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Hell  ·  4027 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Ex-Microsoft creative director Adam Orth on dealing with internet hate and toxicity

    "...society has regressed to a point where this behavior and discourse is an accepted response to something someone doesn't like or agree with," he said.

Or it could be the fact that the X-Box's primary demographic is 10-18 year old boys. I don't think society has regressed, I think this guy was just playing with fire and severely misread the audience of an abundantly vocal and somewhat immature audience. If anything could be said, it would be said, so goes the rule of the internet. So it seems that even after all this introspection, he still doesn't have it right.

Am I wrong for not feeling sympathy? Maybe it's just because I've worked with too many "creative directors" who had no business doing what they were doing.