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THIC FAIL-SHADY GAMES JOURNALISM #GAMERGATE SECRETS OF GAMEJOURNOPROS A large number ofhigh-profile game jour nalists working at rival publications were secretly discussing together in the mailing list "Game Journalism Professionals" ars technica Shortly before the outrage following the counted members, mostofthemjournalists, former at publications like Vox Media (Polygon and the Verge) Gawker (Kotaku), Gamasutra, Joystiq, IGN and Reddit owner Condé Nast (Ars Technica and Wired). five game publishers PRr in the group's most suspicious activities. The list includedEditors-in-Chief of gaming publications, some main- s and even a few course, participated WIRED VOX MEDIA GROUPTHINK AND NEPOTISM Polygon Created by Ars Technica's senior gam- Pros held a strict secrecy clause and was s created by the current Editor-in-Chief of Vox Media, which caused great scandal and ended several careers when it was made public in 2009. One of the group's most influential voic- Ben previously at Ars Technica, and whose recommendation was, in Orland's words, my current position. There have been allegations much the reason I that t networking t Pros may have helped Kuchera get hired in his current position as well, with the Ed- itor-in-Chief of Polygon, Chris Grant being also a member of the list. in September 2014, Orland and other members denied the accusations of col- lusion, even stating that that Gamejourno- Pros was a valuable resource for receiving guidance on ethical issues. Other mem- bers thin Smith stating that "the informal pressure to fall in line with the groupthink was very strong. When Smith engaged with some VERGE k otherwise, with freelancer Ryan GANT him, blocked him on contacted his collegues and an attempt to shame him into silence. in GAMASUTRAthe scapist ·GANT KER- O CENSORSHIP ber·Nathan GraamejournoPros mem- や14 was accused of giving biased coverage to an indie developer in exchange for sexual fa- ri Orland started a GamejournoProsthread cussion of the scandal, or if, instead, the s should, as a group, sup- port the indie developer-who had details of her private life leaked in the scandal. Soon the thread's attention was focused on Greg Tito . Editor-in-Chief at the Escapist, who asked advice on the civil, heavily-moderated discussions about the scandal taking place on his site's forums wondering if they should be shut down He was pressured to censor these discus- sions by many members, including Gray- but son's colleague Jason Schreier Kuchera, who was financially investing in the developer involved in the scandal, via Patreon, and had already used Polygon to promote her without disclosure, strongly advocated for closing the discussion, im- Aol. Weblogs, Inc. plying that the Escapist was making it oystiq complicit in harassment, calling concerns a technicality, and acting indignant when Tito decided to keep the In the meantime, Orland and other jour- nalists wanted to send support to the de- ter from the group. The idea was scrapped when some members deemed it inap- with even Schreier stating that t has raised enough ques- tions about the incestuous relationship n press and d As of November 2014, discussion of eth- engadge)ohi dal has taken a huge scale and the name "GamerGate, and has uncovered many other scandals, including a much larger at Kotaku (covered in the Friends at Kota- s itself, but the Escapist's forums are still one of the few places on the internet who allow discussion of these matters, who are else- IGN ku Ethic Fail), and where very EE BLACKLISTIG DESTRIETOID e a trans in- changesurgery by claiming itwas a life-sav- ing operation. This caused backlash from the LGBT community, due to the develop- er having been outed as trans in the pro- cess, and Pinsof was fired by Destructoid calling him out for it - including the outed had received Pinsofs apologies and wrote Gonzalez asking not to fire him. email leaks from both Pinsof and Game- JournoPros revealed many questionable W Dale North Pinsof to run the story were proven to be fake, and he had also flip-flopped about Pinsofs termination date in order to jus- tify his firing - by blaming him for actions taken when he was no longer employed at Destructoid. In addition, he had discussed Pros behind the scenes, and threatened to slander Pinsof if he tried to publicly de- Moreover, right after Editor-in-chief was Dale North posted in nore him should he request employement or coverage of his side; Pisof was indeed leaked, North resigned from Destructoid, with the manage- !!!!' 'JH체 1S.GD/GGINFO-JURIIIITAY IS.GD/ETHICFAILE

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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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