This is a short post that I will probably hide from the front page…
The intention with this is to be a collection of all my threads in which I’ve been asking Kotaku for accountability for how they have exploited, lied to, and endangering sexual assault survivors.
I’m putting all this in a post to keep track of the extend that I’ve been asking, and I’ve been ignored.
After they covered metoo in games last time, and got lauded for “great journalism” by people that know what they did to us, I’ve made a point to tweet about it once a day. That was too much. It’s pretty clear that (for the majority) allyship in games extends to just being a tool to make yourself look good as an ally, but when it comes down to it you can’t really stand for anything. Those that matter are those that are the most popular. If you’re a “nobody” then abusers here can pretty much exploit you every possible way they like, including benefiting from publishing your assault.
I assume if Kotaku really cares about these issues they will care about making right on their own abuse.
I’ll keep making threads until they give a fuck about what they did.
I don’t want this emotional labor to go to waste. I make a lot of points in these threads that I feel should be heard. I ask a lot of questions. None of them are rhetorical.
Mine wasn’t the only instance of this happening, and I think it’s tremendously fucked up that they have done this to us (in the past, before it was cool to “stand by survivors and their stories”), and then went on to being lauded for their journalism on metoo in games. It’s as opportunistic as it is predatory.
I talked about why that’s not right in this thread, and this is the most recent that breaks it down too… I went over why this is wrong in a lot of threads.
There are likely over a hundred now, but I share here what I kept track of…
What they did: http://www.nathalielawhead.com/candybox/what-its-like-sharing-your-metoo-with-kotaku-a-cautionary-tale
How they handled it: http://www.nathalielawhead.com/candybox/an-open-letter-to-game-journalists-metoo-fighting-with-surviving-abusive-reporting-and-the-fallout-of-not-caring
With this second blog post, the “open letter”, I went to the extent to prove that there was a story. This was to do away with the excuse that “they did their best”. Since the harm caused by them wasn’t going away for me, I also shared emails to show how I was treated by them. This extended to me begging to have the details removed, their editor arguing on/off the record, and then the hotline number being shared. I guess it’s easier to bully sexual assault survivors into silence, every time.
Later, as this open letter got shared, I heard from others that they had done the same thing to.
What they did was heartless, cruel, irresponsible, and placed very vulnerable people in danger.
I am not ok with that. I want accountability for this. It is fucked up, on a lot of very fundamental levels, that an outlet known for its “progressive journalism” does this to very vulnerable people, and then gets applauded for covering abuse. They should make their own abuse right.
I don’t exactly care if the journalist that did it “doesn’t work there anymore” because they published her stories. They supported her, and signal boosted the resulting articles that she abused survivors over. They benefited from this abuse as much as she did. Acting helpless and coming up with excuses when someone is calling for accountability, and demonstrable harm was caused, is just another way of avoiding responsibility. Kotaku is not exempt from being responsible for what they do here.
Update: Recently this went up describing the sexist, racist, and abusive work culture at Kotaku. It makes mention of this situation and that there where people that tried to do something to make this better, but those in charge burned them out.
Despite this I will continue to ask for accountability. I do not accept that they can do this horrible shit to people and then be viewed and lauded as “the good guys”.
This, along with the screenshots I shared here, should prove that I was not lying like I was publicly made out to be by Stephen and Cecilia (those I view as largely responsible for doing this to me, and others).
Update: Grace In The Machine chimed in and wrote this really powerful call to talk about accountability in games and games journalism. I’m adding it here because it pretty much says it all.
— — — — —
Following are all my threads calling for accountability (they are threads, click on the link to read the whole thread).
I will keep updating this post as I write them.
I’ve not heard an answer, or know of any action from them to actually make this right to the survivors that they abused.
ok and another thing, to those arguing that kotaku did good by "exposing" him.
no they fucking did not.
i exposed him, and the other women that had the courage to speak and be sources did that.
kotaku took advantage of what happened to us for the sake of sensationalism. https://t.co/siov8e1kSe— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) March 12, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1238176235466842114
here it is again because this never really goes away for me in all the ways I keep explaining. so here’s another thread for you to…ignore? be indifferent toward? feel slightly bad about before moving on? because you know it will never reach the people that need to hear it… https://t.co/DQGm1EJP1t
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) April 2, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1245760504192106497
one last thing…
it's really interesting what cis men in these place choose to stand up for, rally around, and overall be righteous about…
contrasted against what they bend over backwards to ignore or call an exaggeration. https://t.co/c4K4nJ6VqE— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) March 12, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1238170818590343170
to those that think i'm exaggerating by talking about this or in my post… you should read the whole thing first.
this sort of reporting puts survivors in danger. the repercussions of this have been huge. the people that did it are fine.
this is bad journalism in a nutshell. 1/4 https://t.co/siov8e1kSe— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) March 12, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1238169111974146048
game discourse twitter:
?this?nearly?killed?two?people?
i can’t quantify the harm that this has caused.
it doesn’t fit into a tweet.
please don’t ignore it. https://t.co/d26lChXNL0— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) April 15, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1250476947219443712
to those confused about this because tldr:
BOTH sources that made it in the article were misled by Cecilia about the intention NOT to publish something, just to get the information from us, & then publishing it anyway.
other sources were treated absolutely disrespectfully too 1/2 https://t.co/siov8e1kSe— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) March 3, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1234941037996494848
if you read my post, you can see all the information that was available to her.
that's SO fucking important to me, because you can compare that to the story that everyone got.THAT betrayal of trust and sensationalizing abuse is the problem.
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) March 7, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1236407765695967232
and while i'm here still being mad because of what it did to me…
in both of my posts AND in the emails that i shared screenshots of, you can see that my grievance was NEVER about on/off the record. i didn't bring that up. THEY made it about a dumb technical argument
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) March 7, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1236407762470359040
As long as journalists here are out for themselves (personal brand over all), and even willing to distort the truth of those risking everything (including risking becoming a target), just to milk the situation for somethings salacious… we won’t have metoo here.
we can’t.— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) March 7, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1236370697682694144
i mean fuck. read my post. a libel lawsuit is still looming over me and i had the courage to put out all that information about him that Kotaku fucking had.
don't make this about technicality, when it was a failure to do right by us that had the courage to come forward.
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) March 7, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1236407768707248128
another thing…
it wasn't Cecilia's right to make sexual assault about "the sex".
if we were promised accountability, it should have been about him.
in my post i go out of my way to share the "details" of my story. you can see the difference vs how Kotaku treated it… 1/8 https://t.co/siov8e1kSe— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) March 7, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1236407760998109184
"In an effort to keep the good talent around, to keep the brands, it’s been like games journalism is trying to pretend to be and please all of the wrong people."https://t.co/YHJad7JfxN
This is really heavy and worth reading.(thread with some thoughts incoming 1/5)
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) March 7, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1236370693073190912
since this is in my face again (constantly I guess) I would like to make clear that every fucking journalist that reads this & sees no wrong because "by the book" is complicit in empowering rape culture. defending sensationalizing sexual assault is part of the problem.
thread… https://t.co/siov8e1kSe
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) March 23, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1241988058045546496
Cecilia D’Anastasio is an abusive journalist who does not care about the truth. she will lie blatantly. she will abuse your story.
be extremely careful.
the harm her journalism has caused to survivors CANNOT be understated.— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) April 12, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1249439720192364544
aside from not taking no for an answer, the manipulative “hold him accountable” line in both cases is amazing, bc she literally didn’t and changed important facts that would have actually done that.
in my case, what she did protected him.
she painted us in a very intentional way. https://t.co/0pYpnRFTHv— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) April 13, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1249823454964019201
yesterday I learned that I’m not alone & idk what’s worst…
seeing the same pattern of behavior to exploit someone in a very vulnerable position? that no didn’t mean no, again? pressuring and guilting survivors into talking? lying and framing a narrative instead of the truth?? https://t.co/JyPnr1K57E— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) April 13, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1249742418141839365
and wow for learning that she used the same line of wanting to hold the abuser "accountable" to bate you into opening up
and also learning that she would bully & gaslight to get you to open up
and also learning that she didn't respect "off the record" at all https://t.co/JyPnr1K57E— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) April 12, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1249449091290947584
her “journalism” nearly killed someone (not including myself). all for dishonest sensationalized stories that aren’t worth the cost of our lives.
we where lied to & used for the sake of clickbait. we deserved better. we deserved the truth.don’t ignore this. maybe please care?? https://t.co/JyPnr1K57E
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) April 13, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1249562550447951872
hey guys I’m really worn out & am trying to go back to normal here but…
could u stop getting swept up in Kotaku "discourse" about petty shit & then complaining about the state of discourse when they've literally done this https://t.co/0oUgaGPfsj
and this https://t.co/2ZjcLaKCPR— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) April 14, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1250096320989130752
*deep inhale*
AaaAaaand this nearly killed two people but i don't see you all caring even half as much as you care about difficulty modes. you all are cut off from complaining about the state of "the discourse". 1/3 https://t.co/d26lChXNL0— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) April 14, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1250097820809347072
since kotaku is showing up again…
i'd like to remind everyone that you're supporting an incredibly abusive publication by sharing their stuff or joining in discourse that they generate.
their journalism is exploitative & dangerous to vulnerable peoplehttps://t.co/d26lChXNL0— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) April 27, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1254826472583258112
seeing @kotaku being shared again & here’s a reminder why that’s not ok for the sexual assault victims they exploited & endangered for clickbait that protected rapists.
you can’t move on from this & “be the hero” without first taking responsibility for your part in abuse here. https://t.co/vwnXNMFHOb
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) July 6, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1280205269633388544
hey look an outlet with a history of gaslighting, manipulating, hounding, endangering, and lying to AND about victims of sexual assault is being lauded for doing a good job at reporting on it this time around.
y'all's double standards here is f~cking unbelievable ? https://t.co/vwnXNMFHOb— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) July 6, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1280209405657534469
for the sake of asserting us (all of us survivors that kotaku has hurt in the past), here are some thoughts… PLEASE read them:
we are human.
our agency, humanity, integrity, safety, and truth mattered.
we didn't deserve to be drug out for the sake of spectacle…(thread 1/?) https://t.co/KIBGYnDdDk
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) July 7, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1280567005301506048
when I came forward:
they emailed my sister
they interviewed mom
I was yelled at “was it penetrative sex?” during the interview, bc I struggled to talk
they told me they wouldn’t publish that but did
then I learned They Did The Same to others
now u champion their metoo journalism https://t.co/wowvifugfO— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) July 10, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1281619059230961665
really important thread (at least to me)
please read it and give it consideration… https://t.co/LEq15yNmK0— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) July 7, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1280567279286022145
one last thought.
i've seen u all get MORE upset about TLOU2 reviews, game difficult discourse, crunch… than this.
i know you're capable of giving a fvck.
u should hold @Kotaku accountable to the harm they have caused before patting them on the back for their allyship now… https://t.co/kQB2njmcEn
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) July 7, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1280569588124487680
F*ck i can't do this anymore.
i'm sorry.it's the appologism and excuses from people that selectively care that gets so hard. i'm not saying that to call out anyone specifically because i've gotten this at every turn.
i'm begging you to please read this thread and share it. https://t.co/ms7vySlyFy
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) July 7, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1280571099156058113
my thread that I implore anyone to read, especially those that are signal boosting or on board with #metoo in games.
please I’m begging you to give a sh*t about this and us.
if we can get angry at TLOU2 reviews or difficulty settings, u can spare a moment to care about this… https://t.co/wowvifugfO— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) July 7, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1280595916882206722
if you care about the metoo in video games discussion, please read this
i keep thinking if i should write another blog post
detailing (vaguely as to not endanger anyone) all the other shit that i know they did to survivors for pasts stories, but honestly when is enough enough? https://t.co/goVT8pXSuo— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) July 7, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1280617219165020160
Please read my thread if you care about metoo here.
Don’t side with the known abuser now just because you’re getting something from the abuser.
Hold the abuser accountable.
Uphold those hurt.
If things really changed then,
I want accountability.
I want an actual apology. https://t.co/goVT8pXSuo— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) July 8, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1280885692520730624
please read this. please care.
amplify us not the abusers or their platform. we matter. our humanity matters.
if you can get upset at Ubisoft, naughty dog… you should be capable of seeing how wrong this is.
I want accountability.
I want an apology.
I don’t want excuses. https://t.co/hKcAMTWDqa— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) July 8, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1281007912949702656
hey all of u thinking that kotaku is necessary or doing a good job at
? amplifying these messages
or that
? everyone involved in this situation tried to do their best
or that
this is a complicated misunderstandinghow many victims exactly would it take in order for u to care? https://t.co/ZZq38SsRB9
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) July 9, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1281018692906520578
another thought:
literally every high level person (with any influence or platform) that told me “please let me know if there’s anything I can do for you” when I shared my story back in August has brushed me off when I asked them for help.I’ve heard nothing but excuses. https://t.co/IKgmO0eqdw
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) July 9, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1281084247382474752
we are human too and our agency, safety, voices, stories mattered too.
do not amplify an outlet with a history of abusing sexual assault survivors, for the sake of the few “good stories” they might be putting out now.
a few “good stories” does not negate that history of abuse. https://t.co/goVT8pXSuo
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) July 9, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1281284459887595520
instead of congratulating an outlet with an abusive history toward survivors that’s now covering #metoo, hold them accountable
why are all the other stories here worthy of acknowledgement but if the abuser is somehow “necessary” you ignore the incredibly abusive things they did? https://t.co/BFCwXj8fzg
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) July 13, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1282711039595839489
if you're in any way invested in metoo in games, or the stories of survivors here, please read this thread.
a publication that has abused sexual assault survivors in the past shouldn't be applauded for a job well done when they couldn't even apologize to those hurt.
we matter. https://t.co/7U6fSgg1Yu— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) July 8, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1280717730144874496
please read this.
please care.hold those with an abusive past accountable. stop excusing the irreparable harm they have extended on others.
we matter too. https://t.co/nu7dHkSSpZ— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) July 9, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1281250063566508032
please read this thread.
just casually warning people about them, while still retweeting them when it comes to metoo, without any mention of what they’ve done in the past to survivors, does NOT work. it doesn’t make this ok.
you’re just helping them cover up what they did to us. https://t.co/wowvifugfO— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) July 10, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1281603815502786561
don’t tell me what I’m asking for is unrealistic when you’re calling for the same thing with Ubisoft.
an outlet that nearly killed two survivors just to get “the scoop” on “the rape”, is not deserving of being congratulated on good #metoo journalism.
they’re not necessary.
we are https://t.co/wowvifugfO— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) July 10, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1281605969458245633
…is it just that, even in context of #metoo, some of us are still worth sacrificing?
if the change you are pushing for is still selective about who matters & who doesn’t how exactly is that change?
you can’t challenge abuse by negating the experiences of those that where hurt. https://t.co/BFCwXj8fzg— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) July 10, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1281674237330116608
Please read my thread if you care about metoo here.
Don’t side with the known abuser now just because you’re getting something from the abuser.
Hold the abuser accountable.
Uphold those hurt.
If things really changed then,
I want accountability.
I want an actual apology. https://t.co/goVT8pXSuo— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) July 8, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1280885692520730624
? high profile game industry allies that offered me help & then brushed me off when I told u about this:
how can u read all this & still find a way to excuse them?
how can u know they’ve done this to survivors & still think they’re worth congratulating on their #metoo coverage? https://t.co/erwFr4CR9u— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) July 10, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1281676757670621186
I’m going to try to talk about other things here now too,
but I’ll keep sharing this regularly until we (ALL of us that they abused) get an apology and accountability happens.You can’t just do this to people and move on from it like it never happened. https://t.co/BFCwXj8fzg
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) July 14, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1283067714978803714
survivors of sexual assault & abuse have done phenomenally more to dismantle rape culture by speaking up, fighting this, and still being here at the end of the day, than any single outlet that exploits their trauma ever has. https://t.co/BFCwXj8fzg
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) July 14, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1283114631502811136
kinda wild when u hear what she did to others, for another trash article, that wasn’t worth the price of abusing survivors… but hey allyship here is no different when allies turn around & congratulate these same people on their #metoo reporting with 0 regard of that history
1/6 https://t.co/B2MpwMQFNL— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) July 23, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1286447290157109248
hey @kotaku
I want accountability.
I want an apology for how u endangered vulnerable people for the sake of sensationalism.
no means no @kotaku, especially when it comes from rape survivors.
you cover abuse in this industry but can’t even acknowledge your own contributions to it? https://t.co/BFCwXj8fzg— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) July 12, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1282359175494823936
hey @kotaku, you have so much to say about abuse at Riot Games, at Naught Dog, at Ubisoft…but you can’t acknowledge how you’ve abused sexual assault survivors in the past?
not even during your #metoo reporting?
how are you even qualified to write about that if you’re no better? https://t.co/BFCwXj8fzg— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) July 12, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1282361864765059073
Hey @kotaku,
you generously cover abuse here, and seem to care about these issues.
what about acknowledging your own abuse?I heard stories from other survivors you did the exact same thing to.
you endangered and lied to very vulnerable people.
you should make this right to us. https://t.co/BFCwXj8fzg— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) July 13, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1282706194960793601
hey kotaku & kotaku journalists:
where we really a worthy sacrifice to make in pursuit of your Great Journalism?
is the blood in these articles (you know the ones where our agency, humanity, safety, truth…were completely disregarded) worth it?don’t ignore this. https://t.co/BFCwXj8fzg
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) July 16, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1283902098145304576
don’t ignore this, @Kotaku.
you nearly killed two survivors because of this.
endangering vulnerable people should matter to you.can you please make this right to us?
can you please care about your own abuse as much as you care about Ubisoft or Naughty Dog’s? https://t.co/BFCwXj8fzg
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) July 16, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1283887029323882498
don’t ignore this @kotaku
if u can care about abuse from others in this industry then it should b easy for u to correct ur own.
what u did was a very real exercise of power over vulnerable people. that doesn’t just go away for us.
you placed us in danger
that should matter to you https://t.co/wowvifugfO— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) July 19, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1284745366038933504
hey @kotaku
I have a ?hot tip? for you!how about taking your own abuse serious?
you placed very vulnerable people in danger and completely disrespected our agency, safety, and truth.
