The Last of Us is known for several touching scenes within it, and one of them is related to a certain Bunny and her sad fate witnessed by Joel and Ellie. This sequence has however become a real one meme on the internet, mainly due to the reactions that various streamers and youtubers have witnessing the following sequence. One of these reaction however, it has entered the eye of the web storm, so much so that even some of the developers have commented on it since its diffusion. of the clip di Emma Montgomery, known online as Negaoryx, who had an extremely sincere reaction about the end of the poor digital being. The story could easily end here, unfortunately the world of the web presents different dark sides beyond the positive ones.
The girl was interviewed about the matter by Kotaku, in which she revealed how over the course of two years she received several death threats about things that never did. This is because his reaction was used as free domain meme, extrapolating it from the original video and placing it in quieter contexts such as Minecraft or Undertale. The problem is, many people don't know that it is not the original clip, and for this they send out real offenses in his private messages. However, it seems that it is linked precisely to related products mainly aimed at the very young, like the aforementioned Minecraft or even Five Night's at Freddy's, and then imagine that they are minors who they don't fully understand what a meme is. Montgomery even contacted his lawyer to find out what he can do in this situation, and told them that he may request the removal of certain content but it would trigger a real organized cyberbullying, so much so that the community would make his life a real hell.
A particular case he talked about concerns a recent stream of his, in which a user was asked what color was the thong he was wearing that day. She understands that someone can also joke, but unfortunately that person was serious from the start showing himself irespectful of women's freedom and human right. According to her, they are players who try to vent their frustration in this way, but not a sorry to be able to offend the feelings and dignity of real people who live behind a screen. The whole question even interested Kurt Margenau, co-game director of The Last of Us Part 2, and talked about how never received death threats despite being part of a very controversial project like the last game N. Instead these things have always been addressed to women, LGBTQ, BIPOC or even Jews.
This demonstrates the general immaturity of certain elements of any community, which unfortunately is difficult to eradicate given the complexity of the human mind. We in the editorial team hope that Negaoryx can resolve his situation in the best possible way, not so much for The Last of Us meme as in making himself respected as an integral person of society.
