Can you give me a red pilled run down on gamergate...

Can you give me a red pilled run down on gamergate? I can online find heart bleeding liberal articles about the "online hate campaigne". So what happend?

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some chick banged 5 guys to get some good reviews on a game of hers and her bf got extremely pissed off at this so he exposed her, which caused her to get death threats. it then dragged on to harassing women in gaming overall. everyone who wasn't retarded immediately got some red flags from this, so the gamers decided to make it about ethics in videogame journalism (in spite of the fact reviewers have been paid since forever with no outrage)

Basically, Anita Sarkeesian made a SJW cringefest show called "Tropes vs. women in videogames", in which she tried to make the case that video games are sexist, racist, whatever. It was very misinformed (ie, she claimed Bayonetta was sexist because they portrayed the main character in a sexual way, but her designer was a woman; sarkeesian said GTA was sexist because you can kill hookers, but didn't mention pretty much 90% of the enemies you shoot are men)

At the same time, it was discovered that another feminist named Zoe Quinn was fucking game journalists to get better reviews for her shitty SJW game.

/ourguys/ then took to social media to complain about these bitches, and harassed their sponsors into cutting ties with them.

Did we use a lot of mean words against them? Yes, but it's not like anybody got hurt. If Zoe had just behaved ethically, and if Anita wasn't a communist lunatic arguing for mass censorship, it wouldn't have happened.

This guy's probably a paid shill we get lots of those, just ignore him.

>accuse gamers of being overwhelmingly toxic
>gamers respond by being overwhelmingly toxic

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The story some beta male told to get revenge on his bitch ex-gf and how she slept her way to the top had as a peripheral detail a mention of gaming media collusion. (some mailing list iirc)

They were so afraid of being exposed they pulled out all the stops, attempted to run a scorched-earth-nothing-lives campaign of defamation against the very idea of being a gamer, even got all the celebrities and mainstream journos on their side, and ended up attracting far more attention to the matter (and derision from the public) than they would have ever gotten if they'd just let the story quietly fizzle out.

It wasn't that they accused gamers of being toxic, they accused them of violence, attempts on their lives, etc. Didn't they even manage to go before the UN to cry about how bullied and in danger they were?

She wasn't originally talking about gamers themselves being toxic.
And there is nothing objectionable about a video game company making a game as they see fit. If you don't like it, nobody is forcing you to play it.

There are a lot of objectionable things about supporting censorship and attacking people's creative integrity, on the other hand. Anita deserved to be shut down for being an authoritarian cunt instead of just leaving us alone.

I fucking hate people who use the word "toxic". It's such a cop-out. It's just a way of claiming harm but being so ambiguous about it that you can't be called to prove it later.

That's true. They responded to online backlash like a bunch of spoiled children, and blew everything way out of proportion.

"Gamers are dead!"

The interesting thing about it the "Coverage for sex" angle was that Kotaku kept on coming up. There was positive coverage for a game on Rock Paper from a writer who slept with the creator of that game. A lot of people hated Kotaku for various reasons so the lie spread more than the truth would. It's very suspicious that the creator of the game was very knowledgeable of the shit slinging side of the internet and this whole thing generated a lot of donations and positive social cache for her. Even in this thread there are people listing a lie than can easily be disproved with a google search.

Gamergate was an unholy alliance between scummy journos steeped in the modern urban-white virtue-signally world of social media and mentally-ill feminists who cringe-inducingly larp their rape fantasies in public while claiming victimhood.

So Kotaku wasn't ever involved?

DESU all the gaming websites are just a blur for me. They're all so similar for someone not that interested in gaming, I can never remember which is which.

I mean games journalism has been trash for years before this. Everyone kinda knew that. But it's amazing that a "creator" who didn't even work on a Twine game alone somehow managed to spin something like this. Take a look at the Twine software and ask yourself how two people could even work on a game like that together. The beta male should have just told some industry people that his girlfriend cheated on him instead of making it a public thing. I dunno what the hell he expected other than the journalists circling the wagon before anyone realized just how little qualifications most of them have.

first post is most of it, but gamers that bought her game based on good reviews got pissed and started saying so at various online outlets, then the chicks boyfriend called her out, then gamers went back and say all pissed off reviews, then well...the chicks started saying "OMG, OMG, OMG, people are, like, slut shaming this poor girl and stuff"

>good reviews
Don't fall for that trap, it was coverage, not reviews. They've deliberately twisted it from coverage to reviews in order to deny it.
For the record, the "video game journalists" circling the wagons and attacking their audience was the thing that kicked it off, not the fact she was loose as fuck and a "rapist" by her own definition.

Kotaku never had any positive coverage DIRECTLY from the writers who slept with the creator. It's easily disproved. Other websites like Rock Paper Shotgun did. But Kotaku kept on coming up. It's was always suspicious.

After that, it was just a matter of time before professional victims like Buffalo Bill and Sarkeesian to jump on the gravy train.

Kotaku joined in the orchestrated "gamers are dead" articles that were put up to make her look a victim from the evil misogynerds.

The whole shitshow is like a parade of soyboy white knighting.

I personally think the Creator was someone extremely well versed in how the back channels of the internet worked and quickly turned the situation around. There were pictures of this person checking Jow Forums right after the beta idiot tried to warn the industry about this fuckery. There were some people who were supposedly mods seen in pictures with her right after,

Former goon and the "harassment" also came from goons. It was orchestrated to make money off a situation a stupid roastie found herself in. I'll give her that, she was smart enough and a big enough sociopath to take advantage of it.

What do you mean by capital-c Creator?

The whole "Gamers are Dead" seemed like a huge misstep but there were few people that could talk about against it after it happened. The games industry just needs to realize slowly how fucking untalented and amateur gaming journalists are and slowly move their focus to Youtube channels.

Oh god I'd forgotten how Something Awful was involved. Fucking biblical shitshow.

You'll never read about GNAA and the shit they admitted to doing just to fuck with people. Don't forget the shit this bitch pulled over at wizardchan either.

And it's kind of telling how complicated the situation is that you can't really even start to understand Gamergate without a glossary of terms. Lots of intentional obfuscation going on.

Exactly and nobody in the journalist emails groups and message boards picked up on it or wondered why there was also donations links to this person's personal paypal account. It's a billion dollar industry. They should have known to ignore this situation.

Look up how many "GamerGaters" have been convicted as rapists. Now look up how many of the games journalists who have been convicted as rapists in the last three years.

One of them even ran a pornstar scam where he pretended to run auditions, drugged women and fucked them for over a decade.

And now we can look back and see all the games that this creator made.

Oh wait they didn't make any games.

Oh wait what happened to all the money.

Oh wait now the entire industry looks bad.

And yet people are still spreading the original lies about the initial situation. It's a really good lesson about how someone can easily influence a situation if they know how relatively small internet sites like this one work.

All the rest was games journalists desperately hiding their tracks that literally anyone could do their jobs better than they could.

Well, she did get other people to make that depression twine shit. She also managed to get a lot of money for a FMV game with some camp gay dude who writes about space raptors in his butt or something.
FMV games died in the 90s for a good reason, that's how little this woman knows about video games.

So a billion dollar industry continues to have shit journalism with some simple political maneuvering.

And people mock Sargon for getting into politics.

I think that people who don't play video games might be amused by a FMV advert. And out of touch people with some money and certain political leanings.

If you know the right people, you own the truth.
That's the lesson people should take from GamerGate.

White knights gonna white knight with their wallets. Simple as.

It sounds kind of like a non-issue or a personal couples-therapy issue.

Does it really deserve a -gate suffix?