I think you should care about that.
ignoring this makes you look like an even bigger dick. https://t.co/BFCwXj8fzg
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) July 21, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1285419370638798850
hi today @kotaku,
still asking for accountability over how you placed sexual assault survivors in danger just to get the scoop on our rape.
I’m not the only one this was done to so you can’t call it a misunderstanding anymore.
I know you can address this.
please make this right. https://t.co/BFCwXj8fzg— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) July 24, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1286785739506634758
hi today @kotaku,
i still want accountability for this.
you need to apologize & make right on how you hurt, lied to, and endangered vulnerable people for their assault story.
what you did was abusive, and no different from the other abusers that you cover.
make this right to us. https://t.co/BFCwXj8fzg— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) July 28, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1288195047117078528
hey @kotaku…
your progressive journalism is hollow if u cannot hold yourself accountable for your own abuse.
you're not exempt from being responsible.
you placed vulnerable people in danger. it was a violent, irresponsible, & dangerous thing to do to people already traumatized. https://t.co/wowvifugfO— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) July 28, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1288198892744347649
hi @kotaku…
please take what you did to sexual assault survivors serious.
our trauma should not have been exploited the way it was, we should not have been placed in danger the way we were, and our wishes should have been respected.
make this right.
i would like accountability. https://t.co/BFCwXj8fzg— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) July 29, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1288561035918503936
please care.
social justice rhetoric, or any journalism here that sells itself as caring about The Issues, is hollow if it can’t also take responsibility for its own harm.
what was done to us was very real and done in a very self aware manner.make this right.
we are owed that. https://t.co/wowvifugfO— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) July 16, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1283893124012490752
don’t tell me that what I’m asking for is unrealistic when you’re advocating for the very same when it comes to Ubisoft.
if Kotaku is so invested in abuse in this industry then they should be equally as invested in correcting their own. https://t.co/BFCwXj8fzg
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) July 16, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1283885977715347456
if you can get invested in literally all the discourse happening in games ranging from “how small is too small to be indie”, “is self imposed crunch ok”…
then you can also care about how your favorite outlet lied to & endangered sexual assault victims for the sake of clickbait. https://t.co/BFCwXj8fzg— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) July 16, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1283883305364938755
? this is still being ignored
still asking for accountability and an actual apology
* what they did to me happened
* they did the same to others
they went unchallenged and not acknowledging that is hypocritical for an outlet that covers industry abuse
what about their own abuse? https://t.co/BFCwXj8fzg— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) July 16, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1283880767513231361
i've written 60 threads about this…
how much will it take?it's easy to write this off & not care,
but to the survivors that were abused for these articles, this was a very real exercise of power over vulnerable people…i'll bring this up for as long as i have to.
we matter. https://t.co/BFCwXj8fzg— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) July 17, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1284161594708987904
again: what’s equally as upsetting about all this is just to what extent some of us are expendable.
you can care about holding Ubisoft accountable… but this, when it’s so obvious & there are others hurt (not just me), is too much. even a worthy sacrifice somehow.
we matter too. https://t.co/BFCwXj8fzg— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) July 19, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1284743119313854465
this same thing was done to others before it was done to me and I’m fundamentally not ok with that.
our trauma isn’t spectacle.@kotaku, please take what you did to us (all of us) serious and make this right. https://t.co/wowvifugfO
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) July 19, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1284910234717192192
ok again and louder:
REMEMBER THAT WHILE YOU’RE TALKING ABOUT UBISOFT, THE OUTLET MOST LIKELY TO WRITE ABOUT THEIR ABUSE (KOTAKU) IS JUST AS RESPONSIBLE FOR CONTRIBUTING TO ABUSE HERE AND JUST AS CAPABLE OF AVOIDING RESPONSIBILITY FOR IT.
also ? your double standards. https://t.co/BFCwXiQEHI
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) July 21, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1285610176469508099
don’t ignore this
I’m not willing to let up.
being here, being a woman here, means watching too many friends get preyed on, watching them end up leaving, constantly under an umbrella of silence because saying something can end u… I’m sick of it. I want accountability for this. https://t.co/CVK3RkOl3b— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) July 21, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1285645729965510658
why can Kotaku do this to vulnerable people and not a single person gets held accountable?
what protects survivors from being endangered like this?
the journalist that did this to all of us works for Wired now, and no one tried to make this right, or even acknowledge the harm… https://t.co/XGApYOcy0D— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) July 21, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1285613234230353921
why the f*ck is any of this ok with people??
after this, seeing these articles, or any article about systemic issues from even former kotaku journalists, has this self-righteous tone to me.
it’s like you all only care so far as caring makes you look good.— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) July 21, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1285613235937443841
remember that while you’re talking about Ubisoft, the outlet most likely to write about their abuse is just as responsible for contributing to abuse here and just as capable of avoiding responsibility for it.
it’s amazing to me how some of us are just that expendable. https://t.co/wowvifcFog
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) July 21, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1285606570148147201
hey @kotaku
you placed some very vulnerable people in danger. what u did to us was cruel & horrible.
asside from my story, hearing what you put others through was unbelievable.
I’m not ok with this or how it’s being ignored.
please take what u did to us serious & make this right. https://t.co/BFCwXj8fzg— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) July 21, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1285417205933330433
hey again @kotaku ?
why is it ok to ignore the harm you caused here?
is the accepted takeaway really that we should have known better than to trust you??
you’re ok with covering abuse from others here but somehow manage to brush this off?
please care.
I know you can. https://t.co/BFCwXj8fzg— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) July 21, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1285415502358040576
yes ok I’m too tired today to come up with something to say about this that I haven’t already said,
hi today @kotaku, please make this right to those of us that you abused for our sexual assault story.
it was harmful.
you’re capable of caring.
care about your own harm.thank u. https://t.co/BFCwXj8fzg
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) July 23, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1286405760553906176
again for today:
please make this right to us @kotaku
you know, to those of us you did this to *before* it was cool to “stand by survivors” here.stop ignoring this. https://t.co/Am8cQ4oYnp
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) July 22, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1285974784921067520
still relevant today, so here’s another…@kotaku, I want accountability for this.
I want accountability for how this was done to me and other survivors that you abused before it was cool to “stand by us”indie community: maybe challenge them a little please, because… https://t.co/BFCwXj8fzg
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) July 25, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1287108170242863106
hi @kotaku
this is still relevant.
I want accountability for how you endangered, and exploited sexual assault survivors for our stories.
make this right to me and the others you hurt please.
you should apologize at least.
I know you’re capable of caring, so please care https://t.co/BFCwXj8fzg— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) July 27, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1287808909558730752
f*ck this. should i start numbering these????
haven't kept track of them all, but i've written almost a hundred. https://t.co/Xdbu0V9vFn
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) July 28, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1288199277894754304
today's tweet @kotaku @Kotaku_UK…
i want accountability for this.
i want accountability for how this was done to the others.
our trauma doesn't exist to put on public display. we are human. we matter.
this almost killed two people. this is not something you ignore.
please care. https://t.co/wowvifugfO— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) July 30, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1288890475210915842
i do not care about how you defend them.
i do not care about how "necessary" you think their solidarity, or platform is.
i do not care about people "explaining" journalism to me.
i do not care about friends telling me to shut up.
this endangered people.
i want accountability. https://t.co/BFCwXj8fzg— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) July 30, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1288891993456697345
hi today @kotaku, @Kotaku_UK,
please hold yourself accountable for this and make this right to those survivors that you abused for your journalism.
take ownership of the harm you caused and strive to make that right please.ignoring me does not make what you did go away, https://t.co/BFCwXj8fzg
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) August 1, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1289654407630450689
hi… this is my daily tweet about this asking @kotaku for accountability.
I’m way too burned out to say more than I’ve already said in the 80+ threads I wrote asking for accountability…
please take ownership of the harm you caused and strive to make that right to us, https://t.co/BFCwXj8fzg
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) August 2, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1290030283673108480
still asking for accountability:
please care, @kotaku, @Kotaku_UK
please make this right
what you did to us was wrong and you should strive to correct that for those you exploited.
please stop ignoring this. https://t.co/D3WM7RFTJQ— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) August 4, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1290683578750103553
ok in light of what I shared in this thread, as I feel it says it all, I’ll make this my daily request for accountability…
hi @kotaku,
please apologize and make right to the survivors that you abused for your articles. our trauma is not spectacle and you placed us in danger. https://t.co/9DIo30wTan— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) August 3, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1290425211104329728
hi for today… i'm still asking @kotaku for accountability for how they exploited, lied to, and endangered sexual assault survivors.
i placed all my threads in this blog post.
here is everything in one place –https://t.co/49L8wWfoAxplease don't ignore this. 1/3
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) August 5, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1291071981274636288
still asking for accountability from kotaku. what was done to us matters, and ignoring this says a lot about the way survivors are treated here.
we are not expendable.
we absolutely matter and we deserved better than to be exploited like this.
use your platform to make this right https://t.co/OMWkEwxcHr— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) August 6, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1291405002146107392
hi @kotaku
please make this right to the survivors that you abused & endangered for your articles.
if you believe in what you write… you’re not exempt from responsibility here. what keeps you from doing this again to someone else, when you can’t even acknowledge your harm done? https://t.co/OMWkEwxcHr— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) August 7, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1291771249127911425
still asking for accountability,@kotaku please make right on how I and other survivors were treated, lied to, our words & story twisted, and us placed in danger, just for your sensationalism. we matter. ignoring what was done doesn’t make it right.
I was telling the truth. 1/8 https://t.co/OMWkEwxcHr— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) August 8, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1292153710634651655
signal boosting again…
i shared my experiences.
the discussion is about journalism & is the kind of talk that needs to happen, especially as people are coming forward about abuse.
on the responsibility that journalists have to this space…
(the actual discussion starts at 36:10) https://t.co/KIwM6qaSmO— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) June 17, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1273303123734355968
I already went over all this and if you would read my second post this would be explained, so here it is again…
I trusted her. she lied to me.
the other woman was lied to too and tremendously disrespected.
I could not read the draft because 1/13
(read this thread)… https://t.co/1HqvCuTxjS— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) August 9, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1292493259382484992
here is a thread that you should read because I explain it all again as clearly and detailed as I can…
so with that I’d like to call for accountability again, @kotaku @Kotaku_UK,
please stop ignoring this.
you owe that to the people you hurt.
make this right. https://t.co/rpk0WcaRX5— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) August 9, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1292494469036511233
ok… the way this is being ignored says a lot about their “journalism” & how they view survivors. I feel like these stories are treated as an exploitable resource. when you’re done using us, you chuck us in the trash and avoid the bigger reality here.
we deserve accountability. https://t.co/hKaqf00aSM— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) August 9, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1292530860743254022
please hear this
I am still asking for accountability
again, I detailed the entire situation in this thread, again… how the same was done to others too, the consequences of placing vulnerable people in danger…
we deserved better. none of this is excusable. stop ignoring it. https://t.co/VIv80QvuS1— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) August 10, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1292851838908133378
please hear this…
I’m asking everyday for accountability over how I and other survivors were treated by them.
we matter. our agency, safety, and humanity matters.
what was done to us was cruel.
the way they are ignoring this says a lot. https://t.co/BFCwXj8fzg— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) August 11, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1293240703741390849
ignoring someone that was traumatized this much, letting them ask everyday for accountability, knowing that this is NOT a singular incident… says a lot about the outlet that did this.
if you have the power to fix this for those hurt, it’s your obligation to do that. https://t.co/E3LaWawsh8
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) August 12, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1293601627186909192
I’m still asking for accountability over this.
for how I and other very vulnerable people were placed in danger, lied to, our words twisted, and abused for the sake of journalism that sensationalized something very serious.
this nearly killed two people.
please make this right. https://t.co/BFCwXj8fzg— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) August 12, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1293597281673863168
I’m still asking for accountability.
f*ck your progressiveness if it puts people in danger.
exploiting & traumatizing vulnerable people is an embarrassing way of writing stories. it’s not worth the cost of cruelty. neither is dishonesty.@kotaku, @Kotaku_UK make this right please https://t.co/E3LaWaeQSy— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) August 13, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1293945637969387520
hi @kotaku @Kotaku_UK
I’m still asking for accountability for this and what you did to other survivors.
It was irresponsible & placed vulnerable people in danger in ways that are hard to capture in a tweet.
the way you all are ignoring this is beyond wrong.
(ANOTHER THREAD 1/7) https://t.co/BFCwXj8fzg— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) August 14, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1294303091261444096
I’m still asking for accountability & this is my daily tweet but for today,
solidarity to the people who Kotaku’s toxic and abusive work culture burned through. we lose so many irreplaceable voices to abuse. marginalized people are the only reason this industry is even tolerable. https://t.co/jOMssGdkTy— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) August 15, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1294716291442302976
this is my daily request for accountability,
for how I and other sexual assault assault survivors, and just survivors, where placed in danger and abused by them.
despite the new stuff that surfaced, I’ll still keep asking for this because the consequences were so serious 1/7 … https://t.co/jOMssGdkTy— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) August 16, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1295076872783425536
this is my daily tweet,
i am still asking for accountability for how kotaku lied to, endangered, and exploited survivors so that our trauma could be put on display for the sake of sensationalized articles.
they are not an ally.
you need us more than you need those that abuse us. https://t.co/BFCwXj8fzg— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) August 19, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1296161036651831297
hi @kotaku, I’m still asking for accountability for how you lied to & endangered survivors in really sadistic ways, pressuring us and going so far as to lie to us just so you can get That Detail about our assault for your sensationalism.
this almost killed people.
(thread 1/5) https://t.co/BFCwXiQEHI
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) August 20, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1296483927436267524
so I insist @kotaku and whoever is listening: we deserve some accountability.
we are owed that.as do the employees burned by your toxic, racist, sexist, and abusive work culture.
context for that: https://t.co/UaEnUjzXCfmake this right.
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) August 20, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1296483935166308352
“For a website so outwardly concerned with labor practices in gaming, I was shocked at how toxic and unhealthy a work environment Kotaku was.”
I wish power to this person and everything said. This is courage.
You need to read this. https://t.co/yag3CfMkHE— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) August 15, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1294677900331896833?s=20
this is my daily tweet asking Kotaku for accountability.
given the way this has been handled, along with what surfaced about their own culture, there is NO indication that this won't happen again, and that should be worrying because this is playing with people's lives.
(1/5) https://t.co/S8ITqoB1RC
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) August 21, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1296861038982250496
i don't have the energy to come up with new things to say that will hopefully inspire those that can do something to care,
so i'm sharing yesterdays…i'm still asking for accountability.
people were put in serious danger.
please stop excusing kotaku & hold them accountable. https://t.co/uF0sYfCCtz— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) August 22, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1297242858978598913
this is my daily tweet asking kotaku for accountability for how they abused, lied to, and placed very vulnerable people in danger.
i do not accept that they can do this horrible sh*t to people and then be lauded as "the good guys".
make this right please.(another thread 1/17) https://t.co/BFCwXj8fzg
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) August 23, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1297619614768062464
this is my daily tweet asking kotaku for accountability…
this nearly killed people.
vulnerable people that should never have been placed in such a position, lied to, and have their trauma exploited.we are not expendable.
please care.
make this right. https://t.co/BFCwXj8fzg— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) August 25, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1298311897289076737
“you have to stop dictating which of us are a sacrifice worth making, and which are worth caring about” https://t.co/AQQOqLcWxf
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) August 24, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1297937639044083713
I’m still asking kotaku for accountability for how they lied to, exploited, and endangered sexual assault survivors.
This nearly killed people and that should really matter.
We are not expendable.You don’t get to do this to people and then ignore all responsibility for it. https://t.co/S8ITqoB1RC
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) August 24, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1297937090366210048
This is my daily tweet asking kotaku for accountability and to care,
this nearly killed people
that should matterwe are not expendable
you do not own our stories or have a right to our trauma.
what was done to us is not spectacle or entertainment for your readership. https://t.co/BFCwXj8fzg— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) August 26, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1298719927155580931
again, to those that keep excusing & ignoring this:
this nearly killed people.
please care.
(i've now written over 113 tweets with no answer… that says a lot.) https://t.co/fMaOCxojyf
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) August 26, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1298720692867756034
I really want a break from this so I’m retweeting yesterday’s thread / rant about it.
I’m still asking for accountability over this and this is my daily tweet.
