I'm currently trying to understand what Gamergate was about, because I often read references to it on this board. When it happened 4 years ago, it completely passed me, because I thought that it was just some videogame nerds throwing tantrums.
What are/were the conclusions from it, and what impacts did it have outside of the videogame community?
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People finally speaking up about being force-fed horseshit.
Was it essentially the coming of age of Jow Forums as a force to be reckonned with?
What was the core of the scandal that made it become so big? It can't be just that journalists were writing good reviews in exchange for some vagene.
It was one of the first cracks in the dam. Basically the same as everything else: A few ideologues imposing their grandiose SJW ideas on an unwilling audience.
So it was the first open proxy war between the cultural marxists and the alt-right?
Wasn't it just about a bunch of video game "journalists" getting their dicks sucked for good reviews?
yeah but what do I, a rural and/or suburban retard, know.
gaymergate was where it all began. it awoke a sleeping giant and gave it a terrible purpose. then came the exodus, mememagic, the cult of kek, swinging the election and becoming the target for swarms of ineffectual deepstate shills that you see today.
and we just wanted to play video games.
when is cnn just going to go bankrupt ? they are irrelevant at this point and nobody even knows what the hell they're talking about
>I thought that it was just some videogame nerds throwing tantrums.
You were right.
The quick rundown:
GamerGate turned many away from the video game industry.
Without being consumed by gaming anymore, many people (mainly young white men) plugged back into society and said "What the fuck is going on here?"
>What was the core of the scandal that made it become so big? It can't be just that journalists were writing good reviews in exchange for some vagene.
It was the first time an audience of consumers rebelled en masse against the line they were being fed. This amplified everything greatly as Streisand effect was applied. This caused more curiosity and more gamers getting pissed off as they were told they couldn't ask questions about the behavior of journalists sleeping around, couldn't ridicule shilling a glorified notepad.txt as a 10/10 game (Depression Quest), couldn't criticize left wing propaganda in games etc etc. This set up this same feedback loop which kept getting amplified into raging trash fire the more shitty journalists and propaganda pushing opportunists such as Brianna Wu and Sarkeesian got on board with trying to tell consumers what to think and buy and who to support. It raged all the way up to what I consider the culminating event UN, embarrassingly enough demonstrating at each stop how these people weren't really core to the hobby but just jumped on board for attention (Sarkeesian literally couldn't name three games on Colbert, Wu's constant and repeated failures to inject herself into the victimization money being flung around. The debacle at the UN of linking personal hard drives as worldwide evidence of..some nebulous shit)
Gawker was a casualty of the culture of lefty yellow journalism and hubris and propaganda as their hypocrisy which was court ordered in the case of Hulk Hogan nudes was ordered to stop and they didn't. GG wounded their advertising by pointing out their hypocrisy and Peter Thiel put the nails in the coffin and buried them into bankruptcy. It was a good blueprint for taking down the left and the GG anti-press initiatives were learned from by the right in a widespread fashion which helped DJT get elected IMO as popularism pushed back against elites and champagne socialists across the country.
Very interesting summary, here's a
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Short version: Bunch of nerds realized (((journalists))) were subhuman far sooner than most people.
Long version: Ethical concerns were raised after a journalist in particular wrote glowingly about a game that his girlfriend created without disclosing beforehand. Later it was found out that said girlfriend was abusive towards her ex and had a long history of just being a shitty programmer. Then whores started screaming about being bullied by guys who demanded they took responsability for their actions instead of hiding behind their gender every single time, which they couldn't, because two of them were jewish, and one of them was a tranny.
This caused mass mistrust to be set upon by "gaming critics" who kowtowed the line and called gamers misogynistic and formed a self-fulfilling prophecy where nerds now know modern women are worthless whores.
SOURCE: I was there.
1) Games Journalism always has been and always will be a joke, by its nature.
2) Reaction to a big push of Cultural Marxism by 'mainstream' games journalists and certain (mostly western) studios.
Basically gaming has always and probably will always be scapegoated by NPCs with diminished capability to discern reality from fantasy. It used to historically be conservative chrisitan moralizers claiming vidya caused violence, now it's progressive marxist moralizers claiming vidya causes sexism/racism/faggot-intolerance.
