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& Log in/ create account Page Talk Read Edit Fossil record Search Gamergate Rational Wiki 66 If anyone thinks this is really a debate about corruption and nepotism within games media, you are kidding yourself. That would be like looking at the Battle of the Somme and saying "what Someone is wrong on The Internet we are seeing here is a difference of opinion about the legitimacy of the expansionist aspirations of the Austro-Hungarian Empire." We're way beyond that now Navigation -Ally Foggl Main page Recent changes Randomm Help Best of RationalWiki All logs "Gamergate" is a targeted harassment campaign in the video game community that began in August 2014. Run by bitter anti-feminist gamers, other Internet agitators, and trolls, the trigger was a prurient tell all rant posted by the ex-boyfriend of indie game developer Zoe Quinn, who has consequently been driven from her home by death threats The overall goal of Gamergate is to eliminate feminists and feminist ideas from the gaming community. The methods of those most active and organized in Gamergate generally involve publishing the personal information of feminist game developers and critics (mostly women), and attempting to drive them out of the community with mass r--- and death threats, which usually contain the victim's home address. Meanwhile, Gamergate has attempted to present the image of itself as a respectable, nonviolent grassroots movement targeting "corruption in gaming journalism." This has been accomplished by deliberate campaigns to spread disinformation, which were originally coordinated on 4chan, until 4chan banned discussion of Gamergate 121 prompting a mass exodus to 8chan. This favourable spin has allowed Gamergate to enlist the support of some useful idiots genuinely concerned about gaming journalism and dissatisfied with the gaming industry status quo. Literally none of Gamergate's advocates' claims of "what really happened" check out on closer examination-including claims that seem initially plausible The Gamergate debacle may be viewed as having arisen from a pre-existing climate of hostility toward women. Harassment directed at prominent women in the gaming community, notably Anita Sarkeesian, has been an ongoing problem since at least 2012 page Log in ACS:Law Community Saloon bar Forum To do list New pages Technical support Intercom Twitter Bl America Speaking Out . Anonymous . Cop Block Cseministry . Cyber-bullying .List of Internet kooks . NSFW . Science and Math Contents [hidel 1 Background 2 Genesis of Gamergate 2.1 Accusations are made 2.2 More accusations emerge 2.3 Doxing and harassment Defeated Torah Philosophy Wikilndex WikiSynergy ools 3 Gamergate escalates What links here Related changes Special pages Printable version Permanent link 3.1 Journalists and pundits weigh in 3.2 Gamergaters zero in on fresh targets 3.3 Revelation as coordinated hate campaign 3.4 Renewed focus on Anita Sarkeesian 3.5 4chan shows Gamergate the door 3.6 Intel caves to Gamergate pressure 3.7 The Escapist gives a platform to Gamergaters 3.8 The campaign of harassment continues Donate 4 The tide turns against Gamergate 5 Substantive efforts against journalistic corruption 6 See also 7 Footnotes

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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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