• KobaCumTribute [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    10 hours ago

    There are also “open secrets” where people do take the actions that their relative power allows, but it’s still kept quiet because the victims don’t want the attention and risk of coming forward about it. Like a few years there was some controversy about a particular streamer getting kicked off twitch over unspecified reasons, which I only learned about (I’d never heard of him or seen anything he did, and couldn’t tell you who he was; I don’t think it was Dr Disrespect, but it was around the time he was kicked off twitch and it was obviously the same sort of crime being done) because a games industry insider I was talking with brought it up and was basically like “yeah it’s exactly the reason that’s the first thing anyone assumes, and that’s why this guy has been banned from all our events and a whole bunch of other events for years already. Everyone knows, but the victims don’t want to come forward so no one has actionable details beyond just keeping him out of stuff.”