You mean her second job as a risque model? How can she expect to work for a family company like Nintendo.

Frankly, when you willingly constantly put yourself out there online with a clearly provocative presence- no matter how righteous or self-righteous they are - you are insane for not expecting mass, anonymous backlash.

Propaganda at its finest. Write it, and they’ll believe it.

It obviously must go deeper than most of you imply; those “anime titties” are so easy to get elsewhere.

I’ve been very dissatisfied with the reporting done on the Rapp situation. The pieces IMO have been nothing but puff pieces designed to generate sympathy for Mrs. Rapp and have the feel of pure opinion pieces.

It’s always interesting when I see an article on one of the Gawker sites bemoaning harassment on the internet. I have no reason to doubt your sincerity, Patrick, but the company who paid you for this has been an active, gleeful participant for years.

First of all, this is a very poorly written article.

>but for stories like this we also weigh the potential of incentivizing harassers

Talking about if her firing was justified or not is a topic. Talking about any of the other issues is another topic. Tangling them together forms a bias based not on her obligations (by signed contract) to a family friendly company but on what a person believes is fair, which is HEAVILY decided by your own views about…

While you did mention that Rapp initially laid the blame on her ‘harrassers’, you forgot the bit where she as well as the media continuing coverage kept placing the game on gamergate. Now, funnily enough, they aren’t. Maybe if you had done your job right, the digging wouldn’t have been happened or been spread far. You…

He’s painting a different picture than what every other site is reporting... read up on the subject somewhere else, Nintendo just didn’t want this type of girl representing the company anymore and if you read some of her past tweets you’ll understand why.

How come you don’t go into how Mrs. Rapp is an escort, and that’s why she was fired?

AAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNDDDDD you run another story on it. You want the attention, Patrick. That’s quite clear. Regardless of the facts(which you couldn’t give a shit about), you want the clicks. That’s what it’s all about for you. Which is fine. But if you’re going to be a coward, at least be a coward with some…

The doxing, harrasment, and dog-piling on the Rapp’s is unfortunate and does represent a dark, alarming side to online culture.

Why the fuck is this bullshit up again? Oh, because internet drama gives those site visits.

I think it was a bad thing that, when this was first reported on this site, it was basically just accepted as fact, based one tweet from Rapp, that she was specifically fired by Nintendo just because she had been harassed online. Then you had people all rallying against Nintendo, even though it now seems we have just…

This girl encapsulates what is wrong with my generation.

“A reporter’s obligation is to find the truth, but for stories like this we also weigh the potential of incentivizing harassers, of amplifying unconfirmed claims”

This isn’t complicated, Patrick. She was fired for literally being a prostitute while working as a PR agent for a family friendly company. Fake journalists like you couldn’t bother checking for stupid things like facts before running your keyboard to reinforce both the fake “video games are hostile to women” narrative…

She was a prostitute Patrick. Literally, a prostitute.