I'm really only posting this to rant a little, and I'm not even really sure it actually belongs here, but here we go.
For reference, I am Steven Bonnell II, AKA
Destiny, a professional streamer on Twitch.TV from the Starcraft 2 community. I choose this online name when I was 9 years old, yes, I realize it's a stripper's name, yes, I realize it's a woman's name, yes, I've heard all of this before.
I've had my entire career pretty viciously witch-hunted by SRS in the past (
4-5 different threads linked in here...,
A nice 300 comment thread that spanwed many, many, many chain e-mails to sponsors). Admittedly, I've done some dumb things in the past, and being a relatively public figure in the SC2 and streaming community, social media has given me a great chance to share that stupidity with the world. Still, having hundreds/thousands of people spamming e-mails to every single person I've ever worked with + having a platform dedicated to gathering these people to send out mass chain e-mails (such as SRS) is pretty annoying.
Regardless, I've found success, and I'm still incredibly grateful to be doing what I'm doing.
As part of some dumb shit I've done in my past, I got into a fight with an ex-girlfriend by doing something, again, admittedly stupid (albeit private...). She decided to get on my twitter and post personal pictures of me to my entire twitter fanbase in retaliation. Only 30k some people, maybe not as much as Denzel Washington or Will Smith, but enough to proliferate the entire community that I've worked in, plus more.
Again, shit happens, and to be in a position that I'm in you have to be borderline sociopathic anyway, so it doesn't really bother me much.
Women undeniably have to deal with a lot of shitty issues in gaming, but
sometimes
I feel like, as a man, no one takes you seriously if you say you're having problems. People like Brianna or Anita talk about how they have to cancel trips because they're fearful for their lives, but people like Totalbiscuit or I receive death threats pretty frequently, too. I've had people post on 4chan and twitter that they would beat me up going to an event, and I've had people send me graphic rape depictions of my son via reddit, etc...Though I don't take online threats anywhere near as seriously as the former two because, well, I've been on the internet for a long time and I know not to take anonymous threats seriously.
There's a circlejerk subreddit called starcraftcirclejerk. I don't wanna get super tin foil hat here, but at least one of the mods, u/riskychris, posts pretty frequently to shitredditsays and has gotten into arguments with me in the past over various things related to the SRS "mission statement".
The problem.
The subreddit had a custom CSS set up that posted pictures of my dick anytime someone posted my username.
Again, this is 2015, I don't really care that pictures of my hooded warrior are floating around on the internet, but the fact that a subreddit could honestly establish this in the CSS is pretty fucked up, I think.
I'm not really sure if I'll get in trouble posting this stuff since all of the content is related to me, but here we go:
This is not using any special plug-in, or anything to modify the current page. It's literally just a personal photo of my dick that was leaked on twitter a long time ago. It was posted in an image form on the thread anytime
/u/neodestiny
was typed.
I'm not really upset that my picture is being spread out there more. If you haven't figured it out by now, I don't really care that much, even if it is a shitty picture of my unshaven, uncut brother.
But
I feel like if this happened to any female celeb, in gaming or otherwise, a much bigger deal would have been made out of it. People would be up in arms calling for heads to roll, the subreddit would be shut down (much like the fappening related subreddits), and I'm sure multiple Patreons would be launched because God knows nothing helps you get through genuine trauma like $5k/month USD.
But instead...nothing really happened, just a slap on the wrist telling the mods to "take it down".
Apparently one of the moderators was contacted and simply told to remove it from the CSS (
http://i.imgur.com/IhmQDVq.png), but I guess he didn't tell the other reddit admis that he'd told him to remove it? No moderators were removed from the sub, the sub is still up and running, and it seems like nothing else really happened.
I guess since I'm a white guy I'm just not supposed to really care and nothing is supposed to happen?
Again, sorry if I come off as pedantic. I'm not trying to get a subreddit shut down or people murdered in real life or anything, I just think it's a bit annoying because I'm almost certain that if I was a woman this would have been taken a bit more seriously/treated far more differently.