>In a post on X on Saturday, he claimed that the charge related to a complaint from a trans activist
Can this cunt get a life.
I hear your midlife crisis into transphobia and hate ruined your life there father
Can we swap him and mcgregor for a few urinals or something
I assumed he already was.
Was there some specific incident that sparked the start of this lads spiral into self-inflicted oblivion?
Black Books, The IT Crowd & Fr Ted were all great, mad to see how much his mind has melted.
He doesn’t even have to let go of his hate. If he could keep it to himself, hate in the privacy of his head, his career would be fine, his marriage might be ongoing, and he wouldn’t be up in court.
But the venom is too strong.
I just don’t understand. Like even if I did hate trans people, I couldn’t imagine hating them so much that I’d willingly blow up my entire life just to give them shit about it.
The racists and rapist supporters who were marching in dublin today will be along soon to show their support
What is this fella smoking
Imagine creating something as iconic as Father Ted but ‘jocks checker’ will be your epitaph. Mental.
I’m thinking he hurt someone’s feelings and the UK that can be treated as a crime now.
I’ve made this comment before but I have to admit, I actually think about him more than I should. His whole life is some bizarro classic tragicomedy.
There was a very telling article he wrote a few years ago regarding his childhood and being bullied by a French exchange student. You could see his self esteem still hadn’t recovered years and years after the fact. My pet peeve is armchair psychology but it was obvious from reading it that he was still holding on to so much resentment and craved being accepted by an in-crowd. (EDIT: Can’t find the article but I found a similar article here. It’s a bit down on this page and it’s a conversation between Graham and Jon Ronson on the topic https://www.thisamericanlife.org/314/transcript)
Nevertheless he goes on to be incredibly successful (and at such a young age too – he was in his mid 20s when writing Fr. Ted). Then Social Media came. He was an early adopter. Father Ted had finished less than a decade before Graham first started using Twitter. He built up a bit of a following and was one of the more popular UK based users pre-2010. He then got that criticism for the IT crowd episode (which was aired in 2008 but was not really criticised until about 5 years after). The algorithms did their thing, and he became a lightning rod for that dark abyss of the Internet. Graham had now found his in crowd that he’d always been looking for and he was fêted as one of their main spokespeople.
I first started paying attention to him around 2018. I had known that he was the cranky auld lad who had a Twitter but a cursory look across his profile amazed me. I genuinely and naïvely though that it was a piece of performance art or satire at first, as I honestly didn’t think that anyone could be so obsessed by a topic that didn’t seem to concern them in any obvious way.
His entire life is a cautionary tale on being terminally online and frankly, I’m fascinated by him. There was that analysis that he tweeted about trans stuff on average every 20 minutes on Christmas Day a few years ago. Incidentally it was the last Xmas day he had before the family left him. Imagine trying to have a peaceful Christmas dinner while your husband/dad is clawing at his phone every few minutes to argue with a stranger about someone’s genitals.
Whilst I appreciate this site here is a form of social media, my social media consumption has really collapsed in recent years and it is in no small part to seeing the brainrot it spreads to people like Graham, amongst many others. His career, family, and reputation have been obliterated. He now has nothing because he literally couldn’t stay offline.
As I said, this might seem like low stakes drama regarding a washed up bigot, but I’m really interested in social media engagement and the psychological effects of staying online for too long, and Graham is an excellent case study. For every Graham there are thousands of people who have gone equally insane online, but weren’t in the public eye so we might think they were always like that. Graham might have been a bit odd but he wasn’t always a raving lunatic. He had been very successful. Think of all the other people who had privately and modestly successful lives who then went down the rabbit hole and are now destroying their lives while shouting into the social media void about trans people, vaccinations, immigrants, refugees, Qanon, or whatever else fuels their obsession.
What a loser
He’s clearly an idiot that ruined his career for no good reason. Whatever your views are, there’s no excuse for arguing for them in the manner he did.
That having been said, I’ll reserve my judgement on this particular issue until I hear more details. It’s definitely not surprising that he could get a charge for harassment. I definitely see him crossing the fine line between freedom of speech and harassment. But I do wonder about criminal damage. That’s a very serious offence and this will sound odd, but I hope that he’s done something bad enough to warrant it.
It’s genuinely a tragedy that he couldn’t stop doubling down. One of Ireland’s best comedic minds of his generation and he just couldn’t fucking shut up…
It’s a true shame because by all accounts he was quite a liberal minded fella but just landed on this and decided it was the hill to die on and it cost him absolutely everything.
