Felicia Day opens up about harassment in her new book

Probaby just about everyone here knows that Felicia Day was among those targeted by GamerGate, and that her home address was posted in her comments literally just a few minutes after she first criticized them.

I've been a fan of Felicia's since - basically forever, really - and so not a lot of the content of her book was new to me (she's talked a lot about her ... unorthodox ... upbringing quite a bit in other places). But this revelation, in her chapter about #GamerGate, certainly was:

I'd been doxxed by 4chan already, the year before.

In 2013, a group on that forum tracked down a ton of personal information on me. They shared all that and pictures of the outside of my house and my license plate amongst themselves. A disturbed fan used that information and showed up at my front door, made his way INTO MY HOUSE, and afterward, proceeded to obsess over me online in an erratic and abusive way to the extent that I was terrified he would show up again and do something violent.

So that's why so many haters were able to post my address so quickly a year later. Efficient, huh?

Later she writes:

It took six months for me to become comfortable with walking my dog at night (...), and I will never feel 100 percent safe in my own home again. I have had people sitting in cars outside my window, certified letters sent to my address just to say "I know where you live," and phone calls from strange area codes at all hours of the night. Now that I know how easy it is for anyone with an agenda to track me down, feeling safe is a cute, nostalgic feeling.

One of the tweets she quotes in the book, from a #GamerGate supporter, describes it rather succinctly:

@feliciaday Felicia could have supported #gamergate and became a hero. But she took the SJW shill route and paid the price.

"Paid the price."

Yeah, any GG supporters reading this? Go fuck yourselves.

Posted Aug 14, 2015, 10:55 PM UTC

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StrivingAllyIt's about Lorem in Ipsum Scatterplot•

I was wondering why there was a renewed push to dismiss her as a "fake geek" on Twitter. Now I know - it's because she didn't STFU the first time GG tried to intimidate her into silence. Good on her for speaking up, even knowing she's gonna get re-Gatored.

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gdshaffeOPThe Sock was Impromptu, I Have Proof•

The real irony being that it would be almost unfathomable to dismiss her as fake after reading the book. Or after, you know, knowing anything about her story beforehand.

Of course, I would put the number of Gators that will actually read it somewhere in the low single digits. Except for the chapter about them, of course, which they will hate-read to the ends of the earth.

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spambot5546•

She's pretty and successful. Therefor not a real geek. Boom, gator'd.

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TaylorS1986Spooky Autist White Knight•

She's pretty and successful. Therefor not a real geek. Boom, gator'd.

So they are exactly like the people who call every band the becomes sucessful "sellouts"? Figures.

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TinyPirateSocial Justice Buccaneer•

That explains why The Effect brothers are accepted as geeks, then!

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hackiavelli•

The real irony being that it would be almost unfathomable to dismiss her as fake after reading the book. Or after, you know, knowing anything about her story beforehand.

Day created The Guild and Cooptitude among a million other things. Calling her a "fake geek girl" with literally hundreds of hours of footage proving otherwise is truther-level denial.

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Hamuel•

Of course, I would put the number of Gators that will actually read it somewhere in the low single digits.

And then you factor by those with average reading comprehension and you've got zero gators understanding what she's saying.

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lifestyledFun King Spineless•

and the thing is, I'm not aware of Anne Rice coming forward to condemn all the people writing fake, negative reviews of Felicia's book.

but she surely wouldn't want to piss off her newfound fan club, would she?

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AmyXBlue•

What about Anne Rice?

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lifestyledFun King Spineless•

anne rice is notorious for being angry that people submit reviews she deems bad on people's work, and has no problems highlighting the people leaving the reviews so that her twitter followers and Facebook fans will go after them.

she did this do randi harper recently, after finding an old review harper left on amazon that was critical of the author of a book rather than of the book itself. anne rice received a lot of support from GG for putting randi in her crosshairs, and has been an honorary gater ever since. I think they even gave her a "based" title like they did with sommers.

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ginmarie111•

Then there's the fact that she personally doxxed someone herself. And her charming habit of calling criticism of authors "lynching" and "gang bangs". Her little minion here writes for AVFM and spends his days ranting about feminazis on twitter----when he's not threatening women and doxxing them.

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GGDisposableProven Leftoid•

and the thing is, I'm not aware of Anne Rice coming forward to condemn all the people writing fake, negative reviews of Felicia's book.

Is Anne Rice aware that Gators are review bombing Felicia Days book?

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StrivingAllyIt's about Lorem in Ipsum Scatterplot•

I'm pretty sure Anne Rice won't give a shit, given how desperately she clutched at the chance to attack someone getting a moderate amount of media attention, to try and steal a small amount of relevance.

