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We need game devs and artist to come forward; anonymously if that's what it takes. (check out /v/'s thread #GamerGate hegamer or @archon and contact @t We need accounts of censorship in the industry. We need accounts of blackballing and intimidation . We need to hear how the enviroment has changed . We need accounts of good people who are tired of the fear. VIDEO GAMES NEED We need YOU guys to speak out. We're out here fighting for you and you can be a part of that fight as well YOU Your story doesn't need to have your name, or your face attached to it, just your heart. We'll know the truth when we read it Artist and Devs, you have the power. The power to make games, and to change gaming. Let's end the fear! TO FIGHT FOR QUALITY JOURNALISM RETIRED DEVS AND OTHERS: Please email this message to the active devs you know. Let them know they do have a voice Retweet this message and personal accounts on the hashtag, and for minority devs. Don't split the message

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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

Jalen Hutchinson Studied Culinary Science at Culinary Institute of America (Graduated 2014). Author has 304 answers and 740.1K answer views. 5y Not that I care that much either way, but it did expose a lot of corrupt game developers and game journalists. X Journalists would make claims of people like Anita Sarkeesian "playing video games all her life" when she openly admitted many times she is not a gamer and only starter recently (when it wasn't for an interview). Various developers trading sex or money for good reviews got exposed, journalists who accepted got exposed. People became a bit more critical about supporting a game just because the developer has a victim complex stating tat their game could have only failed because of sexism, instead of their own poor developing skills. What really sealed the deal was opposition often faking their own harassment. Anita sarkeesian and Zoe Quinn have been caught multiple times screenshotting "harassment" while showing that the harrasser's account name in the login. Or when someone called the police to help Sarkeesian against a "very real threat" she was posting about, only for police to find the harasser's messages were coming from her IP address. I just want honesty from the community, and the lies were mostly exposed by the "dreaded" gamergate. 1.3K views • View upvotes 26

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凵Anonymous 08/19/14(Tue)14:45:52 No.34278249 >34278690 >3427882134278875 >34278954 >>34278354 >>34278367 >>34278368 >>34278479 >>34278496 >>34278548 >>34278618 >>34278645 >>34278651 >>34278657 >>34278659 I probably shouldnt post this but here goes. I used to be a mod for id Inb4 degenerate I need for this info to get out. Most of the mods on 4chan have only been in that position for a couple of weeks. The day after the #ShutDown4CHAN thing happened in July, moot called a meeting with all the mods in a IRC He said that a girl did atempt suicide and that she had connections and they wanted blood Moot demanded that we use everything we can to remove anything wanting to "f--- up sjw s---". Needless to say alot of mod anons called out moot and were kicked from the chat. Before one was kicked he told every mod agianst this s--- to meet in a 4craft server. We all did and discussed how f----- up this was. Over the next few days our chats about it became emails wich became skype calls. In the end we agreed that the next big f--- up the sjws make then we will let whatever happens happen. What came next was dashcon We let the discussion go on like normal. Some mods did moots bidding and banned Others were in the threads bumping What was left was nearly 2/3 of 4chan's given the boot >>34278424 >>34278479 >>34278548 >>34278618 >>34278645 >>34278651 >>34278657 >>34278659 >>34278690 >>34278692 >>34278821 Anonymous 08/19/14(Tue)14:47:49 No.34278368 >34278875 >>34278954 >>34279004 2234278249 We we're all purged and outed. We fell on eachother and to bitch and moan. I swear to god our chatlogs the day after must look like mr. meeseeks One ousted mod anon was also a mod for 420chan and wizardchan. He said that alot of the mods thier were also exiled He gave proof, in the form of a collection of perma banned notices for dozens of IPs. And a list of those same IPs in log records for mod services We flipped our s--- and began looking for more chans that this had happened to. 7chan, mchan, getchan and even shrekchan had massive mod axeings on the same day as 4chan.u Anonymous 08/19/14(Te)14:49:00 No.34278424 >34278479>>34278548>34278565 >34278618 >>34278645 >>34278651 >>34278657>>34278659>34278666 >34278690>>34278821 34278875 34278949 >>34278954 >>34279004 The next day a mod who wasnt outed contacted us. To our horror he told us that the new mods are complete sjws and openly call for permabans for alot of 4chan board culture" As we dug deeper we found out that the same thing was happening to alot of subreddits. Normally we would say f--- em. But they told us that tons of non sjw mods had thier accounts sieged and them ip banned. Deeper we dug and found out that dozens of forum mods and website mods were either changed or became rabbid sjw over night Currently this is the deepiest we have dug. The girl who attempted suicide was kassie washington, niece of nick denton owner and publisher of gawker media

