An Awful Week To Care About Video Games By Chris Plante | GamerGate | Know Your Meme

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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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Gaming Is Leaving "Gamers" Behind By Joseph Bernstein

BuzzFeeDNEWS News Buzz Lf Entertainment Quizzes Videos Gaming Is Leaving “Gamers" Behind Why the vitrial of the gaming intenet is a sign the medium is growing up. What the heW is going on with gamers righ now? The past several weeks have seen an extraordinary amount of vitriol between some game fans, game makers, and game writers. That anger has started to spill out of tradtional gamer-internet silos and onto social networks, and people without a direct stake in gaming have taken notice. It's prompted some hard questions for game culture, and a lot of soul-searching Though the larger conflict currently playing out on the gaming internet is enormous in its implications for the medium, it has taken the form of a handful of emotionally charged and deeply personal spats. What they al have in common is that they pit anonymous guardians of a cuture only they can define against creators and writers who envision, and have alreedy helped to bring about, a far more expansive vision of gaming These spats aren't trivlal-it's gotten remarkably nasty, Anita Sarkeesian, the aforementioned cultural critic, left her home this week because of drect personal threats from anonymous trolls But, as is often the case with infighting among gamers, it's hard to find perspective. How did it get this way? And how can someone not steeped in game culture sort it out? Well, first of all, forget fora minute about game culture A thought experiment: Imagine, if you will, that movies were only about 50 years old. Imagine thet movies, technologicaly complex and requiring enormously expensive equipment to make, were invented by upper middle class and predominantly white computer engineers at big research universities, the only places with the requisite resources and brains. Imagine thet the first movies because they were made by said 1960s computer engineers, were only science Imagine that as movles spread from laboratories to theaters over the next decade, the people who naturally gravitated to them were people who liked science fiction and new technology and had disposable income and time: young white suburban dorks. Imagine thousands and thousands of young white suburban dorks taking to movie houses after school every day and spending hour after hour there in the dark, just watching. pretending, escaping Now, imegine if we came up with a cultural term for them Moviegoers. Then, because movies were still only about science fiction and sometimes about fantastical make-believe quasi-medieval places, marketers and joumalists started using the language of those pretend places to describe movies and moviegoers Moviegoers invade the mell! Movies conquer the Iiving room 'Revenge of the nerds Imagine that teenagers who were too shy or awkward to say a word to their peers ard too epethete to say θ word to their parents spent hours end hours every night watching these newfangled movies. We might have questions. What weird things were happening in their brains, with all of this violent make-beleve? We might stigmatize them And moviegoers, who thought, rightly, 'there's nothing wrong with us, we're normal people, just dorky and shy and male, took that stigma and made it into an identity, and that identity conflated the content of the early movies with the medium itself But then imagine that over the past fifteen years, movies got a lot easier to make, and also people igured out that they could and even should be about all kinds of things. Imagine mowiegoers grew up, sterted having kids, and wented movies thet wouldn't be boring to their daughters So movies changed And then it tumed out that there were black maviegoers, and gay moviegoers, and black gay female moviegoers, and now because movies were easier to make and distribute, they started to clamor for and make movies in which they were represented. And because it was good business and good publicity, the big corporations that made the most profitable movies started to do the same thing (slowy) And then people started realizing that flm was just a medium, with no inherent bias towards any group of people (except maybe old and/or disabled people) and that lke any other medium, movies could evetually be used to express all kinds of things for all kinds of people And because all the word "moviegoer Inerally meant was "one who goes to the movies, that word obviously lost a lot of its meaning because everyone started goang to the movies, nading short, bed ones about Kim Kardashian helping people become celebrities Movies for everyone: a good thing! How would the original moviegoing audience- in the pejorathve but also prideful sense of the Remember: A major part of the "Moviegoing Identity is predicated solely on being an outsider and eryoyng medium others don't understander approve of Now.。 lot of these moviegoers would be averjoyed! The more the merrierf Check out what we ve been up to all these years But a lot of moviegoers would also be defensive, and angry. They would see movies in the theater for people who weren't them, about things they didn't care about. And worse: Writers, many of whom were moviegoers just lke them would celebrate these new movies, and the people who made them, and call into question may of the tropes and topics of the old movies, the very tropes and topics that the first moviegoers identified with And then imagine that a smal group of these angry (but also probably saddened and maybe even a bit scared moviegoers, given a bold voice by the internet started trying to discredit and antagonize people who made mavies about things they didn't approve of and about writers who couldn't help but want these movies This obviously all seems ridiculous; actual movies are today a democratic medium, easily understood easly made, easly edited, for everyone. A movie can be about anything. saying someone is a moviegoer means very little except that they go to Games, however, are only just on the cusp of that freedom. They re easier than ever to make, in some forms easier to play, and about an increasing breadth of subjects And the result, as the critic Dan Golding wrote in a brãiant cri de coeur today called The End of the Gamer, that oniginal designation confiating games and their content is apporaching Irelevance The last few weeks therefore represent the moment that gamers realsed their own irrelevance. This is a cold wind that has been a long time coming, and which has framed these increasingly melicious incidents along the way. Videogames have now achieved a purchase on popular culture that is only possible wthout gamers Today, videogames are for everyone. I meen this in an almost destructive way. Videogames, to read the other side of the same statement, are no for you. You do not get to own videogames. No one gets to own videogames when they are for everyone. They add up to more thean any What Golding is geting at, and what hope I made clear with my long-winded analogy, is that video games are in the process of shedding the assumptions larded on them by their history. They are becoming simply another medium-one with no inherent bies towards any group. In twenty years, it may sound as old-fashioned to call someone a "gamer as it is to call someone a "moviegoer And we may well look back at these few weeks in 2014 as the moment when the medium finally separated from the Imtations put on in from outside, and from within

