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Vine, HQ Trivia Co-Founder Colin Kroll Found Dead of Suspected Overdose (techcrunch.com)
TechCrunch has confirmed with TMZ that Colin Kroll, the 35-year-old co-founder and CEO of the HQ Trivia app and co-founder of Vine, has been found dead of an apparent drug overdose in his apartment. TMZ cites a police source saying cocaine and heroin were believed to be involved. From the report: Kroll was only named CEO of the HQ Trivia mobile game show app three months ago, replacing fellow co-founder Rus Yusupov who moved over to serve as chief creative officer. Prior to taking the CEO role Kroll served as HQ's CTO. He co-founded the startup in 2015, a few months after moving on from Vine -- the Twitter-owned short video format startup which got closed down in 2017. It's not clear who will take over the CEO role for HQ Trivia at this stage but Yusupov looks a likely candidate, at least in the interim.
Kroll started his career as a software engineer at Right Media, which went on to be acquired by Yahoo in 2006. From then until 2011, he led the engineering team in Yahoo's search and advertising tech group before joining luxury travel site Jetsetter as VP of Product -- where he went on to be promoted to CTO. In 2012 he left to start Vine with co-founders Dominik Hofmann and Yusopov.
Kroll started his career as a software engineer at Right Media, which went on to be acquired by Yahoo in 2006. From then until 2011, he led the engineering team in Yahoo's search and advertising tech group before joining luxury travel site Jetsetter as VP of Product -- where he went on to be promoted to CTO. In 2012 he left to start Vine with co-founders Dominik Hofmann and Yusopov.
Incels dont exist. Its all in their head.
According to TMZ, it was his girlfriend who called in the wellness check.
That said, the incel community tends to have a bit of a crab bucket mentality--wait, no, that's insulting to crabs. It's not a Good Idea to let them know you're leaving because you realized growing the fuck up (or even just basic self-care) was a good idea and hey, awesome, you're able to get a girlfriend! While it is going to be less entertaining to us incel watchers, going ghost for your exit's probably safest.
Though ODing fatally with the cops refusing to even confirm that yes it was your girlfriend you called it in isn't a bad alternate either. Might not keep your grave from being vandalized, but...you're dead, odds are you won't care. And hopefully nobody'll dox your girlfriend which will keep foamy-mouthed incels from bothering her...but you're dead, odds are you won't care about that.
Also disproportionately victims of abuse, and those facing many other serious struggles who turn to drugs to cope in the absence of better support systems. "Weak minds and low self-esteem" is an oversimplification that does nothing but perpetuate stereotypes and stigma.
Lack of empathy is a lack of humanity.