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![Gamergate (harassment campaign) Article Talk From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia For other uses, see Gamergate (disambiguation). Gamergate or GamerGate (GG)[¹] was a loosely organized misogynistic online harassment campaign and a right-wing backlash against feminism, diversity, and progressivism in video game culture. [2][³] It was conducted using the hashtag "#Gamergate" primarily in 2014 and 2015.[1][4][5][6] Beginning in August 2014, Gamergate targeted women in the video game industry, most notably feminist media critic Anita Sarkeesian and video game developers Zoë Quinn and Brianna Wu, among others.[7][8][9][10][11] The harassment campaign included doxing, r--- threats, and death threats.[12][13][14] Gamergate proponents ("Gamergaters") stated that they were a social movement, but lacked well-defined goals, a coherent message, and leaders, making Gamergate difficult to define.[15][16][17] Gamergaters claimed to promote ethics in video games journalism, claimed to be protecting the "gamer" identity, and opposed what they asserted as "political correctness" in video games.[18][19][20][21][22] Read Date Target Gamergate, online harassment campaign in 2014-15 that targeted women in the video game industry. The attacks were attributed largely to white male right-wing gamers who railed against the rise and influence of women and feminism in the industry. Gamergate served as a recruiting tool for the growing alt-right movement and helped spur the online “Pizzagate" conspiracy theory, which soon spawned the wider QAnon conspiracy movement. …………………………....…..……….…..... Attack type Victims Motive View source Inquiry XA 28 languages ✓ Perpetrators Internet trolls, particularly from 4chan, Internet Relay Chat, and 8chan View history Tools ✓ Gamergate August 2014 - 2015 Women in the video game industry See all media Online harassment campaign Zoë Quinn, Anita Sarkeesian, Brianna Wu, and others Gamergaters created conspiracy theories falsely accusing Quinn of an unethical relationship with video game journalist Nathan Grayson.[23][24][25] More broadly, they alleged unethical collusion between the press and feminists, progressives, and social critics.[17][26] [27] These claims were widely dismissed as trivial, conspiracy theories, baseless, or unrelated to actual issues of ethics in gaming and journalism.[28] [29][30] Gamergate supporters frequently denied that the harassment took place, falsely claiming it to be manufactured by the victims.[31][32] Misogyny anti-feminism anti- progressivism FBI investigation Gamergate has been described as a culture war over cultural diversification, artistic recognition, feminism in video games, social criticism in video games, and the social identity of gamers.[28][33] [34] [35] Many supporters of Gamergate opposed the increasing influence of feminism and so-called "social justice warriors" on video game culture. [2][36] Gamergate led figures both inside and outside the gaming industry to focus on methods of addressing online harassment, ways to minimize harm, and prevent similar events. [37] [38] [39] [40] Gamergate has been viewed as a contributor to the alt-right and other right- wing movements.[21][41] Video game developer Brianna Wu](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/list/002/691/215/331.png "What the actual f--- are we supposed to do about this")
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![File (hide): 1464125629884.png (107.98 KB, 303x164, 303:164, the secret word of the day.png) H▶ What it feels like when someone on Twitter blames Gamer Gate for anything Veteran Leader of GamerGate 05/24/16 (Tue) 14:33:49 ID: 6421a1 No.324225 [Reply] Watch Thread] Okay, Conky, today's secret word of the day, is #gamergate! When someone mentions #gamergate when someone does something online and is "problematic", we're gonna scream at the top of our lungs! Gamer Gate](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/125/737/438.png "Today's Secret Word of the Day")
![Today, 11:56 AM Join Date: Posts: Apr 2016 TheDiceMustRoll Registered User [DnD5e] My best player is a Gamergater....what do? Hello. Second post on this forum, big time lurker, not much of a poster I have a problem. See, I've been running 5e with various groups since its release in 2014. I love the game. It's great. My crop of players has changed from group to group, but genrally it's been fine. I had to boot one player end of 2015 because he kept describing his characters in unflattering terms and comparing them to the actual players(my rogue is as big a slut as Player, for example). Around january of this year, I began a new campaign and have some new players, and one of them is awesome, as a player. I use original settings(I bought all of the campaign books so far because they're great inspiration, but you know) and he is the first one to actually really get into my setting. He roleplays well, he resolves issues between player characters and generally is considered to be the "best" player in the team. He also actually delved really hard into the setting I created and knows it almost as well as I do. It's been a complete and utter delight to have him surprise me with solutions to political turmoil and actually come up with his own plans that are actually functionally workable in the political trappings of the setting. My players no longer need to just go on quests and kill s---, at times it feels like we're playing a Storyteller system game or the Game of Thrones rpg in terms of how much intrigue there is. And it's all him. He's great. He even has a notebook which he's filled every page with notes on characters, locations, history. It's a f------ dungeon master's dream! I don't even feel like I'm running DnD anymore, it's some kind of elongated worldbuilding exercise where we'e collaborating on a nation's history and roleplaying major characters. This is the kind of s--- Gary Gygax dreamed about doing DnD with, and it's what attracted me to the game So then he asked me to add him on facebook, and his profile picture is Vivian James. His wall is filled to the brim with tons of links from KotakuinAction, most of which is having a tantrum over a woman saying...something or a person getting screamed at(BTFO, apparantly) by random nobodies on twitter I broached the topic with him and he got pretty defensive. I didn't want to start a fight in front of everyone but he talked about it a bit and he does unfortunately live in a fantasy world where 'SJws' are trying to ruin just about everything good in the world. He even opened the player's handbook and pointed at the little blurb about gender stuff on the character creation front page and cited it as an example of "SJW Cancer" So I'm at something of an impasse here. He's actually until recently come off as a really cool dude, and like, my other players are good at playing their classes, but they dont know the setting like he does and they probably wont enjoy playing without him due to him sort of uh, elevating the style of game So should I kick him out and go back to just running more traditional quests? It's guaranteed to be less fulfilling for me. But....he's from f------ gamergate http://archive. is/ENbug Page1 http://archive.is/HxuAy Page What do? 2](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/118/148/5a7.jpg_orig "Gator carries DnD campaign on his back, SJW DM tries to figure out how to purge him.")