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Is #Gamergate a movement of hate and bigotry? Judge for yourself in less than 200 seconds! Go to Twitter, search for #Gamergate, select 'top' results Results for #gamergate Save Photos View a I SUPPORT #GAMERGATE I've got a cousin who suppports gamergate now. Better go strangle him ICONDEMN I AM AGAINST .. Patrick Lucas Austin Opelbits That'I make me feel better Pntrick Lueas Austin plbits rm just gonna go to Comia Con and punch the first person says t321 ★5 01 00:00:00 | SuperGamerPanda and 3 others follow Sam OFloinnNevinn 6m A reminder that yesterday @uam-Sponge caled a grieving widow1xu㎡, and TB 40 seconds in, you've seen about 30 40 of the most prominent tweets Ben Dalton @TVTokyoBen 11th gamergate Guys if someone's openly making death threats or threatening physical harm IN THE TAG, report魂That's what reports are for StreamiMiom (Remi) and 2 others ollow Dr. Bobby Flavor @0rBobbyFlavor 11h gamergate Sorry, cornupt journos.No surpise you don't know how to gather View phot New DCD ICode Spookl NewerDCD 1th So、the art-aGamerGate's new paris making memes? and totoptomthe kid they use storm an adfor tism? Astounding irony SuperGamerPanda and 3 others follow Alexandra Wuori JakALope044 12h Thank you, GamerGate, for teaching me that the sane moderates amongst us CAN fight back against this extremist inteliectual buillying 이 00:00:40 gamergate: My omicial fav temale protagonist Go back up, and select 'AlI' results Results for #gamergate Save Victoreet Victoreet m goomergreet my coworker finds the asphait very inviting V gamergate View conversation as a former, umm "gamer, this whole gamergate thing is quite compeling to Expand Eric Hinnichsen Jr. Eic CTB 2m View summany 2m @KachoArinoDesu @4outtonsoul sssssh don't reveal the leader to them 參view conversation Conupt Jounalists' are the technology worlds Oompa Loompas. GamerGate 이 00:00:42 Expand Arisato @dauthaz 2m JohnCobait @sargon of Akad That's an insult to games that actualy inspire Victoreet @Victoreet 22m @goomergreet my covoner finds the asphat very inviting V #pamergate Another 100 seconds in and you'll have seen 75 100 tweets View conversation as a former, umm "gamer this whole gamergate thing is qure compelling me Eric Hinrichsen Jr. BEric CTB 23m View summary @KachoArinoDesu @4butonsoul sssssh don't reveal the leader to them View conversation Cormupt Joumaists' are the technology worlds Oompa Loompas. GamerGate dauthaz 23m ò| 00:02:22 | Anisa e by asingpesonge enyears anera inner JohnCobait Sargon of Akkad Thats an insult to games that actualy inspire emotion by a single song even years ater. WGamerGate View conversation Finally, go to Topsy, and compare "#Gamergate" with "#Gamergate -whichever terms you would consider proof that gamergate is a movement of hatred". 01 00:03:04| To explain: the closer the two lines are together the less these terms have been used in #Gamergate, either by supporters or opponents Tweets per day: #GamerGate and #GamerGate-sarkeesian-zoe-quinn- literallywho -sjw -feminist September 10th-October 10th Did you note how many messages contained bigotry and harassment? Did you note how many messages were positive of nature? Did you note how many of these were from supports of Gamergate? Did you note how many of these were from opponents of Gamergate? l can not answer these questions for you -these were your 200 seconds- but I hope they have been insightful.