I really want to not do this everyday so might take a break for a few days but will see… https://t.co/E4SXCufnSe— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) August 28, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1299421674828423168
ok you know what here’s a rant again. READ IT ?
you know last time around I heard of another person hurt by her. I get that people get hurt. you can’t not hurt people, but this stuff was really malicious, self-aware, intentional, and just inexcusably cruel.
[thread 1/9] https://t.co/fSjscuZj61
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) August 27, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1299124549984727040
you know I keep wondering if it would make a difference if I assembled what she did to other survivors, all in one place, but at this point i shared enough, with proof, and others have too, so maybe I’m not the issue. people just don’t care. survivors just don’t have rights.
1/3 https://t.co/AJEGzk3obX— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) August 27, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1299117915380133888
the person i’m referring to: https://t.co/9NdyMsWzin
WIRED promoting her huh? we’re just not human to you I guess. like you can do whatever you like to us and just get rewarded for it.
At least I’m happy people are asking her for drafts an she’s stupidly wondering why.
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) August 27, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1299117919670951936
today I don’t have the energy to make a daily thread that goes over why this matters, that would hopefully get someone that can do something about this to care, so I’m retweeting this one…
I’m still asking kotaku for accountabilitythis nearly killed people. that should matter https://t.co/HZdx51YkWg
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) August 27, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1299022867774889987
this is my daily tweet asking kotaku for accountability
it’s not ok to lie to, and endanger, sexual assault survivors just so you can capitalize on our trauma
this nearly killed people
please care
avoiding responsibility for this is not ok(context in the retweeted thread) https://t.co/8EG8EV67EG
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) August 29, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1299814776059518976
I’m still asking kotaku for accountability for how they lied to & endangered sexual assault survivors just so they could exploit our trauma
you can’t do this to people & just move on, avoiding all responsibility for your role in perpetuating abuse here.
this nearly killed people https://t.co/BFCwXj8fzg— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) August 30, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1300141621984464896
I just learned that she won an award for her “journalism” which feels like salt in a wound. I’d like to know:
is it really ok to be so unethical, lie to, and almost kill sexual assault survivors? Do we matter so little? Does it matter that she very knowingly placed us in danger? https://t.co/JyPnr1K57E
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) August 30, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1300187968846528513
ONE MORE TIME, AND I AM VERY SERIOUS:
IF ONE OF US DIED,
BECAUSE OF WHAT SHE PUT US THROUGH, AND THE TRAUMA SHE FORCED US TO RE-LIVE, BECAUSE OF HER DISHONEST PRACTICES JUST SO HER IDEA OF A STORY COULD GET WRITTEN…
WOULD THAT STILL BE AWARDABLE? https://t.co/sksfXeNM9W
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) August 30, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1300189161559744512
I am still asking for accountability for this.
I am not the only one this was done to, by the same journalist.
This behavior and treatment to survivors (lying to us just to get us to open up, exploiting our trauma, and endangering us) almost killed people.
make this right. https://t.co/BFCwXj8fzg
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) August 31, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1300460160347811844
these are not rhetorical questions. I’d really like to know ?? https://t.co/ZQdeKrXcQX
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) August 31, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1300527223967899649
this is my daily tweet asking kotaku give a sh*t about how they endangered & lied to sexual assault survivors just so they could exploit our trauma.
this almost cost people their life.
treating us like something expendable for public display was wrong.
please care. make it right. https://t.co/BFCwXj8fzg— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) September 1, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1300851504564195329
sensationalizing rape is rape culture, not journalism.
I would like this to stop being ignored by those with the power to do something about it.
??? https://t.co/ehUBEdaRhw— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) September 1, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1300854834933846016
this is my daily tweet asking kotaku for accountability over how they lied to, exploited, and endangered survivors just so our trauma could be put on public display.
sensationalizing rape is not good journalism, it is rape culture.
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) September 2, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1301250551741440002
This is my daily tweet still asking kotaku to give a shit about how they lied to, endangered, and exploited sexual assault survivors to sensationalize our trauma.
excuses don’t fix anything and I’m not ok with this being ignored.
please make this right. 1/4 https://t.co/eiHyTuXPVx— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) September 8, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1303431621450719235
This is my daily tweet asking for accountability for this because it matters and reporting on assault shouldn’t involve lying to survivors, endangering them, and almost costing them their life.
please make this right. https://t.co/eiHyTuXPVx— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) September 7, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1303038006245249024
this is my daily tweet asking kotaku to give a sh*t about how they lied to, exploited, and endangered survivors just so our trauma could be sensationalized.
we matter. we are not expendable. you can't do this to people and then quietly move on from it as if nothing happened. https://t.co/BFCwXj8fzg
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) September 3, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1301600022245511168
This is my daily tweet still asking kotaku to give a shit about how they lied to, endangered, and exploited sexual assault survivors to sensationalize our trauma.
excuses don’t fix anything and I’m not ok with this being ignored.
please make this right. 1/4 https://t.co/eiHyTuXPVx— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) September 8, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1303431621450719235
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) September 8, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1303433465828904960
this is my daily tweet asking kotaku for accountability for how they lied to & endangered sexual assault survivors, so they could sensationalize out trauma for articles that couldn't even tell the truth about what happened.
this almost killed people.
please make this right. https://t.co/eiHyTuXPVx
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) September 9, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1303794182033534976
this is my daily tweet asking @kotaku for accountability over how they lied to, abused, and endangered sexual assault survivors so they could exploit our trauma for their idea of journalism.
if you stand against abuse in this industry, please stand against your own too. https://t.co/BFCwXj8fzg
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) September 11, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1304535054991855616
…fwiw, no.
none of these are “drafts” that I have in some tweet queue or whatever.
I power through the tiny anxiety attack everyday to write a fresh one everyday.so like seriously: ? your double standards here. https://t.co/yUaPi5sSdk
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) September 11, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1304565104214589440
this makes this the 132nd thread.
i've asked for accountability over 132 times and have been ignored over 132 times.
idk think about that next time you applaud them on their metoo coverage, or when they do another exposé on abusive practices here.
it's kinda hypocritical. https://t.co/nUzwlqPcs5 pic.twitter.com/2uvRvZiEmD— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) September 11, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1304537059277897728
this is my daily tweet asking kotaku for accountability…
i don't have the energy to come up with a brand new thread that could potentially get people that can do something about this to care, so here's yesterday's sum of effort:
(please care) https://t.co/yUaPi5sSdk
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) September 12, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1304898508693016577
this is my daily tweet asking @kotaku to give a sh*t about how they lied to & endangered sexual assault survivors so our trauma could be sensationalized.
this almost killed people. very vulnerable people that didn't deserve to be exploited like this.
we deserve accountability. https://t.co/BFCwXj8fzg
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) September 13, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1305219052936208385
I’m still asking for accountability for this.
this almost killed people.
please care. https://t.co/nUzwlqxB3v
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) September 14, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1305536965408817152
please care https://t.co/yUaPi5sSdk
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) September 13, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1305220942533025792
if you all have a lot to say about abuse here, except when it's about your own, that actually says a lot about the type of people you are.
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) September 11, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1304535059471282176
this is my daily tweet asking @kotaku for accountability for how they lied to, abused, & endangered sexual assault survivors just so our trauma could be exploited for their stories.
this almost killed people.
you seem to have a lot to say about abuse when it's not your own… 1/5 https://t.co/BFCwXj8fzg— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) September 15, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1305953712997711872
please care, thank you https://t.co/JQAM5P8i6l
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) September 15, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1305954201550204928
this is my daily tweet still asking for accountability.
this almost killed very vulnerable people that should never have been placed in this position. take some responsibility for how we were treated & how we were lied to just so our trauma could be sensationalized.
please care. https://t.co/JQAM5P8i6l— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) September 17, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1306703897512214528
this is my daily tweet imploring @kotaku to give a f*ck about how they lied to & endangered sexual assault survivors for the sake of sensationalizing our trauma.
this nearly killed people.
you should care.
put in some effort to apologize & make this right to those you harmed. 1/7 https://t.co/BFCwXiQEHI— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) September 18, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1307049556861947905
i'm still asking for accountability for this.
i don't have anything new to say today that might elicit f_cks to be given from the people that have the power to do something about this, so i'm sharing yesterday's thread.
it says it all.
please care. thank you. https://t.co/vXSE9DqxJT— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) September 19, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1307425360221335552
I’m still asking for accountability for this. everyday, & here’s today’s:
take responsibility for your own contributions to abuse. exploiting vulnerable people just so you can put our trauma on display in your articles is inexcusable & so is ignoring responsibility for that harm. https://t.co/vXSE9DqxJT— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) September 20, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1307802946541740032
I’m still asking for accountability for this. everyday, & here’s today’s:
take responsibility for your own contributions to abuse. exploiting vulnerable people just so you can put our trauma on display in your articles is inexcusable & so is ignoring responsibility for that harm. https://t.co/vXSE9DqxJT— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) September 20, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1307802946541740032
I am still asking for accountability for this, everyday, and here it is again,
please care. https://t.co/V7PHXkLhGU— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) September 22, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1308503750198272000
this is my daily tweest asking for accountability.
i don't have anything new to say today that would hopefully get kotaku to care, so i'm retweeting yesterday's.
this almost killed people.
please care. https://t.co/V7PHXktGPm— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) September 23, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1308895411076300803
this is my daily tweet asking @kotaku for accountability for how they lied to & endangered sexual assault survivors so they could exploit our trauma.
this almost killed people.
it's hypocritical to write about metoo or abuse here when you're incapable of addressing your own. 1/4 https://t.co/BFCwXj8fzg— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) September 24, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1309216236853579776
exploiting survivors is not good journalism. it's rape culture.
we don't exist as a resource to mine for our trauma just so your readership can be entertained with how grim things can be.https://t.co/msi7QaVk6k
you should really make amends for your own contributions to abuse.— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) September 24, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1309216238585823232
i am STILL asking for accountability for this. everyday.
here is my 150th thread…
hi @kotaku please care about the sexual assault victims you abused so you could put our trauma on display.
it accomplished nothing & the truth wasn't even told. endangering us wasn't worth it. 1/3 https://t.co/19YGN4Odwl pic.twitter.com/n0bUfEK3ep— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) September 25, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1309569635335897088
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) September 25, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1309569964907458561
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) September 25, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1309569964907458561
I’m still asking for accountability for this and this is my daily tweet.
Please care. https://t.co/j8Y64lCvxv— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) September 26, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1310000672243286016
i am still asking for accountability for this.
this endangered vulnerable people that should never have been placed in such a position. that should matter.
our lives are not worth the cost of a story.
please own up to the harm that you have caused, @kotaku, and make this right. https://t.co/19YGN4Odwl— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) September 28, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1310697422532669440
update to answer questions…
yes, kotaku is aware of what i've been asking.
people have reached out to me to try to get something done.
nothing has been done.
last time, i filled someone in and also told them about what was done to the people in the other story…
1/9 pic.twitter.com/90JJXkw9L6— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) September 25, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1309589610926759936
hey…
i'm still asking for accountability for how @kotaku lied to & endangered sexual assault survivors so they could exploit our trauma.
this placed very vulnerable people in danger. that's not a price worth paying for the sake of an article.
ignoring me doesn't make it right- https://t.co/BFCwXj8fzg— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) September 29, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1311053923847872512
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) September 29, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1311054176491728896
i am STILL asking for accountability for this. Everyday. Here's today's…
this almost killed people. that should matter.
i was not the only one this was done to, and that's even worst.
ignoring this doesn't make it ok.
please care. https://t.co/rYbcRUQajL— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) September 30, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1311408329206370304
there's no excuse for not addressing this.
i ask everyday. there are hundreds of threads now.
silence isn't an answer that i accept, and the way the people responsible have avoided all responsibility for this is not ok. https://t.co/Y7ClteuLOj— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) September 30, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1311408788151267328
this is my daily tweet asking @kotaku @KotakuSocial for accountability for how they lied to and abused survivors.
you can't do this to people and just avoid all responsibility for it.
this almost killed people.
we matter and what was done was wrong.please care. make this right. https://t.co/BFCwXj8fzg
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) October 1, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1311789339936866304
it's important to acknowledge just how skewed the power dynamic here is.
they can afford to ignore this forever & let this get so stale that it's pointless to keep asking.
i'm not ok with that.
you don't use your platform, power, advantage… to exploit powerless people here- 1/2 https://t.co/j8Y64lCvxv— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) October 1, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1311792364046807040
This is my daily tweet asking Kotaku for accountability for how they lied to and endangered survivors.
This was done to more people than just me.
This almost killed people.
This gets ignored everyday and that’s not ok.
Please care. Make this right. https://t.co/BFCwXj8fzg— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) October 3, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1312422009511399424
this is my daily tweet asking the bozos for accountability for how they lied to & endangered sexual assault survivors just so they could get a juicy soundbite for their stupid articles.
your progressive journalism is hypocritical for how you avoid responsibility for your own harm https://t.co/GJ2GQWcWXv— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) October 4, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1312863140867006464
i'm still asking for accountability from those responsible for this. lying to sexual assault victims to get them to open up about what happened, just so you can publish an article about it, is wrong.
this was done to others too, we deserve to have this addressed.
please care. https://t.co/GJ2GQWcWXv— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) October 6, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1313593432426774528
this is my 164th daily tweet asking kotaku and those responsible for accountability, for lying to & endangering survivors just so they could get that extra soundbite for their articles.
i think your journalism should be judged by what it does to the vulnerable people it exploits https://t.co/BFCwXj8fzg— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) October 8, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1314290184633032704
this is my daily tweet asking kotaku & those responsible for accountability.
lying to, pressuring, and exploiting sexual assault survivors is beyond fucked up.
this is not "a complicated issue", this is not "a grey area", this is wrong.
it placed very vulnerable people in danger. https://t.co/BFCwXj8fzg— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) October 9, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1314686223886082048
I’m still asking for accountability for this.
I don’t have the energy to write a new thread today, so here’s yesterday’s.
please care. https://t.co/34KtqP4EwT— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) October 11, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1315162865863516160
this is my daily tweet asking kotaku, and those responsible, for accountability.
using your power, position, and platform, to abuse vulnerable people just so you can sensationalize our trauma is beyond unethical. it placed people in danger.
please care… 1/4 https://t.co/BFCwXj8fzg— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) October 11, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1315424645701488641
I’m still asking for accountability for this, and this is my daily tweet.
Ignoring these and avoiding responsibility is not ok.
please care. https://t.co/xClJsV5H4y— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) October 13, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1315855817132834817
this is my 169th daily tweet asking kotaku and those responsible for accountability.
it's not ok to lie to, deceive, exploit, and endanger vulnerable people just so you can put our trauma on display for your twisted idea of journalism.
please give a shit and make this right. 1/5 https://t.co/BFCwXj8fzg— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) October 13, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1316086927028744193
this is my daily tweet still asking for accountability for this, from kotaku & the people responsible.
you all are able to get high and mighty about crunch, labor practices, abuse from AAA studios here… how about giving a shit about your own abuse?
this placed people in danger. https://t.co/PgbvNj0pAW— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) October 14, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1316421004617420800
just adding a thought to this…
it's unconscionable that this gets done, that there are so many others that have had similar experiences as mine, and the outlet can just keep churning out articles about The Issues here when they're no better than the abuse they write about. 1/2 https://t.co/g7znZfx61S— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) October 14, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1316448715989831685
I’m still asking for accountability for this from kotaku & those responsible, everyday, and this is my daily tweet…
exploiting survivors is wrong and so is ignoring responsibility for this.
this placed vulnerable people in danger.
please care about that. https://t.co/PgbvNj0pAW— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) October 16, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1316896712829464576
this is my 173rd daily tweet asking @kotaku and those responsible for doing this for accountability and just to actually give a shit about the survivors they lied to, re-traumatized, and publicly exploited for their articles.
this placed people in danger.
