• FoxyFerengi@startrek.website
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    11 days ago

    Suicide after a vicious bullying/harassment campaign on reddit. I think some of the criticisms of her rescue are valid, but should not have risen to the level of harassment and bullying that the snark community engaged in

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      11 days ago

      Was it really just reddit? I seem to remeber that other sanctuaries bad mouthed them viciously as well because it is such a war for donations to keep their operations going, so they fight each other? Maybe that was also part of it. Either way, atrocious and a great loss.

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        My understanding is that there were people she knew personally involved, like other rescues as you said, and they spread the harassment through reddit/TikTok. But, we all know how insane reddit can be when there’s a “cause”. It got intense quickly