>woman made shitty video games
>woman also slept with multiple game journalists
>journalists gave woman's shitty games good reviews
>people pointed out that she had relations with them
>probably the most important thing: a lot of personalities, websites and services went into full SHUT IT DOWN mode regarding this
things just escalated from there, horrible misogynistic gamers, fucking white males, not enough women in gaming, muh diversity, etc.
it was a rude wake up call for many
Np, the CNN diagram isn't a complete lie either and does an ok job of illustrating the feedback loop but you can see the obvious propaganda there where it is made out that "small subset of gamers causing all the problems" just like a "small subset of voters elected DJT". "Some" gamers vs. "All" female devs and gamers which was certainly not the case.
An off the top of my head example is the predominately female Honey Badgers group which got run out of a Canadian Expo for daring to question the left at a con, had security and the cops called on them and took the thing to court for breach of contract and discrimination. There were female gamer devs of far better quality than Wu (PS1 era textures and poly quicktime games in 2014) doing indy games on steam etc not to mention DQ but since the gaming journo press is nearly 100% in the tank for the left they got no traction and some got buried completely.
The powers that be have decided (no not jews but all the elite that want to orchestrate free will away from people through propaganda) what the public will be fed and those that deviate from that are no-platformed at every turn. That is GG. It is populism and free thought vs. censorship and force fed consumer narratives at its very core.
>This caused mass mistrust to be set upon by "gaming critics" who kowtowed the line and called gamers misogynistic and formed a self-fulfilling prophecy where nerds now know modern women are worthless whores.
>2) Reaction to a big push of Cultural Marxism by 'mainstream' games journalists and certain (mostly western) studios.
>probably the most important thing: a lot of personalities, websites and services went into full SHUT IT DOWN mode regarding this
>The powers that be have decided (no not jews but all the elite that want to orchestrate free will away from people through propaganda) what the public will be fed and those that deviate from that are no-platformed at every turn. That is GG. It is populism and free thought vs. censorship and force fed consumer narratives at its very core.
Very interesting, so GG can be interpreted as the start of the culture war we are still witnessing, including DJT's election as POTUS.
something about a slut sleeping with "game journalists" for better reviews and getting called out on it. She tried to deflect it as people being sexist and it went on from there
There were no real conclusions except to severely turn a bunch of people against the left and the media (including myself, who was a leftist at the time).
People who stuck with it could list off a bunch of "accomplishments", but what hamstrung the effort from the very beginning is the assumption that there were higher levels of journalists who are honest.
We had the gaming media and the tech media at large shitting on us, and we were desperately trying to get the attention of "real journalists" who might see how the lesser journalists were being corrupt and/or unprofessional.
Ultimately, I think a lot of people who watched that shitshow became perfectly primed for Trump, because when the media turned to him and tried the same smears, people called bullshit en masse, leading to how people view the media today.
>Ultimately, I think a lot of people who watched that shitshow became perfectly primed for Trump, because when the media turned to him and tried the same smears, people called bullshit en masse, leading to how people view the media today.
I once read somewhere that the French revolution started with a couple of women bitching about the high food prices on the Paris market in the morning, which then evolved into a mob, then into a shitstorm, and the storming of the bastille.
Looks like some little things can indeed have big consequences, GG being one of them.
as is painfully obvious, CNN doesn't know what they are talking about either.
Media journalism attack gamers using articles in 2 to 3 day dozens "gamers are dead", several months before revelation internal journalist communications for coordinate attacks get revelated.
Before it, become SJW vs Anti-SJW in videogames Jow Forums infiltration and SJW tumblr infiltration, several doxxing,attacks and news evil gamegate.
A lot feminist men agains mysogyny gamers end up as sexual abuses,rapist,peadophiles.
Wikipedia and wikiRational get take it as Anti-gamegater wikis, Funny thing user Ryulong get banned for wikipedia and wikirational for toxic and mysogyny.
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Today still begins GG as polemic Kingdom come delivers or Battlefield V.
