Long story short: an offshoot of the rationalists (the ones who are scared of a hypothetical future AI god torturing their metaverse avatar) got really extreme, insular, and cultlike. This has resulted in numerous deaths, including multiple of their own members, an ICE officer, and the landlord who owned the RV lot that they lived on. A few of the members are in jail, but I think the leader tried to fake their own death and is still on the lam. The story has Manson Family vibes, with a charismatic leader gathering a group of troubled people to their side and pushing them to do violent shit, and in this case that leader is a trans nonbinary vegan.
It’s been many factors, and generally this can be attributed to her general Western liberalism, but also one of the more jarring things was her responding to even mild criticism aggressively. I get where she’s coming from (Elevatorgate and Western Atheism), but she’s doing it even in the “comradely” spaces, eg. fediverse. Recently she popped off on VWestlife (a tech YouTuber) for daring to suggest that a game might have been able to run on her older machine (how dare he not know that she used to be running an Intel MacBook)
That’s why I unironically stopped following Rebecca Watson. Her recent video was just too much of a libout for me
I’m lost, what happened?
Long story short: an offshoot of the rationalists (the ones who are scared of a hypothetical future AI god torturing their metaverse avatar) got really extreme, insular, and cultlike. This has resulted in numerous deaths, including multiple of their own members, an ICE officer, and the landlord who owned the RV lot that they lived on. A few of the members are in jail, but I think the leader tried to fake their own death and is still on the lam. The story has Manson Family vibes, with a charismatic leader gathering a group of troubled people to their side and pushing them to do violent shit, and in this case that leader is a trans nonbinary vegan.
this and not the believing havana syndrome is credible in 2024?
It’s been many factors, and generally this can be attributed to her general Western liberalism, but also one of the more jarring things was her responding to even mild criticism aggressively. I get where she’s coming from (Elevatorgate and Western Atheism), but she’s doing it even in the “comradely” spaces, eg. fediverse. Recently she popped off on VWestlife (a tech YouTuber) for daring to suggest that a game might have been able to run on her older machine (how dare he not know that she used to be running an Intel MacBook)
Certified Hexbear moment
Actually I unfollowed her because she popped off on VWestlife for daring to suggest that maybe her older computer would be able to run a newer game
She was always a turbolib.