[newnewpdro]

> very unfortunate if he has schizophrenia but bigotry is not a symptom of it

Terry Davis, the late schizophrenic author of TempleOS, had a number of racist rants and other bigoted and hate-filled videos on YouTube.

[samfriedman]

Time Cube could be another well-known example

[newnewpdro]

> He was a gentle, troubled spirit that said the Gamer Word. Did he ever hurt or wrong anybody on racially motivated grounds? He jumped in front of a train after getting shadowbanned on Hacker News. Maybe you're the bad guy.

He live-streamed using racial epithets against people of said race in public.

If you think shadowbanning on HN is why Terry committed suicide, you weren't paying attention.

He didn't jump in front of the train, he sat on the tracks and waited patiently with his back to it (there's video).

What happened to Terry is a textbook example of why vulnerable people need to be supervised on the internet.

Trolls posing as his fans had miniature drums sent to him while still living with his elderly parents, playing a significant part in his eventually becoming homeless.

They spoofed fake love letters from an internet-famous woman he was clearly obsessed with to anyone watching his live-streams, who would then of course completely ignore his advances.

Basically trolls actively messed with Terry, watching the consequences in real-time on his live-streams, as if it were a video game. Steadily pushing him further down a spiral of self-destruction, culminating in taking his own life.

I'm saddened by what happened to Terry, and am confident he'd still be among the living had he never discovered YouTube. Live-streaming his daily life was his undoing.