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Welp, now I'm gonna say the quiet part out loud. Schreier is toxic. For all the good reporting he does, if you get another angle on his story, or have a critique of him, he sends his followers to dogpile you and paint you as not credible. Only HE is credible, according to him.
I've heard enough stories over the years and seen how he treats people in the industry to feel fine putting this out there. He's a gatekeeper to media, he doesn't support anyone but his friends and is more than happy to have his fans attack anyone he disagrees with.
If you even TRY to have a nuanced conversation, and he sees it, he takes out all context and puts a fucking target on your back to paint you as a corporate apologist, or in support of crunch, or whatever. He doesn't care, as long as he is "right".
I am so sick and tired of people that are willing to have open conversations about these things, even if they're wrong and willing to listen, having to tiptoe around people like Jason that remove all nuance and engage in dogpiling and harassment campaigns.
I'm done being quiet.
I'm done being quiet.
The games media industry needs to welcome in new voices, people that are willing to engage in conversations and I'm happy to be someone that's helping make that change, and lots of other outlets are too.
Stop supporting people that aren't willing to have conversations.
Stop supporting people that aren't willing to have conversations.
And I'm most definitely putting a target on my back for his friends for calling this out, but I've been in this industry for over a decade now, a quarter of it now as a professional, and he and other make even interacting or having a voice on social media constant stressor.
People like me that have good intentions, want to have conversations and do good have to constantly worry about stepping in their "lane" and getting our careers destroyed as we're painted as "bad people" or whatever.
Enough is enough.
Enough is enough.
People like Jason should be welcoming to new voices, helping them learn to do good reporting, and instead, he uses his platform for almost constant toxicity, dogpiling and worse as do many others.
It's disappointing.
It's disappointing.
Anyways, that's it. I've wanted to say something for a longtime and kept quiet because I was afraid for my career and more so my own mental health. But he's proven three different times in one week that I can't stay quiet on it anymore.
And it's fine if I get attacked over this. Really is. I know who I am, I know I've spent my entire career fighting for positivity and am using the biggest platform I've ever been given to try and build a platform around positivity.
Apparently I need to clear this up, disagreeing with, or criticizing me over this, is not attacking me. I'm willing to discuss it. I put it out there, so I better be.
Trying to create false narratives about me, personal comments, DMs threatening me. That's attacking.
Trying to create false narratives about me, personal comments, DMs threatening me. That's attacking.
Please don’t put me on a pedestal or say I’m “brave” for posting this thread.. I took no joy in writing this.
It sucks to know a lot of colleagues felt the same way about this stuff. It’s not fun, and not something I or a lot of others want to take any part in.
It sucks to know a lot of colleagues felt the same way about this stuff. It’s not fun, and not something I or a lot of others want to take any part in.
