For people who didn't follow - The trans vox TV critic Emily VanDerWerff had a major narcissistic breakdown all cause Matt Yglesias signed the same letter as JK Rowling. He sent an email to Vox complaining (and therefore proving the exact point of the Harper letter about cancel culture), posted it on twitter, but then said "But I don't want to get him in trouble tee hee!" - Which nobody bought cause going after Yglesias on twitter like that is an obvious attack to get him in trouble from Vox or the social mob. So then after a lot of people defended Yglesias, Emily has since then treated himself as the victim, talked about all the rape and death threats he's received which nobody seems to find any evidence of, and said he wants to kill himself, and also went on facebook to begging for people to compliment him so he can feel better. All while refusing to consider the possibility he may have done something that could hurt Yglesias, or that situations like this were the point of the letter.
I'm enjoying it since I'm a fan of TV art and I've had a bone to pick with Todd/Emily because he's been the WORST thing to happen to the TV criticism the last ten years. He has single handily made it more of a clickbait, groupthink driven industry where instead of critics having their own individual opinions, it comes down to whatever groupthink opinion twitter has settled on that day like a fad. Because he has talent it's led him to the top of the industry, but the obvious narcissism has had a huge effect. Someone this insane and driven by what other people think of him cannot be trusted to be one of the top tastemakers, and he's half the reason why it feels like tastemakers exist for it.
For people who didn't follow - The trans vox TV critic Emily VanDerWerff had a major narcissistic breakdown all cause Matt Yglesias signed the same letter as JK Rowling. He sent an email to Vox complaining (and therefore proving the exact point of the Harper letter about cancel culture), posted it on twitter, but then said "But I don't want to get him in trouble tee hee!" - Which nobody bought cause going after Yglesias on twitter like that is an obvious attack to get him in trouble from Vox or the social mob. So then after a lot of people defended Yglesias, Emily has since then treated himself as the victim, talked about all the rape and death threats he's received which nobody seems to find any evidence of, and said he wants to kill himself, and also went on facebook to begging for people to compliment him so he can feel better. All while refusing to consider the possibility he may have done something that could hurt Yglesias, or that situations like this were the point of the letter.
I'm enjoying it since I'm a fan of TV art and I've had a bone to pick with Todd/Emily because he's been the WORST thing to happen to the TV criticism the last ten years. He has single handily made it more of a clickbait, groupthink driven industry where instead of critics having their own individual opinions, it comes down to whatever groupthink opinion twitter has settled on that day like a fad. Because he has talent it's led him to the top of the industry, but the obvious narcissism has had a huge effect. Someone this insane and driven by what other people think of him cannot be trusted to be one of the top tastemakers, and he's half the reason why it feels like tastemakers exist for it.