picture: Kinetic Games An admin on the official Discord servers for Kinetic Games Hugely popular indie horror game phasmophobia was recently removed after a Twitter user publicly condemned the studio for failing to protect its community from sexual harassment and racism. Last week Twitter user @CrownedCollider posted a thread in which they alleged problematic behavior ...
YouTube’s trending side is typically full of straightforward content like music videos, comedy sketches, and game trailers, along with popular YouTubers like Mr. Beast and SSSniperWolf. However, on August 24, the number one trending video was an outcry against the platform itself, with allegations of racism or nepotism being leveled at Google’s video-sharing service. The ...
The Ayayo Games are a series of erotic adventure games made for the PC-98 in Japan in the early 90s. Despite her wild storylines and complex meta-references to popular anime and manga, her legacy is mostly overlooked or forgotten. Video essayist Noelle Aman tried to fix that in a recent 50 minute deep dive, but ...
Ben Palmer is invited to the cookout. Screenshot: Meta / Kotaku It would be so satisfying if corporations and brands more often called out racism and other ills in their comments sections on social media. In the responses to a recent Xbox post on Facebook, it appeared at first glance that the console-maker had done ...
image: Twitch / Kotaku A new open letter by Angela Hession, vice president of global trust and security at Twitch, describes the company’s approach to making its streaming platform a more harmonious place, specifically deleting millions of bots to curb those of the site Hate raid epidemic. “Over the past 12 months, we’ve rolled out ...
Screenshot:: Twitter Calm in piss, @realDonaldTrump: Twitter finally suspended the president after sparking a riot at the Capitol this week. “After carefully examining the last tweets from the @ realDonaldTrump account and the context around them – especially how they are received and interpreted on and outside of Twitter – we have permanently blocked the ...
