Being A Social Justice Warrior, Or How To Be A Scammer For Fun And Profit

Y’know, I believe I may have been too hard on Social Justice Warriors. If anything, they have the sweetest racket ever going on.

Virtue signal for [insert random social cause here], raise hell over it, whine whenever you are criticized and get patted on the ass by gullible lemmings, then promise to do a big project for your cause, use a crowdfunding service to get people to hand you money hand over fist, then before people realize you lied, cry about harassment making the project impossible to finish and keep the money.

I mean, look at all the people it’s worked out great for:

Brianna Wu: Throw yourself into a controversy to whore for attention, promise to make a game, get everyone else to do basically all the work while you straw boss and mess with minor stuff, overplay your hand and make a fool of yourself to the point the cops call you a liar for reporting supposed harassment, have a bunch of embarrassing stuff come out about your past you try to deny but only makes you look like fool for trying to deny, drag ass on that game until the people you got paid to make it start revolting over it, then scream harassment and refuse to work on something that likely will never come out because that means the reputation you built around the delayed product evaporates. And bank on the fact no one will likely sue you to get away with it all.

Anita Sarkeesian: Make grandiose promises to make a video series filled with logical flaws, plagiarized resources, and cherrypicked information. Then, get tons of gullible saps to toss you money for making it, get promoted by someone who writes all your scripts for you then toss them aside when you don’t need them anymore. Then, overplay your hand, scream about noncredible death threats and submit a report to the UN so retarded you look like a dumbass for promoting it. Then, leaving the old video series and crowdfunding in the dust and move on to the next scam, banking on all the lemmings who mindlessly defend your earlier lies and exaggerations to insulate you from ever having to deal with the fallout.

Kiva Bay: Make promises to make a card deck for your fellow scam artists, get tons of ass-patting sycophants and the people in the card deck series to promote you. Ignore all the crap discrediting your fellow scammers and spend over a year smoking weed. Finally wake up from the marijuana haze to realize people actually expect the money you blew on drugs to go to a product you promised, scream harassment, then expect all the die hard morons who think virtue signaling means more than being scammed defend you while you go off to get stoned again.

Zoe Quinn: Make mediocre free game, let your friends and people with whom you have intimate relations sing your praises, no one says a word about the impropriety until one of the people you screwed over blows the whistle. Scream harassment and get all the people who sung your praises to circle wagons to escape the heat and make bank on idiots who think you’re the victim. Keep letting your reach exceed your grasp until you nearly get pwned in court and run screaming to avoid that fate, get your reputation smashed further delivering a joke of a report to the UN, then get a book publishing deal full of crap no triple AAA publisher would touch moved to a much lower profile publisher while assuming a Watergate joke is all about you. And expect all your die hard fans to defend all the mistakes and crap you pulled every step of the way while collecting money on Patreon to produce nothing aside from empty promises.

Seriously, I probably should apologize to all the above, they’ve gotten TONS of people to kiss their ass and hand them money and support for producing little to nothing while promising the moon, and they’ve still pretty much gotten away with fucking over their own backers, who enjoy the abuse of their trust like it’s a sex fetish.

And y’know, if it wasn’t for a little thing like “having integrity”, I’m sure a lot of other people could have done what they did and made bank too.