Last of Us 2 voice actor Laura Bailey shares death threats on Twitter
The voice of Abby from The Last of Us Part 2 is the target of online harassment. She took to Twitter in an attempt to stop this madness.
The Internet can be a dark and sinister place. Users are given anonymity on certain platforms, which can lead to some god awful behavior. This is the case in the current wave of hatred being spewed in the direction of voice actor Laura Bailey. Her role as Abby in The Last of Us Part 2 has drawn the ire of some of the worst people on the Internet, and they are taking it too far as only an unruly online mob can do. Laura shared some of the death threats she has been receiving online in a tweet earlier today. Check out the embed below.
Man. I try to only post positive stuff on here... but sometimes this just gets a little overwhelming. I blacked out some of the words cuz, ya know, spoilers.
— Laura Bailey (@LauraBaileyVO) July 3, 2020
Side note. Thank you to all the people sending me positive messages to balance it out. It means more than I can say.❤️ pic.twitter.com/kGyULWPpNu
No one should ever have to endure this level of hatred online or in person. It seems that most of the comments revolve around the character she played in The Last of Us Part 2. That's right, a fictional character in a made up world. These people are willing to tell voice actor Laura Bailey that they will kill her.
Over a video game.
Our own Josh Hawkins reviewed the game and also sat down to talk about some of the big events in the game that have divided the community. Be sure to check out Josh's feature The Last of Us didn't need a sequel, but I'm glad we got one to read more on that topic.
The Last of Us Part 2 has been review bombed by a cohort of gamers who are very upset about something that happened in the game. This has likely been exacerbated by the game being leaked earlier this year. It is truly unfortunate that all of this is happening as Laura's performance is truly a highlight in one of the finest games to be released this year. It would be nice if the Internet could stop being terrible for a minute. Wouldn't it?
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replyAsif Khan posted a new article, Last of Us 2 voice actor Laura Bailey shares death threats on Twitter
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Ugh. I'm getting really tired of the toxicity in gaming.
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Twitter is definitely toxic, but so is a depressingly large part of the gaming community.
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Man, I really can't think of many fictional characters I've hated as much as I hated Kai Winn. She was just such a slimy, vile presence. The actress absolutely killed in that role.
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I wish people wouldn’t issue death threats to anyone on twitter! Doesn’t matter to whom.
That should be an perma ban at minimum, with the account, tweetless, but with their name visible remaining for all to see with a notice that they were banned for posting death threats. Should be great for job interviews-
Should be instantly permabannable.
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I was browsing one of the TLOU2 subreddits this morning, totally crazed. One segment of users bitching about Abby’s story line, another applauding some youtube Angry Joe review, others voicing issues they have with the story as a whole and getting shouted down by others.
Game of the year for me so far, I love what they’ve done with the characters and it’s just such a complete package. Started the NG+ on hard last night and it’s an actual challenge even with the upgraded skills and weapons. I’m gonna get all those damn cards this time, using the shack guide.
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I've been a Laura Bailey fan for many years now and this is just... Sickening. It's be sickening no matter who it happened to but Laura Bailey is a freaking care bear.
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Ditto, she's a fantastic actress and person, this is just sad :(
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Don't lump people with mental disorders in with these assholes. There are plenty of people out there, in the gaming community as well, who are perfectly in control of all of their faculties and are still shitty human beings.
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I can guarantee they'd throw your ass in jail or prison long before they'd throw you in a psych ward.
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remember the ebay story recently where a bunch of ebay employees stalked and harassed that woman for writing in the newsletter?
this stuff can and often is premeditated and meant to have the intended effect of silencing people. definitely there are people who do this and have trouble controlling themselves, but many these people are completely 100% sane and lucid, they're just awful people who legitimately believe this is a completely fair way of behaving. -
Plenty of threats have pre-calculated motives behind them. It's fear used as a tool. No different than terrorism.
