Ashley has a popric It has never been a model of video game character. As author of projects such as Spider -Man 2 Vat Call of Duty: Black Ops 6They work In Games, not as the characters in them. However, in 2023, a cabin of angry gamers was convinced otherwise. They were angry at how Spider -Man 2Mary Jane looked. In particular, they complained, he was not hot enough.
The problem, these gamers, falsely claimed that Popix-then a writing trainee without the ability to change the face of the character, let alone bringing himself into his real-life model. Gamers gathered the conspiracy based on a photo of the author, together with Mary Jane. In the photo, Poprik and MJ both exercise long hair with the middle part, smile and have a similar face shape.
Popix, known as sexual sex, describes itself as an androgenic characteristics. They say, “A big narrative came to the conclusion that I was a transistor and that is why I hate every right right winger.”
“I had a lot of death threats, images of deceitful women, and YouTube movies about me that were just correct information,” says Popix. “It has changed forever the way I feel about video games.”
Eventually, the situation was so bad that Popix had to erase personal information from the Internet for fear of security.
Popix has been confronted with online harassment as well as in-person allegations of “waking up” things-especially for the features that have not been involved in games that have not been involved. But in any case, Popix says they did not receive any support or security resources. The companies they worked for.
“When a marginal Dev is being abused, they are alone.”
Today, being anything Except for a Cisgender game developer in the United States more dangerous than ever. Online developers, transgender, and gender -compatible, for the purpose of harassment in the huptus of reactionary grids against any social progress or the outcome of diversity, justice and effort (Dei), converted into harassment goals Become. Offline, President Donald Trump seeks to deny them with executive orders aimed at “restoring the biological truth to the federal government”, restricting rescue health care for minors, and removing trans -individuals from the army.
Other executive orders are a more imminent threat. Trump’s move to eliminate government funding for programs that are currently being mimicted by technical companies such as Meta, Google and Amazon. Developers are afraid that their employers will be able to follow this case. Given that many of what is known as “Gamergate 2.0”, focusing on gamers’ fences against real or perceived DEI efforts, these concerns do not seem baseless.
Wired spoke to seven developers across the industry in workplaces, including AAA Studios to small and independent companies. Many of them only talked to us on anonymousness of their security or because they were not allowed to talk to the press on behalf of their companies. (Wired independently endorsed all their identity and employment.) What emerged was a constant narrative of fear, stress, and alienation that follows them to the workplace and flourished in online culture around video games.
