The Unfortunate End of the ContraPoints Saga

Critics won, but it’s unlikely the battlefield is rife with much loot.

A. Khaled
5 min readNov 7, 2019

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Unsatisfied with whatever explanation ContraPoints had for her gaffes in recent months, the anti-Contra mob can finally settle for a swift, but bittersweet victory after Natalie Wynn finally gave up on maintaining a presence on Twitter due to the ensuing harassment. The announcement came after Wynn was forced to endure hordes of dissenters all focusing on trivial aspects of her YouTube content and social media presence, and to the disappointment of many — myself included — the purported empathy of leftist Twitter did not bear itself out as it was the main culprit in denying Wynn and many of her supporters a peaceful presence, thinking that coercively submitting to their every whim is somehow indicative of good praxis.

How we got from ContraPoints being the undisputed champion of minorities online to now becoming a notoriously-hated figure by the fringe crevices of political left Twitter isn’t all that immediately obvious–though, it follows a similar pattern seen from much more popular creators wherein being more present in the limelight exposes them to much more criticism, to the point where considering that much of it at once becomes a hindrance to the creative process.

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A. Khaled
A. Khaled

Written by A. Khaled

Internet culture scribe with an interest in the digital economy, content creators, media and politics.

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