I hear you’re a transphobe now father
If he suddenly dropped dead in 2015, he would be revered and seen as a legendary figure, instead now it’ll be ‘Jesus, he went a bit mad there’
Another case of whether you can separate the art from the artist
Would this miserable piece of shit ever die off already.
Part of me feels sorry for this guy. He is a prime example of how social media can drive you to extreme views and ruin your life.
I think we have all seen people we know go down the same road to varying degrees.
But also. Fuck him.
“he had trials in Liverpool?”
“no,…no he was ON trial in Liverpool”
He seems to have got fixated on the Trans issue. A great comedy writer.
It’s mad how I have never met a trans person. Most of the people I know haven’t either. They have never blocked me in traffic, got seen ahead of me in a hospital, or stopped any children I know from getting a place in school. Chances are I may never meet one and if I did I doubt they will rob me or even acknowledge me.
It’s mad how most of the people I know who have really really strong opinions on how trans people should live their lives and what they should be doing have never encountered one in real life.
All their hatred and dislike stems entirely from things they have seen online. This guy linehan has spread a lot of these hate filled messages and a lot of people have listened to what he had to say. It’s sad but when you think about it, you can see how people can be easily led into hating one group.
When you realise this, you realise it’s not hard to see why people end up trapped in camps.
Seems like destroying his career and marriage wasn’t enough. Determined to self-destruct.
The last ten or fifteen years have been so avoidable for him.
If you have convictions or believe in something, right or wrong, there’s a way to tactically express that, but the fact he let it irrationally take over his life, destroy his career and family, just so unfathomable that he couldn’t stop himself.
It’s like a toxic addiction for him, it’s not really so much what he believes, but how he’s been expressing and defending that belief. Car crash after car crash.
I think the man has lost his mind to be honest. It’s a bizarre tragedy. The point where he was creating online profiles as a trans lesbian was where I realised he had become completely unhinged in his obsession.
Ofc he is haha. It’s so obvious
He’s been harassing this particular person (who is 17) for years. Encouraging his twitter followers to report on their whereabouts. At the conference he grabbed their phone and threw it away.
I had the chats with him in the before times. Fairly mundane things.. I don’t know what happened. He’s lost his wife, I assume a lot of friends. I just don’t get this obsessive and hateful behaviour. I’d be exhausted. Himself and JKR and others have gone off the rails in my opinion (which counts for nothing).
Arthur Matthews is getting on fine.
Linehan also discovered the Troubles this week, after living in England for nearly 40 years.
I was a Twitter early adopter, I joined in 2007. For years it was empty. People posting, “Going to the cinema.” Then Stephen Fry joined and started posting wry witty things. It got better. Then Graham joined and started posting funny witty things.
At some point someone took offense to an Episode of the IT Crowd about a trans woman. Things started to get weird after that. Somehow that seemed to back him into a corner on Twitter. Over a period of a year it just escalated. I would open Twitter and see some real fucked up shite he had posted. Like whether or not you believe in gender identity or pronouns or not, what he was posting on Twitter was fucked up, hateful and abusive.
Graham Linehan is such a funny writer. I wish he would just return to writing.
I worked in a bookshop that didn’t prominently stock or showcase Helen Joyce’s (another terf) book Trans. The book is a load of transphobic shite but regardless of its quality, it simply wasn’t selling enough copies to justify the shelf real estate. Linehan nevertheless publicly blogged about it, accusing us of censoring the gender critical movement and mobilising his cronies to harass the staff. He’s a roaring cunt and everything he’s going through, he did to himself.
She turned the wiens against him
The guy isn’t well.
Fair enough he has strong opinions about it but I don’t think i have that strong of an opinion about anything- certainly not to the extent that it would cause me to ruin my own life.
Particularly something that doesn’t affect him at all. Like if a trans person had killed his dad or something I’d still think he was mad but at least I’d understand why.
I’ve heard you’re a transphobic harasser now, Father.
