Long time bully victim here, bullies like to rationalize their abuse, so both they will be seen as a hero and the victim will be further tormented. At the very worst, they made up conspiracy theories about my mother paying money to my teachers to give me “good” grades, because they saw it in Forest Gump and they thought I had intellectual disability. They even were angry at me when I didn’t “count in a funny way” like in the jokes (back in those days, we Hungarians had terrible “rtrd” jokes, which caused a lot of damage to the disabled community).

Bullies won’t be satisfied with some adjustments in your behavior. They either want you “to be fully fixed” (a lie often told by bullies, especially towards victims with a fat body and/or poor sport performance - while I’ve heard stories about some people actually managing to “stick it to them”, this rarely stopped the bullies in question), or “to disappear” (they rarely satisfied with “only from the internet”).

I have a fear that with things like this, these people will be more incentivized to continue harassment campaigns against game developers, and indies won’t have the same resources to protect themselves online.