Smith was never charged with any crime but responded to the resulting online harassment by successfully suing those who made and repeated Nagy and company’s allegations five times in five countries. As of a decision in October 2025, Smith has successfully prevailed in these defamation suits in the US, New Zealand, Canada, Australia and Switzerland (“while having a pentagram tattooed on my jaw,” Smith adds mordantly) including a verdict in August against Morbid herself. [emphasis mine]
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[Dr. Clio] Weisman likewise found that none of the harassers could provide any links or screenshots to the incriminating or harmful things they claimed Smith posted online.Although Weisman attempted to de-circulate her article and the attached interview clips soon after publishing (once the gamers she interviewed began to focus their attention on her), Artillery’s reporting (including access to the full sixty-hours of audio interviews) confirms all of her factual claims about Smith and his accusers. Despite this, attacks against Smith continue, especially on sites dedicated to gaming.
Sixty hours of audio! Dang! That's a lot of material.
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That's what I thought, too. And also about people who claimed that the interviews "were not real" (people named in the article had confirmed the interviews were real).
ReplyDeleteIt is difficult for me to contemplate that halcyon time of now six years ago. I can hardly imagine what Zak has gone through. Even when you win at court that moment of relief follows months or even years of stress. All because some folks would rather burn the place down than see other folks have nice things.
ReplyDelete"Despite this, attacks against Smith continue, especially on sites dedicated to gaming." Unfortunately for the human race, I suspect if he were more charismatic he'd have escaped relatively unscathed. It's hard not to notice that when a charming smoothie suffers any public accusation, everyone is insistent on waiting until the facts come out before drawing any conclusions, but when an egocentric pill like Zak gets the same, everyone will dogpile him. Yet in both cases they'll think they're taking the morally superior position.
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