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Re: Zoe Quinn Article Discussion « Reply #153 on: Today at 02:29 PM » quote Karma: 153 Online Yeah seriously, f--- those guys. And even if Zoe Quinn were "guilty" of sleeping her game to the... well, not the top-into basic recognition, maybe?--so f------ what? Are the "journalists" being harassed as well? Is writing about video games even real journalism I think the biggest problem with "gamer culture" is that there is even something people call "gamer culture". And that it gives these idiot-meatheads something that they think they have to defend as a member of the in-circle. Zoe Quinn is a victim of this idiotic mindset, combined with spurned-loser inspired misogyny, and it's just fueled by all the gamer-sites trying to keep up the mask of "culture" or journalism, or whatever. Jesus, get a job, be a decent citizen, and then play games on the weekend and then seriously no one will give a f---. Mmmm. I'm so delicious. I know (or at least hope) that most of these s-------- are just kids to maybe early 20s, but even staying up late at night so that I could play Civ I after my folks were asleep l never thought I was fighting the man. It was just something fun I wanted to do after did all the homework and s--- the grownup world makes you do Logged professorlight Re: Zoe Quinn Article Discussion Sir Postsalot quote « Reply #154 on: Today at 02:30 PM Karma: 82 Online I know this is getting off the subject, but I love the idea of them hunting down women and minorities to come speak out against the "SJWs" - in other words, trying to ind women and minorities who will come out against games being more inclusive for women and minorities. You don't speak for me! I'm perfectly fine with gaming being geared almost completely toward young white heterosexual males, both on the developer and side! F--- the SJWs for suggesting I'd want anything else! I mean, come on, man. I don't think that s--- even makes sense inside the echo chamber, you have to really lie to yourself to make the logic contort back in on itself I think that's the point where every pretense gamergate might have had of being a legitimate concern is set on fire and thrown out the window... in order to know they needed support from minorities and women to make their protest legitimate they needed to know that they would give legitimacy, and they would be acknowledging their social importance, but at the same time they knew they would never get their support by legitimate reasons, instead being forced to resort to lies and badly done sockpuppets That's a level of double standards I can't wrap my head around, how can you know this people are important to your cause to be a part of a unified, equal force, and still fight to harass and discriminate them? it's not even stupidity or immaturity at that point, that's just plain evil Logged Pages: 1... 6 Z [8] reply ) (notify send topic) print)

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This is why Cracked sucks

iPad令 9:25 AM Tweet Home Leviathan Smile @leviathansmile @JFSargentI fail to see how publishing that article is any different than what Breitbart does 38m Notifications Uh... Mr. Sargent? @JFSargent @leviathansmile ...that you guys FREAK OUT at women ALL THE TIME. That's the big story here. That's what matters about #GamerGate 22m Discover Leviathan Smile @leviathansmile @JFSargent You think it's rational to say "Gaming journalism IS f----- but since there are some mean gamers so let's ignore it"? #GamerGate Me Uh... Mr. Sargent? @JFSargent Follow @leviathansmile You think it's rational to be mad about gaming journalism when RIGHT NOW PEOPLE ARE DYING OF CANCER?!?!? #Gamer-Gate 9/16/14, 9:16 AM Leviathan Smile @leviathansmile @JFSargent That's a completely false alternative. Shouldn't an editor know that? #GamerGate? 6m Lisa Ngo @BlacklslnYo @JFSargent @leviathansmile I'm sorry, that's a fallacy of relative privation! Eegah-Taki Eegah Taki @JFSargent @leviathansmile did you really just exploit cancer patients to attack #GamerGate ? #notyourshield

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(This was in response to Sommer's latest video) I-1 zblues the second 9 points an hour ago I say we make her the voice and leader of our movement. She will destroy all in her path! permalink [-1 Jayken 20 points an hour ago She's been a outspoken critic of modern Feminism for years, but she's not a gamer. She really doesn't have any interest in gaming. Shes very much an ally to our cause though. permalink parent I-1 KGBVSCIA 28 points an hour ago but she's not a gamer. She really doesn't have any interest in gaming Didn't stop Sarkeesian permalink parent

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This is what we're fighting against...

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A Xbox Dev on board. Nice.

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IMADE THIS LAUNCHTEAM20" #GAMERGATE Xbox guy here again. Me and a large part of my work colleagues support #gamergate. We work to create an amazing experience for our customers, for the gamers, and irn return we are branded as misogynists, fat, neck-bearded creeps by these so-called journalists'. Yes, almost all of us here in this studio are gamers We, on a personal level do NOT approve of these websites (which, at the end of the day, make money on our work) and their biased articles and lacking ethics. Note that this is not my company's official stance on this matter. Some developers from the industry have already made public remarks regarding this (hats off to you guys), but our company hasn't issued an official stance, and will most likely not do so any time soon. However, we are all with you. This needs to end now. Because game journalism, as we know it, is dead. Please do not engage in harassment by means of physical threats or other illicit ways. Not only is it illegal, but also shows a lack of reasoning and intellect on your behalf. Beat them with words and facts, not with doxes. Share this if you want, and keep fighting for the truth!

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"5 Things I Learned as the Internet's Most Hated Person" A Cracked Article by Zoe Quinn, Page 2

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Leigh Alexander is an arrogant prick

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