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I have a historical analogy for you to consider, as this war against 4chan has been reminding me of something I read in Herodotus, a few months ago. Imagine that Silverstring, Gawker, Conde Nast, Vox etc. are the Persian Empire: wealthy, organized, influential, gonna be around for a long time. Now, imagine that the internet is the vast cold wilderness, north of the Black Sea. Now, imagine that 4channers are the Scythians, wandering nomads with no permanent home, misunderstood and often viewed as violent, even cannibalistic, due to a culture that is drastically different from that of the "civilized" people, south of the Black Sea. A long time ago, Cyrus the Great built the Persian Empire from nothing. First he revolted against the king of the Medes, then he subdued Asia Minor and Babylon. Then, he set his sights on the empty wilderness to the north. He marched northeast of Persia, where he met the Massegetae. But he was unprepared, their tactics were so alien to him that his mighty army was routed and, according to Herodotus, the Queen of the Massegatae beheaded Cyrus, personally Now, Darius is king of the Persians. He decides to try where Cyrus failed and subdue the northern wilderness. He gets off to a better start because he crosses the Hellespont and goes through Thrace (the complete opposite of the route that Cyrus took). Now, he is in the heart of Scythia and he has discovered that, unlike the people he is used to controlling, they have no cities. He can't besiege them and starve them out. He can't even find them to fight them. They set up camp and keep watch. When they see Darius coming, they burn down their camp and move somewhere else, gradually leading the Persians deeper into the wilderness, wasting their resources but gaining them no ground. The Persians become hungry and desperate and start eating their own horses. That's when Darius realizes he can't conquer people with no home and decides to retreat. He hires Greeks to guard their escape route: a boat bridge across a river in Thrace That's where we are right now. This PR company that Silverstring hired: they are the Greeks. Now that Silverstring knows they lost, this company will help them escape with minimal damage to themselves. Now, in the story, the Scythians get to the Greeks first and convince most of them to abandon Darius. The ones that don't abandon him: they help him escape, but betray him later leading to a full-on revolt in Asia Minor. Silverstring is compromising their empire by involving this outside party that doesn't share their ideology. They have been significantly weakened by this failed campaign against internet nomads. The only question that remains: who will be our Alexander the Great?

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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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