Both parties want take young men audiences as political platform.
Yeah, pretty much.
>so GG can be interpreted as the start of the culture war we are still witnessing
not exactly the start, it was going on before that. but this was the moment where you were no longer able to say
>i don't care about politics, i just want to play videogames / watch movies / read comics
as politics were inserted into these things by people who didn't give a shit about them, so leftist ideology at the cost of quality and cohesion.
the culture war was in effect from the "gamergate people" before that:
sarkeesian started producing videogame propaganda back in 2012:
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they admit it was all about the culture war, not just games:
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>This is a culture war. The right side is winning, at great cost.
Honestly, I'd say the only inaccurate part of OP's chart is the implication that there were no women in the "some traditional gamers" bubble.
The most consisten way the media was scummy was via their constantly criticism that GG was all white men, no matter how many women and minorities posted in support.
The slogan for that part of GG was "Not Your Shield", but it still never worked.
Gaming journalism was revealed to be as bad as everyone thought it was.
It hasn't improved since then.
That's it.
>Zoe Quinn fucked some guys for good reviews
>user found out and told the world
>Zoe cried and the far left circled the wagons
>the media backed her up
>???
>Trump 2016!
Nerds rebelling against SJW's en masse.
>Bunch of nerds realized (((journalists))) were subhuman far sooner than most people.
Oh fuck off, people have been calling (((journalists))) out for decades.
Far from the start, more like when they got sloppy/greedy
It doesn't exist. Don't worry about it.
The sense I get is that most people assumed that journalists were maybe being accidentally biased, or incidentally incompetent.
GG was when my generation realized, "No, they're fucking evil and doing it on purpose".
Why are you asking about old memes and movements. Quite a lot of threads like this one
Fuck off lazy journo lurk moar
That’s because, and no offense, you all had your heads up your proverbial asses drowning out the real world with a fantasy one.
I used to be like that too, I was just off it already when GG came around and largely ignored it until it entered lolcow territory.
both the government and private corporations are extremely loose with their money and give it to anyone willing to shill for them. Abunch of unemployed left wing parasites realized that their worthless gender studies degrees would get them in the door of their choice of games developer/publisher/jounralist company because there are no 'real' gaming degrees so a bunch of them went and got jobs in the gaming industry.
They then systematically started taking over all the positions and departments that didn't require any kind of specific skill (ie, community managers are social justice faggots, programmers are not). They then social networked with each other and made their own online and offline communities to cover for each other. They rate their own games high, they shit on outsider games, and they attack their own user based because straight males playing vidya are completely alien to them.
/v/ and Jow Forums called them out on it when one of cunts got caught fucking 5 dudes behind her boyfriends back. She was an indy dev and the people she fucked where journalists/industry profs who ran contests. She was selling her pussy to get good reviews and win awards and tons of people in the industry both knew about it and was fine with it.
When people started asking hard questions, such as "what if this kind of shit is going on in other industries/hobbies", the main stream media decided that kind of thinking was politically incorrect and decided to put a stop to it and created the narrative of online bullies harrassing innocent games journalists in a niche hobby on a niche website because THATS DEFINETLY SOMETHING THE MAIN STREAM MEDIA SHOULD CARE ABOUT hurr durr durr.
>That’s because, and no offense, you all had your heads up your proverbial asses drowning out the real world with a fantasy one.
Fair enough.
Its kinda sad to think: if the kikes and leftists had been satisfied to let some forms of media simply exist as pacification, then a lot of people would have remained pacified.
But then they suddenly decided that all forms of pacification had to double as indoctrination, and it suddenly fell apart.
Our bread became shit sandwiches and our circuses became pride parades.
the 'independent' leftist needs to be accelerated left or right before CNN will lose their viewer base.
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This is basically all you need, OP.
It's funny because I actually watched The Internet Aristocrat's (Mister Metokur) "final message to GamerGate" video the other day.
Anyway, it was basically a massive pushback against social justice bullshit in games journalism. The "ethics" thing was just secondary, kind of a pretext basically. Jim said in his departing video that GamerGate shot itself in the foot by trying to appeal to moderates and claiming that 'journalistic ethics' was the main thing. It's not that it WASN'T about journalistic ethics at all, but really, we were upset with these journalists because of their bias, not because of their ethics primarily.
