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Wil wheaton naked9/21/2023 The anonymity of online discussion, Wheaton says, makes abuse inevitable. These people were statistically over-represented back in the old days.” Unstoppable trolls “But the people who were complaining were a very small but incredibly vocal minority who had access to Usenet at a time when nobody really knew what that was. “I can understand why some people were rubbed the wrong way,” Wheaton said. Some took to online discussions to vent their disapproval – at times spilling over into vitriolic abuse of Wheaton himself. To some viewers, the idea of a teenager repeatedly saving the day was irksome. Intelligent, capable and confident, Wesley Crusher held his own in conflicts with older, more experienced officers, seeing off dangers and finding solutions to problems that eluded his crewmates. Wheaton’s Star Trek: The Next Generation character, though, was quite different. But to a lot of the kids who were cool or popular, we just seemed weird and difficult to understand.” “If you were uncoordinated or not particularly strong then you gravitated towards books and things that required mental strength rather than physical strength. “When I was growing up the thing that determined your worth in the schoolyard or the playground was your physical prowess”, he said. Bookish and socially awkward, the young Wheaton ticked many of the boxes commonly associated with the Trekkie stereotype.
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