I Love You, Vivian James by
Two childhood friends graduate from college in the summer of 2014. Both women find themselves embroiled in a series of events that will collectively become known on Twitter and beyond as #GamerGate. Ashe, anxious and idealistic, takes up the mantle of Social Justice Warrior as she pursues her career as a journalist while Lexi, disaffected and aimless, kicks off her budding artistic career by moonlighting as a...
Two childhood friends graduate from college in the summer of 2014. Both women find themselves embroiled in a series of events that will collectively become known on Twitter and beyond as #GamerGate. Ashe, anxious and idealistic, takes up the mantle of Social Justice Warrior as she pursues her career as a journalist while Lexi, disaffected and aimless, kicks off her budding artistic career by moonlighting as a fanartist who exclusively draws art centered around 4-Chan creation, Vivian James. As Ashe and Lexi become more and more entrenched in either side of the conflict, they attempt to find each others' humanity and destroy each other by turns, all the while unaware that many of the trolls they engage with online have moved beyond dialogue and are playing for keeps. A story of growing up, the struggle of defining one's ideals, and how we got here.