NeoGAF, one of the lingering examples of what gaming fandom on the internet looked like in an era before social media, is going through some shit.
Stop me if you've heard this one before: The owner of a long-lived, community-driven website is the subject of sexual harassment allegations. Such revelations have surfaced before, but in this post-Weinstein period when names are being named, the new information has triggered a mass exodus among the site's users and staff.
It started last week when the site's owner, Tyler Malka, was publicly accused of sexual harassment. In the hours and days that followed, a number of the gaming forum's moderators publicly stepped down and a growing number of users — some of them longtime fixtures on the site — declared that they were done. Read more...
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