PLEASE CARE. 1/5 https://t.co/BFCwXj8fzg— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) October 16, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1317172726348484608
I am still asking for accountability over this and this is my daily tweet at kotaku and those responsible:
take responsibility for the harm you have caused and work to make it right please.
stop ignoring this. https://t.co/8OxpggrL2B— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) October 17, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1317565246177865729
I’m still asking for accountability from kotaku & the people responsible… everyday, here it is again.
they lied to us, hounded us, and placed us in danger, just so they could exploit our trauma… and that’s considered “good journalism”?this almost killed people. please care. https://t.co/8OxpggrL2B
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) October 18, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1317870960419115008
hey I know you all are too busy being important & caught up in your self righteous journalism shit, but seriously this almost killed people. we are owed some fucking accountability instead of this being blown off as “that’s just journalism” like we’re too dumb to understand- 1/3 https://t.co/8OxpggrL2B
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) October 18, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1317875061072687105
this is my daily tweet asking kotaku & those responsible to care.
this placed people in danger.
brushing this off & hiding behind "that's just how journalism is" is not ok. it's hypocritical. your accountability journalism is worthless if it abuses survivors further.
please care. https://t.co/8OxpggrL2B— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) October 19, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1318291200349151233
this is my 180th daily tweet asking kotaku & those responsible to care about the harm they have extended to sexual assault survivors.
step up for once & make this right.
this almost killed people. we deserve accountability for that. at the very least an acknowledgement & apology. https://t.co/BFCwXj8fzg— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) October 20, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1318594538357751808
this is my daily tweet asking kotaku, and those responsible for doing this, for accountability.
it's not ok to lie to, pressure, hound, and place survivors in serious danger. no means no. our boundaries and safety where not respected for the sake of clickbait.
please care. https://t.co/7nmtrqDlaF— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) October 21, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1319032174553698304
i'm still asking @kotaku, and those responsible for doing this, for accountability. this is my daily tweet…
we deserved better than to be lied to & endangered for the sake of sensationalism.
this almost killed people.
please stop ignoring this and care. https://t.co/7nmtrqDlaF— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) October 22, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1319297942994382848
…i tweet for today, while wondering how much of this is a joke to them now. something to laugh off? it sure got brushed off.
the fact that you can so readily do this to people, without consequence, really shows how journalism is more pro-abuser than it's capable of admitting. https://t.co/hd06f97mg7— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) October 22, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1319299945489264640
this is my daily tweet asking @kotaku & those responsible for doing this to us for accountability.
you can't endanger vulnerable people like this & then hide behind "that's just how journalism is" like we're too dumb to understand what happened to us.
please care. make this right https://t.co/BFCwXj8fzg— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) October 23, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1319693163309584384
thread #183… because you only "believe us" when it's convenient & once you're done using us you get to kick us to the curb, fuck all consequence that your "journalism" has.
journalism can be abusive too, every bit of this (from what they did, to how it's ignored) is an example. https://t.co/FXztFR3vWT— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) October 23, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1319695419736141824
I am still asking for accountability from kotaku and those responsible for doing this.
this placed people in serious danger.
please care. https://t.co/innt2NedRc— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) October 25, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1320183995766722560
I am still asking for accountability from kotaku and those responsible for doing this.
this placed people in serious danger.
please care. https://t.co/innt2NedRc— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) October 25, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1320183995766722560
i'm still asking @kotaku, and those responsible for doing this to us, for accountability.
this was done to more survivors than just me so you can't say it was a mistake or misunderstanding.
this placed some very vulnerable people in serious danger.
please care. https://t.co/innt2NedRc— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) October 27, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1320938039946850304
this is my 187th daily tweet asking @kotaku for accountability.
preying off vulnerable people, and lying so you can get details is not ok. this placed us in very serious danger.you seem to care about abuse here when you cover it, please care about your own and make this right. https://t.co/innt2NedRc
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) October 27, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1321121571042279425
because it keeps needing to be said…
we deserved better than to be exploited like this.
stop ignoring this and actually care about the harm you have caused please. https://t.co/WceUY0XVOB— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) October 27, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1321121919916150785
i am still asking @kotaku, and those responsible for doing this to us, for accountability.
this was done to more people than just me, you cannot call this a "misunderstanding" or "mistake". what was done was irresponsible and cruel, ignoring this is the same.
please care. https://t.co/innt2NedRc— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) October 29, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1321655516989325312
I'm running out ways to say this that might inspire people that can do something about this to actually care, but…
I'm still asking for accountability for the harm caused to sexual assault survivors by Kotaku's reporting.
This hurt people very seriously.
Please care. https://t.co/innt2NedRc— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) October 30, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1322008693513220097
i am still asking @kotaku, and those responsible for doing this, for accountability.
if you can manage to care about abuse from others here, please care about your own and make this right to the vulnerable people you harmed.
this nearly killed people. it's not ok to ignore this. https://t.co/BFCwXj8fzg— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) October 30, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1322286994446196736
please care… at least as much as I heard excuses for this, because you know we’re not getting back what we lost to abuse like this. https://t.co/aHVX2qiHdE
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) October 31, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1322385620350640128
for every awful "they did the same to me" that ended up in my dm's… i sincerely hope that this catches up with those responsible someday.
you can't do this to people and just move on like you're "the good guys" again. fuck your double standards. https://t.co/9zjyrkfArM— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) October 30, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1322288232680230914
this is my 192nd daily tweet asking @kotaku, and those responsible for lying to & endangering sexual assault survivors, for accountability.
your journalism perpetuated abuse & placed very vulnerable people in danger in ways that are hard to quantify in a tweet. (1/7) https://t.co/BFCwXj8fzg— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) October 31, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1322666131778269185
i am still asking @kotaku, and those responsible for this, to give a shit about the harm they caused sexual assault survivor & make this right.
it shouldn’t take almost 200 threads for that. our trauma is not a resource for you to exploit. care about those you harmed please. https://t.co/VHS3ZjizCn— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) November 3, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1323433460233433089
this is my daily tweet asking @kotaku, and those responsible for doing this, for accountability.
this placed very vulnerable people in danger.
what this abuse cost us was not worth the price for your idea of journalism.
stop ignoring this. please care. https://t.co/VHS3ZjizCn— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) November 3, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1323655574668496896
saying this one last time for today…
this was done to more people than just me. that should matter.
this almost killed people. that should matter much more than something to brush off, excuse, or ignore.stop supporting the abusers and abusive outlet responsible for this harm. https://t.co/VHS3ZjizCn
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) November 3, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1323664654267084801
i am still asking @kotaku, and those responsible, for accountability over how they lied to, endangered, and exploited sexual assault survivors.
this endangered very vulnerable people who deserved better than to be reduced to dishonest sensationalism.
please care. make this right. https://t.co/VHS3ZjizCn— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) November 4, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1324018798232399873
this is my 198th daily tweet asking @kotaku, and those responsible for doing this to us, for accountability.
you lied to us just so you could exploit our trauma and put it on display. this was done to more people than just me. that's not excusable.
give a shit & make this right. https://t.co/VHS3ZjizCn— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) November 5, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1324460533110640640
please care. this matters. we matter.
we are not expendable or an ends to a means for your shoddy idea of journalism. make this right. i ask everyday. https://t.co/yQnAbCVmT0— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) November 5, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1324460957075075074
please care. this matters. we matter.
we are not expendable or an ends to a means for your shoddy idea of journalism. make this right. i ask everyday. https://t.co/yQnAbCVmT0— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) November 5, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1324460957075075074
your daily reminder that the people that did this, & @kotaku, should be held accountable instead of rewarded.
when someone says “this almost killed people”, it should really matter more than cheap excuses & takes about how that was somehow necessary.
exploiting survivors is wrong https://t.co/bkI5Bt1HYX— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) November 6, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1324801867952529408
?we matter. please care. https://t.co/dDmyTPLneZ
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) November 6, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1324802167392202753
this is my 204th tweet asking @kotaku to give a damn about the sexual assault victims they lied to, exploited, and endangered for the sake of journalism that sensationalized trauma.
you write about abuse here but don't take responsibility for this. that's hypocritical of you- 1/7 https://t.co/BFCwXj8fzg— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) November 7, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1325131464233558021
i tweeted about this a bunch yesterday, wrote this newest thread, and would like a break today but…
this is my daily tweet STILL asking kotaku for accountability. we deserve that much. what was done to us was wrong, and should not be swept under the rug. https://t.co/JoLM7vaDBW
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) November 8, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1325479690518212609
i am still asking @kotaku for accountability for this.
you can't say you "believe us" just when it's convenient for you, just when you can use us, and when you're done getting what you want from us you throw us away.
what you did endangered very vulnerable people.
give a shit. https://t.co/JoLM7vaDBW— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) November 9, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1325852859456385024
i'm still asking @kotaku for accountability over how they lied to, endangered, and abused sexual assault survivors for their exploitative articles.
i don't have much more to say that i haven't already said everyday…
this almost killed people.
that should mater.
please care. https://t.co/JoLM7vaDBW— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) November 12, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1326699188503994370
getting this over with for today even if these people genuinely don't care about the harm & the devastation they caused on vulnerable people's lives…
i'm still asking @kotaku for accountability for lying to, endangering, and exploiting sexual assault survivors.
please care. 1/5 https://t.co/JoLM7vaDBW— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) November 12, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1326991477285687296
i am still asking @kotaku for accountability for how they lied to & abused sexual assault survivors, so they could exploit our trauma.
this placed people in serious danger.
ignoring this everyday is insult to injury.
we deserved better.
you're capable of better.
do better. https://t.co/JoLM7vaDBW— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) November 14, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1327416752125272064
i'm still asking @kotaku for accountability for abusing us.
our trauma is not there for you to exploit.
you can't say you "believe us" only when it's convenient for you, and then throw us away when you're done.
this endangered the people that you told you believe.
please care 1/2 https://t.co/JoLM7vaDBW— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) November 14, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1327747700842905600
this is my 211th tweet btw… everyday, this is how much i've now asked them to care about the harm they caused.
it's not fair to us to say that @kotaku cares, when this is so blatant.journalism that further victimizes vulnerable people is part of the problem. https://t.co/8C0ieOfF4M pic.twitter.com/mYx0pLLqco
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) November 14, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1327749932527218688
this is my daily tweet still asking @kotaku for accountability…
what they did to me they did to others, and that should matter.
this almost killed people. that should matter.
all of this should matter. it's not ok to ignore this.
please care & make this right. https://t.co/JoLM7vaDBW— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) November 16, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1328131447903772673
this is my daily tweet asking @kotaku for accountability for lying to, endangering & exploiting survivors.
this placed people in serious danger. this is not something you brush off or ignore. you have an obligation to do better & not abuse your platform to harm vulnerable people. https://t.co/JoLM7vaDBW— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) November 17, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1328510720263131138
this is my daily tweet still asking @kotaku for accountability over how they lied to, exploited, and seriously endangered sexual assault survivors.
we didn't deserve this treatment for the risk we took just talking to you, and you owe us better.
please make this right. https://t.co/JoLM7vaDBW— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) November 18, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1328914138098110465
this is my daily tweet STILL asking @kotaku for accountability. please give a shit about the sexual assault victims you lied to, endangered, and generously exploited for sensationalism.
we matter & ignoring this is not ok.
ignoring this does not make it go away.
make this right. https://t.co/JoLM7vaDBW— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) November 19, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1329292899461152768
this is my 215th daily tweet asking @kotaku to care about how they lied to, exploited, and endangered survivors.
this was done to more people than just me and that's not excusable.
we deserved better than to be taken advantage of like this.
so here it is again… (thread 1/11) https://t.co/BFCwXj8fzg— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) November 20, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1329932515411259393
i am still asking @kotaku, and those responsible for this, for accountability… this is my daily tweet…
ignoring this doesn’t make it go away. you owe it to those you’ve harmed to do better. please care. https://t.co/ZtszloQchW— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) November 23, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1330693022363787265
hi @kotaku i am still asking for accountability for this, everyday, here is today’s tweet…
it is irresponsible and disrespectful to the survivors you abused to ignore this for so long.
this almost killed people.
that should matter to you all.
we matter. make this right. https://t.co/ZtszloQchW— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) November 24, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1331038785023348739
i hope this catches up to you all someday because i’m truly sick and tired of powerful people with powerful platforms abusing us and just moving on from it all like it was nothing. https://t.co/B2MdmVAV53
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) November 24, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1331039434393874432
hi @kotaku this is my daily tweet asking you to give a shit about the sexual assault survivors that you abused for your sensationalism.
this almost killed people. i am not letting it go. you don’t get to do this to people & ignore responsibility for it.
we are owed accountability https://t.co/JoLM7vaDBW— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) November 25, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1331408307559415808
re: that dumbass "let it go" meme, but while i'm blocking and have thoughts about it… here's why i ask @kotaku for accountability everyday even if i know they don't give a shit about who they harmed, and that getting them to address this is *never* going to happen (1/5)
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) November 25, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1331413771244355586
i am still asking @kotaku, and those responsible for doing this, for accountability.
please fix your shit and make this right to those you have harmed.
you seem to care about abuse from others here when you write about it, care about your own for a change. https://t.co/ZtszloQchW— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) November 26, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1331812579157495808
hi @kotaku, i am still asking for accountability for the sexual assault survivors that you lied to and endangered for the sake of sensationalism.
you cover abuse here, please care about your own and make this right to us.
this almost killed people. that should matter to you all. https://t.co/ZtszloQchW— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) November 27, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1332138962303950848
i am still asking @kotaku, and those responsible for doing this, for accountability.
please fix your shit and make this right to those you have harmed.
you seem to care about abuse from others here when you write about it, care about your own for a change. https://t.co/ZtszloQchW— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) November 26, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1331812579157495808
hi @kotaku this is my daily tweet asking you to give a shit about the sexual assault survivors that you abused for your sensationalism.
this almost killed people. i am not letting it go. you don’t get to do this to people & ignore responsibility for it.
we are owed accountability https://t.co/JoLM7vaDBW— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) November 25, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1331408307559415808
this is my daily tweet asking @kotaku to please give a shit about the sexual assault survivors they lied to, exploited, and placed in danger, for the sake of sensationalism.
this almost killed people.
this was done to more than just me.
ignoring this is not ok. you owe us better. https://t.co/ZtszloQchW— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) November 28, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1332497357510828032
this is my daily tweet asking @kotaku to please give a shit about how they lied to & endangered us for the sake of their sensationalism.
you lied to get what you wanted out of us. you exploited something incredibly traumatic. this almost killed people. it’s not ok to ignore this. https://t.co/ZtszloQchW— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) November 28, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1332834547503747073
i’m still asking @kotaku for accountability for this.
this was done to more people than just me. we were lied to, and placed in danger, just so they could exploit our trauma.
we deserved better than to be drug out like this with no care for our truth or safety.
make this right. https://t.co/ZtszloQchW— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) November 30, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1333224198722916352
there are hundreds of these tweets. i put one out everyday. it’s seriously not ok to ignore this level of harm. you can’t say you “believe us” only when it’s convenient for you, and then avoid all responsibility for your part in abuse here.
give a shit please. https://t.co/8L8jUujNCd— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) November 30, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1333225059268386816
i am still asking @kotaku, and those responsible for doing this to us, for accountability.
this same thing was done to others too, not just me. that’s not ok.
for an outlet known for covering abuse here, you sure are unable to acknowledge or even handle your own. please care. https://t.co/ZtszloQchW— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) December 1, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1333606137686495234
this is my daily tweet asking @kotaku for accountability for how they lied to, exploited, and nearly killed very vulnerable people just to get “the scoop” on how we were raped.
they cover abuse here while avoiding responsibility for their own & that’s not ok.
give a shit please. https://t.co/ZtszloQchW— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) December 1, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1333806527442894848
kotaku is a danger to vulnerable people. the way they ignore the harm they’ve caused demonstrates how they really view survivors here.
i wish people would care.
this is wrong.
it was done to more people than just me, but somehow that’s ok? what are we to you? https://t.co/zClLomzNKu— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) December 1, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1333808915125915650
she was awarded (again) for what she did to us.
so here is a reminder that Cecilia D’Anastasio lied to vulnerable sources to get details & published that, even when we said no.
it endangered us.
she nearly killed people.
she did this to more than just me.please read & share 1/9 https://t.co/JyPnr1K57E
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) December 1, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1333833859922726912
i am still asking for accountability for how Cecilia and @kotaku lied to sexual assault survivors, abused, and endangered us.
there is enough proof of her behavior. we deserve justice for what she did to us. stop awarding her for her abuse and exploitation of vulnerable people. https://t.co/GQeksjhZ45— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) December 2, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1334284760433139712
i am still asking for accountability for this, and this is my daily tweet.
you all are predators covering abuse here, in the odd event that you can manage to pretend to care about abuse.
your fake solidarity made too many victims. give a shit and do the right thing for once. 1/3 https://t.co/GQeksjhZ45— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) December 3, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1334542510006235143
i am still asking for accountability for this. this is my daily tweet.
she preyed on survivors and lied to us to get our assault story. she didn’t respect our boundaries or care for our safety. this almost killed people. stop rewarding her for what she did to us.
please care. https://t.co/GQeksjhZ45— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) December 4, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1334908037291671553
this almost killed people. stop awarding the journalism that did this to us… that preyed on us, drug us out, violated us, and created a very permanent public scar.
please care.
we matter. our agency, humanity, and truth matters. https://t.co/0eZqwKRs7w— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) December 4, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1334912987384041473
…you like to say that survivors come forward just to capitalize on our abuse, like it’s a publicity stunt or something… maybe let it sink in that we get punished for it, but the people that prey on us (even after coming forward) get rewarded for their abuse.
that’s not ok. https://t.co/GQeksjhZ45— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) December 4, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1334914269452722177
…we deserve some accountability for what was done to us.
i’ll say that everyday until it happens, because you’re so generous in rewarding her for preying on us.thank you… do this again tomorrow. https://t.co/0eZqwKRs7w
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) December 4, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1334915363671175168
this is my daily tweet asking @kotaku for accountability for this.
you placed very vulnerable people in danger to exploit sexual assault. you couldn't even respect our truth, safety, agency, or what this would do to us.
please care about your own contributions to abuse here. https://t.co/GQeksjhZ45— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) December 5, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1335348842603036672
this is my daily tweet asking for accountability.
because my story wasn’t enough, i detailed what she did to other survivors in this post.
stop rewarding her. her journalism almost killed very vulnerable people. it is rooted in dishonesty and exploitation.
please read and share. https://t.co/GQeksjhZ45— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) December 6, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1335716138915823618
i am still asking @kotaku, and those responsible for doing this, for accountability. this is my daily tweet.
you seem to care about other abuse here, like crunch, please care about your own.
this almost killed people. ignoring this is not ok. https://t.co/GQeksjhZ45— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) December 7, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1335979346087985152
i am still asking for accountability for how @kotaku abused us. they benefited from this & defended it.