My take on this is that Linehan has a rare talent that few possess & has wasted his most productive years typing nonsense as opposed to typing scripts. I can only imagine the horror his wife felt when she realised this horse he was not going to get off……..😑
I love Graham’s work, but even before jumping on the anti-trans train, he was always kind of an obsessive, aggressive and (no pun intended) intransigent person. Even when he was left-leaning, and I agreed with his views for the majority of the time, his Twitter account always rubbed me the wrong way. He was, by his own admission, obsessed with it and would kill most of the day on it, and he was always so needlessly aggressive, condescending, and tyrannical in his approach. “Don’t meet your heroes” and all, but, what I’m saying is, I don’t think the trans fixation and his subsequent rightward shift made him this way; I think trans people are just his current obsession. I remember for years, it was Gamergate. Fair enough, I’m no fan of that movement either, but EVERYTHING became Gamergate with him. No matter what the topic of what was in the news that he didn’t like was, he would find a way to link it back to Gamergate. Then, he goes right, and suddenly “reevaluates” his thoughts after years of obsessing over it, because it was broadly a right-wing, anti-inclusion campaign, and that’s who he was aligning with now. Trans people are just his new Gamergate. Nothing he’s doing now is out of character for him, I’m just sorry that it’s making marginalised people’s lives even a little worse
I think Linehan is a great example of why we should have a more positive discourse as a society.
He initially came out and said something polarising and was cancelled for it, but the bigger problem is what came after imo.
Because after he came out and said what he said, he lost everything he had in life, his family, his career, his home, his friends etc.
And what did that result in ? him becoming a more hateful person, with more toxicity both for and against him, leading to bitter vitriol being spread in all directions.
In some people’s attempts to have less hate, they increased the amount of hate. If you compare him when he first spoke about it compared to now, you can see a significant increase in the level of vitriol and there’s now more anti-trans hate online because more people then support the hate that wouldn’t have been there in the first place if he wasn’t put in this position.
If only there was the possibility of an actual discussion about this where people aren’t cancelled the second they open their mouths in the first place then everyone would be better off as a result.
P.S before anyone is like “sToP sUpPoRtInG hIm”, I’m not.
I read his book and I still dont understand him.
He’s known for lurking these threads mentioning him.
About a year ago I got two messages, the exact same message, from two separate burner accounts.
I had just commented on a similar thread calling him a loser who burned his entire life down for nothing.
I got two messages proclaiming him a misunderstood visionary, exactly the same, from separate accounts.
And that’s the time I upset Graham Linehan.
Have the courts not recently unanimously decided that his viewpoint is correct? P.S. I’m not defending him, just an observation
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>In a post on X on Saturday, he claimed that the charge related to a complaint from a trans activist
Can this cunt get a life.
I hear your midlife crisis into transphobia and hate ruined your life there father
Can we swap him and mcgregor for a few urinals or something
I assumed he already was.
Was there some specific incident that sparked the start of this lads spiral into self-inflicted oblivion?
Black Books, The IT Crowd & Fr Ted were all great, mad to see how much his mind has melted.
He doesn’t even have to let go of his hate. If he could keep it to himself, hate in the privacy of his head, his career would be fine, his marriage might be ongoing, and he wouldn’t be up in court.
But the venom is too strong.
I just don’t understand. Like even if I did hate trans people, I couldn’t imagine hating them so much that I’d willingly blow up my entire life just to give them shit about it.
The racists and rapist supporters who were marching in dublin today will be along soon to show their support
What is this fella smoking
Imagine creating something as iconic as Father Ted but ‘jocks checker’ will be your epitaph. Mental.
I’m thinking he hurt someone’s feelings and the UK that can be treated as a crime now.
Is there anything to be said for another mass?
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Good
I’ve made this comment before but I have to admit, I actually think about him more than I should. His whole life is some bizarro classic tragicomedy.
There was a very telling article he wrote a few years ago regarding his childhood and being bullied by a French exchange student. You could see his self esteem still hadn’t recovered years and years after the fact. My pet peeve is armchair psychology but it was obvious from reading it that he was still holding on to so much resentment and craved being accepted by an in-crowd. (EDIT: Can’t find the article but I found a similar article here. It’s a bit down on this page and it’s a conversation between Graham and Jon Ronson on the topic https://www.thisamericanlife.org/314/transcript)
Nevertheless he goes on to be incredibly successful (and at such a young age too – he was in his mid 20s when writing Fr. Ted). Then Social Media came. He was an early adopter. Father Ted had finished less than a decade before Graham first started using Twitter. He built up a bit of a following and was one of the more popular UK based users pre-2010. He then got that criticism for the IT crowd episode (which was aired in 2008 but was not really criticised until about 5 years after). The algorithms did their thing, and he became a lightning rod for that dark abyss of the Internet. Graham had now found his in crowd that he’d always been looking for and he was fêted as one of their main spokespeople.