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It's Dangerous To Go Alone: Why Are Gamers So Angry?

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#GamerGate vs Anti-GG: Can You Spot The Difference? Recently a video by a YouTube user named The Ripper Virus claimed that a 7 year old boy received online abuse because of his Father's support of #GamerGate During the time when the video's veracity had not yet been determined, there was a stark and clear difference between the actions of #GamerGate supporters as compared to its opponents Supporters of #GamerGate did NOT: have professional journalists publish articles blaming the call that group "child abusers" or make similarly unfounded, use "child abuser" as an insult inside tweets, forum posts, etc abuse of a child on a specific grou vile accusations against them in an attempt to poison the well during debates silence discussion by saying "I will not talk with someone who abuses children" exploit moderator privileges or shame sites into banning anti- GG discussions/users under the guise that their free speech was "promoting the abuse of children" Instead, supporters of #GamerGate DID: express sympathy directly to the man and his family gene26 1 day ago BastendorfEvergrass 2 days ago I feel for you and your kid, man. I'm a gamer,My heart goes out to you and your son caution each other not to jump to conclusions omesauce. [S 22 points 2 days ago this video. And if you're like me, it's tough to watch without becoming a bit emotional as well. Had to remind at the person(s) who sent the threats/abuse could be anyone, even someone just trolling without any interest in use the opportunity to examine their own actions for fault some really legitimate points here, I don't think any of us really considered some of the damage I've been trying to encourage deescalation whenever possible for just this reason it honestly caused me to take a critical second look at my own behaviour, remove their provisional support when the video was revealed to be a likely hoax, plus appreciate the work of the person who helped bring new information about the video to light, and upvote and gild a reddit post from them even though they were on the opposing side -1 writer_jenna 71 points 15 hours ago* That's my post. >:) https://twitter.com/writer_jenna/status/519941301962539008 (Reply on reddit with a 7-digit number, and I'll tweet it.) I'm most definitely anti-GG. But I put on my fighting gloves, and you all responded maturely and kindly GILDED CAN YOU SEE THE DIFFERENCE???

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The Death Of The "Gamers" And The Women Who "Killed" Them By Casey Johnson

