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[Abriael]

most of the comments got deleted. People were calling her ugly, stupid bitch, etc.

definitely not the Final Fantasy fanbase's finest hour

Do you have any evidence of that?

I followed the article rather closely, and I didn't see *any* comment that said "ugly", "stupid bitch" or anything similar appear at any time.

It's very convenient to accuse a *whole community* of something like that without providing the slightest evidence, isn't it? Especialy when it allows you to sit on a fake moral high horse and completely ignore the valid criticism to your work.

Playing the victim is a rather common journalistic trick, and even if those comments did exist (thing that I have every reason to doubt, especially in any sizable percentage of the total), no writer worth his salt would brand a whole community out of the actions of few.

While rudeness is never nice, you don't go into a writing career without growing a thick skin. I have been called things that would make a league of legends player grow pale, and guess what? I learned from it, exercised self-criticism to understand if I wrote something nonsensical, and moved on, and for sure I didn't ever make blanket statements on any community because someone saw fit to insult me.

If someone goes into a writing career expecting only compliments, cheers and applause, he's delusive.