I first started paying attention to him around 2018. I had known that he was the cranky auld lad who had a Twitter but a cursory look across his profile amazed me. I genuinely and naïvely though that it was a piece of performance art or satire at first, as I honestly didn’t think that anyone could be so obsessed by a topic that didn’t seem to concern them in any obvious way.
His entire life is a cautionary tale on being terminally online and frankly, I’m fascinated by him. There was that analysis that he tweeted about trans stuff on average every 20 minutes on Christmas Day a few years ago. Incidentally it was the last Xmas day he had before the family left him. Imagine trying to have a peaceful Christmas dinner while your husband/dad is clawing at his phone every few minutes to argue with a stranger about someone’s genitals.
Whilst I appreciate this site here is a form of social media, my social media consumption has really collapsed in recent years and it is in no small part to seeing the brainrot it spreads to people like Graham, amongst many others. His career, family, and reputation have been obliterated. He now has nothing because he literally couldn’t stay offline.
As I said, this might seem like low stakes drama regarding a washed up bigot, but I’m really interested in social media engagement and the psychological effects of staying online for too long, and Graham is an excellent case study. For every Graham there are thousands of people who have gone equally insane online, but weren’t in the public eye so we might think they were always like that. Graham might have been a bit odd but he wasn’t always a raving lunatic. He had been very successful. Think of all the other people who had privately and modestly successful lives who then went down the rabbit hole and are now destroying their lives while shouting into the social media void about trans people, vaccinations, immigrants, refugees, Qanon, or whatever else fuels their obsession.
What a loser
He’s clearly an idiot that ruined his career for no good reason. Whatever your views are, there’s no excuse for arguing for them in the manner he did.
That having been said, I’ll reserve my judgement on this particular issue until I hear more details. It’s definitely not surprising that he could get a charge for harassment. I definitely see him crossing the fine line between freedom of speech and harassment. But I do wonder about criminal damage. That’s a very serious offence and this will sound odd, but I hope that he’s done something bad enough to warrant it.
It’s genuinely a tragedy that he couldn’t stop doubling down. One of Ireland’s best comedic minds of his generation and he just couldn’t fucking shut up…
It’s a true shame because by all accounts he was quite a liberal minded fella but just landed on this and decided it was the hill to die on and it cost him absolutely everything.
I hear you’re a transphobe now father
If he suddenly dropped dead in 2015, he would be revered and seen as a legendary figure, instead now it’ll be ‘Jesus, he went a bit mad there’
Another case of whether you can separate the art from the artist
Would this miserable piece of shit ever die off already.
Part of me feels sorry for this guy. He is a prime example of how social media can drive you to extreme views and ruin your life.
I think we have all seen people we know go down the same road to varying degrees.
But also. Fuck him.
“he had trials in Liverpool?”
“no,…no he was ON trial in Liverpool”
He seems to have got fixated on the Trans issue. A great comedy writer.
It’s mad how I have never met a trans person. Most of the people I know haven’t either. They have never blocked me in traffic, got seen ahead of me in a hospital, or stopped any children I know from getting a place in school. Chances are I may never meet one and if I did I doubt they will rob me or even acknowledge me.
It’s mad how most of the people I know who have really really strong opinions on how trans people should live their lives and what they should be doing have never encountered one in real life.
All their hatred and dislike stems entirely from things they have seen online. This guy linehan has spread a lot of these hate filled messages and a lot of people have listened to what he had to say. It’s sad but when you think about it, you can see how people can be easily led into hating one group.
When you realise this, you realise it’s not hard to see why people end up trapped in camps.
Seems like destroying his career and marriage wasn’t enough. Determined to self-destruct.
The last ten or fifteen years have been so avoidable for him.
If you have convictions or believe in something, right or wrong, there’s a way to tactically express that, but the fact he let it irrationally take over his life, destroy his career and family, just so unfathomable that he couldn’t stop himself.
It’s like a toxic addiction for him, it’s not really so much what he believes, but how he’s been expressing and defending that belief. Car crash after car crash.
I think the man has lost his mind to be honest. It’s a bizarre tragedy. The point where he was creating online profiles as a trans lesbian was where I realised he had become completely unhinged in his obsession.
Ofc he is haha. It’s so obvious
He’s been harassing this particular person (who is 17) for years. Encouraging his twitter followers to report on their whereabouts. At the conference he grabbed their phone and threw it away.