this nearly killed people.
this is serious.
they act like they care about abuse here, but ignore responsibility for their own. they could fix this for those hurt.
please care. https://t.co/GQeksjhZ45— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) December 8, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1336347113064521735
retweeting this one more time because i will not be collateral damage here, to an outlet with a really dark history in doing this to vulnerable people and then brushing it off.
you don’t get to keep doing this to people and then move on from it like it was nothing. 1/3 https://t.co/E9z1blXfQ8— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) December 8, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1336351147137720321
this is my 245th daily tweet asking @kotaku, and those responsible, for accountability for this.
this is serious.
please stop ignoring this.
please care. https://t.co/GQeksjhZ45 pic.twitter.com/a8AtIr9kha— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) December 9, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1336748821951365121
i am still asking @kotaku for accountability for this.
this was done to more people than just me.
this was irresponsible & placed us in danger.
what i wrote demonstrates the harm caused.
ignoring this, the repercussions it has had on us, is just as irresponsible… 1/4 https://t.co/GQeksjhZ45 pic.twitter.com/GfXfYNkB0G— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) December 10, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1337152619530227712
i am still asking for accountability for this, and this is my daily tweet reminding you that we matter. ignoring this isn’t ok. rewarding people for the harm they’ve caused when they used their platform to prey on vulnerable people is also not ok.
we deserve better. please care. https://t.co/2XYPQXZ9G4— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) December 11, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1337460239092740097
i am still asking @kotaku to give a shit and make this right. this is my daily tweet.
it’s beyond hypocritical to watch the same people preform “caring” about abuse when they’re no different than the abusers they cover.
if you truly care you will fix this for those you’ve hurt. https://t.co/2XYPQXZ9G4— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) December 12, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1337904210944303104
i am still asking @kotaku for accountability for this.
if you can manage to care about other abuse here, like crunch or worker exploitation, then you can care about the survivors you yourself exploited.
you have the power to make this right to those you’ve harmed. please care. https://t.co/2XYPQXZ9G4— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) December 13, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1338210295156600832
i’m still asking @kotaku for accountability.
i’ll be as annoying as i have to be. this nearly killed people.
between them defending that flavor of journalism that abused us, and putting out articles about worker exploitation…they exploit vulnerable people here too. it’s not ok. https://t.co/GQeksjhZ45 pic.twitter.com/pcRKYScybI— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) December 13, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1338212754365149184
try to give a shit. you all exploited very vulnerable people too for the sake of your own means. you don’t get to put out articles about worker exploitation while ignoring your own abuse. you nearly killed people and defended that. https://t.co/1YN0F4mE0u
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) December 13, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1338213342368780288
i am still asking @kotaku for accountability for this. this was done to more people than just me. i detailed that. this is serious.
they put out articles criticizing worker exploitation while themselves exploiting vulnerable people. they should care about their own abuse too. 1/2 https://t.co/2XYPQXZ9G4— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) December 14, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1338599693299793920
my daily reminder that we matter and ignoring this is just as bad as having done it.
you don’t get to do this to vulnerable people and then ignore responsibility for it while criticizing other abuse here. care please. https://t.co/r0bLLX1zWD— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) December 14, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1338600285317414912
please care https://t.co/UUYt4jX87v
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) December 15, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1338893991564070913
this is my daily tweet asking @kotaku to please care about the sexual assault survivors that they abused and make this right. we deserve accountability.
game journalism that exploits the horrible stuff happening here for clout is useless and part of the problem. https://t.co/2XYPQXZ9G4— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) December 16, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1339082066227425280
i am still asking @kotaku for accountability.
lying to sexual assault survivors just so you could get them to open up about their trauma, and then forcing them into the public, nearly killed people.
ignoring this is not ok.
please care and make this right to those you all harmed. https://t.co/2XYPQXZ9G4— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) December 17, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1339369858044071936
this is my daily tweet asking @kotaku, and those responsible, for accountability.
this almost killed people. that's not ok.
you lied to sexual assault survivors, and placed us in danger, just so you could get "the scoop" on our assault.
ignoring responsibility for this is not ok. https://t.co/2XYPQXZ9G4— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) December 18, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1339734501656649729
this is my 258th daily tweet asking them to care, by the way.
i've asked 258 times, everyday. this is how much they "care", and this is how much "i believe you" means when it comes from them.@kotaku used us. they don't care about us.
we deserve accountability.
we matter. https://t.co/X19tw7YKeQ— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) December 18, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1339736408542519296
this is my 259th tweet asking @kotaku for accountability.
this almost killed people.
we (more than me) were lied to in order to get us to talk, mislead about the intentions of publishing information, and details of our assault put on public display.game journalism, please care. https://t.co/2XYPQXZ9G4
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) December 18, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1340048985243832320
i am still asking @kotaku for accountability for this. this is my daily tweet reminding you that we matter, this almost killed people, and ignoring responsibility for this is not ok.
it placed us in danger. you have the power to make this right for those harmed.
please care. https://t.co/2XYPQXZ9G4— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) December 20, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1340476199336734720
i am still asking @kotaku, and literally any game journalist here actually capable of caring about the harm their craft readily perpetuates, for accountability for this.
this nearly killed people but you all are too self involved to grasp why, and that’s really fucked up of you. https://t.co/2XYPQXZ9G4— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) December 20, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1340707436982767617
game journalism: i think u all deserve the shit you get sometimes. your solidarity is hollow & self serving at best. you only ever care about The Issues when they are popular enough to write about bc exploiting the bad things happening here, & those they happen to, gives u clout- https://t.co/GQeksjhZ45
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) December 20, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1340712920305451009
re: “she offered to let me read it before publishing”
if you are still hung up on this you are missing the point of my three posts detailing how we were treated.
this is bigger than me not reading something you might not even have amended to begin with- 1/3 https://t.co/5FyRIA2NLe— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) December 20, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1340769032346107905
i am still asking @kotaku for accountability for how they exploited sexual assault survivors. avoiding responsibility for this isn’t ok.
this placed very vulnerable people in serious danger.
stop ignoring this and care about the people you harmed. https://t.co/2XYPQXZ9G4— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) December 22, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1341197253541724161
this is my daily tweet asking @kotaku, and those responsible, for accountability.
it’s hypocritical to put out articles about abuse here while ignoring your own.
what you did almost killed the vulnerable people you said you believe.
stop ignoring this and care please. we matter. https://t.co/2XYPQXZ9G4— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) December 23, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1341579878030667783
this is still relevant. please care. https://t.co/2XYPQXZ9G4
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) December 23, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1341778999119265792
this is my daily tweet asking for accountability over how sexual assault survivors were exploited & placed in danger by @kotaku.
we are human too. this was a violent thing to do. them arguing about it later, justifying this, was just as wrong.
we are not expendable. please care. https://t.co/2XYPQXZ9G4— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) December 23, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1341780095548080129
i hate how the people hurt the most are always the ones that have to speak out, alone.
like the obvious harm is worth letting the abuser do and get away with, as long as the abuser benefits you.
abusive people, entities, companies… all get away with the worst because of this. https://t.co/siov8e1kSe— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) December 23, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1341785773163483136
i am still asking @kotaku and those responsible for accountability for this.
this almost killed people.
i have seen people get more upset about a game rating, or bad headline, than this.
the fact that this was so easily done, and almost cost a life, matters. please care. https://t.co/2XYPQXZ9G4— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) December 24, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1342191306068566016
i can’t understand how saying “this almost killed people” when talking about very malicious and obvious abuse from journalism here causes such indifference, but a bad headline equating a game’s reception to Hitler gets more outrage.
why is caring about this “too far”? 1/2 https://t.co/2XYPQXZ9G4— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) December 24, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1342193997507227648
i am still asking @kotaku for accountability.
i don’t feel like doing this today so i’ll keep it simple…
what was done to us is serious.
ignoring this is NOT ok.
it almost cost vulnerable people their life.
you need to fix what enabled that & make it right to those you harmed. https://t.co/2XYPQXZ9G4— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) December 26, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1342627051635843073
this is my daily tweet asking @kotaku for accountability.
your journalism placed vulnerable people in danger, distorted our truth for the sake of clickbait, and we were lied to.
we deserved better than having our boundaries and safety violated this way.
please care. https://t.co/2XYPQXZ9G4— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) December 26, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1342974177817493504
this is my 273rd daily tweet asking @kotaku to give a shit about the sexual assault survivors that they abused.
this almost killed people. don't get used to hearing that. this is serious.
the repercussions it had on us were serious.you don't get to ignore something like this. https://t.co/2XYPQXZ9G4
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) December 27, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1343295730031579136
this is my 274th daily tweet STILL asking @kotaku to care about this because, after all the posturing, solidarity, and all the "i believe you's", nothing was done.
fix your own involvement in perpetuating abuse here.
we were taken advantage of. this was wrong.
stop ignoring it. https://t.co/2XYPQXZ9G4— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) December 29, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1343718322529947648
I am still asking @kotaku for accountability for how they preyed on and abused sexual assault survivors.
This nearly killed people.
Why is it easier to speak out against a bad game headline, or bad take, but nearly killing people is "too complicated an issue"?
Please care. https://t.co/2XYPQXZ9G4— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) December 30, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1344406487406243840
hey i am still asking @kotaku & those responsible for accountability for this.
here's a fresh screenshot of a very important part of this article i would like people to understand.
when you share them, & celebrate their "journalism", you whitewash what they did. they are abusive. https://t.co/GQeksjhZ45 pic.twitter.com/O8T7sSHhAM— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) December 30, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1344407474531487744
fair warning: i'm sincerely considering making a bot that replies with one of my please for justice whenever someone tweets kotaku.
if that's "too much" or "too far", then i'd like to know why that's too much but what they did to rape survivors isn't? https://t.co/ui5Tt90npp
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) December 30, 2020
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1344408627537297408
i am still asking @kotaku for accountability for all this and this is my daily tweet.
you took advantage of very vulnerable people, stole their truth, and kicked them to the curb. you placed us in danger. ignoring this is not ok.
please care.
we deserve to have this made right. https://t.co/4Wyani82pG— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) January 1, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1345120416663158784
this is my daily tweet asking @kotaku, and those responsible, for accountability for this.
what you did was negligent, placed very vulnerable people in danger, and caused serious harm to those you say you support.
it is harmful to ignore this.
fix what you broke.
please care. https://t.co/4Wyani82pG— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) January 2, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1345512894713085953
this is my 280th daily tweet asking @kotaku, and those responsible, for accountability for how they lied to, publicly retraumatized, and almost killed sexual assault survivors for nothing more but articles that couldn't even do the truth justice.
please care & make it right- 1/3 https://t.co/4Wyani82pG— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) January 3, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1345851630629974017
"I mean it when I say that I feel like I am fighting for my life.
Am I already dead to you?
[…] If you cared you would work toward minimizing harm for those stuck in this system, just as much as you would toward getting that juicy story."please care. https://t.co/4Wyani82pG
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) January 3, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1345852169002500096
i am still asking @kotaku, and those responsible, for accountability for this. this is my daily tweet.
with this last post, i have shared and said everything there is to say and share about this.
you have everything.
we deserved better than to be preyed on like this.
please care. https://t.co/4Wyani82pG— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) January 4, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1346189557193011200
this is my daily week asking @kotaku, and those responsible, for accountability for this.
you don’t get to say “believe survivors” and fly that ally flag, when you also have a history of abusing them.
this caused serious harm and endangered us.
make this right please. https://t.co/4Wyani82pG— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) January 5, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1346528269055606784
this is my daily tweet still asking @kotaku, and those responsible, for accountability.
we have lives. we have names. we are not just "a source".
you can't just push yourself into a traumatic situation, disrespect our truth, disregard our safety, and lie to get what you want- 1/7 https://t.co/4Wyani82pG— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) January 6, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1346900245548912641
this is my 285th daily tweet asking @kotaku, and those responsible, for accountability for this.
instead of using your resources & "big connections" to wash your hands of this, and call me a liar, please invest that time & energy in making this right to those you harmed-
(1/5) https://t.co/4Wyani82pG— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) January 7, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1347281204303720448
ok then…. retweeting this again for its continued relevance.
we deserve accountability for this.
we matter. https://t.co/4Wyani82pG
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) January 10, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1348064671203356672
i am still telling the truth and i am still asking @kotaku, and those responsible, for accountability for this.
this seriously hurt vulnerable people that never should have been taken advantage of like this.
we matter. please fix what you broke. https://t.co/s2M4ZYkKu2— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) January 10, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1348366887755735040
I am still asking @kotaku, and those responsible, for accountability.
doing this to us was predatory. this journalism placed us in danger, exploited us, and stole our truth.
this is not ok. ignoring this is not ok.you have the power to do better and you need to do that now. https://t.co/4Wyani82pG
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) January 12, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1348803036190109697
this is my daily tweet asking @kotaku, and those responsible, for accountability for this.
we should matter to you even after you take advantage of us for our stories.
our safety should matter to you.
you have the power to make this right to those harmed.
you should do that. https://t.co/YZZGfOEKE2— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) January 14, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1349511390193545216
this is my daily tweet asking @kotaku, and those responsible, for accountability for this.
this placed us in danger. it was irresponsible.
the resulting reporting didn't reflect the truth.
our safety, our boundaries, and our terms were not respected.please make this right. https://t.co/YZZGfOEKE2
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) January 15, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1349874390440112128
this is "asking for accountability" thread number 291 btw.
please don't let it get to 300. it's too much of a statement on what sexual assault survivors mean to journalists here.
(screenshots for scale…) https://t.co/YUAGTgVXLj pic.twitter.com/vmlcwBiu6p
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) January 15, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1349875915266772992
i am still asking @kotaku for accountability.
what you all did placed us in danger. it protected someone very dangerous while further endangering & exploiting his victims.
i am not the only one you harmed during your metoo "reporting".
please make this right. please care. https://t.co/YZZGfOEKE2— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) January 16, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1350244337641115648
this is my daily tweet asking @kotaku for accountability for this
it's not ok to ignore this. ignoring this comes from a tremendous position of privilege.
this placed vulnerable people in danger. that should matter to you all
(fwiw this post shares my email with what i want done) https://t.co/YZZGfOEKE2— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) January 17, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1350602861055414274
i am still asking @kotaku for accountability.
we were lied to to get us to share with you.
our safety and terms of involvement were not respected.
you exploited very personal trauma.
this nearly killed people. we deserve better.
please care and make this right.
(thread, 1/7) https://t.co/s2M4ZYClSC— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) January 17, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1350937375157997571
this is my daily tweet still asking @kotaku, and those responsible, for accountability for this.
this placed people in danger.
it hurt very vulnerable people.
that should matter.
what was done to us was not ethical or honest.fix what you broke for those harmed. please care. https://t.co/YZZGfOEKE2
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) January 19, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1351326386548469761
this is my daily tweet still asking @kotaku for accountability.
it's not ok to ignore this. you need to care about those placed in harms way by your reporting.
we matter. please care. https://t.co/YZZGfOEKE2— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) January 20, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1351696117889597440
this is my 297th daily tweet asking @kotaku, and those responsible, for accountability for this.
you lied to us to get what you wanted. you mislead us about your intentions. you stole our truth. this placed us in danger & protected the rapist.
you owe us better. make this right https://t.co/YZZGfOEKE2
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) January 21, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1352069069839581185
i'm still asking @kotaku, and those responsible, for accountability for this.
this almost killed people. it was irresponsible and fundamentally cruel. placing us in danger was not worth the price of these articles. lying to us wasn't either.
you shouldn't ignore this.
please care https://t.co/YZZGfOEKE2— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) January 22, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1352411668681121793
asserting myself again: weird how nobody notices that he has literally completely disappeared off all social media since i came forward, and maybe that should be SOME indication that i'm telling the truth?
MAYBE THAT IS WHAT I HAVE BEEN DOING THE ENTIRE TIME? https://t.co/YjkE4PAvAZ pic.twitter.com/CivUpEYKhE
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) January 22, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1352444370692132865
THIS IS MY 300th DAILY TWEET STILL IMPLORING@kotaku, and those responsible, to please care about the sexual assault survivors that they exploited, endangered, nearly killed, and lied to for the sake of sensationalizing our trauma.
PLEASE STOP IGNORING THIS AND GIVE A SH*T https://t.co/YZZGfOEKE2
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) January 22, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1352702677331845121
"I TOO MUST BE FAR TOO STUPID; BECAUSE LIKE LAWHEAD, I CAN'T REALLY AGREE THAT IT WAS 'ETHICAL' TO KISS THIS R.KELLY-ISH GUY'S ASS."
