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How #GamerGate wins, part 1 Hello, friends I think it has become clear from the responses of game journalists over the past week that no amount of revelations or evidence of collusion emerging from GameJournoPros is going to shame them into doing the right thing. The fact of the matter is, the only audience they have left is the audience that a) doesn't know about #GamerGate, or b) knows but disagrees or doesn't care. There's literally no impetus for them to come clean. publicly apologize, or change their practices. At this point, they really ARE acting as if gamers are dead. To them we might as well bee Don't get me wrong, Milo's work on GJP is a breath of fresh air into our movement. Each wave of evidence bolsters our claim, our rallying cry that game journalism is corrupt and biased and pushing a very clear political agenda. Perhaps equally important, after each fresh revelation, the fact that games journalists shrug and go "So what?" only further fuels our (very, very justified) outrage. And that outrage drives #GamerGate forward. All of this is vital, and Milo, Based Mom, and Adam Baldwin should all be applauded for being public figures on our side Nor do l want to dismiss the work of Internet Aristocrat, mundanematt, the NotYourShield Project, Camera_Lady and SFO, and synthovine's crew. They have all done really important work that, quite honestly, we could be digging into for the foreseeable future. Again, though, their work has gone largely ignored by the gaming press and will continue to be ignored. If you haven't watched Totalbiscuit's video, where he expresses frustration over his attempts to set up a roundtable with industry journalists, go watch it. He discusses it in this Twitlonger http://www.twitlonger.com/show/ngd6a6 The point really is this: Gaming journalists have circled the wagons. They've circled them so completely that it's entirely possible they no longer believe #GamerGate is a relevant problem. I saw a journalist the other day, one who was in GJP but has so far been neutral, tweet that he was going to start blocking "assholes." This was shortly after he complained about his publication coming under scrutiny by a few admittedly oversensitive members of #GamerGate. Even the neutrals are joining the hugbox, people I asked a question last night of the #NYS stream. I asked them if they thought #GamerGate was going to become an industry fixture, its own ecosystem. The 140 characters limited what I was trying to say: If #GamerGate is the new normal (and I think, for the moment, that it is), what do we do next? Where do we go from here? I also asked if we were the Watchmen; what I meant was, Are we going to be perpetually watching the Watchmen? And here's the truth: I don't think so. I think there's still work for #GamerGate to do, but I don't think it's clea ng up Kotaku, Polygon, and their ilk. Those places, like 4chan (if you were a channer), are dead to apologize tomorrow a or, at the very least, continue frequenting the new sites we've found. Which, incidentally, I think they know, hence why we probably won't see such an apology. It wont end #GamerGate. Could it have ended #GamerGate four weeks ago? Yes. Absolutely. An apology in the wake of the "Gamers are dead" articles would have taken nearly all the wind out of our sails. The gaming news rags could have continued their colluding and agenda-based eporting, and we would have settled down They could at least half of #GamerGate would reject the apology romise mor il the next scandal or crisis. But now, afte irc the willful "head-in-the-sand" attitude of the majority of games bloggers, now it's too is the fut nestly, I think we've already won. Ko e dying the slow death they deserve How do we "win?" We We've found new sources of news. We've begin cutting off their advertisers. Had #GamerGate never occurred this would have happened eventually anywa thi gs intendo Direct and Yo ube personalities ng it. And we will keep ng it. Each fresh revelati ers, urging them t HOULD wave of ema advertisers hoddy news sites. In my the ubers (whose tha how we win. We try, make it so that the big companies is disclosed known r than with corrupt medi ady know the industry is watching, waiting to see how this goes. Do ally think they're not going t lea critical tipping point where these companies recognize two things: 1) there are enough #GamerGate folks to make them a demographic worth courting, and 2) their own hardcore fans are going to support their games whether Kotaku comments on their misogynistic overtones or not. get out of bed wit mes iourna hoddy journalism. It wasn't always that way nd the journalists could have easily turned this around earlier in the campaign. 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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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