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I started checking out the social media profiles of the people sending me these messages, and learned that they were often adults who were active in the skeptic and atheist communities. They were reading the same blogs as I was and attending the same events. These were “my people,” and they were the worst.<ref>[http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/10/26/sexism-and-the-new-atheism/ Sexism and the New Atheism]</ref>}}
I started checking out the social media profiles of the people sending me these messages, and learned that they were often adults who were active in the skeptic and atheist communities. They were reading the same blogs as I was and attending the same events. These were “my people,” and they were the worst.<ref>[http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/10/26/sexism-and-the-new-atheism/ Sexism and the New Atheism]</ref>}}
==== AmazingAtheist on Elevatorgate ====
On July 12th, 2011, the YouTube atheist [[TheAmazingAtheist]] uploaded a video declaring that Rebecca Watson had overreacted, which had upwards of 300,000 views and 12,400 comments in the first two years.<ref>[http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/elevatorgate Elevatorgate - Know Your Meme]</ref>
== Abundance of vitriol and a lack of calm and reasoned discussion post Elevatorgate ==
== Abundance of vitriol and a lack of calm and reasoned discussion post Elevatorgate ==