– Brendan Vance, Launder Launder Launder, Win Win Winhttps://t.co/QGS5e8gT2N https://t.co/0zI2zc5Nf7— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) January 22, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1352706662927224832
this is my 300th+ daily tweet still begging @kotaku, those responsible, & even just game journalism in general to PLEASE CARE about how sexual assault survivors were exploited during this metoo reporting.
this nearly killed people. that's not ok. being ok with that is not ok-
1/4 https://t.co/YZZGfOEKE2— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) January 23, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1353105025359200257
this is my daily tweet imploring @kotaku, & those responsible, to make right to the sexual assault survivors they exploited for the sake of sensationalizing something deeply horrible.
we deserved better for the sacrifice we made in talking to you.
please care & address this- 1/3 https://t.co/YZZGfOEKE2— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) January 24, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1353487861203361792
this is my daily tweet asking @kotaku, and those responsible, for accountability for how they lied to, endangered, and exploited sexual assault survivors for the sake of a few bad articles.
you have the ability to make this right to those you hurt. you owe us that. please care. https://t.co/YZZGfOEKE2
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) January 26, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1353865641661407237
this is my daily tweet asking @kotaku for accountability.
in my post i shared the actionable things that i want them to do.
i am not only advocating for myself. this hurt other vulnerable people too.
i am not asking for much. please extend dignity to us.
please care. https://t.co/YZZGfOEKE2— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) January 27, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1354246230205886464
getting this over with for today…
this is my daily tweet asking @kotaku to please care about the sexual assault survivors that they placed in danger with their reporting and to please do right by us.
please act to grant us basic dignity.
make this right to those you hurt. https://t.co/YZZGfOEKE2— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) January 28, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1354840940490330115
this is my daily tweet asking @kotaku to please do right by the sexual assault survivors that they exploited and placed in danger.
please act to reflect the values that you say you go by.
ignoring this everyday doesn't demonstrate values or integrity.we deserve accountability. https://t.co/YZZGfOEKE2
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) January 29, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1355230848816037890
this is my 308th+ daily tweet btw…
you don't get to do this horrible stuff to vulnerable people, make a big deal about "standing by survivors", and then throw us away after you've used us.
please care about your own contribution to abuse here if you "stand by" anything. https://t.co/aPvpaanrEn— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) January 29, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1355233854483697667
this is my daily tweet asking @kotaku to care about the sexual assault survivors that they abused in their reporting.
we deserved better for the risk we took in talking to you.
please act on the values and ethics that you say you stand by.we deserve accountability. https://t.co/YZZGfOEKE2
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) January 30, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1355607963067551745
you kissed my rapist's ass in your reporting on this.
you twisted our words and truth.
you took advantage of us.
what you did placed people in serious danger.@kotaku, please care about your own contributions to abuse here and work to make this right to those you harmed. https://t.co/OwuWrk8MSH
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) January 30, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1355608409618350081
PLEASE FUCKING CARE AND STOP IGNORING THIS
i am telling the truth
i'm not the only one that was hurt
this should matter to you (@kotaku, journalists, editors…), especially if you go around saying things like "believe survivors" and "we stand by" https://t.co/ddLSppgwW4
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) January 30, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1355609670010855424
OUR TRAUMA ISN'T A RESOURCE FOR YOU TO MINE & TAKE ADVANTAGE OF, TO BUILD YOUR PLATFORM ON, TO SHOCK & AMUSE YOUR READERSHIP WITH.
if you really cared about "standing by survivors" something would have been done about this. you would care about the harm your reporting caused 1/2 https://t.co/Phq4t8vHYt
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) January 30, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1355610609908285442
this is my daily tweet still asking @kotaku to care about the survivors that they placed in danger & exploited.
please act on the values that you say you stand by and address this.
please care about your own contributions to abuse here and make this right.
we matter.
please care. https://t.co/YZZGfOEKE2— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) January 31, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1356029094060720130
?? this is my daily tweet asking @kotaku to please give a shit about the sexual assault survivors that they abused, publicly retraumatized, and nearly killed.
please stand by the values and ethics that you say you do, and address this.
we deserve better.
please answer my email. https://t.co/YZZGfOEKE2— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) February 1, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1356363723636502528
believe survivors as long as it's convenient.
stand by survivors as long as it makes you look good.
support survivors as long as you can exploit that.as soon as you can't use us anymore, then you're done believing, standing by, and supporting… https://t.co/IjVstFBXkq
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) February 1, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1356384448011329536
i am so beyond sick of tweeting about this.
it's dehumanizing to have to ask for basic humanity to be extended, everyday…
especially after all the posturing about "standing by" survivors or how much "you care".solidarity has a meaning.
accountability means something too.
1/4 https://t.co/OwuWrk8MSH— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) February 1, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1356387795103715329
this is my daily tweet still asking @kotaku for accountability.
this placed vulnerable people in serious danger.
"standing by" and "believing" survivors should not stop once you get what you want out of us.
please care.
please answer.(email i replied with last month ?) https://t.co/YZZGfOEKE2 pic.twitter.com/ZXJfjQrmou
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) February 2, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1356703517784772608
this is my daily tweet asking @kotaku to care about the sexual assault survivors that they abused in their reporting.
this placed people in danger.
covering abuse should not involve further abusing people.
please fix what you broke.
please care.
we deserve accountability. https://t.co/ZmR5tbuYtA— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) February 4, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1357139567292280836
this is my daily tweet begging @kotaku to please care about the sexual assault survivors that they exploited, lied to, & placed in danger with their reporting.
ignoring this perpetuates that harm.
please care about us even after it's no longer convenient for you to "stand by" us. https://t.co/YZZGfOEKE2 pic.twitter.com/HknwWHa6SS— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) February 4, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1357433447619252224
"There’s a special phrase in game journalism for when you fuck up the entire thing: You say ‘it was 100% legal + professional!’, then you go deposit your salary."
– Launder Launder Launder, Win Win Winhttps://t.co/QGS5e8gT2N pic.twitter.com/FKy2W5EEm7— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) February 4, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1357437680192090112
you are watching someone slowly drown and are doing nothing to fix your contribution to that harm.
you have the power to make this right.
stop ignoring it. https://t.co/kRHLJUktOv— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) February 4, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1357438059847970816
journalists, @kotaku, Big Important Editors: please act on the ethics and values that you say you stand by, and fix this for those you harmed.
"standing by survivors" and "believe victims" should matter to you even after you've gotten what you wanted out of that "solidarity". https://t.co/wFNACHv5jk
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) February 4, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1357440345684905984
video game journalist:
you are watching someone slowly drown.
you scroll by…
you have better things to do now.i can't breath. https://t.co/egth4KHz9W
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) February 4, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1357440841002872832
i am still asking @kotaku, and game journalism, to please care about this.
your treatment of sexual assault survivors (the vulnerable people you said you "believe" and "stand by") almost killed people.
you have ignored it to no end.
even when i gave you actionable things to do- https://t.co/OwuWrk8MSH pic.twitter.com/sagufCh2Nr— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) February 5, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1357781163608166400
GAME JOURNALISTS: PLEASE CARE. I KNOW MANY OF YOU FOLLOW ME, THROUGHOUT ALL THIS EVEN, WHY ARE YOU DOING THAT? IS IT FOR THE SHOW? WHY ARE YOU DOING NOTHING?
WHY DO YOU NOT CARE WHEN SO MANY OF YOU BUILT YOUR PLATFORM ON APPEARING LIKE YOU DO? https://t.co/NJ6JxLddIf— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) February 8, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1358856772392345600
in my last post i said that i didn't really trust the solidarity ("i believe Nathalie" or "i support Nathalie") tweets coming from some of you because i thought it was fake.
is it? was i right??
what is wrong with you all?
please care. https://t.co/NJ6JxLddIf— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) February 8, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1358857546937733125
reminder that many of the people that shared my "coming forward about my assault" post, & made a big deal about supporting survivors here, later sided with the abusive journalist that was calling me a liar.
now i see the very same dynamic with the "i support Nathalie" people?? https://t.co/NJ6JxLddIf
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) February 8, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1358857756422205441
this is my daily tweet still asking @kotaku, those responsible, & game journalism to care about this because it almost killed people. u have done nothing but watch & act like it's complicated.
u have the power to do something please do it. i've seen u get involved for much less. https://t.co/NJ6JxLddIf— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) February 9, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1359201717766680577
what u all did was wrong. u didn't just do it to me. this isn't only about me. i'm just the one dumb enough to keep pointing this out.
please do something. i want it done now. i've waited long enough.
u all are being tremendously hypocritical about it. please stop making excuses https://t.co/NJ6JxLddIf— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) February 9, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1359202178926223360
please DO something.
it is not complicated.
i have seen you all get involved for less. i have seen you "make a big deal" about less when you cover stupid shit in this industry (like boobs, butts in video games, and… whatever at this point).
i'm tired of your excuses. https://t.co/NJ6JxLddIf— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) February 9, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1359203699936034818
YOU NEED TO CARE ABOUT THE VULNERABLE PEOPLE HURT BY YOUR REPORTING & IT SHOULD HAPPEN RIGHT THE FUCK NOW. NOT A YEAR FROM NOW. NOT ANOTHER MONTH FROM NOW.
NOW. BECAUSE I'VE WAITED A YEAR. LISTENED TO YOUR EXCUSES FOR A YEAR… YOU'VE GOTTEN INVOLVED IN OTHER THINGS FOR MUCH LESS https://t.co/NJ6JxLddIf— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) February 9, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1359204011526610948
WHEN YOU TALK SHIT ABOUT ME, CRITICIZE ME AS "A LIAR" AND ALL THE THINGS YOU SEEM TO BE SO EXCEPTIONALLY GOOD AT, GO ON & MENTION ME BY NAME. NOT MENTIONING ME BY NAME BETRAYS THAT YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING IS WRONG. https://t.co/1GdgTWhIMx
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) February 9, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1359205923156238336
please stop ignoring this. please stop avoiding doing something about this. https://t.co/NJ6JxLddIf
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) February 9, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1359206286399655939
this is my daily tweet asking for this to stop getting ignored. remove the articles please.
this placed vulnerable people in danger.the way these were written was gross, predatory, and exploitative toward survivors. we were treated disrespectfully the entire way.
please care. https://t.co/NJ6JxLddIf
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) February 13, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1360680611644534789
can you amend the article to remove the details of my assault because it's causing harm?
"Journalists don't change articles after publication."
can you remove the articles entirely because they're still causing harm?
"but ThAt WoUlD UnDeRmInE OuR InTeGrItY" https://t.co/NJ6JxLddIf— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) February 13, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1360471018733621250
“I think the reality of this situation is that I’m the person you all chose to sacrifice. You are ok with this killing someone. It’s “just the cost of business”, isn’t it?” https://t.co/NJ6JxLddIf
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) February 12, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1360263632777400325
i would like to live in a world where those hurt are worthy of justice.
please do something about this.@kotaku, those responsible, game journalists: please care. https://t.co/NJ6JxLddIf
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) February 13, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1360681802285735939
i’m so angry that this blew over for everyone again, inconvenienced by the confrontation and all, and literally NOTHING got done about it again.
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) February 13, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1360685492564492288
game journalists: i’m not even asking for a lot ? why is the very basic humanity that you could extend to people you hurt too hard, too complicated, too nuanced… but hurting them horribly was so easy for you to do?
please care ? please do something https://t.co/ndOywiBlmD
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) February 13, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1360687637145686019
…is it that you’re used to me begging for help and that’s why this is worth ignoring? has it gone on so long that it’s just normal now?
“Ya that’s just Nathalie. She’s been sitting in her corner crying for help for a year. Don’t mind that.” https://t.co/NJ6JxLddIf— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) February 13, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1360695467630153730
this is my daily tweet still asking @kotaku, those responsible, and game journalism to please care about the vulnerable people hurt by irresponsible reporting & do something about this. i asked everyday for almost a year. ignoring it is not ok. neither is calling me a liar – https://t.co/NJ6JxLddIf
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) February 10, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1359551244533080068
again: when i came forward it was my attempt to get free from something that hovered over me for a long time. Kotako, Totilo, and D'Anastasio took that away from me.
i spent pretty much a year asking for something to get done just to get argued, blocked, ignored, called a liar… https://t.co/NJ6JxLddIf— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) February 10, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1359553280834109440
please remove both articles.
that shouldn't be treated as too much of a "big ask" from people who built their platform on acting like they care about injustice here.
i would like the articles removed for myself and the others so that this can go away for the people hurt by you. https://t.co/NJ6JxLddIf— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) February 10, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1359556221846441984
sorry but if you are a game journalist, and you followed me throughout all this, and you just scrolled by these cries for help that have been going on for almost a year… you're not that innocent.
people hurt should matter to you, especially if you have the power to do something https://t.co/NJ6JxLddIf— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) February 10, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1359558313369772032
this is my daily tweet asking @kotaku, those responsible, and game journalism in general, to please care about the harm they are responsible for and do something about this.
please at least remove the articles that you abused survivors over. it placed us in serious danger. https://t.co/NJ6JxLddIf— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) February 11, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1359932860069601280
i've been asking everyday for a year for game journalists, the site, those responsible… to care please. nothing has been done, all the way to the end. our right to safety and dignity isn't a debate.
please do something. now. not another month from now or year from now. https://t.co/NJ6JxLddIf— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) February 11, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1359935285056864261
please care. please DO something. journalists follow me. you followed me throughout all this and you must have scrolled by often. all you did was relegate this to "discourse" and "discussion" about the situation and still manage to congratulate one of the people responsible. why? https://t.co/NJ6JxLddIf
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) February 11, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1359940461213847556
you took my right to dignity away from me.
i wanted to be free from something that hovered over me for ten years, and you TOOK that away from me.
then you called me a liar, closed ranks, and supported the abusive people responsible for doing this to me.
this is not about you- 1/5— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) February 11, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1359942708962332672
you did nothing to help.
only privately confront one of the abusers responsible?privately? do you know how hearing that feels?
you congratulated him publicly but confronted him privately?
can u please reflect on this?? ? https://t.co/NJ6JxLddIf
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) February 11, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1359943553124691974
this is my daily tweet asking @kotaku, those responsible, and game journalism in general, for accountability.
please care about how your reporting hurts people.
this almost killed the vulnerable people you say you "stand by" and "believe".
"standing by" should mean something… https://t.co/NJ6JxLddIf— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) February 14, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1361033932095975426
Being privileged enough to avoid responsibility for this, and move on to other "bigger" "better" things, isn't an acceptable outcome.
I want accountability because this almost killed people. None of this is ok. You don't get to ignore this forever just because you can. https://t.co/NJ6JxLddIf
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) February 14, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1361035677375164418
this is my daily tweet still asking @kotaku, those responsible, and game journalism in general to please care about the vulnerable people hurt by this reporting.
this almost killed people. ignoring responsibility for it, and being indifferent to the harm caused, is not ok. https://t.co/NJ6JxLddIf— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) February 15, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1361402659551420416
this is my daily tweet asking @kotaku, those responsible, and game journalism in general to please care about this & please do something.
i hate that this blew over again, after people panicked about getting confronted, that it's "like gamergate"…
and nothing happened again 1/7 https://t.co/NJ6JxLddIf— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) February 16, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1361726154135072768
please care ?
please DO something ?
please stop complaining about how hard this is for you, acting like you shouldn't get confronted, or that this is too much like "gamergate", all your excuses… and do something about this ? https://t.co/mz5IpQrOX3
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) February 16, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1361726713193926656
"i hate that you can ignore it. that you have the ability to ignore it. that you even choose to exercise that privilege over someone this way. that you can tune out your responsibility for this.
i hate that it's more real for me than it ever will be for you."
