"Creators said that the Amber Heard vs. Johnny Depp defamation trial was a pivotal moment in the online harassment landscape, emboldening misogynistic YouTubers and allowing them to collectively amass millions of followers"

WaPo:

a YouTuber in Tennessee ... has grown his following to more than 400,000 subscribers, largely by posting anti-Amber Heard content. Depp’s lawyer said he’d been in communication with several YouTubers, including [that individual in Tennesee].

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[The YouTuber] did not respond directly to a request for comment. He later published a video saying that in years past he had not exclusively posted Amber Heard-related content, but that he had published content about comics. In a tweet after The Post sent him questions, he acknowledged his role as a leader of Comicsgate, a campaign beginning in 2018 that opposed diversity in the comic book world.

Many of [his] earlier titles include attacks on “social justice warriors” and “woke” culture, such as “SJWs ruin comics: Comic Industry 2019 Numbers REVEAL There’s NO coming back from WOKENESS!” and “SJWs never learn: SJWs take WRONG LESSON from Study, Hilariously Missing THEY’RE the BAD GUYS!”

Genshin Impact players started to review bomb unrelated games because Google was deleting their negative reviews of Genshin Impact

Angry Genshin Impact players are now review bombing random other mobile games to complain about Genshin Impact, if you were wondering how mobile gacha games are going lately pic.twitter.com/CA1SpCQNzM

— Katelyn Gadd (@antumbral) September 29, 2021

PCGamer:

The release of 5-star character Yoimiya was poorly received, with complaints of broken abilities and a feeling that minimal thought had been put into her overall gameplay design. Similar problems then arose with the game's next 5-star character 

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Players aren't pleased with the rewards being dished out though and, coupled with miHoYo's ongoing silence surrounding the recent problems, it's caused tensions to swell. Things seem to have finally come to a head, with angry fans taking to the game's mobile store pages in droves to leave 1-star reviews. 

Kotaku:

Fans of other free-to-play games were unimpressed when they discovered that Genshin players were complaining about anniversary rewards in review sections for unrelated games. None of these complaints had specific demands. 

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The Genshin community is starting to develop a reputation for harassing parties unrelated to their discontent. Just two days ago, the English voice actress for Genshin character Kokomi tweeted that it was unacceptable to harass voice actors for a game studio’s decisions. This was in reference to how the Chinese voice actress for Kokomi was forced to cancel a livestream due to the harassment she received about Kokomi’s lackluster gameplay.

Bizarre and frightening story about a university professor harassing over a dozen professors across the country with false claims of plagiarism

The alleged harasser isn't identified in the story, but apparently made herself known. The schools, service providers, and legal authorities seemed unequipped or unwilling to take decisive action as baseless accusations of plagiarism and sexual misconduct piled up:

[The department chair] felt a “fierce protectiveness” over her faculty member. But she also couldn’t fail to report serious allegations, which would immediately raise alarm bells for campus officials. Even the strangest-sounding claims had to be funneled through the proper channels. 

Plagiarism allegations went to the research-integrity office. Sexual-misconduct claims went to the Title IX office. Investigations were opened. The university bureaucracy started to churn. 

After [the department chair] alerted UCLA investigators to the allegations, she wrote a department-wide email. She couldn’t say much. Personnel records were confidential, and given that Title IX complaints frequently lead to lawsuits, university lawyers advised [her] to be cautious.

"Protesters" targeting a man in New Jersey

WaPo:

The Mandarin-speaking protesters arrived in a convoy of cars on Dec. 1, shouting profanities and carrying signs with a variety of false accusations.

They have returned nearly every day since, picketing their target — a quiet suburban home — from 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. sharp, with an hour’s break for lunch.

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The circus has baffled this quiet corner of New Jersey, but Teng says he knows who organized it

*Previously: "Protesters" in Vancouver.