Chazore said:
Don't get me wrong, it's completely up to Yong to go off against those two sites, but in doing so he just proves that both sides will willingly create themselves an angry mob to square off against one another. Neither side is correct to square off since both sides end up doing what they claim to fight against, and their form of justice is entirely subjective. Justice itself is subjective in general, as one can call for a beheading, while another can call that needlessly barbaric. From what I'm seeing, one dev took things way out of proportion, but at the same time, her firing and then another dev's firing for simply siding with that other dev has created an imbalance. Now we're seeing one side getting riled up on purpose just to counter the other side in the name of justice, while the other fights for "social justice". Both sides are getting incredibly mad at one another and it's just becoming more of an eye for an eye at this point. She was fired and that should have honestly been it. Everyone should have ignored her insane ramblings and Twitter should have dealt with her since the comments she made about TB. Instead we've got Yong and co claiming they don't want to start something or carry it on, but they are willingly carrying it on because it gives them power, clicks and money. It's been such a long time since Yong actually focused on something positive in the industry, rather than negative and giving himself reasons to shout loudly and gathering an attention mob (which apparently seems to be the go to tactic to make money these days on youtube). |
There are two factors in this case though that make users like Yong justified in responding and reacting; one being that the person in question was quite simply in the wrong and tried to start some sort of twitter crusade based on sexism accusations when it was in reality absolutely nothing. The other is that gaming press had already sided with the culprit in this case, something they would do unopposed unless youtubers and other influential figures responded. Videos we're seeing are mostly in response to the fact that gaming press are coming to Price's rescue, when they should be damning her volatile tone against the fanbase for absolutely no reason at all. The ones doing the victim blaming is Price herself and her helpers, in the gaming press.
Other than that, I agree with you completely. The firing of the other dude was more strange to me, he was just being ignorant. I think there might be more to this story than we know right now. If Price and her colleague have behaved like this for some time, and off of twitter, I can easily see why the company would want to let them go. Having idiots on the payroll can cost a company dearly, and this is hardly the first time a company fires someone for being stupid in their own spare time.
