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> Isn't insane that many of the comments are linking the CEO of Funko,

I'd say that it's normal on this site. You are misintepreting the intentions of commenters. No one is doxxing the CEO of a public company by posting a link to their profile.

People should be telling them they screwed up when their corporate behemots run over a small village and they don't notice. Any good CEO can capitalize on that.

Of course, any threats etc. are appalling and personal stuff should be totally left out of this. On the other hand, we should be able to call out the CEO of a company when they behave like this, regardless of what has happened to other CEOs.

> Am I the crazy one for seeing that in relation with the recent Health Care CEO events?

Crazy? Idk. Overreacting, perhaps. Surely the risk of someone planning an assassination over a bit of internet outage is negible. It isn't even clear who the culprit is.

I am pretty disturbed by the same as well.

I am hoping it's all internet machismo. Not that it makes is any better..

Same. It's a normalization of murder as a way to seek redress.

You've seen death threats on Bluesky aimed at the CEO over this?

https://bsky.app/profile/karmn.bsky.social/post/3lcuc4dqudc2...

It's hard for me to read this any other way.

I saw that too. While the jury's out, this is clearly not an obvious "call to arms" or any kind of threat. It may be read that way, so I'd prefer not to have it, but if even stating the name of a CEO is off the table, then that's far too much 'protection', IMO. But, yeah, "fix this" isn't great wording to be using.

So one post with 3 shares. Humanity is doomed!

Easy to say when your name isn’t Cynthia Williams.

I feel that it's been coming for a while though - the first time I noticed this sentiment was when a businessman drowned after his luxury yacht sank in in a storm[1], and there were comments on social media celebrating the event. Whatever you think of the individual or millionaires in general, I wouldn't wish that fate on my worst enemy.

[1]: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/oct/04/mike-lynch-d...

Yes, I feel the same way. Internet machismo is a fairly appropriate term for it.

It's not insane at all. Funko unalived itch.io and its entire ecosystem.

>unalived

Go to the nearest mirror and take a good look at yourself.

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