A Prominent Accessibility Advocate Worked With Studios and Inspired Change. But She Never Actually Existed. - IGN
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In the years since the alleged death of beloved accessibility advocate Susan Banks, mounting evidence and accounts from those close to her work suggest that she was not the person she claimed to be. In fact, some are convinced that Banks may never have existed at all.
  • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    24·
    4 months ago

    This guy "As a black man"ed the whole disabled gaming community what the fuck.

    He lives up to his name, Craven, for deleting all his social media in response to this.

    Anyone who gave this guy a fucking dime needs to sue the living shit out of him for fraudulently misrepresenting himself as getting money to these disabled women that never fucking existed and this fucking chode just pocketed all the fucking money.

    What a giant piece of shit. I hope someone knocks him the fuck out and people just leave him out cold in the street because fuck him.

    • DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      18·
      4 months ago

      I’m really tired of the “as a___” comments. They’re becoming incredibly prevalent with a certain political party and they’re everywhere on Yahoo news

      You can spot them a mile away and yet they’re probably in Russia

      • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
        9·
        4 months ago

        Yeah at this point I am assume anyone coaching their bullshit with that tactic is a bad faith actor…

        Half the time, it has nothing to do with the shilling they are doing too lol 🤡

  • smegEnglish
    19·
    4 months ago

    Blimey, and they say IGN only does 9/10 reviews nowadays! Fascinating article, very keen to hear if it develops any further.

    What was this guy’s motivation? Playing the long game to get rich selling his kick-started ventures? Just for the glory of everyone telling him how great he is? Real altruism in a really weird way? Did he actually help improve accessibility enough in games for the ends to justify the means?

    • Stepos Venzny@beehaw.orgEnglish
      6·
      4 months ago

      A lie about having a girlfriend that spiraled so far out of control that it made the world a better place.

  • Mossy Feathers (She/They)@pawb.social
    17·
    4 months ago

    Jesus Christ what a wild story. Is it possible that Craven simply wanted to do good, but “as a white, abled man” wasn’t opening doors so they felt they had to pretend to be someone else? From what it sounds like, a lot of what they and their “”“partners”“” did was legitimately helpful. The thing that leaves me confused is that they probably could have fleeced people for significantly more money but didn’t. They didn’t have to put the amount of effort into it as they did. Is it possible they were trying to do the right thing but were going about it the wrong way?