Mob-Justice

6 entries

2019 Jun 2026 Alec Holowka — Four Days On August 26, 2019, Zoe Quinn publicly accused Night in the Woods co-creator Alec Holowka of abuse. His studio cut ties the next day. He never faced an investigation, never had the opportunity to respond publicly. Four days later, he was dead. The mob moved on. The timeline didn't.
2017 Jun 2026 August Ames — Bodily Autonomy An adult film performer declined a scene with a male co-star who had done gay porn, citing safety concerns about different testing protocols. Twitter called her a bigot and told her to eat cyanide. Two days later she was dead. She was 23.
2013 Jun 2026 Justine Sacco — Eleven Hours A PR executive with 170 followers tweeted a bad AIDS joke before an 11-hour flight to Cape Town. By the time she landed, she was the number one trending topic worldwide, fired, and unhireable. She outlasted the publication that destroyed her.
2012 Jun 2026 Lindsey Stone — The Photo A woman took a joke photo next to a 'Silence and Respect' sign at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. It was a running gag between friends. Within days she was fired, agoraphobic, and afraid to leave her house for a year.
2013 Jun 2026 Sunil Tripathi — The Wrong Man After the Boston Marathon bombing, Reddit crowdsourced a manhunt and identified a Brown University student as the suspect. He'd been dead for a month. His family received 58 phone calls between 3 and 4 AM calling their missing son a terrorist.
Jun 2026 The Four-Day Trial On Monday, a game developer was accused on Twitter. On Tuesday, his studio cut him loose. On Saturday, he was dead. No investigation was conducted. No charges were filed. The internet executed a sentence in less time than it takes to get a court date.

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