Remember Oliver Franke, aka Divine Guardian? You know, the guy who claimed inside knowledge of the demise of Star Trek Discovery, over and over again… only to be wrong, on every occasion? Well he’s sharing some stuff from Bounding into Clickbait (sorry, that’s Bounding into Comics), concerning claims of bullying behind the scenes of DSC.
Considering Oliver’s history of… well, we won’t call it lying, we’ll just call it being wrong – why should we take his highly inflammatory allegations seriously? See below…
These are extremely serious claims to make about someone. There is not, to my knowledge, the slightest bit of evidence to back up what Oliver is saying. At best, Oliver is regurgitating a rumour or lie he heard elsewhere. At worst, he is making shit up – either way, spreading this kind of allegation on social media can easily be taken as a matter of libel/slander.
Some people, if they don’t like a TV show, shrug their shoulders and move on. Others, like Oliver, seem to be on a Holy Crusade, and in the name of that crusade they’re prepared to come up with some crude and deceitful stories. My gauntlet to Oliver, if he should read this, is to have the conviction and courage to, for once, back up his claims, or retract them.
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We live in a post-Donald Trump social media world where one can say anything they want on the internet. There doesn’t need to be a shred of truth or evidence to back a claim. And you can go so far as to incite a riot against the very foundations of a nation’s government and there are few (if any) consequences to be had. So why not make wild claims about the creators of a TV show you don’t like instead of being a normal human being and, like you said, just shrug it off when you don’t like a thing. I think I’m done with people.
Sadly, individuals like Oliver seem to have lost touch with the realities of acceptable behaviour a long time ago. I have found him to be repeatedly dishonest and unrepentantly so.
Sadly Aaron, you are spot on. It seems social media has given rise to the idea that even heinous lies about others don’t carry any consequences – and if there are consequences, they’re decried as being unfair.