During the heyday of Creatures' fandom, a user nicknamed "AntiNorn", a late US Army officer, started posting videos of Norns (the pets featured in the game, which were coded in a manner more closely resembling the human brain than a regular pet simulator game) being abused as a counter-cultural response to the Creatures community favoring idealized fan content that ignored or removed elements of conflict or danger from the game.

AntiNorn provided an abused Norn called "Slave" for visitors to download and import into their games, which horrified certain members of the Creatures fandom to the point of AntiNorn being sent graphic death threats. While many players downloaded Slave with the intention of protecting her, she turned out to have a fear of the player character, which she named "God"; had been trained to eat poisonous weeds as food; could fall unconscious out of sheer stress; and was too frail to live a particularly long life.

Some players did manage to rehabilitate Slave and allow her to live a full life, but AntiNorn later revealed that she had her DNA genetically modified to produce alcohol in her bloodstream, meaning that if players had breeded Slave, their entire Norn lineage would be contaminated with perpetually drunken Norns. The response to this was immense and fierce, to the point of AntiNorn receiving graphic death threats.

Following this, AntiNorn would start a website called "Tortured Norns", which contained more edgy downloadable content including cocaine pipes for Norns, recipes made from Norn babies, and a Norn wired to associate reward with punishment and therefore only able to experience pain.