I feel a primer is needed in what Renfamous is, why she does what she does, and most critically, why I am personally against her having a thread here. Renfamous' singular accomplishment is
how much she whined about Comicsgate and how much she went after them on behalf of her friends in the Rat King. She's a miserably unattractive cosplayer that, despite appearances, is most-assuredly
not a troon, and instead suffering from the Rebecca Hernandez-Gerber affliction first noted by
@AnOminous whereby being a massive shithead to people prematurely ages you. She's the worst kind of deplatforming-advocating, autistic screeching, proud-to-be-cruel asshole.
I know you might be thinking: "
Jaimas, she sounds like a glorious train-wreck. How can we not cover her?"
Because that's what she wants, and we shouldn't give it to her.
As her namesake suggests, Renfamous desires infamy and e-fame above all else. Twitter is her battleground and
she's been suspended from it quite a few times (Twitter's blatant ideological bias at work). Her entire online persona is locked into being as big an asshole as humanly possible, and actively antagonize other Twitter users. Towards this end, she actively barges into controversies like Comicsgate (and now, the weeb wars) solely because it will give her targets she can attack without consequence.
In many ways, she comes across as being like
Peter Katzinski or
Nora Reed, but Renfamous is a worse person than either, because for her, the ability to hurt people
is the end. She measures her success not by accomplishments but how much she's hated. She namesearches herself constantly, and whether talked about directly or indirectly, she'll swoop in to pontificate about how awesome a freedom fighter for Social Justice she is. In this regard, a thread on this website, for her, would be her crown, proof that she's been a big enough and scary enough to get those big nasty Kiwis to cover her.
The term "attention whore" gets thrown around a lot, but it perfectly describes her. To cover her on this website beyond mocking her periodically would be honoring her.
My single favorite Holocaust joke
ever was told to me by my friend's grandfather (who was a Rabbi):
A: "You know, my grandfather died during the Holocaust."
B: "That's dreadful!"
A: "
Yeah, he got drunk and fell out of one of a Guard Tower."
Very few Jews object to Holocaust jokes if they're funny enough in my experience. Similarly my friend John declaring his intent to be the world's first Ninjew (Jewish Ninja, armed with throwing Stars of David and dreidel caltrops) was enough to get said grandfather to laugh his ass off.
