It’s so bleak seeing the Heard/Depp case turned into the next GamerGate-style tool for recruiting and stoking internet misogynists, because this time instead of it just being dudes who liked being racist in counterstrike lobbies, it’s fucking everyone now because this isn’t being spread by 30 minute YouTube rants in front of funko pops, it’s 30 second TikToks that your dad and college friends are seeing
And while it’s not new for bigotry to be spread through “ironic” “jokes,” well before the internet trans women were being used as the butt of jokes in television and movies and to this day there’s constantly transmisogynist “memes” circulating on this site, but the shit with this trial really feels like a mass-mobilizing of reactionary forces online like we haven’t seen in a long time