ars technica MAIN MENU MY STORIES: 25 FORUMS SUBSCRIBE JOBS OPPOSABLE THUMBS GAMING& ENTERTAINM The death of the "gamers" and the women who "killed" them Zoe Quinn, Anita Sarkeesian prove points a certain gamer-type refuses to hear by Casey Johnston-Aug282014, 5.00pm PST Watch Dogs (2014) A screenshot of a domestic abuse scene from Watch Dogs us ed as an oxample in Anta Sarkeesians "Women vs Tropes n Video Games series. Oh, Anita, you're so beautiful and sexy, you know that?" was the nicest terrible thing a random Twitter user said to Anita Sarkeesian, creator of the Tropes vs.Women in Video Games series, as he peppered her with threats of r---, death, and the address of her home and that of her parents following the posting of her latest video on Monday. The video, which would be right at home on PBS in tone if not content, suggested that many mainstream games represent women as accessories and shorthan rather than as humans, a viewpoint that generated swit and unrelenting rage The attack on Sarkeesian was among a number ot incidents in the last few weeks that exposed some of the ugly (yet familiar) attitudes and prejudices that remain deeply ingrained in the gaming culture. This time, those sentiments have gotten tied up in ethical arguments in an attempt to highlight the toxic behavio A lie gets halfway around the world The tide of abuse first surged over Zoe Quinn, creator of the game Depression Quest, who got a deluge of negative atention, abuse, threats, and harassment over a blog post written about her by an ex-boyfriend that was published August 16. The post, composed of narcissistic analysis mixed in with screenshots of several online conversations, exposed many personal details about Quinn irrelevant to her profession or professional conduct Details from the post were quickly spun into a conspiracy. Based on the lone fact of Quinn's relationship with one Kotaku writer, Nathan Grayson, who quoted her once in an article and never covered or reviewed her game, rumors circulated that Quinn had "alleged affairs with video game jounalists" which innuenced coverage of her game. There is no evidence to support this assertion, and the only fact that it's based on-that Quinn began a relationship with Grayson some time after he quoted her in an article and never published anything about her again disproves it. The other two people named in the post are a sound designer and Quinn's boss, who do not work in gaming Yet the accusations went on, along with doxoxing and hacking of Quinn's information and accounts. The onslaught continued with assertions that Quinn made up the harassment, that she used devious womanly wiles to get her (free) game some coverage, and that she portrayed herself as a victim to receive donations. Around August 17, Phil Fish, the creator of Fez, tried to step in and defend Quinn. After he received pushback, Fish threatened to cancel unnamed projects. Fish then said he had his Twitter and Dropbox accounts hacked and e-mail accounts, passwords, and banking information published in response to his defense. Fish shamed those who were attacking Quinn on his Twitter account: "All you people attacking Zoe are cowards. Attacking a woman the easiest way you can. Despicable cowards, all of you" Fish followed by announcing his Fez IP was fo sale because he "want[ed] out" of the gaming industry. Women as background decoration Then came the vicious attacks on Sarkeesian and her video series, which looks at how women are portrayed and used in everything from AAA titles to indies. Sarkeesian published an installment Monday that was the second of two parts studying "women as background decoration" in games. The video includes examples from games like Watch Dogs, where the main character watches multiple instances of violent domestic abuse and, rather than take even a second look at the woman who suffers it, is required to amble off and track down the man who did it Women as Background Decoration Part 2-Tropes vs Women in Video Games Sarkeesian's videos, which are extremely well-researched and insightful, always draw a measure of harassment and abuse from the stereotypical gamers, who are typically vitriolic toward issues of diversity. This time, the video reached all the way to the likes of Joss Whedon and Tim Schafer. The amplified message eamed Sarkeesian an avalanche of threats, including r---, death, and ham to her familly. Sarkeesian ultimately left her home and reported the threats to the police. "I'm safe. Authorities have been notified. Staying with friends tonight," she wrote on Twitter early Wednesday Enough outiets have, by now, highlighted the profound irony that one woman who dared point out some of the misogyny in video games was so deluged by misogynistic threats over how there is no misogyny in video games that she was driven into hiding. Quinn's story lacked entirely in irony instead it was just a good old-fashioned example of a woman's personall life used to infict professional damage, despite the fact that those two things are not related at all. Many of the people slagging off Sarkeesian and Quinn bind their arguments up in bigger issues, saying that Quinn's situation shines light on ethical quandaries in games and gaming journalism, and I usually don't share the really scary stuff But it's important for folks to know how bad it gets [TRIGGER WARNING where "social justice warriors" "cherry-pick evidence to undermine the massive business and culture of video games, rightfully owned by a particular kind of white man. All of the tertiary accusations against Quinn (that she invented attacks or abuse) are aimed to discredit her. The same goes for Sarkeesian: the structure and content of her videos are extremely common to critical analysis, as the New Stafesman points out, But when that style of criticism gets applied to video games, it teels like a threat to a certain insular, and extremely vocal, community for whom, as Leigh Alexander writes for Gamasutra, their identity depends on the aging cultural signposts of a rapidly evolving, increasingly broad and complex medium P Enlarge For gaming to be taken seriously as an art form, it needs to be able to stand up to cultural critiques and gamers need to be able to separate a developers personal life from her work. But it especially holds the medium back when these situations not only fail to play out in a civiized way, but become opportunistic embroiling of women in the "problems" of gaming culture, creation, and coverage It is, on a sad meta level, a real-life version of what Sarkeesian discusses in Women As Background Decoration Part 2 women being treated as less-than, harassed and harangued out of the conversation. In service to a different, "Digger, problem And every time it happens, it advances the goals of the most poisonous "gamers," while regressing everything else READER COMMENTS 1677 fShare 42Tweet 702 8+ Google 16Reddit 168 Casey Johnston/Cssay Joh nston is the Cuture Edtor at Ars Technica covering busine ss, privacy, the Intermet and newmedia. She graduated from Columbia University wth a degree in Appled Physios caseyjohn ston on Twitter