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ginmarie111•

Anne Rice is too busy defending an awful book about a Jewish concentration camp prisoner falling in love with.....the SS commandant who runs it----where the woman is described as a "Jewess". A lot of people are upset but Rice is whipping out the term "lynching" again to defend another white woman.

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GGDisposableProven Leftoid•

If that's true then why wouldn't she cash in on the Felicia Day situation?

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lifestyledFun King Spineless•

I tweeted her about it, but got no reply.

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GGDisposableProven Leftoid•

I'm not on Twitter but maybe more people could alert her to it and maybe she'll speak out against it. I'm assuming she could miss one tweet but lots of polite tweets could get noticed.

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Parogar•

She is now. I've contacted her and I'm on it.

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armwvingtoobman•

I've seen a lot of people commenting about her being a fake Geek girl, or otherwise an outsider, who was "welcomed in" to the Geek community on good faith, which she then betrayed. Out of nothing she made an incredibly successful show about her World of Warcraft addiction, staring archetypal characters that all geeks can relate to. Who's job is it to welcome her in to anything?

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DoldenbergVIDEO GAME FEMINISTS STOLE MY ICE CREAM•

@feliciaday Felicia could have supported #gamergate and became a hero. But she took the SJW shill route and paid the price.

Oh, so this was probably this sole creepy comment with the GamerGate hashtag in it that everyone has been obsessing about! I'm sure there aren't any others. It's like this time they caught Anita's only harasser and suddenly everything was fine!

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YinEmissaryStrange and unusual•

Now where have I heard this before?

The Dixie Chicks could have supported the Iraq War and became heroes. But they took the liberal shill route and paid the price.

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TreezusSavesSanders Supremacists Are Among Us!•

Abraham Lincoln could have supported the American South and been hailed as a unifying president. But he took the SJW shill route and paid the price.

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lifestyledFun King Spineless•

Balamb Garden could have supported the Sorceress and become her cherished knights. But they took the 'killing NORG' route and actually ended up coming out on top by the end so I guess that's alright.

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EthicsInSTFU•

Winston Churchill could have supported Nazi Germany and been hailed as a unifying...

Nah not going there.

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JennyDoombringerSocial Justice Helix Red Priestess•

Goku could've supported his brother Raditz, wiped out humanity, and become a legendary Saiyan warrior. But he took the SJW shill route and paid the price. (Until he was wished back, obviously)

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iamspacedad•

In the audiobook version SHE SINGS THE TITLE OF THE CHAPTER "GAMERGATE AND MEEEE"

It made me fall out of my chair with surprised laughter.

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mr_doh•

spoiler alert ;-)

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JimmiusChotal Toad•

"Paid the price"

This would be scary if I could stop reading it in a Skeletor voice.

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Claptrapi•

I'm reading it in The Monarch's voice.

Edit: Actually is it just me or do The Monarch and Skeletor sound similar?

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Prooffread3r•

Now I'm reading it in Dr. Girlfriend's voice.

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vitsikanyfeminist gazpacho•

Most competent villain on the show, by far.

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Casey234Figuratively Who•

Can't not hear it now. Proper angry Monarch too, you know that's what I love about venture bros, Monarch was incompetent as hell but he was a real villain who would straight up murder someone, and you got these moments of raw visceral hate. Even the moppets were scared of the monarch.

That "you abandoned my hate!" Moment?

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-NovowelsCon Artiste•

Paid the price, NYAHHH

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DaibakuhaSensual Sandwich Historian•

I saw the other day that some gator was trying to posit that she only appeared on the cooptional podcast for the publicity. As if being in a widely popular TV show and a more than 1 really popular webseires had not made her known enough.

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gdshaffeOPThe Sock was Impromptu, I Have Proof•

Yeah, I'm sure she needed the publicity she got from appearing on the podcast of someone who has about 1/5 the Twitter followers that she has.

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FrozenWesSocial Justice Cannon Gunner•

It's a goobergabber fabrication. On that episode TB as well as the other hosts make no secret of how amazed they are she agreed to be on it in the first place. They obviously consider her as someone more famous and succesful than themselves.

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RacecarlockSocial Justice Sharknado•

In 2013, a group on that forum tracked down a ton of personal information on me. They shared all that and pictures of the outside of my house and my license plate amongst themselves. A disturbed fan used that information and showed up at my front door, made his way INTO MY HOUSE, and afterward, proceeded to obsess over me online in an erratic and abusive way to the extent that I was terrified he would show up again and do something violent.

Oh good god.