I had the chats with him in the before times. Fairly mundane things.. I don’t know what happened. He’s lost his wife, I assume a lot of friends. I just don’t get this obsessive and hateful behaviour. I’d be exhausted. Himself and JKR and others have gone off the rails in my opinion (which counts for nothing).
Arthur Matthews is getting on fine.
Linehan also discovered the Troubles this week, after living in England for nearly 40 years.
I was a Twitter early adopter, I joined in 2007. For years it was empty. People posting, “Going to the cinema.” Then Stephen Fry joined and started posting wry witty things. It got better. Then Graham joined and started posting funny witty things.
At some point someone took offense to an Episode of the IT Crowd about a trans woman. Things started to get weird after that. Somehow that seemed to back him into a corner on Twitter. Over a period of a year it just escalated. I would open Twitter and see some real fucked up shite he had posted. Like whether or not you believe in gender identity or pronouns or not, what he was posting on Twitter was fucked up, hateful and abusive.
Graham Linehan is such a funny writer. I wish he would just return to writing.
I worked in a bookshop that didn’t prominently stock or showcase Helen Joyce’s (another terf) book Trans. The book is a load of transphobic shite but regardless of its quality, it simply wasn’t selling enough copies to justify the shelf real estate. Linehan nevertheless publicly blogged about it, accusing us of censoring the gender critical movement and mobilising his cronies to harass the staff. He’s a roaring cunt and everything he’s going through, he did to himself.
She turned the wiens against him
The guy isn’t well.
Fair enough he has strong opinions about it but I don’t think i have that strong of an opinion about anything- certainly not to the extent that it would cause me to ruin my own life.
Particularly something that doesn’t affect him at all. Like if a trans person had killed his dad or something I’d still think he was mad but at least I’d understand why.
I’ve heard you’re a transphobic harasser now, Father.
My take on this is that Linehan has a rare talent that few possess & has wasted his most productive years typing nonsense as opposed to typing scripts. I can only imagine the horror his wife felt when she realised this horse he was not going to get off……..😑
I love Graham’s work, but even before jumping on the anti-trans train, he was always kind of an obsessive, aggressive and (no pun intended) intransigent person. Even when he was left-leaning, and I agreed with his views for the majority of the time, his Twitter account always rubbed me the wrong way. He was, by his own admission, obsessed with it and would kill most of the day on it, and he was always so needlessly aggressive, condescending, and tyrannical in his approach. “Don’t meet your heroes” and all, but, what I’m saying is, I don’t think the trans fixation and his subsequent rightward shift made him this way; I think trans people are just his current obsession. I remember for years, it was Gamergate. Fair enough, I’m no fan of that movement either, but EVERYTHING became Gamergate with him. No matter what the topic of what was in the news that he didn’t like was, he would find a way to link it back to Gamergate. Then, he goes right, and suddenly “reevaluates” his thoughts after years of obsessing over it, because it was broadly a right-wing, anti-inclusion campaign, and that’s who he was aligning with now. Trans people are just his new Gamergate. Nothing he’s doing now is out of character for him, I’m just sorry that it’s making marginalised people’s lives even a little worse
I think Linehan is a great example of why we should have a more positive discourse as a society.
He initially came out and said something polarising and was cancelled for it, but the bigger problem is what came after imo.
Because after he came out and said what he said, he lost everything he had in life, his family, his career, his home, his friends etc.
And what did that result in ? him becoming a more hateful person, with more toxicity both for and against him, leading to bitter vitriol being spread in all directions.
In some people’s attempts to have less hate, they increased the amount of hate. If you compare him when he first spoke about it compared to now, you can see a significant increase in the level of vitriol and there’s now more anti-trans hate online because more people then support the hate that wouldn’t have been there in the first place if he wasn’t put in this position.
If only there was the possibility of an actual discussion about this where people aren’t cancelled the second they open their mouths in the first place then everyone would be better off as a result.
P.S before anyone is like “sToP sUpPoRtInG hIm”, I’m not.
I read his book and I still dont understand him.
He’s known for lurking these threads mentioning him.
About a year ago I got two messages, the exact same message, from two separate burner accounts.
I had just commented on a similar thread calling him a loser who burned his entire life down for nothing.
I got two messages proclaiming him a misunderstood visionary, exactly the same, from separate accounts.
And that’s the time I upset Graham Linehan.
Have the courts not recently unanimously decided that his viewpoint is correct? P.S. I’m not defending him, just an observation
Good. Prick.
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