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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](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/list/002/691/215/331.png "What the actual f--- are we supposed to do about this")
![ETHICS IN JOURNALISM TEST STUDENT NAME INCORRECT! Witnesses heard the police call it a "serious threat Alo, yow gave no conditional to Sarkeesiany bomb Hhreat despite being officially GamerGate Meetup Evacuated After Apparent Threat Writer has known conficts of interesty due to bias against Jason Schreier Filed to GAMERGATE 502/15 535pm Attendees at a GamerGate meetup evacuated a bar showed up in response to a threat, according to pec it Workers at the bar told patrons there was a fire drill, aeuuees say,a e building, they found police officers standing outside. In various tweets and reports from the meetup, GamerGaters have claimed the cops were there due to a bomb threat, while video footage from one attendee features a police officer acknowledging that there was"an ongoing investigation. (The video also shows a K-9 bomb squad van at the scene.) dismissed ay hoax by potier Stick to one narrative the police later confiurmed Staff at the bar declined to comment when reached by Kotaku, instead directing us to an e-mail address, though we've not yet heard back to questions we sent several hours before publication. ˋ ure ru wa /ara un u . to not cause panie, bueyae were there over bomb threats One attendee, Lizzy "lizzyf620" Finnegan (who was once a prominent GamerGate supporter but says she is now no lone ivolved), told me in an e-mail this afternoon that at first, bar workers told everyone to evacuate for a fire drill, but that as soon as the attendees stepped outside, it became clear something else was happening. When we got out front, we were thinking it was a drill so we [stayed] right out front, but there were cops, cars, and officers, and they made us move away from the building," Finnegan said. That's when one of the cops said there had been a 'serious threat WHAT? Yow wrote "apparenu In addition, a tiweet posted last night from a now-deleted account appears to be a pretty clear bomb threat, although it's unclear whether police were reacting to this tweet, a different threat, or another incident entirely: threat inw the tite then reportI Police saying it is serious? This was the first official U.S. get-together for GamerGate, a movement that started last year and whose members regularly campaign against liberal feminism as well as what they say are ethical problems in video game journalism. Participants in GamerGate frequently use social media to annoy and harass various targets (including many of us here at Kotaku). Outspoken critics like Anita Sa doxxing and death threats-targeted at various people. Many Game Gate members deny these charges-and some have spoken out against fringe harassers-but given the anonymous, #GamerGate hay never campaigned against "lwberal feminism, but only disagreed with "radical feminism which is a completely diametrically different ideology OPEN A DICTIONARY nhav e movement tor a great ot harassment morphous nature of their campaign, reality is messy, to say the least. Last night's meetup, from what we can see in p was attended by a diverse mix of 20o or so people. Organizers of the meetup included Christina Hoff Sommers, a professor and critic of liberal feminism, and Milo Yiannopoulos, a writer for Breitbart who elaimed on Twitter today that this incident involved "a bomb threat from feminists."](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/958/127/f20.jpg_large "See me after class")
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