7. Adria Richards – The Tattletale
Adria Richards was at a computer programming conference when she heard two men behind her making jokes about “big dongles.” She took a picture of them and tweeted the photo and wrote how the guys were not cool for making jokes about big dongles. For some reason this took off all over the Internet and one of the men was eventually fired. Richards was also fired from her job for making all of this public. This was interesting in the sense that sometimes the person that is attempting to do the shaming ends up being shamed herself. Most of us can identify with the dub that makes a dumb dongle joke, no matter how dumb it is, much more than we can with the tattletale who tries to get someone fired for doing so.
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