy website

And Zoe had also reached out to Candace privately as they were now both victims of online hate, Candace becoming a victim of it because of her website idea.

Instead of uniting through their shared experience, Candace started a conspiracy, mostly for herself.

Keep in mind, she had no audience.

that Zoe Quinn was directing all of the hate towards her and against social autopsy.

Randy Lee Harper, another Gamergate victim, wrote a blog post of her own where she exceptionally tore into Candace Owens and social autopsy.