It took six months for me to become comfortable with walking my dog at night (...), and I will never feel 100 percent safe in my own home again. I have had people sitting in cars outside my window, certified letters sent to my address just to say "I know where you live," and phone calls from strange area codes at all hours of the night. Now that I know how easy it is for anyone with an agenda to track me down, feeling safe is a cute, nostalgic feeling.

Fans of gaming and the internet did this. No! Noooooooooooooo! No no no no no! This is not okay! This is not acceptable! For fuck's sake! This is criminal behavior! If jack thompson had waited until today to start his anti-video game crusade, he probably would have won! I mean, with people acting like this towards a pecieved fake gamer who isn't even going after gamers in any way? Just because some people see her as a threat instead of a possible friend? I think any lawyer or senator could easily look at this and sway a whole courtroom with this.

Gamergate and other movements like it and the chans have made video game censorship more possible than ever! And they violently threatened multiple women and did this horrifying bullshit to them! This has to stop! This is not cool! We need to stop this movement now, before someone gets hurt!

#StopGamergate2015

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TaylorS1986Spooky Autist White Knight•

GG has completely set back the acceptance of playing video games as a normal hobby by 20 years.

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YinEmissaryStrange and unusual•

Truth be told, I don't think it's that damaging. Everyone is still wearing Mario and Zelda T-Shirts in public. Chinese and Japanese vendors are still selling video game merchandise. Sure, we shouldn't completely trivialize Gamergate, but its power is mostly confined to the Internet. In the real world, where they cannot spam comment sections or feeds, it has barely affected people's passion for video games.

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Feniks1984PL•

Not to mention that unless someone is into gaming they have no idea what gamergate is wnd they don't care.

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Feniks1984PL•

Not to mention that unless someone is into gaming they have no idea what gamergate is wnd they don't care.

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VonAetherLiterally Wat•

Yeah, last night at her signing she gave me a high-five for my "Social Justice Wizard" T-shirt, and we chatted a bit about GG. She said they were attacking her again because of course they are. I mentioned I'd seen on reddit that her Amazon page was being bombarded by negative reviews. We rolled our eyes at each other.

She's a lovely person. Just as nice in person as she seems online.

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Bloo_DriverLiterally Bloo•

Have they started with the whole "trying to cash in on overblown 'harassment'" script yet?

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gdshaffeOPThe Sock was Impromptu, I Have Proof•

Of course. Mostly the KiA reaction to the chapter has been their typical self-contradictory nonsense. Claims that she was never really harassed, but if she was, it totally wasn't Gamergate, but even if it were she would totally deserve it because blah blah blah, insert generic derogatory remarks here.

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EthicsOverwhelming•

They made an entire hashtag to celebrate how much they hate/reject her the day her book came out.

SO many Ethics were had that day.

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squirrelrampageSquirrel Justice Warrior•

This would be an interesting addition to the GG timeline. Do you remember the name of the hashtag?

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EthicsOverwhelming•

okay, reddit formatting is really pissing me off, but it was (hashtag)NotMyQueen

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squirrelrampageSquirrel Justice Warrior•

Thank you! Added that to the timeline.

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RellenD•

#NotMyQueen

Use a \ to escape a character that is also used for formatting

It would look like this when you put it in.

\#NotMyQueen

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EthicsOverwhelming•

Thanks!
#test FUCK YEAH!

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GoogleGG•

her home address was posted in her comments literally just a few minutes after she first criticized them.

I thought she just said she had become afraid when encountering gamers that she wouldn't previously have feared, not that she criticized at all.

For admitting fear, they made her more afraid.

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OneJobToRuleThemAllShit Flood Activist•

She literally said she didn't want to speak out for fear of being doxxed and got doxxed in the comments a few minutes later. It didn't even take an hour.

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Ayasugi-sanNow With 100% More Ethics•

And then they said it was her fault. Even the "moderates".

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vaminion•

"Obviously a false flag by an SJW" was what I got when I ranted about it.

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PaulDiedin66Who Giveth a Fuck?•

I expect people to dismiss the deranged guy as the one who went too far, that they had just put out the info, it was up to him to act on it.

Yep. No accountability, truly the saddest part. This will be the group to have spoiled peoples sense of security and trust in eachother, because the world isn't as they see it,

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thefinestpos•

As someone who's only heard of her, what exactly is she known for? I know she did that one Dragon Age DLC but that's about it.

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RexStardustSJW before it was cool•

She wrote and produced The Guild

She founded a geek-based YouTube channel called Geek and Sundry which several great video series, including Wil Wheaton's Tabletop

Before that she was on Buffy, I forget if it was a recurring role or not.

