Wired journalist Emma Grey Ellis has written an article about the latest Internet sensation that is virtual “hentai camgirl” Projekt Melody and her rise to fame, but not without taking offense to her very existence and the “misogynists” that ogle her.

Ellis begins her “article” by introducing Melody to Wired’s wider audience while trying to maintain an aura of objectivity and taking jabs at Melody’s fan base for every little thing she does (despite watchers doing the exact same for real cam girls):

Projekt Melody doesn’t do much but sway, but every swish of her cartoon hips is met with a horny digital howl. When she takes off her barely-there top, revealing what she calls her “big ol’ anime titties,” her fans shower her with hearts and wide-eyed emoji. When she uploads a 13-minute lecture about whether hentai, a sexually explicit anime genre, is art or porn, it gets more than 200,000 views. When one eye freezes half-closed like a broken doll’s, followers take screenshots and fawn over them. “Broken face is the best face,” one comments. To fans, the occasional glitches seem to be something like digital dimples.

She then proceeds to meticulously explain the appeal of the virtual camgirl and the timeline of her growing popularity coupled with trends that helped the phenomenon along, however, the so-called journalist was not able to contain her disdain and vitriol for Melody and her fanbase:

Expect backlash, too. Melody is a literal product of the male gaze—a person who is probably a man pantomiming femininity for an audience of paying men. Some of those men seem to harbor such ill-will toward women that they’d rather masturbate to a glitchy cartoon than try to talk to one. Then again, for human women’s sake, it’s probably best to leave them to it.

Replies to the article on Twitter, even from the original creator of Melody’s 3D model, were naturally not convinced by this nonsensical slander directed at them and their beloved camgirl:

Melody’s success has not only perturbed some journalists but also other camgirls who believed themselves to “be in the right” for being upset that a fictional anime girl was more popular than them and “stole all their watchers”.