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The Gender Games: Sex, Lies, and Videogames

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Leigh Alexander @leighalexander Aug 28 Here I go: Gamers don't have to be your audience. 'Gamers' are over gamasutra.com/view/news/2244 な塩Follow Jay Hathaway @strutting @leighalexander Thank you. Reply t Retweet * Favorite More FAVORITE 3:29 PM-28 Aug 2014

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How To Lose A Public Relations Battle On The Internet By Milo Yiannopoulos. Dated October 10, 2014

HOW TO LOSE A PUBLIC RELATIONS BATTLE ON THE INTERNET Print article Send a Tip by MILO YTIANNOPOULOS1o Oct 2014, 8:09 AM PDT POST A COMMENT You can't wage guerrilla warfare armed only with flak cannons. But that's precisely what the gaming and tech media are trying to do with GamerGate, a consumer revolt against unethical press practices that is striking terror into the heart of the video games journalism establishment and rocking developers Opinion piece after opinion piece are flooding out about the supposedly ugly beliefs and tactics of GamerGate supporters, yet no one outside the tight liberal blogging circle and its social justice warrior intimates, are buying the story. The mud isn't sticking, which is why the frequency and hysteria of these claims is going through the roof. The wrong tools are being deployed, in a misunderstanding of what victory looks like. To #GamerGate supporters, the withdrawal of sponsorship from Intel on Gamasutra, a games news website which published hateful rhetoric about its own audience, was a huge win. Despite universal condemnation from the press, Intel has stuck to its guns and will not advertise on Gamasutra for the foreseeable future, Good on them. wringing liberal media in all of this And that's the essence of the problem for the hand-v The polite, insistent, fact-based and entirely reasonable concerns of GamerGate are invulnerable to scrambling, desperate, politically illiterate and completely absurd attempts to paint the movement as a misogynistic, right-wing lobby group. It isn't one, and advertisers know it. All you accomplish when you tell brazen falsehoods about a sizeable group of disgruntled consumers is make them even more determined to punish you for the contempt you have shown them. That is what's happening with each new wave of ideological garbage, such as this ludicrous summary of GamerGate by Gawker today, a fact-free screed penned by someone suspended for plagiarism. So extreme are the contortions through which the weakened, social media-obsessed media has to put itself in order to slam legitimate concerns about press ethics, we now have the spectacle of Gawker apparently claiming that there's nothing wrong with journalists who financially support the people they write about and reporting, contrary to the facts, that Intel had reversed its position on Gamasutra when it has do o such thing Developers and studios themselves aren't thanking journalists for pretending that GamerGate is some sort of lea Party conspiracy. All the press is doing, say sources im the industry, is driving a wedge between themselves and the people who make games - leaving ournalists ever more isolated and vulnerable in a world where more people trust self-employed YouTubers to make games recommendations than trust professional reviewers. It's a terrible strategy Advertising rates are surely set to plummet, as developers and studios object to outright lies being told about their own customers by journalists who have nothing in common with ordinary gamers and who, in many cases, actively despise their own readers, use every opportunity to poke fun at them, take the word of liars over their own common sense and on ideological crusade against people whose politics they don't like But you can't fight a war of factual disclosures with attacks on character - something you'd expect journalists to instinctively understand. Perhaps the people these blogging hipsters hang out with, in cringeworthy San Francisco neo-speakeasies, respond to the mere mention of the word "conservative" with the same horror the wannabe journalists do But ordinary consumers - the gamers on whose continuing interest gaming publications utterly depend - aren't impressed. Just how stupid do Polygon and Kotaku think their readers are? Do they really believe that EA, Bungie, Capcom and the like don't already know exactly what their customers are like? Do they think that their discredited and widely derided publications are going to change a single mind not already determined t hate gamers for the mere crime of being white men? For the media, GamerGate is an opportunity to sneer and bully from the safety of venture- funded ivory towers. But that battle has already been lost: the smear tactics failed. Now r #GamerGate supporters, this is a war for the soul of the games industry. Gamers do care any more that these journalists hate them. They're fighting a war they intend to win a war that simply doesn't require positive headlines to succeed. You'd think video game journalists, of all people, would realise the futility of trying t smite Paladins