The paragraph above is what GamerGate *WAS*. It was first and foremost a push against social justice in gaming journalism, but a lot of people didn't WANT it to be that, so the movement eventually fractured. Jim was right up to that point, but I think his defeatist tone in his goodbye video was ultimately unwarranted BECAUSE...
1) GG WAS the first real conservative shot across the bow in the current culture war, and even if the movement itself failed, it gave rise to communication networks that were much more effective in later struggles.
2) You could argue that GamerGate still goes on to this day, just without the actual label GamerGate. There are still people fighting social justice in gaming and there have been some wins, like for example Doom Eternal has a bunch of anti-SJW dog whistles in it and CDPR hasn't fully cucked to the reaction to their tweets (although they did cuck a little).
3. Gawker, GamerGate's main enemy, WAS eventually killed, although as a result of GamerGate's efforts. Unfortunately Kotaku, their gaming site, still lives on under new ownership.
It was going to open up a huge can of worms in the gaming industry involving blackmail, "diversity for sex" and things like that.
That's why they shut it down so hard and continues to do so.
I wonder if this faggot is still a SJW white knight...
You did it. You summarized everything wrong with modern entertainment. Have a (You) on the house!
So to sum up:
A dumb slut fucks some nerds for her personal advantage, pisses of a bunch of overweight, basement-dwelling deplorables, then she throws a big tantrum, to which the basment-dwelling deplorables respond by making a former reality TV star, who fucked porn actresses as a hobby, get the nuclear codes.
Damn, I can't wait for that movie...
Largely yes, but I also thing you underestimate how many gamers were passively right-wing (which became fervent) and kikes overestimated how many and how fervent they would/could become.
As I said before, usual kikery, but they got sloppy and greedy with a group of people who enjoy the unique freedom their media provided as opposed to passive tv and movie watchers.
It was also occurring during the height of money-grabbing in games, where sequels would be released with less content both mechanically and story-wise. I’m having trouble thinking of them right now as it was a while ago but I remember a few franchises releasing games about half the duration of the original and rather than adding new features, old ones were removed.
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>random purple dyed girl makes vidya in gamemaker
>gets good reviews
>turns out reviewer was having sex with her
>everyone sperging out
>anita sarkeesian was big in this period
>lots of biased bullshit videos about discrimination here and there
>everyone constantly talking about women and their representation in vidya
>false flag start to appear
>omg my facebook was hacked gamers are bad people
>gamers are dead articles start appearing
>thing escalates and eventually dies out
>2 years later I come back and GGers are evil now
Opening a thread about gamergate on /v/ at one point was a instant ban.
Interesting times.
During the whole gamergate thing, I kept repeating the same thing: how can these people be so fucking stupid. Are they so arrogant that they would ignore 2,000 years of human history? One of the very first things you learn when discussing roman history is that Rome is the mob, and the mob is controlled by entertainment. It was the bread and the circuses that kept the people happy, and as long as you want stability you DO NOT FUCK WITH THE BREAD AND THE CIRCUSES.
Plenty of people are content to let the rulers rule them, to just play their video games and not care which way the wind blows. You want gay marriage? Whatever, fag. I don't care. Let women vote? Sure, whatever, just leave me alone. But no. These condescending faggots are so deluded that they think not just that their ideology is right, but that it is fundamentally right and everyone must agree with them. They are their own worst enemy.
The gaming journalist industry has absolutely no standards, and is an incestuous group of politically minded people forcing their views on the consumer base. They do this because the gaming media has no journalistic standards, or general standards at all.
This was exemplified by Zoe Quinn, who made a piece of utter garbage (Depression Quest) and then prostituted herself to make a "name" for herself in video games. Her games would be judged in competitions by judges she slept with, then praised in reviews by people she slept with. There was no view by anyone at any point to ensure no conflict of interests, but this is the standard when your "journalist" outlets pander to corporations who purchase adspace on your site.
