Winterfox

Winterfox was a rage blogger who used many pseuds and sockpuppets. In online fandom circles, she was generally considered a bully. She ran the blog "requires only that you hate" from 2011 to 2013 under the "winterfox" pseud. Around the same time, she started writing professionally under the pen name Benjanun Sriduangkaew. She continues to write under this name.
== Controversies ==
=== Pre-2014 ===
===2014: Connecting Two Pseuds & The Mixon Report===
The connection between the two pseuds started to be circulated in 2014, blog post by Will Shetterly, August 2, 2014. and was ultimately confirmed publicly by her friend Nick Mamatas in October."Anyway, Benjanun Sriduangkaew used to blog under the name Requires Only That You Hate.... I am writing this on ello because nobody reads ello." Aja Romano. , The Daily Dot, Nov 12, 2014., blog post by Martin Wisse, October 20, 2014. 
After Mamatas outed her, she posted an apology on the requires hate blog where she stated:
Other fans report that she continued to behave badly after this apology, and the apology is not widely believed.
In November 2014, Laura J. Mixon posted an expose to her blog about winterfox's behavior harassing other fans and sf writers called A Report on Damage Done by One Individual Under Several Names. This expose, also known as the Mixon Report, won Mixon a Hugo Award for fan writing in 2015.
Sridauangkaew and her friends allege that an ongoing campaign of outing followed the publishing of A Report on Damage Done by One Individual Under Several Names and that is saw "wide support from Laura J. Mixon and Teresa Nielsen Hayden, among others."Six Months and Counting, medium post by Sridauangkew, Mar 12, 2015. archived. Other fans take issue with this characterization,comment at File 770, March 13, 2015: "What a bunch of bullshit.... Anyone who believes what she says about her own behavior is a fool." especially since Mamatas publicly connected the two pseuds before Mixon's report was published.
===2020-2021: Isabel Fall & Further Testimonies ===
In June 2020, YA/SFF novelist Rin Chupeco wrote a public Twitter thread identifying themself as a past target of harassment from Requires Hate/Winterfox. . Wayback Machine copy. 27 Jun 2020.
In January 2020, trans SF author Isabel Fall published her controversial short story I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter online. She immediately received such a volume of harassment from readers and fellow authors in response that she asked her publisher to take the story down and checked herself into a psychiatric ward for thoughts of self-harm and suicide.. Vox entry about Isabel Fall’s harassment, written by Emily St James, 30 Jun 2021. During the harassment, a user on fail_fandomanon noted Sriduangkaew took great offence to a suggestion that she’d written the story. . 21 Oct 2020. A Wordpress commenter linked to a Twitter thread criticising the story which Sriduangkaew had quote-retweeted with her own criticisms, . 12 Jan 2020. although the quote-retweets have since been deleted.
In the wake of the controversy surrounding Isabel Fall, fans have discussed Winterfox's involvement,. _antifalockhart on Twitter, 3 Aug 2022. highlighting how certain individuals in her close circle were responsible for some of the worst dogpiling of Fall, including the person who spread the '1988 as a Nazi dogwhistle’ rumour. yaguruma-blog on Tumblr, 27 Dec 2023. . by atomicthumbs on Twitter. 16 Jan 2020. This individual's connection to Winterfox and her modus operandi was also discussed on Metafilter:
In October 2021, an ex-fan on Tumblr detailed Sriduangkaew’s and her circle’s involvement in the harassment of Fall, claiming that Sriduangkaew was initially loud in denouncing Fall’s story but that she immediately ceased involvement when public opinion turned in Fall’s favour.. By an ex-fan on Tumblr, 4 Oct 2021. In January 2024, in an apparent reversal of her previous stance towards Fall, Sriduangkaew referred to YA Twitter's harassment of another trans woman as ‘Isabel Fall’-ing.. Jan 3, 2024.
