“Tom” or “RetroTranslator” recently came under fire by a crowd of resetERA and Twitter users over a translation he worked on for Goemon.
The attacks caused him to issue a long winded apology ( see below ) where he also implies he will quit translating and writing all together.
— . (@RetroTranslator) January 26, 2020
ResetERA attacks a fan translator & hacker, forces the translator to delete all his tweets and publicly apologize then keeps spamming his account for… Translating a line correctly. @RetroTranslator @DDSTranslation pic.twitter.com/SxDJKqILtd
— ResetERA Takes 🏳️🌈 (@ReeraTakes) January 26, 2020
It should be noted that another site associated with resetera pushed the false accusations further & sent their followers to dogpile on him, this site is pretty popular in Tom's circles which made him lose his reputation… All for a drop of clout. pic.twitter.com/WEJ35yr9dA
— ResetERA Takes 🏳️🌈 (@ReeraTakes) January 26, 2020
As expected, apologizing did absolutely nothing for him.
Also here, on resetera Kurt from hg101 himself admitting to harass Tom to change the line: pic.twitter.com/iTbCiZfzeN
— ditus (@ditusjack) January 26, 2020
“I don’t want to dogpile the guy on Twitter but that’s awful non apology. If he was legitimately self-reflecting he’d put putting out a patch to fix it.”
This user on ResetERA, “Discoalucard” is apparently @HG_101 on Twitter, who also posted this. The image also displays the “slur” if you’re curious.
(TW: transphobia) is it too much to ask for right wing fan translators to NOT stick slurs into their work? pic.twitter.com/BYQDFe0FLs
— Hardcore Gaming 101 (@HG_101) January 25, 2020
It seems the story here, summarized, is that the fan translator was trying to stay as accurate to the material as possible in translating from JP>ENG.
However, this got him bombarded with hate and labeled as “right wing” and who knows what else. Tom, as you see in his apology, denies being a “right wing extremist”. All of this because he tried to stay accurate in his translation, while they claim he should have changed the context.
A common tactic by bigots online, as we see here is to label anyone they disagree with as “right” or “alt-right”, they have even done this on occasion to people who are on the left if they’ve ever said anything that is out of line from their “mold”.
( Thank you Ghoul for the news tip! )
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