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The Dev Behind One of the Best SNES Emulators Has Died

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> Kiwi Farms was spun off from CWCiki, a wiki focused on Chris-Chan. They're a forum focused on cyberbullying other people. They especially tend to focus on people who are in vulnerable groups. For example, Byuu as far as I know, identified as non-binary, which is why they started harassing him. It seems like they're a major catalyst for this situation.

Wow. A forum of people that bullies vulnerable people until they kill themselves. As someone who is non-binary and a member of multiple minority groups, this makes me furious.

If there's any website that deserves to be DDoSed, this is it. Just saying.

Re: The Dev Behind One of the Best SNES Emulators Has Died

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Oh God, this brings back memories. Something like this happened to me on Wikipedia, and nearly ended in disaster.

Who are Kiwi Farms and how do we stop them? Don’t they violate CloudFlare’s ToS?

Edit: looking into this more, it looks like the accused him of paedophilia, and when this didn’t work they went after his trans friends.

Re: The Dev Behind One of the Best SNES Emulators Has Died

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I will never understand the type of self-destructive attacks that drive this. I don't agree with but can understand the logic of attacking some public figure, but one of your own? An anti-establishment, anti-intellectual property nerd? The driving force behind one of the most impressive emulators on the planet? Even if you hate LGBT people you can't ignore it in the case of someone who's doing free work that directly benefits you?

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post #3

> Kiwi Farms was spun off from CWCiki, a wiki focused on Chris-Chan. They're a forum focused on cyberbullying other people. They especially tend to focus on people who are in vulnerable groups. For example, Byuu as far as I know, identified as non-binary, which is why they started harassing him. It seems like they're a major catalyst for this situation. Wow. A forum of people that bullies vulnerable people until they…

CloudFlare is providing them DDoS protection.

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> Kiwi Farms was spun off from CWCiki, a wiki focused on Chris-Chan. They're a forum focused on cyberbullying other people. They especially tend to focus on people who are in vulnerable groups. For example, Byuu as far as I know, identified as non-binary, which is why they started harassing him. It seems like they're a major catalyst for this situation. Wow. A forum of people that bullies vulnerable people until they…

CloudFlare is providing them DDoS protection.

They really need to stop. They did it for 8chan, why not this? How many more people need to die before anything changes?

Re: The Dev Behind One of the Best SNES Emulators Has Died

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>Byuu as far as I know, identified as non-binary, which is why they started harassing him.

Previously this comment contained an ill-mannered correction of the mistaken pronoun usage. However, this is completely unnecessary so I will replace it with this message, and a reminder that Near used they/them pronouns. Apologies.

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