I forgot about the Wired interview. It's kind of wild that AntiNorn intentionally got people riled up and then called them vindictive.
Like, if I joined a community for some wholesome show and started posting distressing gore of people's blorbos, and when people expressed their disgust my response was to say "UM ACKSHULLY blorbo isn't real, so there's no reason for you to be distressed when seeing this image" and then I posted some more stuff I knew would piss them off, I would fully expect to be ostracized.