Games journalist Ryan Easby, who has freelanced for various outlets including NME, PCGamesN, The Escapist, The Gamer, Gayming Magazine and others declared that Mark Kern aka Grummz should never have a moment of safety or peace for his entire life.
Mark Kern via Sodapoppin YouTube
In a response to Kotaku Senior Editor Alyssa Mercante accusing Kern of lying regarding Call of Duty including transgender-themed bullets as part of its “Pride” month gift pack, Easby declared that Kern should never know safety or peace in his entire life.
Mercante wrote, “Mark Kern is lying again! Here’s the results of our testing. The skin on any gun other than the special edition M4 have regular bullets. The tracer rounds on the Soul Harvester blueprint seemingly unintentionally apply the skin to the bullets. At one point, only the pink from the trans flag is on them.”
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Mercante’s own tweet exposes her lie given that the bullets were indeed introduced into the game and were available if you have the M4 weapon. In fact, Kotaku’s original coverage written by Ethan Gach and Mercante also noted this, but lied by claiming that Activision did not introduce the bullets.
Gach wrote, “Call of Duty didn’t introduce this though. Unlike all of the grifters clout-chasing off the screengrab, anyone who actually investigated the source of the transgender flag bullets would have quickly realized they’re seemingly isolated to one particular skin on one particular gun.” That gun is the M4 blueprint that players received after purchasing Modern Warfare III. So clearly, Activision did introduce the bullets on the M4 weapon
Nevertheless, Easby reacted to Mercante’s post accusing Grummz of lying by writing, “He should never know a moment of safety or peace in his entire life I think.”
Grummz reacted writing, “Dude, I tweet about video games. Why does this bother you so much?”
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Easby previously called for violence against Grummz back in April, which Mark Kern reposted, “This is not okay.”
This is not okay. pic.twitter.com/MxZH87zY6s
— Grummz (@Grummz) April 10, 2024
His call for violence was echoed by numerous individuals in the video game industry. John Phipps, who hosts Super Deluxe GamesCast posted, “It’s actually based, I’d donate.”
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Former Riot Games Senior Concept Artist and current Art Director at Easy Games Michael Maurino also approved the call to assault Kern. He wrote, “agreed this is a-ok.”
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Easby is no stranger to making unhinged comments such as these. Back in March, he posted, “If there’s one thing to take away from this last week, it’s that gamers don’t deserve video games. Just send them to a construction yard or something instead.”
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Easby has also repeatedly claimed endorsed discrimination based on skin color. He wrote on March 8th, “It’s weird, if you were truly based you’d know it’s unequivocally and provable that racism against white people doesn’t exist, no matter how much a mob of angry community noters want you to think.”
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On March 26th he wrote similar statements.
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And in another post the same day.
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And again in April he endorsed discrimination on the basis of skin color.
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Easby also heavily insulted Kern throughout the month of March and into April.
On March 22nd, Easby described Kern as “a failed games developer turned reactionary” and accused him of using Sweet Baby Inc to “to reach popularity” with gamers, whom Easby maligned as well.
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On the 28th of March he wrote, “Mark Kern is the stupidest person alive, that’s all I’m saying.”
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On April 1st, Easby defamed Kern while accusing him of “harassing a journalist.” He then called for his followers to report Kern, which ironically might be considered targeted harassment.
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READ: Kotaku Senior Editor Alyssa Mercante Calls For Mass Reporting Of Mark Kern Over April Fool’s Joke
On April 4th, Easby accused Kern of being directly responsible for an alleged DDOS attack on Compulsion Games. He wrote, “You can directly trace the current DDOS’ing of Compulsion Games back to Mark Kern and the Sweet Baby sh*t. They don’t deserve this at all, and I hope the full force is brought down on the people who caused this.”
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Finally, on April 9th, Easby wrote, “It’s very funny that Mark Kern is trying to be the face of an entire movement but in every single public appearance he’s made since starting it he’s refused to show his actual face.”
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What do you make of Easby declaring that Grummz should never have a moment of safety or peace?
Someone should just challenge this turd to a fight, and watch him “Mercante” his way out of it.
But they’re the good guys, everyone!! 🙄
Mom, they didn’t like that I wished them death and threatened them with violence!
Ryan Easby is severely evil.
Guess which one is a mentally unstable person who threatens violence against people with different opinions. I don’t think you need a hint.
Easby is yet another left-wing lunatic pushing for violence against people who have a different opinion. Which side are the baddies, again?
tête-à-tête
Then the same holds true to you, weakling, who initiated the challenge.
Yet their pussified side is always the one using the victim crutch of “death threats”
There’s a death threat! There’s a death threat! There’s a death threat! There’s a death threat!
When everything’s a threat, nothing is.