Game Objective’s Brad Glasgow Attributed Freelance Journalist’s Tweet with “Bullying Campaign” Against BioWare’s Lead Facial Animator

Brad Glasgow, founder of Game Objective and well known for investigating the GamerGate consumer revolt, has spoken out against what appears to be an organized bullying campaign against the Lead Facial Animator for BioWare’s Mass Effect: Andromeda. His first Tweet, archived here, stated there is “no reason to single out someone at BioWare because you don’t like their work”. He accompanied this with a censored screenshot that revealed who was in charge of the game’s facial animations.

Issues arose when freelance journalist Nick Monroe saw this, as the screenshot was in fact of his Tweet (since deleted after BioWare released a statement about a former employee of theirs). He challenged Glasgow by stating he was taken out of context, and provided a screenshot of every other Tweet he posted showing other employees at BioWare and their respective roles in Andromeda’s development, in order to dispute the claim he was targeting a specific individual. Monroe has publicly denounced harassment in another Tweet, and also stands by everything he wrote about BioWare’s employees. When it was discovered that Ethan Ralph of TheRalphRetort.com was responsible for targeting the BioWare animator, Monroe denied knowing about this before he sent his first Tweet, and further claimed that Ralph is “cancer”.

Glasgow had yet to make a public statement at the time, neither defending himself nor apologizing. In fact, it seems he is opting to ignore Monroe entirely. He began a livestream to talk about Polygon’s guilt-by-association hit-piece on GamerGate, but he made no mention of Monroe in that, either.

Nick Monroe responded to a request for comment, simply stating the following (edited for readability and specificity): “I support discussion about why Mass Effect Andromeda had problems with their animation. I don’t support the type of witch hunting Ralph Retort had a hand in yesterday [18th of March, 2017].”

Brad Glasgow also responded to a request for comment. His full statement can be read below.

“I’d caution against framing this as a Nick vs. Brad thing. I blacked out his name from the tweet for a reason: this isn’t about him, it’s about the tweet. The tweet was crappy and stupid, but I’m not saying anything against Nick personally. That’s just not something that interests me.

“I know he’s talked about me being dishonest and presenting the tweet out of context, and I disagree. I don’t think his subsequent tweets change in any way the fact that he singled out this animator and provided her Twitter contact info.

“It was a dumb thing to tweet. I called it out as dumb. Not much more to it than that.”

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