The culmination of the entire affair was the realisation that all these journalists communicated with eachother, admitted they were political and had no issues being garbage at their job, and then ran identical articles decrying the identity of "Gamer" because suddenly people were calling them out on this.
This followed the earlier events of the Kane and Lynch fiasco with Jeff Gerstmann, and Anita Sarkeesian's general nonsense. The entire thing revealed that every "voice" was corrupt and motivated by external factors, and they had completely failed to do anything to create impartiality or prevent outside influences hijacking video games for the purpose of undermining a primarily male hobby for the sake of the fact that it was male.
All the garbage SJW that people played video games to escape from was now infesting their hobby and the media essentially shat over the very people who support them.
pic related summarizes it pretty well
>Largely yes, but I also thing you underestimate how many gamers were passively right-wing (which became fervent) and kikes overestimated how many and how fervent they would/could become.
>As I said before, usual kikery, but they got sloppy and greedy with a group of people who enjoy the unique freedom their media provided as opposed to passive tv and movie watchers.
This is an interesting point, the gaming audience in spite of how they are painted more commonly have to think about most things they experience in games due to the nature of the medium whereas passive moving picture consumers do not. It's no coincidence gamers tend to be right wing in aggregate.
>It was also occurring during the height of money-grabbing in games, where sequels would be released with less content both mechanically and story-wise. I’m having trouble thinking of them right now as it was a while ago but I remember a few franchises releasing games about half the duration of the original and rather than adding new features, old ones were removed.
(10/10 - IGN)
The pinnacle was EA and Dragon Age: Cisquisition, then Dead Space III. This just cemented the overlap between corporate greed and SJW bullshit sandwiches in a lot of people's minds. Still going with Star Wars and BFV.
>and then ran identical articles decrying the identity of "Gamer" because suddenly people were calling them out on this.
Oh man, I almost forgot about the "gamers are dead thing." Whatever happen to the woman that wrote that? I seem to recall she quit journalism or something, yeah? I don't even remember her name. Which is weird because she was by far the one that I hated the most at the time. You don't seem to hear from her much anymore, while Sarkeesian and Wu are still doing speaking engagements and such.
If Zoe Quinn had any sort of sense she'd have let the thread on reddit about the five guys burn away for a day or two and be forgotten about afterward under the constant tread of news, and not having fucking EVERYONE banned.
The real retard point was having that shit banned and/or the mods fucking full retard with it on Jow Forums as well, which fanned the flames of looking into which reviewers they were and kicking the whole snowball down the hill.
Gamergate was essentially one big Streisand effect.
I remembered one of the earlier ones: Fable. The first game was a head of its time, the second game offered nothing new and took out a little, the third game was like a really good-looking version of a Super Nintendo game.
See I said that, then I started remembering a bunch of really good Super Nintendo games.
Maybe like a shittier version of the adventure of link
Here's something about GamerGate that's often forgotten:
While it was going on, this game studio called Destructive Creations was working on a game called 'Hatred' which had by far the funniest vidya trailer of all time. Basically it was a game about going on a mass shooting and killing as many innocent people as possible. At first, this was just a kind of well-timed background noise that a lot of people in GamerGate appreciated, but eventually it became a very minor theatre in GamerGate itself, as the game was banned by Steam. Eventually though Gabe Newell personally stepped in and brought the game back, handing the win to GamerGate.
Here's the trailer: youtu.be
sarkisian is and always has been a puppet. The reason she gets to go to the Un and pretend to be important is because that's her job. She's not some random woman who decided to hate video games one day and made it on her own by tapping into the female zeitgeist of disenfranchised outrage, but a carefully cultivated persona managed by special interests. She's just the face, I would go so far as to assume none of her political views are actually her own, at least none she came to independently.
It's a common scenario that gets played over and over: One random goy gets picked out among the swirly masses and is put on a pedestal, to serve as a shining example of how good your life will be if you just fall in line. More obvious examples can be found in sports and entertainment but such puppets exist in nearly every industry/hobby that has people trying to force a narrative.
