Ashley Poprik has Never has been a model for a video game character. A writer about projects like Spider -Man 2 And Call of Duty: Black Ops 6They work ABOVE Game, not the character in them. However, in 2023, a group of angry gamers was convinced. They were angry about how Spider -Man 2Mary Jane looked; More specifically, they complain, she simply Not hot enough.
The problem, these gamers have false, is Poprik, then a trainee that is unable to change the face of a character, not to mention a reality model that has put them into tricks play. The gamers made this conspiracy based on a picture of the writer, placed next to each other with Mary Jane; In the photo, Poprik and MJ have long hair with the middle, smiling and has the same face shape.
Poprik, who identified as sex liquids, described themselves with homosexual features. A big story has motivated that I am a transgender woman, and so I received hatred from any right winger, they said.
I have received a lot of death threats, the images of women with their heads and videos on YouTube about me is just information created straight, according to Pop Poprik. It forever changes the way I feel about video games.
In the end, everything became so bad that Poprik had to delete personal information from the Internet for fear of their safety.
Poprik has faced many months of being harassed online as well as direct accusations for creating things that wake up, especially for features in games that they are not involved in. The companies they work for.
When a developer is disadvantaged, they will be harassed by themselves, the pop poprik said.
Today, is anything Different from a Cisgemder game developer in the United States more dangerous than ever. Online, transgender developers and not in accordance with gender become the target of harassment at the sudden liking of the reactionaries railing against anything about social progress or results of The diversity, fairness and efforts include (dei). Online, President Donald Trump sought to reject their existence with executive commands for the purpose of restoring the biological truth to the Federal Government, Restricting health care for birth for adolescents, and eliminate transgender people from the army.
Other Operating ordersAlthough, a threat is about to happen. Trump's move to eliminate government funding for combat programs with discrimination activities imitated by technology companies alike MetaGoogle and Amazon. Developers are afraid their employers can follow. Thinking that a lot of things are known as Gamergate 2.0 GamerGate 2.0 has focused on Gamers railing against Dei's true efforts or perceptions, these worries seem to have no basis.
Wired talked to seven developers in the workplace, from AAA Studios to small, independent companies. Many people talked to us in an unnamed condition because of their safety concerns or because they were not allowed to talk to the press on behalf of their companies. .