In a cryptic tweet on Friday afternoon, Limited Run Games posted on Twitter that “[Limited Run Games] respects all personal opinions, however we remain committed to supporting an inclusive culture. Upon investigating a situation, an employee was terminated. Our goal as a company is to continue to foster a positive and safe environment for everyone.”
Despite their name, Limited Run Games is a company that produces massive runs of physical copies of games that would not normally be released on physical media. These voluminous releases are available at big box retailers across the nation.
The Limited Run Games twitter account offers no additional explanation of what inspired the post, with many responses wondering what happened and other accounts responding very negatively. Here is what we’ve been able to gather.
According to Ian Miles Cheong, a Twitter user by the name of “Purple Tinker hates elon” initiated a “witch hunt” against a Limited Run Games community manager by the name of Kara Lynne because Lynne posted positively about looking forward to the release of the new Harry Potter game, Hogwart’s Legacy.
An examination of the Twitter account reveals the Purple Tinker has taken credit for a Twitter exposé showing that Kara Lynne follows Libs of Tik Tok, an account that reposts LGBT content from Tik Tok on other platforms, and Ian Miles Cheong. According to screen shots, both of these accounts were blocked by Purple Tinker, showing up in vibrant red when Purple Tinker manually scrolled through Lynne’s Twitter likes, following, and replies to find unfavorable materials.
