Ryan Broderick
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She then boards a plane without Wi-Fi and basically the entire world decides that like, you know, she is a bad person.
She has like government officials in South Africa talking about it.
It's a mess.
She lands and she says, words cannot express how sorry I am and how necessary it is for me to apologize to the people of South Africa who I've offended due to a needless and careless tweet.
She then talks about she shouldn't joke about the AIDS crisis.
She becomes enemy of the world.
2014, we have an indie game developer, Zoe Quinn, who makes a video game called Depression Quest.
Her ex-boyfriend makes a blog post claiming that she was trading sexual favors for positive reviews in the game.
It's all fucking garbage bullshit, and it basically ruins politics around the world forever.
But I do think that these two stories are useful because it kind of creates the two ways you can become a main character from that point forward.
Justine Sack was also the first ever, what we can find, recorded firing for a post.
For being a main character.
Were you the one that was organizing the like, do you use Twitter meetups at IHOP?
Okay.
Yeah.
I went to one of those.
Yeah.
Yeah.
What's really interesting is if you go back before Justine Sacco, before Gamergate, the stuff that were making people the main characters, we would now probably just call memes.
Okay.