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#Gamergate moral panic resembles the 90s, which directly affects women's career choices By Dabitch on 17 Oct 2014, 22:54 By now, if you haven't been living off-grid, you've heard of Gamerga nection to recent school massacre email threat made to Utah State University, who were clear on that they "determined that there was no threat to students, staff or the speaker, so no alert was issued", to Anita Sarkeesian scheduled lecture. Ms Sarkeesian decided t her she makes some points about Gun Control, since Utah is a concealed carry state. The NYT article also has no problems connecting the threats to #gamergate. Many other newsoutlets followed suit, similarly headline about the threats Brianna Wu recently received discuss the problem of "women in gaming" being threatened all the time. Meanwhile, three gamer-ladies who identify as pro-gamergate and neutral had a chat with Huffpost Live about what #gamergate is, and the tumblrhed gif-set with Jemma Morgan tating "the real issue is we have a terrible problem with nepotism and cronyism" is currently trending on Tumblr. Jemma also says "the word misogyny always comes up, why do you think it does?" Because it's an easy way of deflecting criticism, it's a "Trump Card" Argument, to stop all dialogue dead in its tracks. And this exactly why gaming minorities and ladies posted photos of themselves in #notyourshield. If you're interested in that see T--- or GTFO: An Editorial on #GamerGate and #NotYourShield (Googlecache) and Know YourMeme's page. On stating that #gamergate is a hate group, other saying it's a consumer movement, and in the meantime we have Australian #gamergates "shitposting" (posting rubbish) all night long to keep certain peoples personal information from being top item on anonymous bulletin board, saving her from "being doxxed". It seems doxxing these days simply means posting someones address-already listed somewhere- to the wrong place, in which case Wikipedia has been doxxing me for years. Now, everyone go hate on Jimmy Wales. Nononono, I'm kidding. It's a seriously disturbing scary feeling when people post your address in o cancel anyway, and in the NYT profile o one hand you have publications a lot sive and very effective in terrorizing victims. Speaking from experience. It should always be stopped. Now, I already gave a quick rundown about the problem affecting us professionals in advertising in insulting consumers shrinks the market. Since then Intel pulled ads from Gamasutra and just today Gawker Media lost Mercedes as their advertiser. In a world where yellow journalism has respawned as tlet CPM, it seems we're now peddling outrage rather than a dedicated interested readership an advertiser would want to target. The discourse in 140 chars and microwave mentality only serves to amplify the ugly Moral panic brings a lot of clicks. Won't somebody think of the And suddenly, I'm having flashbacks to the 90s. omic book artis t Parsons School of Art and Design andl have iced inking, daydreamin sending my own comics to adult comic publications and collecting rejection letters that helped me get omic meetups, swapping photocopies of my work with other budding artists, and I was never the only young woman in the group. Not even once. One day I got the phonecall. Horst Schröder, the godfat publish my comic in Pox. It was the moment of my life where I thought I had a shot at a career in comics, Swedish adult comic book scene and pu isher of Epix and Pox wanted t ndblom blog For a background of what happened to his publishing company you can google translat moralpanic the police and legal a t welcome in Sweden. Be aware that the s in the blog have sexual conten t represent Epix and Pox publications multi-facetted f Pox magazine (for adults!) was reported to the police by Bo Bertilsson, chairman of The People's Organisation against P---------- stated goal was to save children from sexual exploitation. This got a lot o eminist organi ress Comics by Gilbert Hernandez, Altan, Art Spiegelman, Rick Geary, Bill Griffith, Neil Gaiman and femin rground comic queen Dori Seda were painted in the press as sexually deviant, morally abhorren misogynistic violence propaganda, which women too, and the industry itself was painted as awful since the small market of Sweden only had a handful of women working in the industry. This sou nd the topic, because if it bleeds it leads in yellow journalism even back then, upstanding citizens including uniformed police officers took it upon stop selling these comic books. An innocent man, also named Horst Schröde school because people thought he was the bad p-----------peddling Epix-förlag owner. Konsum, t themselves to go around shop is ng sumer cooperatives supermarket, were the first s to remove the magazines from their stores ced in every newspaper. Please note that this was after Horst Schröder and Epix förlag was freed in court from all accusations made against the comics. The moral-panic machine didn nd nobody wanted to associate with the comic I watched all of that in realtime, which was much slower then as it was not powered by twitt boycotted Konsum, I went to stores asking for the comic every day as a way to encourage them to stock it again but it was all too late. People didn't want to be associated with Epix&Pox a withdrew (all except t ,comic Pox was printed in ngary but psed reer omic book artist was stopped before it even began. Since I was sl in college, I re-saddled and changed my aim so that I would now work in advert male-dominated awful world of comics wher overnight, l cou so welcome. When the market ng i nished I joined the sexi Now, if you're sensing a pattern here, it's because there is one. By painting gaming and gamers, recreept a lar shrinking the market, there o doubt in my mind. And right at this very moment, there might be a young gamer-girl in College who is getting a phone call telling her that her internship won't happen because a dev is closing shop. By painting anything said about three women as threats and misogynistic g 1 all gamers & the game-dev industry, the media may very well have poisoned the well for all other women. according the ESA. That industry employs our help winning work like Halo3 and are known for being brave clients pushing the creative envelope, like Playstation. When formerly respected newspapers like the New York Times ask leading questions to the web at large like "Have You Experienced Sexism in the Gaming Industry?", you can see we have a problem. People who haven't, won nswer. People who did, w.... And on top is with both publ Advertising is in symbi playground is ruined for all o tep in, befo I'm Dabitch, I m #notyourshield, and I m going to a halloween party dressed as Vivian James Tack till Sundblom, for the scanned r of Pox magazi

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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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