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) February 16, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1361726941401739268
i'm still asking @kotaku, those responsible, and game journalism in general, to please care about this.
the harm here matters. it is real to the people it was done to. ignoring this isn't ok. excusing it isn't ok either.
please make this right. please DO something… 1/7 https://t.co/NJ6JxLddIf
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) February 17, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1362110092225638400
please care ?
it's killing someone slowly and you (game journalists) are looking away. you're responsible for this. please do something. stop making excuses. stop discoursing. stop acting like you are the victim… please DO something. https://t.co/bAcVUIop03
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) February 17, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1362110601313406978
please care please do something.
i don't care if i'm not asking right. i don't care if addressing this to "game journalists" in general is or isn't good because i tried everything. i wrote post after post. tweeted everyday. there's no "right" way to do this.
please help. https://t.co/6zRtePdCaX— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) February 17, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1362141358815805440
this is my daily post still asking @kotaku, those responsible, and game journalism in general to please care about the harm caused here.
please help. we deserve to move on too. ? https://t.co/tCiT0dEtpr
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) February 19, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1362577896192106498
this is my daily tweet asking @kotaku, those responsible, game journalists, to please address this
if apologizing is too hard,
if acknowledging the harm done is too complicated,
if fixing what u broke with your abusive journalism is too impossible…
at least remove the articles. https://t.co/NJ6JxLddIf— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) February 19, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1362910244158857217
this is my daily plea to @kotaku, those responsible, and game journalism in general, to please care about this and please extend basic humanity to those hurt by this irresponsible reporting.
please care. ? https://t.co/triafkVTxa
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) February 20, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1363248760550166529
please care. ? https://t.co/EC1xaQwAnk
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) February 20, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1363248892888850432
i'm still asking @kotaku, those responsible, and game journalists to please care about this. this almost killed the people you said you "stand by" & "believe".
if apologizing is "too hard", acknowledging the harm is "too complicated"…
please at least remove the articles… 1/13 https://t.co/NJ6JxLddIf— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) February 21, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1363588384359288832
i hate how this blew over again ?
people got upset saying it's like another "gamergate"
but it just blew over again and nothing got done… back to letting the person hurting tweet forever.
i guess the arrangement works. i beg for help, and all the game journalists ignore it. https://t.co/D1RYunyKLu— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) February 21, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1363590129034485763
this is my daily tweet still asking @kotaku, those responsible, and game journalists, to please care about the people harmed by your reporting.
please remove the articles. at least do that much so those harmed can move on.
i would like to move on please and stop getting hurt
1/7 https://t.co/NJ6JxLddIf— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) February 23, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1364303567109021698
please care ?
please do something ?
please stop ignoring this ? https://t.co/quNgHe7psi— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) February 23, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1364303861721178113
please at least remove the articles
please let those harmed move on at least to that extent
why is that so hard?
you are not the victim here. ignoring this is bullying. please understand as much. please just do that one thing ? https://t.co/Ko4joJ1FAU— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) February 23, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1364306155955097600
this is my daily post asking @kotaku, those responsible, and game journalists, to please care about this. this almost killed people. that should matter to you.
if apologizing is too hard, accountability too complicated… please at least remove the articles- 1/3 https://t.co/YZZGfOEKE2— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) February 25, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1364750284367388672
please care
i ask for that everyday, you ignore it everyday
please extend some basic dignity to us.
you expect us to believe that making this right to us is "too hard" and "too complicated" and "too big of an ask", but hurting us was so easy.
please fix what you broke. https://t.co/cpo4Ef27Af— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) February 25, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1364751932930199554
ffs my parents even emailed you
why is this so easy for you to ignore?
why are you doing this? https://t.co/EC1xaQwAnk— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) February 25, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1364752328243384323
ffs my parents even emailed you
why is this so easy for you to ignore?
why are you doing this? https://t.co/EC1xaQwAnk— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) February 25, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1364752328243384323
please care ? https://t.co/cnfWn9w53z
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) February 25, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1364754960324337671
god i'm so fucking sick of this
i'm so tired of wanting to die
of being faced with this constantly
being confronted with it everyday, in some way or anotheryou have the power to do something, why are you not doing it?
you are not the victim here. you are the bully.— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) February 25, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1364754961645506563?s=20
this is my daily plea to @kotaku, those responsible, and game journalists, to please care & make right to those harmed.
at least take down the articles so they can stop hurting those abused for them.
there is no such thing as harming people "ethically" or abusing "by the book"… https://t.co/YZZGfOEKE2— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) February 25, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1365078359487651844
game journalists: ignoring this is harmful to those u hurt
it is a daily reminder that you get to exploit people's trauma here, adding to what they have to live with, and then throwing them under the bus when it's no longer convenient for you to posture that you "stand by" them https://t.co/NJ6JxLddIf
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) February 25, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1365078572730261504
please care ?
please DO something ?
please even save a life because it's too much sometimes, and seeing you ignore it everyday for a year, knowing that you KNOW, is a lot…
especially coming from people that built their platforms on pretending to care about this stuff ? https://t.co/aRPf1cVfXq— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) February 25, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1365079128085438464
this is my daily plea to @kotaku, those responsible, and journalists, to please care about this.
the people that you write about have lives. what you do impacts our ability to have a future afterward. you have a responsibility to care about that. so please start doing that. https://t.co/NJ6JxLddIf— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) February 27, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1365498498938904579
please care. please take down the articles @kotaku.
they were written abusively & continue to cause harm. we deserved better for the risk we took in talking to you.
it comes from a tremendous place of privilege to be able to outright ignore responsibility for the harm you caused. https://t.co/YZZGfOEKE2— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) February 27, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1365498753986097153
this is my daily tweet asking @kotaku, those responsible, & game journalists, to please care about this and do something.
please take down the articles that hurt us. they continue to cause harm.
stop exercising this power over the vulnerable people that were hurt by ignoring this https://t.co/NJ6JxLddIf— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) February 27, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1365796967381495811
please take down the articles.
they continue to cause harm.
stop exercising this power over the vulnerable people that were hurt, by ignoring this.
you chose to benefit from harming us, built your platform on being an ally, but completely avoided responsibility for your own harm. https://t.co/YZZGfOEKE2— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) February 27, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1365799793709051906
please care ?
this blew up a few times now and each time nothing got done ?
it has literally been easier for you to call it "gamergate" and "both sides" it with stupid excuses than it has been to mitigate the harm and trauma caused ?
take down the article please ? https://t.co/29j1pNvB8O— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) February 27, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1365801487016759296
this is my daily tweet asking @kotaku, those responsible, and game journalism, to please care about the survivors harmed by this reporting.
we are people. we have lives. how you choose to treat our stories impacts our ability to have a future afterward.
please remove the article. https://t.co/NJ6JxLddIf— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) March 1, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1366192922350116867
we deserved better for the sacrifice we made in talking to you.
please make right on the harm you caused.
i ask for this everyday. letting this go on for so long, everything about how this was handled, reflects poorly on you.
it's not ok to harm people this way. https://t.co/YZZGfOEKE2— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) March 1, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1366193774771150848
please ?
please stop ignoring this ?
i am asking for very little ? https://t.co/29j1pNvB8O— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) March 1, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1366193958741708801
this is my daily tweet asking @kotaku, those responsible, and game journalists in general, to please care about this.
please care about the lives of the people that you said you "stand by" and "believe" and fix what you broke.
no should have meant no to you too. https://t.co/NJ6JxLddIf— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) March 2, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1366541054275506180
please care about the lives of the people that you said you "stand by" and "believe" and fix what you broke.
no should have meant no to you too.
please do something. please stop ignoring this. please stop shrugging this off as if it's my responsibility to "get over it" https://t.co/yKD1nk8Krw— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) March 2, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1366541570330087426
please ? https://t.co/FaLiJ6fZl5
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) March 2, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1366543298777636870
a little bit of hearbreak everyday ?
it gets ignored and invalidated a little everyday ?
i get called selfish, told to move on, get over it…maybe someday it will take more effort to ignore people hurt than it does to just do the right thing. https://t.co/eJapojsVpi
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) March 2, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1366544729605763078
this is my daily tweet asking @kotaku, those responsible, and game journalists to please care about the people hurt by exploitative and dishonest journalism.
this almost killed people.
please make this right.
please care.
please take the articles down. https://t.co/NJ6JxLddIf— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) March 3, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1366901818945507328
please care.
when this does kill someone (myself included) you'll go on to tweet the hotline number, and tell people that they should "get help" (as if i didn't), and do your self-righteous discourse about restorative justice and "doing better", but nothing will change because… https://t.co/l2uU0MHq2Z— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) March 3, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1366903407408111616
save a life
please care for real, for once ?please stop with your hollow self-righteous discourse.
it's on loop. it never ends. nothing changes because you're part of the same problem. https://t.co/l2uU0MHq2Z— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) March 3, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1366906116127428608
when you discourse things like restorative justice, and accountability, and solidarity for clout, you are just as responsible for perpetuating abuse as the actual abusers are.
some of you threw me under the bus just because a big important journalist called me a liar.
why? https://t.co/fQzUM0zgLn— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) March 3, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1366905890691903488
this is my daily tweet asking @kotaku, those responsible, and game journalists in general, to please care about this. please care about the vulnerable people hurt.
please take down the article. https://t.co/NJ6JxLddIf— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) March 4, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1367276462256967680
this is my 394+ tweet btw… i wrote almost 400 threads begging for you to care.
should i make a video of myself reading them all, crying, struggling to read, to show that i'm sincere? that i'm not "making up" the pain? writing these is just as hard.
what will it take? https://t.co/IfGRcpjGFy— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) March 4, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1367278206722527236
please care ??
please stop your awful takes, excuses, jokes about this and please care ?
i am tired of getting blocked for this ?
i am tired of logging into whatever Discord and seeing people make light of this or talk about this like it's just discourse ? https://t.co/IfGRcpjGFy— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) March 4, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1367279702474289153
this is my daily tweet asking @kotaku to please care.
please remove the article.
it's been almost 400 threads of me asking everyday.
should i make a video of me reading all my tweets out loud, crying the same as i do when i write these?
what will it take to make this real to you? https://t.co/NJ6JxLddIf— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) March 5, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1367660263663529985
please care ?
please stop ignoring this ?
believing survivors is more than just posturing and empty performances of solidarity. it should mean something when you say you "stand by us" ?
why don't you care now that you have to actually apply all those fancy words? ? https://t.co/J5FtDGymLJ— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) March 5, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1367660807383740418
this is my daily tweet asking @kotaku, those responsible, and game journalists in general, to please care about the people they said they "stood by" & "believe".
please care about the harm you caused and make things right for those you exploited.
please take the article down. 1/5 https://t.co/NJ6JxLddIf— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) March 6, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1368013659021012996
please care ?
please stop ignoring this everyday ?am i already dead to you all???
why was it "by the book" when you hurt us, but making things right is "too complicated"? ?
there is no such thing as abusing people ethically or "by the book". you used the book to hurt us. https://t.co/gHnmc4SGxD
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) March 6, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1368014221510766593
please care ?
i'm still alive. if this caused someone to die you would literally shrug it off with big talk about "doing better" and theories about accountability and restorative justice, maybe share the hotline number for a week, and you would go back to not caring. https://t.co/yNv1GpCMRj— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) March 6, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1368014743240204290
this is my 401th+ daily tweet asking @kotaku, those responsible, and game journalists in general to please care.
i've been asking everyday for a year.you are people that posture to care about this stuff, that write about abuse here, why do you avoid responsibility for your own? https://t.co/NJ6JxLddIf
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) March 7, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1368362288952930305
this is how long and how often i've been begging.
why is it ok to ignore this? you almost killed people.
you broadcast my assault to your readership, against my consent, and you did similar to others.
you placed us in serious danger. why don't you care? https://t.co/q1RYGVrzIX pic.twitter.com/k2ptSCUrwO— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) March 7, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1368364946896027649
please care ?
what was done to us was wrong. you built your platform on acting like you care about stuff like this, but when you're the one that did it suddenly it doesn't count… suddenly it's "by the book" and the abuse is "ethical".
please care. https://t.co/vLG3D0Depl— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) March 7, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1368365504360902659
this is my daily tweet asking @kotaku & those responsible to please care about the way they abused vulnerable sources. make this right to the people that you said you "stand by" & "believe".
trauma isn't spectacle. this almost killed people.
it's not ok to ignore this
please care https://t.co/NJ6JxLddIf— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) March 8, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1368730224096026625
i don't feel like begging for this today… yesterday's said it all. i've done this everyday for a year. please stop ignoring this.
please care
the harm you caused is serious. it matters. our lives matter.
we deserved better for the sacrifice we made in talking to you. https://t.co/q1RYGVrzIX— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) March 8, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1368731168133160964
i would like to live in a world where those abused are worthy of justice.
you don't get to do this to people that are this vulnerable, that sacrifice this much just to say something, and you go on taking advantage of that for something as petty as clout
stop ignoring this @kotaku https://t.co/F2k7FYVdlj— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) March 8, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1368731578508054528
this is my daily tweet begging @kotaku, those responsible, & game journalists to please care about the vulnerable people hurt by their exploitative and dishonest reporting.
this almost killed people. that should matter to you. our lives, safety, truth… should matter to you- 1/7 https://t.co/NJ6JxLddIf— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) March 8, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1369008505743536128
please care while the person you hurt is still alive ?
if this does end up killing someone the most any of you will do is discourse this, share the number, talk about "getting help" (as if i didn't try)… you'll talk about "doing better"… but then you'll go back to normal. https://t.co/f2RWQKqz4W— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) March 8, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1369011472060190722
please care ?
last month this blew up on some journalists here and people called it "like gamergate" but still nothing got done ?
i'm still here begging ?
please ? am i already dead to you??? https://t.co/IHmarp3c8L— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) March 8, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1369012248836902914
this is my daily tweet asking @kotaku, those responsible, & game journalists to please care about the vulnerable people hurt by this exploitative reporting.
what was done to me was done to others too.
this almost killed people. that should matter to you.THREAD 1/16… https://t.co/NJ6JxLddIf
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) March 10, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1369762660170960897
please ?
i wrote over 400 tweets, everyday, for a year…
you ignore it, make excuses, hide behind "the system", make this about you… this almost killed people. we are worthy of justice here. you need to care about this. we fucking matter ? https://t.co/0tlTx0Y36L— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) March 10, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1369763276859473923
please ? i'm still begging.
this blew up a few times. some of you went so far as to say it's "like gamergate" because a few journalists were getting called out… then nothing happened again. it all went back to normal with me begging everyday.
we matter while we are alive ? https://t.co/2DfsbZNxCT
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) March 10, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1369764705468739586
please ? while i'm still alive ? i'd like to live to see it ? https://t.co/4sbJb07GL2
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) March 10, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1369764854018371590
this is my daily tweet asking @kotaku, those responsible, and game journalists, to please care about the consequences their abusive #metoo reporting has had on vulnerable people and stop ignoring this.
please take down the article.
those hurt by you deserve to move on too.
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) March 11, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1370153521144721409
i'll just say this out loud:
most of the women in games that do end up with really big & influential platforms are here because they've excelled at "looking away" & enabling abusive behavior from the men. they protect those interests… i regret ever believing different… 1/5 https://t.co/LkL3H1Ecba— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) March 11, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1370157744175521795
this is my daily tweet asking @kotaku, & those responsible, to please care about the sexual assault survivors placed in danger by their exploitative reporting.
what you did protected the rapist, & it endangered us.
it was irresponsible, & dishonest.please take the article down. https://t.co/NJ6JxLddIf
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) March 12, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1370516872987217920
…the irony of a news story written by someone that publicly advocated in defense of a journalist that caused suicide attempts in sexual assault survivors because of how she abused them, published on the website responsible for ignoring that abuse… is a bit much? https://t.co/BDQFCCyE6e
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) March 13, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1370789414977171457
i’m still asking for accountability from @kotaku for how they almost drove sexual assault survivors to suicide with their reporting, lied to us in order to get what they wanted from us, and then defended those responsible… it’s not ok to ignore this. you’re still causing harm. https://t.co/NJ6JxLddIf
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) March 13, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1370790429579374594
please delete the article that you abused me and others for, @kotaku
i see you covering the NFT scandal here, with a developer exploiting artists?
how about caring about how you exploited rape survivors?no? too “complicated”?
ignoring this is perpetuating that harm. https://t.co/YZZGfOEKE2— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) March 13, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1370791885011263489
game journalists: stop ignoring this please, and care about how your own abuse perpetuated harm.
please care about how ignoring this is perpetuating harm.
we matter while we are still alive, while something can still be done, before we become another story to you… https://t.co/spFQdl4LtM
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) March 13, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1370792928939974656
give a fuck please
you could still save a life https://t.co/3N4vh3XJKV— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) March 13, 2021
please care while the person that has been begging everyday for a year is still alive https://t.co/spFQdl4LtM
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) March 13, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1370797700828987392
HEY @KOTAKU AND GAME JOURNALISTS,
I AM STILL WAITING FOR SOMETHING TO GET DONE ABOUT THIS.