Your at level one and the unatco basement goes to ms 13 mj12 levels of conspiracy. The gamergate was just another shoah forcce by jedi wizards of illluminous naughty and wicked pedos. Marx my words, the communist rhetoric about gamergate is a farce of feminazi tactics and hippie abuse
>handing the win to GamerGate
it was shit and just rode the anti-sjw train
noone won
This video sums it up fairly well
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>During the whole gamergate thing, I kept repeating the same thing: how can these people be so fucking stupid. Are they so arrogant that they would ignore 2,000 years of human history? One of the very first things you learn when discussing roman history is that Rome is the mob, and the mob is controlled by entertainment. It was the bread and the circuses that kept the people happy, and as long as you want stability you DO NOT FUCK WITH THE BREAD AND THE CIRCUSES.
>Plenty of people are content to let the rulers rule them, to just play their video games and not care which way the wind blows. You want gay marriage? Whatever, fag. I don't care. Let women vote? Sure, whatever, just leave me alone. But no. These condescending faggots are so deluded that they think not just that their ideology is right, but that it is fundamentally right and everyone must agree with them. They are their own worst enemy.
This and the screencapped comment about how it is more fun to fuck with their narratives than playing vidya are some of the best in this thread.
They really don't realize the enemy they created still. I just fucked off from a game to walk down to my mailbox and drop in a straight R ballot for example because I still remember exactly who these people are that are gunning to run my life and will deny them at every turn.
They think we're all shallow inbred racists or whatever but I've been watching them construct their little games to "fight intersectionality" (really justify their own brand of racism) since the DIGRA threads and I used to be solidly on the left. I just watched the Shape of Water with my SO and deconstructed every piece of leftist propaganda in it to my SO. I didn't care to expend the mental energy to do this ever before GG.
People are still bluepilled and say "oh the bad 1950s white man look he doesn't wash his hands after he pees" and it is up to men like us to have to explain how each element is something the director artificially constructed as a comment on society. Yet I can look at a meth, feces, and Typhus laden street in SF, LA and see the real cost of their propaganda. I even like Del Toro still as an artist and can appreciate the inversion of the Creature of the Black Lagoon story yet totally disagree with the message it's sending.
>I'm currently trying to understand what Gamergate was about
SHALL
Gaming journalism has been famously shit since its creation, this has always been an accepted fact within the gaming subculture. Gamergate was just a reaction to a particularly funny example of how completely lacking in any standards it is.
The fact that it was sparked because a whore was being a whore got the feminists involved and they pissed off the autists and things spiraled from there.
That was poetic, user
I stopped playing vidya until around 2007 so I don’t understand why gamers took the SJWs so personally. The closest thing I can relate it to was losing respect for Al Gore in 2000 when he said in a debate that vidya was impacting society badly. Were you guys just mad to see your community defiled with a top review by a “games journalist” and his whore developer, or were they already injecting politics into your games by then?
There you go dumb german work robot
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I never thought fucking gaming journalists were some kind of super objective impartial angels, but the coordination between different publications and the sheer amount of lies and agenda pushing was still shocking to me and I remember thinking that when they pull this kind of horseshit over video games, then what's going on with news that actually matter and look were we are now, at least most people nowadays now that most "journalists" are the lowest of shit eating gutter rats
This video explains everything very clearly.
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Answered my question in perfectly.
>Who the fuck are these assholes?
I’ve been wondering that for years, kek. Thanks.
Op is Sargon
This post is the most accurate for me
Screencapped.
Good post. Pretty much this.
Honey badgers group? Never heard of them? Details?
>YFW History books tell how an entire tyrannic ideology that had enslaved humanity for thousands of years came to an end because of a dumb slut who fucked journos to shill a conversational adventure with no verbs, that merely replaced the "syntax error" message with "you cannot do that, you are depressed".
GamerGate was not about videogame journalism until the journalists made it about that
>Be Zoe Quinn, self declared feminist, only because it helps your profile in an industry thats trying to sell products to an untapped market (women)
>Zoe Quinn claims that cheating without consent is "rape"
>Proceeds to cheat on her boyfriend with 5 different guys who HAPPEN to be in the videogame journalism "industry".