===2022===
In November 2022, Sridauangkaew implicitly encouraged her Twitter followers to DDOS a Mastodon instance run by a Twitter user who had disagreed with her.@benjanun_s on Twitter: , Nov 24, 2022. This Twitter user was most likely impertinence, who runs the Mastodon instance FederatedFandom.net and was blocked by Winterfox and her friends for calling Winterfox a derogatory name in November 2022.Untitled Tumblr post by stopthatimp (Jun 19, 2023): "I am also blocked on one of Stitch’s accounts on my own public account, probably (though I don’t know for sure) because I called their friend winterfox a cunt to her face last November." (archive link)
===2023===
Sriduangkaew criticized Sailor Moon and Cardcaptor Sakura in March 2023 for their depictions of problematic relationship tropes. She has volunteered Gunsmith Cats as an alternative:
In August 2023, she described women who enjoy M/M as "slobbering dogs,"@benjunun_s on Twitter: , Aug 20, 2023. but took a more positive stance on men enjoying F/F, since there was a chance those men could turn out to be trans women.@benjanun_s on Twitter: , Aug 26, 2023.
==Some Fic and Essays ==
* (2004, 2005)
** From My Little Black Heart, essay (2794 words) ("On: writing pet peeves, common pitfalls. With: heartless cruelty, much snark, and extreme prejudice." - "Show/Tell, Preaching" and "Melee Combat") (3 reviews) (offline) (2004)
** The Shadows You Cast, Star Wars fiction (51503 words) ("Knights of the Old Republic. To combat madness, Revan must regain her memories. To do this, she must contend with powers she cannot fight. But in a galaxy turned against her, how much is a woman's sanity worth?") (0 reviews) (offline) (2004)
** A King's Trial, Lord of the Rings fiction (1226) (The king has finally returned to Gondor, claiming a throne long vacant. But is everyone truly happy? What if there are people still loyal to the late Steward?") (0 reviews) (offline) (2004)
* Fanfiction.net no fanworks listed (joined July 19, 2012)
==Further Reading==
===2004===
* forums.larian.com, comments about fanfiction at a Baldar's Gate forum (June 2004)
===2014===
* A Report on Damage Done by One Individual Under Several Names aka The Mixon Report, by Laura J. Mixon (2014)
* (October 20, 2014)
* by Rochita Loenen-Ruiz (November 6, 2014)
* (2014)
* Accountability and anonymity: the latest SF&F/fandom wank (October 13, 2014)
* Accountability and anonymity II: I was wrong (Musings about online identities) by inverarity (November 7, 2014)
* Acclaimed sci-fi writer exposed as notorious Internet troll: The publishing community is divided over how to deal with writer Benjanun Sriduangkaew, better known as the troll Winterfox. by Aja Romano (Daily Dot) (Nov 12, 2014)
===2015===
* by Serenity Dee (May 21, 2015)
* by Edouard Briereallard (2015-09-01)
* This Time it's Embarrassing. Requires Hate Returns to her Old Tricks by C.J. Paget, arguing that Edouard Briereallard is either a Winterfox sockpuppet or follower. (2015?)
*fail_fandomanon's new wiki: , , , , , , 
===2016===
* winterfox tag at fail_fandomanon's wiki backup
===2017===
* by Zen Cho (February 2017)
* by rachelmanija (Feb. 17th, 2017)
* A LETTER TO APEX EDITORS RE: THE INTERSECTIONAL SFF ROUNDTABLE (February 11, 2017)
* Being an itemised list of disagreements (February 15, 2017)
===2023===
* May I ask who is Winterfox?, anonymous ask and response by Older Than Netfic (2023)
* Winterfox/Benjanun Sriduangkaew is back by rachelmanija (September 12, 2023)
* PSA: Winterfox/Requires Hate/Benjanun Sriduangkaew/Maria Ying (likely 2023)
* Fandom and Context Collapse: From Winterfox to MsScribe to the Loss of Isabel Fall—What Can We Do? (July 3, 2023)
==References==