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smileyman•

It was. Sort of. She played Vi, one of the Potentials, which were sort of junior Slayers. However this was very near the end of Buffy's run, so she was only in a handful of episodes, but she was one of the only Potentials that got speaking lines and she was one of the more popular of the Potentials.

She's also been in several episodes of Supernatural, playing the character of Charlie who is an IT girl that Dean and Sam turn to on occasion. She was also in Eureka, and in Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog (which also features Nathan Fillion and Neal Patrick Harris).

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OneJobToRuleThemAllShit Flood Activist•

Neil ;)

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anarchisticaSocial Justice Brujah•

She was also in the Dollhouse finale and Fallout New Vegas.

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TalkingRaccoonFiguratively Who•

In some alternate universe she's playing Felicity Smoak on Arrow.

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VioletCLM•

She was Penny in Dr. Horrible's Singalong Blog

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edgie168☠Skeleton Justice Warrior☠•

She's also famous for this commercial.

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FoldableHumanTraffic Light Technician•

That entire run of Cheetos commercials were so fkn weird.

Like, on a "how did this get greenlit?" level.

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gdshaffeOPThe Sock was Impromptu, I Have Proof•

Commercial campaigns started to make a whole lot more sense to me once I started working from the assumption that every person that's ever proposed or greenlit an ad is on hard drugs.

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PaulDiedin66Who Giveth a Fuck?•

she was also, among her other scuds of prior work, the voice of veronica in Fallout: New Vegas, so this probably gets many a gator in a tizzy, considering that her character is essentially dope as fuck.

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gavinbrindstarRainbutt Six operative•

"Does jumping at people people and punching them count as ranged?"

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PaulDiedin66Who Giveth a Fuck?•

Thanks for taking a chance on a girl from California with stars in her eyes and a pneumatic gauntlet on her hand.

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Dissonant_SibilantsI am a meat popsicle•
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thefinestpos•

I know I have Google but google sometimes has too much information for someone to sit through when what they're trying to get some insight on isn't too important.

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TaylorS1986Spooky Autist White Knight•

But she took the SJW shill route and paid the price.

These people are fucking evil.

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Parogar•

I'm working on it. I don't like her and I don't plan on reading her book but STGRB condemns this and I'm working to have abusive one-star reviews reported and removed.

I've already emailed Anne Rice and told her about this as well as Athena of STGRB.

I will probably submit an article as well. I write for them

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gdshaffeOPThe Sock was Impromptu, I Have Proof•

Oh, you mean the fucking assholes whose weapon of choice is doxxing people who write reviews you disapprove of? As petty and stupid as review-bombing is, your methods are destructive and harmful. I cannot possibly think of a person I would want involved in this less.

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ginmarie111•

Parogar's quite a bit worse than STGRB is alone. For one thing, he now uses the site to get even. He doxxes women on twitter, and has been harassing readers at Amazon for months. He attacks women verbally, then deletes his insults, then screenshoots the responses, claiming he was victimized. He went on a doxxing spree just yesterday at the Guardian site. He loves falsely accusing women. He once told me I'd totally deserve it if a guy belted me one. He's doxxed at least five women that I know of. He's boasted of doing it to twelve.

To give you an example of how "honest" he is, he claimed I called him a rapist. Even in his own screenshot, it clearly says "makes rape jokes." Obviously gators don't bother checking out anything the guy says. Or they agree.

One of his tricks is omitting one side of a discussion, or knitting together comments from when you were being sealioned, or responding to hate speech. A woman I know one told him he was on thin ice after all his insults. He accused her of making a death threat. When I told him I'd shot down all his arguments, well, you can guess.

He never tells the truth, so if he's defending Day, there's something else afoot. He's repeatedly brigaded for and against writers, and people----mostly women. He upped his viciousness toward me in the days after my brother died, encouraging other losers to attack. They did.

I could go on, but you get the idea. He freaks out when called on his stalking and harassment, so keep an eye on his twitter.

Oh, and he did a rant about me here and just coincidentally, one of the guys eagerly embracing his comments subsequently showed up on my reviews on Amazon and proceeded to harass me over a dozen reviews and probably a hundred comments. He also published my discus account, and just coincidentally, I'm sure, I got harassed by a dozen different people in a day.

He doesn't care about Day. Something else is going on.

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SkavenMavenhorrifyingly abusive and demented, and a pretty cool guy•

He's claiming on other threads that the review bombing is a "false flag operation".

Yeah right, guy.

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speed0spankShrilly Demanded Respects•

You think the only brigading Kia does is to corporate entities? Heh heh heh heh

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