Nick Robinson Suspended From Polygon After Sexual Allegation
Polygon’s video producer Nick Robinson has been suspended from his position after sexual harassment allegation.
The news was announced by Polygon’s editor in chief Chris Grant who posted on twitter that Robinson has been suspended pending a thorough investigation from its parent company Vox Media.
I’ve heard the allegations re Nick Robinson and am taking them seriously. Nick has been suspended pending a thorough Vox Media inquiry.
— chris grant (@chrisgrant) August 5, 2017
The whole incident started when Nick Robinson tweeted out some demeaning statements towards Overcooked‘s dev.
He first gave tweeted out an article written by Polygon which stated that Overcooked’s Nintendo Switch version has some major Frame rate issues.
this sucks. i love Overcooked, but i regret buying it on Switch and i’m really praying they fix this. it’s so rough https://t.co/HuxzWOp3RO
— Nick Robinson (@Babylonian) August 2, 2017
So one of the devs emailed Robinson asking about some of the details of the issue which they faced during testing the game. but instead of helping, he screenshotted the email and posted it on twitter and with insults.
“please record a video of our shitty port being shitty so we can see how shitty it is” pic.twitter.com/koYEOUYBiO
— Nick Robinson (@Babylonian) August 2, 2017
This started a whole new trouble for Robinson and some new allegations started appearing against him.
Maybe Nick would have time to help the Overcooked devs out if he wasn’t in every woman in games’ DMs all the time
— Bloody Honey (@bloodyhoney_) August 3, 2017
i guess overcooked didn’t send nudes
— ali, just a delight (@ali_west) August 3, 2017
More collection of tweets against can be found at Neogaf post by user Bowlie.
The situation escalated so quickly that Polygon could not ignore the accusations made about one of their employees and decided to suspend him.
The news made several people happy and praised Polygon for its swift decision
This is honestly a relief. Thank you. Glad to be a fan of a responsible media company.
— trans babadook (@yoursquadisgay) August 5, 2017
Thank you for taking this seriously and not sweeping it under the rug and waiting until it blows over.
— A Boring Man (@plainoldchair) August 5, 2017
I’m sad to learn this about someone whose content I’ve liked so much, but I’m also very grateful that you are taking it seriously.
— Caredwen Foley (@caredwen) August 5, 2017
This is not the first time for Robinson to be involved a controversy he had earlier tweeted that people pleasured themselves by watching Krystal from Star Fox Adventures. this somehow triggered Anita Sarkessian and she tweeted that nobody feels that way and linked her video Damsel in Distress video. the feminist frequency tweeted out some series of angry responses which find at Knowyourmeme.
No evidence report has been reported till now which will prove the accusation towards Robinson. so we will have to wait for an Official report by either Polygon or Voxmedia.