WildGoose: In Response to Ashton Liu’s Farewell to #GamerGate Post

Guest Editorial by WildGoose

Nicole Sund (@CultOfVivian) is an emotional manipulator who views her friends as collectible trading cards. It appears that Ashton Liu is no different.

Despite claiming to have been sapped of energy due to being so grief-stricken, Liu has come out of his state of grieving just long enough to take a swipe at The Ralph Retort and double down on defining his ex-lover’s life as a hashtag. The following screencap is from his recent “goodbye letter” on Reddit.

He claims that I’ve used his loss to attack people but–just like Nikki Sund–he refuses to elaborate on how exactly my article did that. It’s emotional manipulation and if you dare call these people out for grave-standing for the purpose of propagating a hashtag, CultOfVivian and her thirstlords will say that you’re “using his loss” and nothing you say is relevant because “muh suicide.” Nicole pushed this narrative out in order to earn herself another gold star in the friendship Olympics.

Liu states that the only privacy he expected was “in real life.” How exactly is plastering your dead girlfriend’s name all over the Twittersphere respecting the Feng family’s privacy? It’s not like your Twitter had mostly “in real life” friends on it, so one would assume that you wanted no attention on Lily’s death. At first I thought Oliver and Nikki were betraying your wishes, but clearly I was wrong. You really did give them explicit permission to use a dead girl’s name to promote a hashtag. I thought a little higher of you. Obviously, that’s my mistake.

Perhaps, the most glaring problem with Ash’s response is that he barely mentions Feng. In fact, he can’t go a single paragraph without saying the word “me” or otherwise referring to himself. He even spends one of the largest segments of the post talking about how much of a virtuous hero he is.

“I never bragged about these things, never paraded them around like achievements…” until it came time to show off to random people on the internet, am I right?

Ashton Liu claims The Ralph Retort’s aim was to drive him from the internet, which is absolutely false; but make no mistake, experiencing loss doesn’t give you a license to take verbal swipes at people without any sort of response (The name of this site should’ve been your first clue).

Ashton is saying that he’s leaving social media and discontinuing all posting to the GamerGate tag (Much like Oliver Campbell did), but mark my words, he’ll be back…