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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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![[-] 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.")
![Bring games, make friends: playing your part in the local multiplayer revolution https://archive.today/cBrjq SHARE TWEET OPINION TOP STORIES A defense of Binding of Isaac from a former fundamentalist Christian By Arthur Chu on Jan 26, 2015 FOLLOW POLYGON NOW! 8. RUE 328K] FOLLOW Opinion by Ben Click for more on how Polygon writes opinion pieces. Kuchera on Feb 25, 2014 at3 :15p The Royal Rumble showed the best and the worst of the WWE By Dave Tach on Jan 26, 2015 This game needs online play, I don't have friends who like eunagit lookt to ne the mestakes to play games in person," they say in the comments. of Destiny's first add-on with House of Wolves By Michael McWhertor on Jan 26, 2015 There is a new resurgence of local multiplayer games hitting the market, including games like the Sportsfriends bundle and Towerfall, and many of them offer no way to play online. If vou want to have fun, you need to invite people over, or find a The Witcher 3's first three hours SPORTS FRIENDS https://archive.today/njicu Sportsfriends was generously crowd-funded on Kickstarter by over 4000 backers. Ben Kuchera Ben Kuchera @BenKuchera Follow EddieMakuch Yes. Full stop. You can't invest and then cover a company you have a financial interest in FAVORITE 恸 3:20 PM-15 Dec 2011](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/list/000/923/219/33a.png_large "Undisclosed financial ties of Ben Kuchera with a game he supported.")
![OP Earthquake] The idea to treat "trending hashtags', like a MMO and trend #AreYouBlocked? on Thursday GOAL 139 submitted 14 hours ago by BasediCloud The coordinated effort to inform thousands of neutrals on twitter. Shake the earth underneath 1355 Market St, San Francisco As of now we have not yet used a tried-and-true tactic for twitter hashtags. A tactic we use in massively multiplayer online games every day. Every large scale attack in an MMO is planned and coordinated. We wouldn't go into an EVE online battle without a battleplan and without informing all captains when it takes place. For clan based attacks in browser games like TribalWars we set alarm clocks to 2am It is time to bring the experience we have gained in those games to twitter On Thursday 9 il 6pm PDT we take to twit o it, say 1000 or 2000 SO startin 10 tweets each, we can have it trending the first minute world wide. To put it into perspective Jimmy Fallon in his late night show and Michelle Obama tried to get #momdance trending, as promotion for her "Let's Move!" campaign. They managed 1.754 tweets http://topsy.com/analytics?q1-%23 momdance&q2-%23g immetiveBuia-Topsy Hashtag it #mom dance #gummefive, and let's see it trending tonight or tomorrow." Fallon said, encouraging his viewers. (live) + to his 2,47M followers this tweet https://twitter.com/FallonTonight/status/583845743187914752 Make no mistake viral campaigns we are able to pull are worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. The publishers and advertisers just do not know we can. Time to show them what exactly we are capable of if we treat twitter like a clan based multiplayer game Why #AreYou Blocked? As first earthquake i propose #AreYouBlocked? to inform neutrals about the Blocklists. The question it poses pulls on the curiosity of twitter neutrals and they will try to find out if they are and what this is all about. Thankfully Mark Kern and his leagueforgamers made our job loads easier by providing an easy tool where everyone can check their blocklist status and show that there are (at least) two blocklists http://blockcheck.leagueforgamers.com/ This has the added benefit that we are not just reaching gamers, but also atheists and everyone else who is on the atheism+ blocklist. Also we have tons and tons of blocklist related original content we can use on twitter. Articles on Breitbart, a BBC report, images showing that KFC is (was?) blocked, that Dawkins is blocked, that Sommers is blocked, that Baldwin is blocked. Easy pickings to flood twitter with interesting short bits for neutrals. We also open up an avenue for developers to come forward, with pretty much the same explanation Patryk Kow t on blocklist, that prompted my curiosity... behold, I'm on Today I saw Mark Kern retweeting fellow indiedev that th blocklist too. I never was strictly pro or against gamergate, I liked to read it from the sidelines and then just move on... Keeping my inions to myself. you know how it goes, don't say in public anything that people could u ainst you and stuff. But I got blocke ess, so gu f the horrible/cool kids club now. Which got me thinking //www.reddit.com/r/KotakulnAction/comments/30myys/block_list_check psy&slice-60%20minute&period= 10%20da du raffic. Use http://www.worldtimebuddy.com/ for exam nvert to your time re time to Thursday is so we riginal con orum, rums Blocklists. Articles, whoi n there, "What is the Blockl IGDA and the Blockl rac ast 10 tweets m PDT with #AreY locked. Use n tweets. 2: E etweets elected tweets. We know from a boosted tweets tag to get trending. And those tweets will sho what the fuzz is about. Which tweets we will of the trending hashtag, where neutrals to tweets with the re mall SC do do for browse have some fun with it. Whatever works for sca Me twitter wh promoted tweets ends on who see a mix blocked #AreY m blocked Mark Kern @Grummz or @L eck via @adland Do you run social media accounts for clients? Check if they are on Twitter blocklists here ://twitter.com/adland/status/582271647861833728 I am blocked and I don't even know why #AreYouBlocke (using a trip on 8ch to avoid the point of failure in case trolls try to derail which tweets to mass re-tweet) On October 19 BasedMom said the Media has woken the sleeping giant. https://twitter.com/CHSommers/status/523879557481656320 Gamers, it is time to sneeze Some links for original content Please post more as replies (especially pictures!) https://www.reddit.com/r/KotakulnAction/comments/306hr2/indiedev_just_got_blocked_by_ggautoblocker/ https://www.reddit.com/r/KotakulnAction/comments/30myys/block_list_checker/ https://www.reddit.com/r/KotakulnAction/search?q blockbot&restrict_sr on&sort relevance&t-all Dawkins: https://www.reddit.com/r/KotakulnAction/comments/2zw51h/richard_dawkins_is_mad_about the_atheism_blockbot/ http://pastebin.com/GTA9YEmP http://8ch.net/gamergatehq/res/35812.html 31 comments share](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/list/000/944/557/2e1.png "#OpEarthquake In-Depth")
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