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BoardGameGeek fires veteran advertising manager for rejecting campaign due to firsthand experiences of demonic possession (boardgamewire.com)
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BoardGameGeek has fired advertising manager Chad Krizan after almost 20 years with the company, after he cited his personal experiences of demonic possession as grounds for rejecting an ad campaign.

Krizan told Possess Me, Satan publisher Falling Whale Games that he couldn’t “in good conscience” approve ads for its Gamefound campaign as “the thought of displaying this subject matter makes me sick to my stomach”, according to an email exchange shared online by the publisher.

In the emails, Krizan says he has been “sitting on this one and praying about what to do in this instance”, adding that “as a follower of Jesus, I routinely help people suffering from demonic oppression, and more occasionally, possession, and it’s absolutely devastating the damage he does to peoples’ lives”.

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[–] ace_garp@lemmy.world 39 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Hats off to BGG for not entertaining this nonsense, and letting that person go.

[–] NormDeplume@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Keep in mind their original response was basically a" he's been cautioned that this is not professional" but nothing more. It was only after there was even more outcry that they went back on that.

[–] sychthys@lemmy.world 8 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

This glosses over how long the issue went on before they fired him. It also doesn't address how many other companies may have been hurt by his nonsense views that couldn't fight back as effectively as Falling Whale could due to size and audience.

BGG still had a lot to answer for.

[–] ace_garp@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

Hopefully any other previously denied campaigns will now come to light.