Marak, the true HERO to opensource world!

[FushiguroMegumi0]

This Is What You Deserve?

You all loved faker.js when it worked. You built your apps, your platforms, your businesses on top of it. You npm-installed it into your CI pipelines and never once thought about the human being behind it. Marak gave you the code, the updates, the bug fixes — for free. And what did you give back? Nothing. Not even gratitude.

But the second he dared to push back — the second he said “enough” — you called him crazy. You smeared him, abandoned him, mocked him. You acted like you were the victims just because your build broke for a few minutes. Grow up.

This community has a disease. You worship free software, but treat the people who write it like trash. You say “open source is about collaboration,” but what you really mean is “do the work for me and shut up.” And when a dev finally breaks under the weight of that one-sided bargain, you crucify them for being human.

Marak made a statement. It wasn’t clean. It wasn’t polite. It wasn’t safe. But it was real. It was rage — and it was earned.

He broke his own code to make a point. You broke a human being by ignoring that point for years.

The fact that he had to resort to this to get anyone’s attention says everything. You didn't listen when he was contributing. You only listened when he screamed.

And now you’re angry?

You should be ashamed.

If you cared more about the people who build the internet than the build logs that went red for 30 seconds, maybe this wouldn’t have happened.

You don’t deserve Marak. You never did.

-Fushiguro Megumi-

[Shinigami92]

I think you should write this somewhere in a forum, e.g. like Reddit or something, maybe write a blog article 🤷

You cant actively mean maintainers or contributors who just kept FakerJS productive and running for the community, but more the community itself or even just Open Source in it self?!
"we" as the maintainers (or at least me) never "smeared him, abandoned him, mocked him" or anything like that

"we" (the maintainers) just forked the repo / restored it, and maintained it further from where it was left unmaintained/abandoned.
And if I remember correctly, Marak never said that his passed work until 2020 should not be maintained further. He just stopped working on it.

[FushiguroMegumi0]

Hey, I appreciate your response and the work you and the rest of the maintainers have done to keep faker.js alive after everything happened. You're right — not everyone smeared or mocked Marak. And I respect that you're one of the people who stepped up to maintain the project in a constructive way.

But I need to be clear: my anger isn't directed at you personally or the maintainers who came in after the fallout. It’s aimed at the broader culture — the massive ecosystem that benefited from Marak’s unpaid labor for years and then turned its back on him the moment he did something inconvenient.

The companies who used his code in production and never paid a dime.
The developers who called him "insane" instead of asking why he felt the need to act out.
The system that praises open source in theory but punishes those who challenge its exploitative norms.

What happened with faker.js was a symptom, not a glitch. Marak was one of the first to publicly flip the table, and whether people agree with his methods or not, his rage was real, and it was justified.

You’re right: he never explicitly said “don’t maintain my work.” And I don’t think anyone should be "forbidden" from forking an abandoned repo — that’s the beauty of open source. But I also think we have a responsibility to acknowledge what broke him, and not just quietly move on like nothing happened.

So yes, keep maintaining faker. Keep it alive. It’s good for the community.
But please — don't let the original story be sanitized or forgotten.
It wasn't just a broken repo. It was a broken trust.

-Fushiguro Megumi-

[ViceAdmiralScout]

@Marak is being censored, as the maintainers have chosen to block him.

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