![| Discuss|on]Now you see why #GamerGate matters (self. KotakulnAction) submitted 14 hours For months now you've seen it here and there. "Hategroup GamerGate uses excuse of ethical gaming journalism to harass women out of gaming." "Whatever", you think. Sure, gaming journalism sucks, but that seems like a mess, so l'm not getting involved. Or maybe you don't think gaming journalism is relevant anymore, and your solution is to just not go to any of these sites. Why raise a fuss? Or maybe you thought it was a cause worth getting invested in, but too many bad eggs in the bunch ruined it. Why care? Why put forth the effort? It'il d Now you've seen why it does matter. As many people on KotakulnActi peoplell argue that GamerGate is only just about that, and this attached culture war is only connected in small ways. However, as GamerGate drew on and on, we saw first hand just how far this network spreads. It woke many of us up. I never liked the term "taking the red pill because it seemed to make it more dramatic than it really seemed, but after being exposed to everything, that's exactly what it is. There's a moment in this mess where suddenly, all those more outlandish claims became true, and even went beyond what people said. Many times, truth was stranger than fiction ave learned, this goes far beyond gaming journalism. Some re liars. Th the ir sexual ide ave them believe that the them from ever being successful, no matter how hard they might try. So why bother? Instead, take up arms. Become an army. Become You thought GamerGate might not effect you. You still play good games. You still have fun. Sure, some games might be s---, and launches f----- up, but there's still those gems out there you love. But this isn't just about video games. And you see it noW. You see the tip of the ice berg and you're starting to make all the connections. You might have been surprised at first, finding your way to KotakulnAction, thinking "Why was a thread on 'all? Why are a bunch of gators talking about this?" Then you looked around. You didn't see any harassment. You didn't see any women being targeted. You saw discussions. Debate. Concerns. You saw threads talking about censorship, ethics, science fiction and fantasy books KotakulnAction's days a umbered. This new policy of banning subreddits d assment was the perfect sh it on its way out. GamerGat s been labeled as misogynist harassers from the start, and that label exte KotakulnAction, even though there's never been any proof of this. Do you want to see how easy it is to label this group as harassers? Brianna Wu is a self proclaimed "target" of GamerGate. She spent months trying to instigate GamerGate comments and images. Then, in October, she finally got GamerGate to take the bait. She used a meme generator to poke fun at GamerGate comments, much in the vein of Wu's originals. Some went too f board d several users on 8chan's Igg/ board did what they do best. Shitpost. They flooded the meme generator with trolling it posts. Igg/ was talking about this on thei but most of them we ng her reac the memes, someone, without being asked, posts person eported the elease, and many people called out the post. Within minutes, Wu the f GamerGate t the board's own rules, without anyon r the tweeted tha somehow wa board, and GamerGa afte threats by a newly created Twitter account, that mentioned some of the person labeling GamerGate and 8clh tegroup. Many within GamerGate believe s posted even made the Twitter acc ounce of evidenc f that, but at the same time the n ounce of evidence to support it being the intent of GamerGate possible two, people. No r media outlets copied what they said, and published their own stories. GamerGate had reached some main stream media before this event, but this is the moment when the reach spread far and wide, and even main stream media outlets had GamerGate pegged as a hate group I have found the archived thread where her dox was posted, so you can see for yourself what happened. You'll notice the post containing the dox was removed, because it was deleted within a few minutes (but not before Wu made her Twitter post blaming them), but here's a screenshot of it. You can see exactly where it fit into the thread, and how the thread reacted to it. So now you see how easy it can be to paint a subreddit as a harassment/hate group. All you need is one account, one person, to post something against the board's rules. Reddit claims they will only delete subreddits where their moderators aren't doing what they n to stop these sort of posts, but /gg/ did a good job of stamping out calls to harassment getting smeared on national TV, which is used in Wikipedia as a source to prove GamerGate's a hategroup. KotakulnAction is already a hategroup, and even though Reddit hasn't banned it yet, it's leading u So now see why this matters. reddit from bein see how this effects Now you see why we've been at this ext? Some claim the simple sol orite Places that were tho free speech slowly turned into this exact scenario. A stand h sn't about whethe was worth deleting. Some will say it was, some will say it wa lot ories uncovered leaked scams have direc occasion. And every time it did mbers bumped. KotakulnAction is becoming more and more active more people discovering just how far this goes, and just how it affects them. Often times, they find out before it's too late, and they've already been silenced. Even now, I the off vote-locking tha this message. Show people how this relates to them. We lon much as we c Il out these acti r the t get away with it. If we go more thi Edit: While I know you Discus ppy at this point in time, a good 10% of the votes have been downvotes. I tagged this agree with what I've said. While I have ason. I would be more tha ave to sa I would love to talk with you, and will respon nyone who disagrees with this u/AlexHD's versi ame for the Gamergaters a Gamerga they came for the Reddit users, and I did](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/list/000/977/039/96a.png "Now you see why #GamerGate matters")
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