3/24/2014

The Destructive Power of Internet Toxicity IGN All

When Microsoft employee Adam Orth triggered the #DealWithIt online firestorm last year, he immediately resigned.


Any work he'd done in the industry was suddenly buried beneath a social media misfire, a regrettable series of tweets that changed his life became his identity. "This is what I'm known for," Orth said while showing his public messages to a Game Developers Conference crowd. The room was silent. Orth was silent.


“I was the laughing stock of the gaming world," Orth said. "It was an absolute feeding frenzy. Everything I’d ever done, whether publicly or privately, was not fair game for abuse.”


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