In 2018, a transgender woman died by suicide in Portland, and friends told The Oregonian the victim, Chloe Sagal, was harassed by Kiwi Farms users. This isn't the first time Kiwi Farms has been accused of playing a role in a person's suicide. Ginder wrote in their Twitter thread on June 26 that "every few months, it's something new. "When these cultures are weaponized by certain actors to target specific people through doxxing or other methods it can be especially alienating and traumatic for those affected people who once considered the online space a safe area for them."
"Toxic online cultures seek to alienate or 'other' certain communities while maintaining exclusivity for the people that gravitate towards them," said Beau Pinkham, chair of the American Association of Suicidology's Tech and Innovations Committee. Beckett said the company offered to help Ginder, but they said they were handling it. Beckett said Ginder, who identified as nonbinary, shared that they were having trouble with bullying online, though didn't explicitly name Kiwi Farms.
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Wayne Beckett, founder of Hong-Kong-based Datapower Development, said Near, whose full name was David Kirk Ginder, was an employee and confirmed Ginder's death to USA TODAY. Kiwi Farms bills itself as a "community dedicated to discussing eccentric people," though researchers who study extremist communities say it's notorious for degrading and harassing its targets – often those they perceive as deviant and many of whom struggle with existing mental health issues. The thread was shared more than a thousand times and lit up the gaming scene after reports that Near later died by suicide. A renowned developer who used the pseudonym Near/Byuu last month posted a Twitter thread excoriating the online forum Kiwi Farms for intense bullying and implied they were going to kill themselves.
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