Did you know that the person who initially tweeted the Deuxmoi "leak" deleted it, locked their account, then posted an apology and retraction statement with a legal disclaimer? I find that very interesting. A threat of legal action perhaps?
Parts of this are a pretty upsetting read so if you don’t want to read about harassment keep on scrolling please.
So I had to look into this because I didn’t know the original tweeter. And anon is right they did in fact say this on their twitter account and then go private.
And the reason they had to all this was because of the MASSIVE amount of harassment they got. I feel so terrible for this twitter user for having to protect their tweets just to stop it.
Flat out, in most countries someone retweeting or sharing content is not considered defemation unless you created the content yourself. In the US at least, retweets will not get the user in trouble for defamation.
But yeah I’d actually like to talk about some of the horrific things I saw when going on twitter about this user. There were so many people harassing them in the comments and retweets and acting like they personally were trying to take down Henry Cavill. And then when the user said they had to take a break for their mental health people KEPT on going.
And many of the users commenting were exactly the type of people I have been talking about in the witcher fandom
This user had a LOT to say and multiple comments all about how terrible OP was and how they deserved the hate. And of course you go to their twitter and:
They are a conservative transphobe
Another user who was really going after OP and had many many tweets about it:
Well, guess what, they also have opinions that are just so ✨ fun ✨
And who could forget this person being misogynistic af under the guise of “protecting Henry”
And on this post I said to be careful about how you talk about Cavill leaving the show and to be aware of the people you keep community with.
And this is a perfect example.
What OP did is share a rumor. No different than all the people on tumblr who shared rumors of Cavill leaving because of the writing or because of Hissrich.
The key difference is the particular rumor about Cavill acting poorly on set is one that paints HCav in a poor light which the others did not.
This has resulted in a truly wild amount of racism and misogyny. I said it here before but I’ll say it again: defending Cavill by attacking women is not the move you think it is.
The newest rumor is just like any other rumor. It’s what happens in Hollywood people speculate and people guess. There’s so much behind the scenes drama people want to know more. That does not mean anyone should be harassed off a website and worried about legal action due to comments from people who are transphobic, misogynistic and racist.
At the end of the day, no matter the reason Cavill left, there is no reason to harass someone like this.
So yes anon, I know you sent me this with the intention of a “gotcha” moment where I would admit that I was a terrible person for also sharing this same rumor and I would retract it all and join OP in apologizing.
Instead I’ll again say that harassment is never okay, OP didn’t deserve to feel unsafe because of terrible people online, and the way that Cavill stans are reacting so aggressively and rude to this newest rumor of his poor behavior on set just shows that many people need to learn how to behave themselves.
This was under the new Blood Origins Witchmas tweet and I cannot stress this enough I don’t give a fuck if you love Cavill or hate him or what set of rumors you have confirmation bias towards and which u believe or disagree with but please for the love of all that is holy don’t be like this guy 💀
The unhinged stan behavior I have seen on everything platform but twitter and reddit especially is just too much. Tell me why the comment section of every single Blood Origins post is filled with “bring back Henry” or “this won’t be anything like the books/games”
Like y’all. Not only is Blood Origins entirely a new thing that isn’t an adaption so it doesn’t make sense to try and say it’s not like the books because uh yeah. It’s not even set in the same time period. But Cavill isn’t even remotely involved and people seem to think he is? Or something? I’m pumped to see what Netflix’s take on original Witcher stuff is just like the games were a original concept from the books. It’s cool to see the universe expand.
But yeah. Don’t be these people. Please. Oh also that Bounding into Comics person is just a blatant racist and misogynist you can read this story for proof of that where he says that Kelly Marie Tran and John Boyega never received racial harassment for their roles in Star Wars. Or here where they are complaining about casting Annabeth as a black girl in the Percy Jackson series.
It’s just so funny how once you start digging many of the sources and people trying to say there’s a smear campaign against Cavill end up being aggressively racist and misogynistic themselves (which yeah. There isn’t a smear campaign. People are just talking about a rumor from a gossip rag and a smear campaign is def more than that 💀)