Before Zoe Quinn and the 5 Guys stuff ever happened, she was on a particular IRC channel that I occupied for a while. Although, at the time, I didn't know it was her. I didn't find out until well after the fact.
Around 15 years ago, many of the webcomic artists at Something Awful, myself included, set up an IRC channel. KC Green was there, Spike was there, a bunch of other more well-known names than me were there. And for that period of time, it was a really fun place to hang out and talk to these folks. Like any other venue full of interesting, fun, and creative people, the parasites eventually showed up and made the channel all about themselves.
Zoe here was one of those parasites -- but, believe it or not, at the time, she was not the most obnoxious of them (yet.) She was actually pretty quiet, for the most part. The main parasite was some cunt named Sul who was half Irish, half Russian, half Scot, Half everything else and EVERY FUCKING DAY she had a new crisis that she dragged into that channel. Her mother tried to kill her last night, her mother beat her the next morning, yadda yadda. Every fucking day another crisis. She claimed to be a comic creator too but nobody ever saw her shit. She was a groupie, plain and simple. And everyone else, being generally very nice people (at least they were back then), accommodated her.
I eventually left after the place started to spin off into cliques but every once in a while I'd pop back in. The place had degenerated fairly quickly from a fun venue full of creatives into a mean-spirited group who paid more attention to Helldump (which was the organized trolling forum at SA before they jumped the shark not much later, getting Lowtax a visit at his home by none other than the Secret Service. Lowtax, who had to make a show of everything, including his later demise, shut down the subforum in his typical fashion.)
Most of the well-known creatives in there had already formed their own cliques and relocated themselves to more private, invite-only IRC channels -- which I'm not criticizing. There's nothing wrong with wanting to hang out in smaller groups of like-minded folks and it came with the added bonus of keeping attention whores like Sul and Zoe out. This didn't sit well with the other, lesser channel denizens -- of whom I count myself as one of except I wasn't upset about being excluded or not invited. Hell, I didn't even know about this diasporization until years later. But I wouldn't have cared. I was wrapping up my university and about to move onto my software engineering career, all while drawing my print comic series for Comixology. I didn't have time for that kind of IRC bullshit anymore. That exclusion, however, caused certain others to become unhinged like Josh Lesnick. But I digress.
One of the last times I visited that IRC channel, everyone was busy coordinating trolling against a certain Andrew Dobson and Zoe here was unusually active and right in the middle of it. Apparently this Andrew Dobson guy (yes, THAT Dobson) thought he was a real cartoonist and the folks in that channel -- the ones left over after the likes of KC Green, Spike, and anyone else who actually achieved anything in that scope had long left that channel for greener pastures -- were determined to take him down a peg or three.
Yes, that really was their motivation.
Nevermind Dobson, as incapable of cartooning as he was, was still more skilled than most of the people left on that channel, Zoe included. But goons have always acted as a gestalt in this regard so the 4th-rate webcomic creators still resident in there suffered not a single instance of self-awareness during this particular pursuit.
It was purely mean-spirited and Zoe was in the thick of it. Now if you know anything about Dobson, you'll know he white knighted for Zoe a year or two down the road when GG flared up. By this time he was so inundated by trolling and abuse that nobody could ever tell him Zoe was just as responsible for the onslaught of trolling and harassment he's suffered over the years. Not that anyone has ever tried, as far as I know.
But that's how fucking mean-spirited, cruel, and opportunistic Zoe Quinn is. She's never created anything of value in her entire life. All she's ever done is act as detriment to and disastrously parasitize anything and everything she's ever encountered, and to such an incredible degree that we're still feeling the effects of it today.
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I'm gonna list off a few incidents over the past years, for no reason whatsoever:
- A "Game Dev" and her friends harassed and doxxed Fine Young Capitalists, a women Game Dev group, causing them to shut down a women's game development event because the group offended her in some
