If someone talked shit about me, I found them and killed their avatar. If someone posted something hateful about Art3mis or her foundation, I found them and killed their avatar. If someone posted a racist meme about Aech or a video attacking Shoto’s work, I found them and killed their avatar—usually right after I asked them the rhetorical question, “Who run Bartertown?” Eventually, people began to accuse me of being the untraceable, undetectable, ultrapowerful avatar behind the killings, and the resulting online media backlash, dubbed “Parzivalgate,” destroyed my public image.
Considering what’s happened to people who post clips from *this book,* I really wonder if this is the type of thing Cline does with his own work. Not killing people, of course, but tracking down people who post negative comments or criticism and having those posts deplatformed.
