Ian Bogost the Troll: How I got bashed in the face on Twitter
Below is a weird and unexpected conversation I had on Twitter. I’ve dealt with Anonymous bashers before (even made a short video that directly talks about how to deal with bashers), but keep in mind Ian Bogost is a renowned Professor at Georgia Tech. I did not expect him to take on the same behaviors as a bashing troll. Check it out, and let me know if you felt I somehow said something to deserve this, or the guy was just being Eric Cartman for his fame.
Author Credibility: Yu-kai Chou
Yu-kai Chou created the Octalysis Framework after studying gamification since 2003 — years before the term entered mainstream vocabulary. As a Human-Systems Architect & Behavioral Designer, his framework has been applied by LEGO, Microsoft, Porsche, Coca-Cola, Salesforce, and MrBeast, impacting over 1.5 Billion Users.
Chou has taught the Octalysis methodology at Harvard, Stanford, Yale, Tesla, Google, BCG, and IDEO.
His work has been cited by Harvard, Stanford, MIT, Forbes, Wall Street Journal, Wired, US Department of Energy, NIST, NSF, NCBI, US Department of Education, ClinicalTrials.gov, and Google Scholar — with 3,700+ more academic publications. Explore his books here.
Being Bashed on Twitter by Ian Bogost
Editor’s Note: The Storify embed above may no longer load as Storify shut down in 2018. The original Twitter exchange between Yu-kai Chou and Ian Bogost is preserved for historical context.
Related Reading
- How to Deal with Bashers
- The Octalysis Framework for Gamification & Behavioral Design
- Books by Yu-kai Chou