If any of you thought this shit wasn't an inevitability, you haven't been paying enough attention to this despicable whore.
Brief history lesson: An IRL acquaintance telling me of his experiences with Brianna Wu doing
the exact same shit was what got me to cover Wu the way I did on Lolcow Wiki in the first place - but in many ways, Quinn is significantly worse. Wu may be an incompetent agenda-pushing serial grifter with delusions of grandeur but nobody let Wu in front of the fucking UN or Congress with a straight face. While Quinn will never get
back to that level of power, let's not pretend that she doesn't still have tons of influence, and let's not forget the kind of shit she's capable of.
Quinn's
entire history has been basically hallmarked by doing this and destroying people's lives mostly because she can. Back when she was just another sped on Something Awful, she was a mainstay on Helldump, a board that successfully got one of SA's own members to kill themselves and then bragged about doing so. Jokes about furries killing themselves being a net positive notwithstanding, Quinn has, over and over again, successfully sabotaged careers, fucked over acquaintances, and manipulated events to destroy people she doesn't like. Her influence has been on the wane, but she's an expert on using her Autistic fanbase to carry out attacks on her behalf, and has extremely powerful connections on both Social Media and in the Games Journalism circuit.
Have you ever wondered why it's so rare that people from her circle that she's openly backstabbed virtually never outright turn on her? Why none of them seem to have the fucking common sense that they (presumably) were born with? Why even with cases where they criticize her, they either cage it in metaphors (Jake) or add a backhanded defense of Quinn's actions to suggest she was otherwise partly in the right? The reason is because Quinn is the queen bitch and if she disapproves of you, she will go out of her way to fucking ruin you. In many cases, her mere word is enough to get the ResetERA/Gamerghazi crowd to go full Autist harassing anyone and everyone on her behalf in an effort to appease sempai.
Do you remember when Brianna Wu dared to stick her head out and say she was more oppressed than Quinn? Quinn *immediately* hedged Brianna out of CON in response. Do you remember when Jason Schrier won an award and Zoe Quinn took him to task for not kissing the ring until he apologized?
Pepperidge Farms Kiwi Farms remembers:
I can go on for fucking pages about this shit, as anyone remotely familiar with my coverage of this bitch is already aware, the the short version is that she's someone even Games Journalists are afraid of crossing, for much the same reason they were of pissing off Alyssa Waldrop, who Quinn now has further emulated by possessing a fucking body count.
But there's a critical difference:
Scale. Vade's group was small, so she'd inevitably get her hands dirty when she wanted someone taken down a peg. This was critical to ultimately defanging her, because it allowed it to be shown that, ultimately, she was a hilarious fuck-up worthy only of ridicule.
Quinn is a
completely different beast, with thousands of times the reach Vade had. She has a fucking
army of mouth-breathing supporters that uncritically follow every single thing she says and still think she's eligable for sainthood. When Quinn withdrew her suit against Eron Gjoni, lest she ultimately perjure herself,
the response to it by her supporters was nicely encapsulated by this transcription by Alan Pardew. Even now, not only is Gamerghazi outright doing damage control over this, but
chastizing one another about not using Zoe's personal nonbinary pronouns. All she needs to do is point a single finger at a target, and her army of autistic followers will do the rest, and they will do so with all the malice and aggression they can possibly muster. If you want a cross-section of how broken these fucks are, take a look at the ResetERA thread.
Quinn you fundamentally
can't disarm the way you did Vade; even when she's been caught sexually harassing people, lying, threatening people, and more, there's been absolutely no consequences for any of it because anyone who would dare bring it up will be dealt with scorched-earth style. And that's literally the only remotely positive thing to come out of this poor bastard's suicide: The fact that this will be tied to her from this point onwards.