'I got death threats when men thought I put feminist gesture in video game'

Then Minsung's organisation stepped in. They urged her studio to ignore the gamers and offered to pay Darim's legal fees so she could report the abuse. "We said these demands will never end, you need to nip this in the bud now," he said. The studio listened, and Darim kept her job. But similar witch hunts have worked, in the gaming industry and beyond, and they are becoming more frequent.