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| Discuss|on]Now you see why #GamerGate matters (self. KotakulnAction) submitted 14 hours For months now you've seen it here and there. "Hategroup GamerGate uses excuse of ethical gaming journalism to harass women out of gaming." "Whatever", you think. Sure, gaming journalism sucks, but that seems like a mess, so l'm not getting involved. Or maybe you don't think gaming journalism is relevant anymore, and your solution is to just not go to any of these sites. Why raise a fuss? Or maybe you thought it was a cause worth getting invested in, but too many bad eggs in the bunch ruined it. Why care? Why put forth the effort? It'il d Now you've seen why it does matter. As many people on KotakulnActi peoplell argue that GamerGate is only just about that, and this attached culture war is only connected in small ways. However, as GamerGate drew on and on, we saw first hand just how far this network spreads. It woke many of us up. I never liked the term "taking the red pill because it seemed to make it more dramatic than it really seemed, but after being exposed to everything, that's exactly what it is. There's a moment in this mess where suddenly, all those more outlandish claims became true, and even went beyond what people said. Many times, truth was stranger than fiction ave learned, this goes far beyond gaming journalism. Some re liars. Th the ir sexual ide ave them believe that the them from ever being successful, no matter how hard they might try. So why bother? Instead, take up arms. Become an army. Become You thought GamerGate might not effect you. You still play good games. You still have fun. Sure, some games might be s---, and launches f----- up, but there's still those gems out there you love. But this isn't just about video games. And you see it noW. You see the tip of the ice berg and you're starting to make all the connections. You might have been surprised at first, finding your way to KotakulnAction, thinking "Why was a thread on 'all? Why are a bunch of gators talking about this?" Then you looked around. You didn't see any harassment. You didn't see any women being targeted. You saw discussions. Debate. Concerns. You saw threads talking about censorship, ethics, science fiction and fantasy books KotakulnAction's days a umbered. This new policy of banning subreddits d assment was the perfect sh it on its way out. GamerGat s been labeled as misogynist harassers from the start, and that label exte KotakulnAction, even though there's never been any proof of this. Do you want to see how easy it is to label this group as harassers? Brianna Wu is a self proclaimed "target" of GamerGate. She spent months trying to instigate GamerGate comments and images. Then, in October, she finally got GamerGate to take the bait. She used a meme generator to poke fun at GamerGate comments, much in the vein of Wu's originals. Some went too f board d several users on 8chan's Igg/ board did what they do best. Shitpost. They flooded the meme generator with trolling it posts. Igg/ was talking about this on thei but most of them we ng her reac the memes, someone, without being asked, posts person eported the elease, and many people called out the post. Within minutes, Wu the f GamerGate t the board's own rules, without anyon r the tweeted tha somehow wa board, and GamerGa afte threats by a newly created Twitter account, that mentioned some of the person labeling GamerGate and 8clh tegroup. Many within GamerGate believe s posted even made the Twitter acc ounce of evidenc f that, but at the same time the n ounce of evidence to support it being the intent of GamerGate possible two, people. No r media outlets copied what they said, and published their own stories. GamerGate had reached some main stream media before this event, but this is the moment when the reach spread far and wide, and even main stream media outlets had GamerGate pegged as a hate group I have found the archived thread where her dox was posted, so you can see for yourself what happened. You'll notice the post containing the dox was removed, because it was deleted within a few minutes (but not before Wu made her Twitter post blaming them), but here's a screenshot of it. You can see exactly where it fit into the thread, and how the thread reacted to it. So now you see how easy it can be to paint a subreddit as a harassment/hate group. All you need is one account, one person, to post something against the board's rules. Reddit claims they will only delete subreddits where their moderators aren't doing what they n to stop these sort of posts, but /gg/ did a good job of stamping out calls to harassment getting smeared on national TV, which is used in Wikipedia as a source to prove GamerGate's a hategroup. KotakulnAction is already a hategroup, and even though Reddit hasn't banned it yet, it's leading u So now see why this matters. reddit from bein see how this effects Now you see why we've been at this ext? Some claim the simple sol orite Places that were tho free speech slowly turned into this exact scenario. A stand h sn't about whethe was worth deleting. Some will say it was, some will say it wa lot ories uncovered leaked scams have direc occasion. And every time it did mbers bumped. KotakulnAction is becoming more and more active more people discovering just how far this goes, and just how it affects them. Often times, they find out before it's too late, and they've already been silenced. Even now, I the off vote-locking tha this message. Show people how this relates to them. We lon much as we c Il out these acti r the t get away with it. If we go more thi Edit: While I know you Discus ppy at this point in time, a good 10% of the votes have been downvotes. I tagged this agree with what I've said. While I have ason. I would be more tha ave to sa I would love to talk with you, and will respon nyone who disagrees with this u/AlexHD's versi ame for the Gamergaters a Gamerga they came for the Reddit users, and I did

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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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