Shaun Himmerick, producer on Mortal Kombat X, is the latest games industry professional to step away from Twitter after receiving threats against his family.
On March 26, Himmerick retweeted this message he received, after which he changed his Twitter handle to “come on people”:
(WARNING: NSFW language)
He then explains his decision in more detail:
https://twitter.com/embed/status/581468722474262528
https://twitter.com/embed/status/581468969665589248
https://twitter.com/embed/status/581469476203286528
https://twitter.com/embed/status/581469843255209986
https://twitter.com/embed/status/581470213578747904
Seems like the offending tweet was the straw that broke the camel’s back for Himmerick, who hasn’t Tweeted since Friday (but has left his account active).
He’s the latest in what’s becoming a long line of games industry professionals who have left Twitter, their jobs and even their homesover threats they’ve received over the social network service.
https://lastchance.cc/another-day-another-death-threat-from-gamers-to-the-pe-5904367%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E
The service was created to give people a means to share their thoughts, but if all those thoughts are going to amount in this business are threats made against the people making and talking about video games, then we may as well burn it all down and start over.