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Anti-GamerGate in a Nutshell

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What is GamerGate?

WHAT IS GAMERGATE? WHO ARE WE? We are gamers of all backgrounds and genders We love video games and are very interested in their future evolution. We became alarmed at the level of corruption and collusion shown by game journalists writing for many popular publications IS GAMERGATE YOUR MOVEMENT? Unlike what some journalists will tell you, it is not a movement but the name chosen for a series of scandals involving video games These same journalists are normally involved in these very scandals! 其 In summary, the same publications that were revealed to be involved corruption decided to turn the label derived from the Watergate scandal into the label of the consumer revolt they faced AND WHAT HAVE THEY DONE EXACTLY? These game journalists have colluded with each other and the makers of the products they review for their own profit and in order to promote a fringe movement of "social justice warriors Instead of reviewing games based on merit, they are reviewing them based on their personal connection and this strange political stance WHY DOES ANY OF THIS REALLY MATTER? Even if you do not play video games regularly it is highly likely your children or grand children play videogames for the majority of their spare time. Quality games are an enrich ing experience and greatly aid the development of the brain. They can also tell a story and are an important part of our collective culture Along with their corruption, these journalists have decided to condemn any game that does not adhere to their personal ideology. They collude as a clique to ensure that these games do not rank well. This leads to a poorer experience for otherwise uninformed gamers and parents who purchase games for their children BUT WHY HAVEN'TI HEARD ABOUT THIS? The moment the scandals began to break out many popular gaming publications ran stories stating that “Gamers were dead". This led to an uprising with many Gamers calling this out as both a horrendous declaration and further evidence of collusion! The response was mass censorship, with 32,000 comments being deleted on a popular site called "reddit" and most gaming forums shutting their door to any discussion of the matter. This prompted the famous actor Adam Bawldin to coin the name and hashtag #GamerGate in order to organize discussion of the scandal on the popular social medium twitter SO, WHAT CANIDO TO HELP? All concerned people with access to social media an join us on twitter by searching the hashtag /came rGate. we are arranging a boycott of the corrupt publications and we actively expose the politically charged review process that they employ when reviewing games. Please help spread our information to new sites and advertisers! Games are for everyone, not for a particular clique, children deserve to have the best experience that their parents use their hard rnt money for. Your help will ensure that the corruption will be brought to an end so that we can all enjoy video games!

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