This doesn't make people insane unless you want to pull a No True Scotsman and say that any criminal act is by definition "crazy".
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I get what you're saying. If you're capable of threatening someone's life that in itself is a "mental problem" and you're probably right on some level. You're going to get pushback because of what people generally consider to be a mental disorder and that those people aren't necessarily always directly malicious.
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That's entirely too simplistic. You need to classify mental disorders, it's a spectrum where on one end you have intent (control of faculties) and the other you would have basal mechanisms (inherited + genetic + life long damage).
I think a significant portion of these are still closer to the intent line than the other
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The vast majority of gamer's and gaming communities do sow the seeds where this stuff happens though.
Such an obsession over hating on stuff online and Shack is very guilty of this as well, look at how may threads Star Wars gets still as just one example.
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I'm willing to bet a lot of money that the largest consumers of video games are the ones who're doing this.
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BTW, great Kinda Funny interview with Laura.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2kosboYHeQ-
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Like it or not, this is gamer culture. We need to do better.
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The industry is not at all diverse. Its also hostile to women and people of colour. Toxicity is just as much a part of the creation of games as it is the consumption.
I've done a lot of work with the dev community in my city, and I can tell you that it also has a loooooong way to go.
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Can we get a public apology to the community of people who simply dislike certain aspects of the game?
Your whole "news" lacks any basic research and is an outright lie.
1. There was no mob of death threats. It is six individuals over the last 30 days or so.
2. These individuals who send death threats are the target audience of TLOU2 and they love the game.
https://www.reddit.com/r/TheLastOfUs2/comments/hkvuw7/the_truth_what_nobody_will_acknowledge_about_the/-
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Why should ND apologize to that part of the community who dislike aspects of the game?-
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Thank you for clarifying that for me because I was unsure of which community he was asking for an apology to.
But also lol.
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Apology? And the death threats people are the target audience? Why the fuck did I buy the game then? Clearly it’s not for me.
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What you're witnessing is an early, nerdy version of proto-fascism.
I WILL GET MY WAY OR YOU WILL DIE! But it's ok, because I only told you I'm going to kill you a handful of times, LOL!-
Only sporadic death threats are right!
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*tight.
Thanks iOS for changing what I wrote :(
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This is this user’s first and only post
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First and only comment in your history. If you reply to this thread I'll honestly be amazed.
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Feel free to stay offline forevermore.
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Ok fascist Morty.
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You know what? Lets assume you have a point. I don't think you do, but lets do that thought experiment. You are upset about the game and all this is expressing that. Okay. Thing is, Laura Bailey is a fucking actor. She reads the script that's put in front of her. In this game, that script had "Abby's lines on it." She didn't write Abby's character. She didn't write what Abby did, or the story that resulted from that. She read the lines that Abby's script had. Realistically, if you are going to be upset about the story, you should be harassing the WRITERS AND DIRECTORS. Which you shouldn't, you don't deserve an apology and fuck you, but at least if you were going after them it'd make some semblance of sense.
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A friend and colleague when I worked in games on community once told me about the multiple death threats she'd had after a few years in the industry. By that point I'd worked in games for 8 years and hadn't received a single one. That was my first real "games industry is often complete shit towards women" wake up call.
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See also: dahanese's post history. Gamers are particularly shitty to women in community management roles. I saw the same thing even with the crappy Bakugan web game the toy company I worked for put out.
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Wikipedia, but says it’s a type of coercion and is could be seen as a criminal offense https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_threat
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States generally have laws against “terroristic threats” though most are old in the ways of implementation where online threats aren’t considered “viable” because they don’t realize how doxxing is real and how one’s threat can spur someone else who didn’t make the threat to act on it.
Given the nature of it being online now you have interstate communications so is it a federal responsibility or local jurisdiction which under all scenarios there’s little resources and enforcement. Only when there’s an exceptional incident with plenty of media coverage might there be some action taken.-
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But that’s infringing on free speech according to mojo
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