I told Near that it would be hard to write a story about their life without, on some level, touching upon this, but I would only proceed in a way that made them comfortable and would not elevate the still-ongoing harassment. That's when Near opened up about Kiwi Farms, the forum's harassment campaign, and the endless harm it had caused. There was a point in that process where I asked Near about a subject we were dancing around: why was the year 2020 so traumatic? COVID-19 was ongoing and a source of anxiety, but it was clear that wasn't the whole story. "Ooooh excellent questions!" they wrote one time, when I asked them to explain what a "patching assembler" was, before they went on to write more than 1,000 words on the topic. Near was patient with their time, kind enough to walk me through everything step by step, and tolerant when I'd respond to hundreds of words with a blank stare and more questions.
The story has been updated to reflect these changes since publication.)Ī graphic Near added to the end of Bahamut Lagoon. Since then, it appears Near came out as nonbinary and used they/them pronouns. (A side note about that story: it was written with he/him pronouns because that's what Near told me to use. It was a quest that started when they were 15 years old, and concluded when they were nearly 40. I had the pleasure of writing a lengthy profile of Near this year, the result of several weeks of email communications with them, after Near released the conclusion of a 23-year journey in developing their own localization of Bahamut Lagoon, an old Squaresoft JRPG.
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The harassment ultimately put Near into a place where panic attacks were frequent, with every day being full of "dread and worry." But the harassment that Near received recently has started a conversation about mental health and harassment, causing many to wonder what they could have done differently to support them.Īs bad as the past was, Near said that Kiwi Farms "made the harassment orders of magnitude worse," as the doxing forum attacked Near for the mere fact of being autistic, and using the threat of doxing those they cared about as a means of eliciting a reaction. It's frequently difficult to point to a single cause that leads a person to kill themselves, and Near's problems started years ago. "Every single person involved/aware did their best to save Near's life at every point in time given the information they had access to at the time," said Martin on Twitter.
The statement also said that some of the harassment Near mentioned happened on other platforms that its administrator says they cannot control. Kiwi Farms later, while under a DDoS attack that's briefly taken the site down, released a statement saying it had nothing to do with Near's death.
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Over the weekend, Near published a series of tweets implying a desire to end their own life after a targeted campaign of harassment by members of Kiwi Farms, the notoriously toxic message board forum whose members regularly engage in harassment campaigns. Waypoint has been unable to independently verify this information. On Monday morning, hacker and security engineer Hector "Marcan" Martin said he'd been in contact with the police department in charge of investigating the incident, confirming Near passed away sometime on June 27.
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