>Boyfriend finds out and tells everyone everything online, because shes been spouting this shit about cheating being rape to "up" her feminist profile.
Still has nothing to do with video game journalism at this point.
>Game Journalists who have invested in this feminist crap to try and tap into the female videogame market, defend her.
>They are not defending her for anything other than capitalism at this point but they get found out, yet they STILLL can't back down, they've already bet the farm.
>They twist it into a sexism and bullying issue "because shes a womanz" , they use people pointing out her own hypocrisy, to try and justify her position.
Fast forward 2 years.
>49.5% of people think its about sexism
>49.5% of people think its about journalism
>1% of people remember she is a self described rapist, that the gaming media only defended her because they are owned by the same people that are trying to sell videogames to women.
Hope that clears it up.
The whole reason her game was greenlit on steam was because of her involvement with those people in the industry. I can't remember off the top of my head, but one of the guys wrote shit for kotaku or polygon and basically gushed over her "game" which was just a text box clicker. She slept with a bunch of guys to get her "game" pushed through.
Gamergate was about a terrible no-game who got heavily shilled on gaming sites.
And how this no-game got published on Steam despite being total trash (back when Steam only published the best of the best games).
And why suddenly talking about a terrible no-game would get you banned from all forums on the internet.
And how all (((independent))) gaming magazines are suddenly publishing the same retarded reply at the same time that their readers are as good as dead.
And how this talentless slut is now giving a talk at U.N.
And how the entire DNC and rest of the media are blatantly misreporting the event, lying and attacking white males, and painting obvious scammers as victims and role models.
And then suddenly realizing that these evil people have been doing the exact same thing to everything, and not just games.
see i figured it was when the boomers die off is when they lose the viewer base
for most, the impetus was the censorship campaign following the zeopost. the internet browsing public had over the years grown used to freely gossiping and talking shit about the verified or alleged assholery or lurid, extramarital and/or generally sexual antics of celebrities, both mainstream and obscure: michael jackson, michael jordan, charlie sheen, tiger woods, arnold schwarzeneggar, phil fish, steven seagal, john romero, etc.
enter the zoepost. the chattering classes reacted to it the same as they did to any other juicy scandal they'd been exposed to, only to have their comments zapped, their threads deleted and even their account banned. indeed, discussion of this particular event was aggressively and simultaneously censored across several platforms: reddit, fark, neogaf and even Jow Forums
this hamfisted and coordinated act of mass censorship transformed what might have otherwise been interpreted as a fairly localized case of games journalists, industry insiders and certain developers literally being in bed with each other into awareness of a much broader phenomenon of games journalists/devs, internet discussion forums, social media and even traditional media outlets figuratively being in bed with each other. it revealed the existence of a massive and coordinated media cabal
the subsequent barrage of apparently (ed: coordinated) 'gamers are dead' articles that appeared in both gaming journals and the gaming sections of publications of a generally broader scope, rather reinforced the initial impression that that there was indeed some serious fuckery going on
people watched the outlets they used to trust publish lie after lie in defense of one of the least of the media's clique members, justify the massive censorship campaign and deny the obvious coordination behind it. murray gell-mann effect activated. if the media was lying so brazenly, on such a grand scale about a bullshit little thing about some nobody's cheating girlfriend, then what else have they been lying about all this time?
it wasn't misogyny that brought most gamergaters into the fold. it was outrage over their becoming conscious of being actively manipulated, silenced and then maligned by an apparently coordinated foe when they dared to complain about the aforementioned manipulation and silencing
What happened with Dead Space 3?
Ill let some youtube faggot explain it for you in detail:
youtube.com
Here you go OP.
In our 1984 world, the Wikipedia entry for it implies that the conspiracy (“gate”) was on the gamers’ end, while clearly it refers to the journalists as the name Gamergate was the gamers’ idea in the first place:
>The Gamergate controversy stemmed from a harassment campaign conducted primarily through the use of the hashtag #GamerGate. The controversy centered on issues of sexism and progressivism in video game culture. Gamergate is used as a blanket term for the controversy as well as for the harassment campaign and actions of those participating in it.
lol we posted the same thing