Video Games: Transgender Dev commits suicide,driven by cyberbullies!

brIt-()nstar

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Transgender game developer Rachel Byrk was told by cyber bullies to jump off a bridge, in the end that’s what she decided to do

It’s a sad time for the gaming industry as it loses a creative young game developer to suicide. Rachel Byrk, 23, was a prominent transgender developer who was best known for her work on Gamecube and Wii emulators. Years before she dived into development work and joined all the communities involved in it, however, she had suffered from low self esteem and chronic pain. Those problems only grew worse after joining the only game development community where she was subject to constant harassment.

As many people know being gay or transgender in the gaming community can make you a major target for trolls and cyber bullies. Rachel Byrk was no exception, for months now cyber bullies told the young developer that she should jump from a bridge. On April 23, after months of this severe bullying Byrk jumped from the Washington Bridge in New York. Only weeks after posting on a 4chan VG that she would be leaving a number of online communities because of their treatment.

That post was also met with a wall of hateful message telling Byrk that she should commit suicide. Now as news of her death spreads scores of other game communities, like the one centered around the Dolphin emulator, mourn her loss. Memorials have appeared all across the internet to remember Byrk and the contributions she made to the emulators she loved.That outpouring of sadness at her loss has sparked a new discussion in the gaming world about homophobia and transphobia.

The strongest voices in that new conversation are the people she worked with on the Dolphin emulator. Rachel Byrk was an important name to anyone who closely follows Dolphin and her presence is already being sorely missed there:

“She was a very kind and helpful person, one of many to help guide me through the project when I first started to contribute to the program. Her contributions to both the TAS and Dolphin Emulator community were vast, adding multiple helpful and sorely needed tools to make Dolphin easier to TAS. Although I did not know her as long as the others, I know she will surely be missed by all of those who knew her.”

http://www.geeksnack.com/2015/04/28/...yber-bullying/

Rest in peace, bb. I used ha emulators on PC a lot cause I did not buy a Wii or GC last gens.

nicholasisweird

Rest in peace

Opacho

god damn it this is as saddening as it is infuriating. Rest in peace love.

Pop

Disgusting. 4Chan and transphobic bigots are such trash. I hope life tears them apart.

Nemo

Trolling/clickbait thread titles aren't funny or clever when it comes to things like this

brIt-()nstar

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Originally posted by Nemo

Trolling/clickbait thread titles aren't funny or clever when it comes to things like this

A dev commited suicide over cyberbullying that is prevalent in gaming forums and here you are complaining about a thread title that is wildly not even near trolling or clickbait Your post is irrelevant.

You did not even pay respects to her. I mean that's tacky...

XtinaPanicGodney

So sad that so many trans people are dying. People need to get educated and learn that being transgender is normal. R.I.P.

Darren-5-08

It's sad that it came to this, but why didn't she just block the cyberbullies?

Ressti

So sad. RIP

Nemo

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Originally posted by brIt-()nstar

A dev commited suicide over cyberbullying that is prevalent in gaming forums and here you are complaining about a thread title that is wildly not even near trolling or clickbait Your post is irrelevant.

You did not even pay respects to her. I mean that's tacky...

It just seemed like it was aimed for people to assume it was about the singer DEV. Unless dev is a common abbreviation for developer, I'm not familiar with that kind of thing

If so, my bad. And ofc it's sad, it's a tragedy

Suicide, especially when driven by people on the other side of a computer screen is so sad. RIP

TheCheshireCat

Why did you capitalize "Dev"?

You know what you did, gurl.

Khal

R.I.P That's so sad to hear, I wonder how the people who bullied her even live with themselves after hearing this.

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Originally posted by Nemo

It just seemed like it was aimed for people to assume it was about the singer DEV. Unless dev is a common abbreviation for developer, I'm not familiar with that kind of thing

If so, my bad. And ofc it's sad, it's a tragedy

Suicide, especially when driven by people on the other side of a computer screen is so sad. RIP

Nah you thought right, the OP knew what he was doing with that tacky title :smh:

DevonDreams

why dis in video games

medoner

this is so disgusting what do people get out of bullying others because they're different ? we should embrace minorities i can't believe we are losing so many people at such a young age i hope the people that bullied her live with the guilt that they basically killed someone forever.

!Blue!

Very sad

4chan is such trash sometimes (most of the time tbh) smh

DevonDreams

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Originally posted by TheCheshireCat

Why did you capitalize "Dev"?

You know what you did, gurl.

what did he do?
its just developer her title
stop being extra

DevonDreams

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Originally posted by Nemo

It just seemed like it was aimed for people to assume it was about the singer DEV. Unless dev is a common abbreviation for developer, I'm not familiar with that kind of thing

If so, my bad. And ofc it's sad, it's a tragedy

Suicide, especially when driven by people on the other side of a computer screen is so sad. RIP

but Dev isnt transgender

NX127

this's just really horrible

what a cruel world where we live

RIP

Eternium

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Originally posted by Darren-5-08

It's sad that it came to this, but why didn't she just block the cyberbullies?

She needs to network if she wants a career. The same homophobic bigots that bullied her are the ones she would've had to beg for a career.

I don't think people realize how terrible the gaming community is. Gamergate was a movement to stop feminism in journalism and "protect" video game journalism. They threatened to rape prominent females and shoot up a school over it. The modern KKK, tbh.

FreeAsMyWeave