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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")
![[-] throwaway8 23746 48 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) I've been following the story for a few weeks now, and getting most of my information from the subreddit /r/kotakuinaction (which was formed because discussion was silenced on /r/gaming and other places here on reddit) I'll admit right now that I agree with most of the "gamergate" position but I'll give you the facts as I understand em First, some backstory: Zoe Quinn and about 150 other gaming "professionals" (including a large number of gaming journalists and editors for nded t e from the one g one another's patreon accounts or companies, dating or sexua relationships, and even being roommates. Whether or not this is "ethical journalism" or not, it's clear their onal lives and personal lives were deeply intertwin licts of interest. The beginning: In mid-August Zoe Quinn's ex-boyfriend posted on his blog accusing Zoe of cheating on him. Specifically, he named 5 men in prominent positions in the game journalism community. Recently, Zoe had made a "video game" called Depression Quest. Objectively Depression Quest (DQ) is a bad game, and essentially consists of webpage hyperlinks organized into a "choose your own adventure" story. In spite of this, DQ was well reviewed on a number of gaming journalism websites like kotaku. When the allegations of cheating came to light, some people began to question whether or not her sexual relationships with journalists had anything to do with her good reviews. At this point the public was unaware of the extensive friendship network and google group The accusations: Two major groups arose in response to the allegations. One group was focused primarily on finding out "how deep the rabbit hole goes" in terms of gaming journalism's perceived ethical indiscretions. The other group was focused primarily on harassing Zoe personally. The ethics group disagreed with the harassing group, but anonymous harassment is as old as the internet and that didn't stop the haasing group The response: umber of different gamingoalism websites which all cused "ers" of being contained the same basic message: "the gamer identity is dead". These article misogynistic man-children and essentially called for all rational non-haters to distance themselves from the identity This elicited a response from three groups of the public - The journalism ethics group from before went into red alert. They already suspected some kind of conflict of interest and back-room coordination in the gaming journalism industry. And a simultaneous, united front fronm a number of different websites seemed to be their smoking gun The harassment group also went into overdrive. Right around this time Anita Sarkeesian released her latest criticism of the video gaming industry. Lots of gamers had already taken issue with her approach, since she admitted to not being interested in games prior to raising $160,000 on kickstarter. They viewed her as an their list "Gamers" got m now Many of them ebac rs the "harassment" olved. The wom act tha rting wom w we res rs the rhe istinctio etween the rassm assm emonstrate that the more th orting the ethical standards mmi ts with three m n western society. Authors symp the "ethics" grou the "ethics" grou ncy and improved ethics in gaming journalism. Third, some of the most prominent sites whose editors and administrators are supportive of the "social justice" cause have begun to be boycott. Sites like kotaku and polygon have had their traffic plummet in the past few weekS nst a backdr the web. Multiple subreddits Eventually even 4chan, threads about gamergate o people discussing posts from rs ory. The efforts pport fema rs Capitalists rea rse with the of thi nalism rom m permalink save report give gold reply](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/833/910/72e.png "The Controversy in Summery: In case you've been out of the loop.")
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