Ivy Wolk's New York magazine essay
The gist
Ivy Wolk published a first-person Vulture essay, "The Case Against Me," about being canceled since her teens.
She says changing minds is no longer her goal.
How it unfolded
- date unknownWolk writes that at 13, in the waiting room of an adolescent psychiatric outpatient program she attended after leaving eighth grade early, she scrolled through at least 200 tweets calling her a pedophile, a pick-me bitch and "butt-fucking ugly."
- date unknownShe writes that a school friend had died of cancer the previous autumn, and the shock brought on a severe strain of obsessive-compulsive disorder that bordered on psychosis.
- date unknownWolk writes that early in her internet career she befriended a very famous boy her age from a very famous TV show, and that his fans charged at her when she became visible in his orbit.