PLEASE CARE WHILE ONE OF THE PEOPLE THAT YOU ABUSED IS STILL ALIVE AND CAN LIVE TO SEE A POSITIVE OUTCOME. pic.twitter.com/x95J63LNVR— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) March 13, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1370800293101723650
424 daily tweets btw… this has been ignored more than 424 times
i get it. it's funny, obsessive, why can't i just "move on"?
how about the responsibility of what happened not be placed on the person that was abused, but instead be placed on those that did the harm?please care https://t.co/YejCEl92si
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) March 13, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1370802893163438081
getting this over with… my daily tweet:@kotaku please take down the article that you abused me and others for.
please do right by ALL the survivors that you have harmed.ignoring this is an insult to injury, and we are (in every way possible) worthy of both justice & action. https://t.co/YejCEl92si
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) March 14, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1371169173116649473
this is my daily tweet still asking @kotaku, and those responsible, to be responsible about the harm their journalism has caused. please care.
ignoring this isn't an acceptable answer. future harm is preventable and that's on you.
please remove the article. 1/3 https://t.co/NJ6JxLddIf— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) March 15, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1371580977676386306
our lives matter while we are still alive.
our safety, truth, and future matters.
standing by survivors and saying "i believe you" isn't just something you say & do to get something out of us. it should mean something.
please care before this gets worst, i'm still begging https://t.co/Q5PP5seu5s— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) March 15, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1371583507143618561
i mean it. this isn't a rhetorical question. you have the power to do something to prevent more harm please do it. please stop ignoring this like it's not happening.
you're being abusive by letting this go on @kotaku https://t.co/wZwtHcPMqF— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) March 15, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1371584126113878016
i'm still asking @kotaku & those responsible to care about how their abusive reporting has placed us in danger.
we deserve to move on too. you don't get to take advantage of already traumatized people like this, just to put that trauma on permanent display.
remove the article 1/3 https://t.co/NJ6JxLddIf— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) March 16, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1371964518578851842
hey @kotaku are you ever going to address this or are you going to keep this up for another year?
ignoring this is causing more harm. you should stop avoiding responsibility for your own abuse. you are being no different than the abusers that you cover. https://t.co/YejCEl92si— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) March 16, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1371964817938948097
please care.
the people that you abused deserve to move on too.
ignoring this, saying shit like "there was an investigation that took place" and "these allegations are false" is literally no different than the abusers that you built your career on writing about. https://t.co/cab40jJqSZ— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) March 16, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1371965131790319620
please care ?
i ask for it everyday and you illustrate my point by ignoring it everyday.
how are you different than the abusive people that you built your careers writing about?
how has your behavior been any different at all??please fix what you broke for the people you hurt. https://t.co/RuGcijFWzE
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) March 16, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1371965590554906624
this is my daily tweet asking @kotaku, & those responsible, to care.
take the article down.
none of us that acted as sources were happy about how u treated us.
u propped up someone dangerous while ignoring information that we gave u, that u said you would take into account… 1/4 https://t.co/RuGcijFWzE— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) March 18, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1372340586695430148
"i should not have to be here everyday reminding you that this placed vulnerable people in danger, and still does.
it should not have to come to something more serious before you act surprised and sorry.
ignoring this is not ok, and it perpetuates this harm." https://t.co/NJ6JxLddIf— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) March 18, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1372341240054738947
this is my daily tweet asking @kotaku, and those responsible, to care about the sexual assault survivors that they exploited.
be the ethical news outlet you say you are.
please delete the article that you abused me and other sources for.
please care about the harm you caused. https://t.co/NJ6JxLddIf— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) March 19, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1372744386660896768
this is my daily tweet asking @kotaku, and those responsible, to please care about how they hurt sources with their reporting on sexual assault.
you sensationalized our trauma in a really dishonest way. it placed us in danger.please remove the article. https://t.co/NJ6JxLddIf
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) March 20, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1373069120401408000
i am still asking @kotaku, and those responsible, to care about this.
you lied to us to get what you wanted, and gave no regard for our safety or what that would do to us.
i do not care how "ethical" you think that was, or what book you are hiding behind…
take the article down. https://t.co/NJ6JxLddIf— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) March 20, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1373419247381086208
this is my daily tweet asking @kotaku, and those responsible, to be as ethical as they say they are and care about the survivors that they harmed.
our truth and our story mattered. it wasn't yours to twist, misquote, and lie to us in order to get.
please remove the article. 1/3 https://t.co/NJ6JxLddIf— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) March 21, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1373781464257490947
please care ?
i've asked everyday for a year from people that built their careers on covering abuse here. why is your own abuse "by the book" and "ethical"?
you hurt very vulnerable people. the pain you caused is very real. https://t.co/WFqlGnF6PR— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) March 21, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1373781904235790339
this is my 400th+ daily tweet asking @kotaku, and those responsible, to care about the vulnerable people they exploited for the sake of sensationalism.
what you did placed us in danger.remove the article.
asking for fucks to be given here isn't "too radical". it's not hard. https://t.co/NJ6JxLddIf
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) March 22, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1374137304780996609
i read the comments, thank you for the kindness. i wish i could say more. it's been painful, hard, alienating… what i find most heartbreaking about this is that other survivors are watching this. this situation has scared them from coming forward. this signals to others, and– https://t.co/PfFi0uZbpt
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) March 24, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1374832719016861696
this is my daily tweet @kotaku, and those responsible, to please care about the effect their exploitative reporting has had on sexual assault survivors and to stop ignoring responsibility for this. ALL of us that you hurt deserve better.
please at least delete the article. https://t.co/PfFi0uZbpt— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) March 25, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1375226541118906369
please care ?
we deserve to have a future too.
you can't take advantage of vulnerable people that risk everything just to come forward about abuse, and then abuse them further.
avoiding responsibility for this makes you no better than the abusers that you write about. https://t.co/XcS0vd56UK— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) March 25, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1375227237373333505
i’m sorry but it’s conversations like this…just ALL of them which are gutting…gross… it’s hard to find words… stop making this Discourse.
what was done to (MORE people than just me) was deeply harmful.
the person this was done to has to live with it. you all don’t… 1/5 https://t.co/hOXLBsSgdP— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) March 26, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1375472699246477316
this is my daily tweet asking @kotaku, those responsible, and game journalism in general, to please care about the sexual assault survivors who are still hurting because of how our stories were abused.
take the article down.here's another thread… everyday… ?? 1/13 https://t.co/NJ6JxLddIf
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) March 27, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1375884322272464897
this is my daily tweet asking @kotaku, those responsible, and game journalists, to please care about the sexual assault survivors they have placed in danger with their irresponsible reporting.
we matter. our humanity matters. you don't own our stories.
take the article down 1/5 https://t.co/NJ6JxLddIf— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) March 31, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1377311507449442306
this is my daily tweet (which i have been doing everyday for over a year) asking @kotaku to give a shit about the sexual assault survivors that they exploited in order to write clickbait about the worst moment of our lives.
pull those articles too, you demonstrated that you can. https://t.co/NJ6JxLddIf— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) April 1, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1377737810543710208
this is my daily tweet asking @kotaku to please care.
this caused serious harm. addressing that harm is important.
i'm running out of ways to say this… if apologizing is too hard, if taking responsibility or fixing what you broke is too complicated, at least delete the article. https://t.co/NJ6JxLddIf— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) April 3, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1378139643242106880
this is my daily tweet @kotaku, those responsible, and game journalism, asking that you care about the sexual assault survivors exploited for the sake of clickbait.
delete the article. you've now demonstrated your willingness to extend more respect to a video game than us… 1/6 https://t.co/Ifro4QjzbG— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) April 3, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1378472404192661505
i'm STILL asking @kotaku, those responsible, & game journalism, to care about the sexual assault survivors that were placed in danger for the sake of sensationalizing our abuse.
our lives should matter more than your perceived right to write clickbait about whatever you want
1/11 https://t.co/NJ6JxLddIf— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) April 4, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1378821939356037120
this is my daily tweet, the same that i've been asking everyday for a year… that @kotaku, those responsible, and game journalism, please care about the vulnerable people harmed. please fix what you broke.
delete the article. it's the absolute least that you can do… https://t.co/NJ6JxLddIf— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) April 5, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1379160595618951171
i'm still asking @kotaku to care about the vulnerable people they harmed.
i understand that things like apologizing, fixing this, accountability… are all "too radical" and "too complicated" for you.
please at least remove the article. it is the absolute least that you can do. https://t.co/NJ6JxLddIf— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) April 6, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1379571736966950912
i am STILL asking @kotaku to make right to the sexual assault survivors they placed in danger for the sake of sensationalizing abuse
you lied to me to get me to open up about my assault & published that. you took advantage of the other sources in a similar way.
delete the article https://t.co/NJ6JxLddIf— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) April 8, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1379947913892093953
i am still asking @kotaku to please care about the sexual assault survivors they exploited, endangered, and put on display for the sake of clickbait journalism.
it's absolutely not ok to ignore the harm that you have caused vulnerable people.
please delete the article. https://t.co/NJ6JxLddIf— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) April 9, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1380356398811209730
this is my daily tweet asking @kotaku to please stop ignoring this. address this.
"I would like the article to get deleted. I want the thing that you are exercising power over to get removed, because those harmed have a right to that dignity.
This is not nuance. It’s simple." https://t.co/7tALAABSGP— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) April 11, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1381364797153800196
this is my daily tweet @kotaku, and those responsible, asking that you please care about the very vulnerable people that you placed in danger with your reporting.
your dishonesty, lying to us to get what you want, and twisting the truth, nearly cost people their life.
please care https://t.co/NJ6JxLddIf— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) April 13, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1381804791098044420
this is my daily tweet @kotaku, those responsible, & game journalism, asking you to please care about the sexual assault survivors placed in harms way because exploiting our trauma was more important than protecting our lives.
please delete the article. i KNOW it is possible.
1/4 https://t.co/NJ6JxLddIf— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) April 13, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1382094383575564290
i'm so tired. i KNOW it's possible. i KNOW it's not hard, complicated, nuanced, or setting a bad precedent.
i think the bad precedent being set is that the lives of the vulnerable sources that risked everything to talk to you stop mattering once you get what you want out of them. https://t.co/OPZ41rzqeY— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) April 13, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1382096761632612352
this is my daily tweet @kotaku asking whatever is left of u all to please care about how u (very significantly) hurt vulnerable people just so one of you could get another notch under the belt.
delete the article you abused me for. rape was enough. you didn’t need to add to that. https://t.co/NJ6JxLddIf— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) April 17, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1383245973976010758
i’m still asking @kotaku, and those responsible, to please stop ignoring how they exploited the stories of sexual assault survivors here and address this.
please remove the article. i ask everyday and you ignore it everyday. the harm done is very real. you should care. https://t.co/NJ6JxLddIf— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) April 18, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1383616984407887872
please care ? i’m still begging everyday.
discourse about this has come and gone but nothing gets done. it’s causing harm. i should not have to say that everyday… ignoring this so hard, and even blocking people for bringing it up, is really gross. https://t.co/2wHFW1sDRL— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) April 19, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1383965917776736261
i’m still asking @kotaku, and those responsible, to care about this.
this placed vulnerable people in danger. you lied to us to get what you wanted, then put that on display in a very dishonest way. you exploited our trauma and it’s still causing harm.
delete the article. https://t.co/NJ6JxLddIf— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) April 19, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1383964659590451201
since @kotaku is trending for something dumb…
i'd like to remind everyone that i'm STILL asking them to care about how they exploited sexual assault survivors for the sake of clickbait metoo reporting that placed us in harms way.
what they did was cruel, so is ignoring it… 1/9 https://t.co/NJ6JxLddIf— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) April 19, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1384210123111866375
this is my daily tweet @kotaku, those responsible, game journalism… asking that you care about the survivors you placed in very serious danger.
when a journalist is responsible for causing real harassment and threats, that counts too, not only when it happens to you all… 1/5 https://t.co/NJ6JxLddIf— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) April 21, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1385013335553232898
this is my daily tweet @kotaku, those responsible, & game journalism, to (despite your obvious indifference and self-victimization toward anyone that has called you out on your double standards) to please care about the sexual assault survivors placed in danger by this reporting. https://t.co/NJ6JxLddIf
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) April 23, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1385406666749870080
this is my daily tweet @kotaku asking that you please care about this. we went from accountability being too impossible, fixing what you broke is too radical, and now i’m asking for the article to get deleted and that’s too hard… delete the article. it’s the least you can do. https://t.co/NJ6JxLddIf
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) April 24, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1385778845278605316
this is my daily tweet still begging @kotaku to care about how they exploited the trauma of sexual assault survivors just for the sake of sensationalism.
when this is the only article that ever gets referenced by 4chan YOU PROBABLY EMPOWERED THE WRONG PEOPLE WITH YOUR REPORTING https://t.co/NJ6JxLddIf
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) April 24, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1386073756909461505
this is my daily tweet begging @kotaku, and game journalists in general, to please care about the lives of the vulnerable people that have been placed in danger.
you framed this as somehow necessary, and even made this abuse palatable with your rhetoric.
please care… 1/6 https://t.co/NJ6JxLddIf— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) April 27, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1387108837455384578
this is my daily tweet @kotaku… delete the article. it is the least you can do.
we went from me asking for accountability (too radical), me asking that you make right to the survivors that you hurt (too hard), and just sincerely apologizing (too complicated)… do the minimum. https://t.co/O7JDKCmLJ6— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) April 29, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1387588325175816194
please care ? i do not care how much you accuse me, how much you blacklist me, how much you push the narrative that i’m sick, how much anyone tries to manipulate me into being quiet.
i’m asking for one thing now & it’s still too hard? is singling out a survivor really worth it? https://t.co/Q6jhC5reEC— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) May 1, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1388286961379463170
this is my daily tweet asking @kotaku, those responsible, and game journalism in general, to please do right by the sexual assault survivors that they professed support for, then exploited, and now no longer support or believe.
delete the article. it’s the least you should do. https://t.co/NJ6JxLddIf— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) May 3, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1389044066642399235
this is my daily tweet asking @kotaku, those responsible, and game journalism in general, to please do something to help the people still hurting because of the way our stories were abused by you.
this placed us in serious danger. it is still a threat.
delete the article. https://t.co/NJ6JxLddIf— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) May 4, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1389407828922626050
i am STILL asking @kotaku, those responsible, and game journalism to care about the vulnerable people who they took advantage of.
despite how much you all think you are victims because someone stood up to any of you, this ? is still the reality of the people you hurt. https://t.co/NJ6JxLddIf pic.twitter.com/ykwTfmxoPQ— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) May 5, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1390007637471764483
this is my daily tweet asking @kotaku, those responsible, anyone at all… to please care about how the most vulnerable people in this space have been treated when covering the most traumatic experience of their life.
i'm not the only one that was hurt by this.
delete the article https://t.co/NJ6JxLddIf— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) May 7, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1390797197298397184
this is my daily tweet @kotaku, game journalism, anyone… asking that you please care about the survivors placed in danger by this reporting and still being harmed by it.
if someone follows through on their death threat, what will your excuse be?
will you invalidate that too? https://t.co/GOJa3FhWD8— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) May 11, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1392183414153875457
this is not even about “my desire to heal”. this is about my right to be safe.
i would like to be safe please.
i am put in a position of having to argue for the most fundamental basics, and you work to make that “too complicated”. i'm tired. this shouldn't be normal. https://t.co/6Y83WQuSUi— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) May 11, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1392189406203637764
i'm still asking @kotaku, those responsible, anyone that will listen…to care about how this reporting nearly cost survivors their lives.
we were not worth the cost, just so you could jump on that #metoo bandwagon & act all ally while it was a hot topic.
please delete the article https://t.co/NJ6JxLddIf— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) May 12, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1392628067797852160
this is my daily tweet @kotaku, and now @therealjimrich, @lea, game journalism… asking that you address how Kotaku's abusive & predatory reporting placed survivors in danger. this almost killed the people you all said you "believe".
delete the article so it stops causing harm. https://t.co/NJ6JxLddIf— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) May 19, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1394813473532518402
this is my daily tweet @kotaku, @therealjimrich, @lea, @GOMediaInc… asking that you please care about the vulnerable sources who's lives have been placed in danger by this predatory reporting.
please act on the ethics & guidelines that you advertise.
delete the article… 1/4 https://t.co/NJ6JxLddIf— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) May 20, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1395178729723219971
i am still asking @kotaku, @GOMediaInc, @therealjimrich, @lea, game journalism… to please care about the sexual assault survivors harmed by this predatory reporting. this almost killed people. the people you all said you believe & "stand by".
do the right thing and address this https://t.co/NJ6JxLddIf— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) May 20, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1395521045126254593
please prevent worst from happening.
please stop ignoring this.
i am still begging. you are people that built your brands and platforms on caring about social justice. how do our lives mean so little to you?? https://t.co/VEw70KqghO— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) May 25, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1397202277065236484
please help ? i’m still begging. i’m so tired of this. i do this everyday hoping that maybe today will be the day that this will be taken seriously. https://t.co/VEw70K8ETe
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) May 25, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1397025221635297281
i’m still asking @kotaku, @therealjimrich, @GOMediaStudios, game journalism… to care about this. lying to a survivor just to get what you want, twisting our words, and knowingly placing us in danger is not ok.
please delete the article you abused us for. we deserve to be safe. https://t.co/NJ6JxLddIf— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) May 25, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1396988548620820481
hey @kotaku staff: since you all are so helpless how about you just delete the article because nobody will have the “institutional power” to punish you for it anyway. everyone is so powerless, there couldn’t possibly be repercussions for doing the right thing ? https://t.co/CKPFleT83m
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) May 24, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1396637833461329925
this is my daily tweet again…and again…and again…everyday for over a year @kotaku, game journalism…asking that you address this. your predatory journalism almost killed the people you said you believe. please delete the article.
cc @therealjimrich @GOMediaStudios @lea https://t.co/NJ6JxLddIf— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) May 24, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1396637053287157763
this is my daily tweet still asking @kotaku @therealjimrich @lea @GOMediaStudios… to please address this before something worst happens as a result of your predatory journalism. our safety, truth, future, right to dignity, should have mattered to you.
please delete the article. https://t.co/dv761aEobr— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) May 23, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1396283510072119301
this is my daily tweet @kotaku @therealjimrich @GOMediaInc @lea anyone please… asking that this gets addressed and that the article we were exploited for at least be deleted.
it’s in your power to do so. please don’t let worst happen to us before this gets taken serious. https://t.co/NJ6JxLddIf— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) May 22, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1395934107775868929
please help ? https://t.co/C3IgL3xjVP
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) May 21, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1395535007448322049
i am still asking @kotaku, @GOMediaInc, @therealjimrich, @lea, game journalism… to please care about the sexual assault survivors harmed by this predatory reporting. this almost killed people. the people you all said you believe & "stand by".
do the right thing and address this https://t.co/NJ6JxLddIf— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) May 20, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1395521045126254593
this is my daily tweet @kotaku, @therealjimrich, @lea, @GOMediaInc… asking that you please care about the vulnerable sources who's lives have been placed in danger by this predatory reporting.
please act on the ethics & guidelines that you advertise.
delete the article… 1/4 https://t.co/NJ6JxLddIf— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) May 20, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1395178729723219971
retweeting again for the reality check, proof of how this is like, and the effect this has had on my entire family. please do the right thing @kotaku and delete the article. game journalists, please care and stop ignoring this. you’re not powerless. https://t.co/HiuvRlPCGp
— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) May 25, 2021
https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1397241218128613385
please @kotaku @therealjimrich @GOMediaStudios game journalism…don't let worst happen to those already harmed. are you really willing to look away while you can still prevent that?
this is a public record of how hard i tried.
delete the article. it is the very least you can do. https://t.co/NJ6JxLddIf— Nathalie Lawhead (@alienmelon) May 25, 2021
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