When she began her new job she was immediately greeted by people saying she was somehow going to change Beck's gender, sabotage the game, redesign everything, that she had lied about ever even playing a Mega Man game and so on. All false. To be fair, many of us directing these accusations at her had no reason to believe they were untrue. There were people out there trying to trick us, and they were good at it. Lots of fans got worried by old tweets and message board comments taken out of context. And that made a lot of fans very angry at her for things we thought she did and was doing, things that weren't true.
And people keep pushing her about that nonsense, on a completely terrible board where it's very hard to find replies, and where it's not even possible to do simple things like pin a thread or merge threads or send PMs. And people started photoshopping images to trick people into thinking that the game was losing backers that had pledged thousands of dollars. Claims we were later told were false.
And because it's so hard to find replies on that board, and because people were asking the same questions over and over, and because they're not able to merge threads, threads started getting locked with people asked to go look and post in the threads where there were already answers. And people made threads saying how unfair that was, which also got locked because they made it even harder for people to get their answers. And yes, she did eventually start making genuine missteps in the face of an onslaught of hate that had started over things she didn't even do.
And now we're here a few days later with people saying the problem isn't any of the stuff she was accused of just a few days ago. No, the problem is how she responded to a witch hunt while stuck with a crap board and barely any mod tools.
And I'm starting to feel like very few of us are bothering to be angry with the people that tricked us into thinking she was a threat to the game in the first place. The people that manipulated old tweets, that photoshopped claims that the game was losing backers that had pledged thousands of dollars each, the people that spammed threads elsewhere telling everyone about the woman that wanted to redesign Beck to be a girl and was going to ruin the game.
And I'm a little annoyed about that.