Wendig, well-known for his outspoken, stridently progressive social media stance, was never writing his Star Wars comics for alt-right fans, but for a more diverse, liberal readership.
Chuck Wendig’s denunciation of “civility” toward extremists appeared to incite alt-right trolls - with damaging consequences In these cases, cooler heads and even colder hard data might be used to clarify what’s actually happening, and how many people are actually mad. What she found suggests that increasingly, we’re encountering situations where the appearance of controversy is being driven, or at the very least amplified, by bots, automated outrage, and an angry fringe mob. But then a bot-savvy supporter of Wendig’s looked closer. Wendig was ostensibly fired because of the controversy his tweets were generating. Sci-fi writer and noted Twitter user Chuck Wendig found this out the hard way recently, when he was fired from his prominent gig as a writer for Marvel’s Star Wars comic Shadow of Vader and a forthcoming Star Wars book. More crucially, the “trolls” are increasingly likely to be a mix of alt-right white supremacists interacting with you in very bad faith, and bots or fake accounts created by foreign organizations for nefarious political purposes.īut even though the ways and means of trolling are vastly more complicated than they used to be, most of us still don’t really have tactics to deal with or combat a troll attack when it hits.
But in the more populated era of social media, the “trolls” have evolved in the extreme: Now they can be “fed” not only by your reactions to them, but by years-old tweets, collective performed outrage, hashtag movements, and ironic memes.
In the pre-social media era, “never feed the trolls” was a primary rule for navigating the internet.
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