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Anonymous 09/07/14(Sun)10:29:02 No.262143 182 262143685 >>2621 44067 >>2621 44420 >2262144589 >:262144695 Ijust want to get something off my chest. This is entirely a rant and ld be fine if you just ignored it, but I have to say it. I'm an indie game developer. Nobody knows who I am, nobody cares, so I'm just going to stay Anonymous I look at how media outlets like Kotaku are handling this situation and it makes me horrified. I am genuinely worried about my future as a game developer. What if someday, people start to care? What if the writers at similar sites decide to do an article on a game I created, and they decide to take so many things out of context just so they can paint me out to bea bad guy because I don't match up to whatever agenda they're pushing that month? I've never been the center of attention, outside of a few threads I started on 4chan in the past, Im no one special or famous. I don't have connections in the industry, and the people I work with are all friends who got tired of dealing with b------- in their own respective fields to work with me. So when I see all these companies act the way they do, especially when they do it to people who present evidence in full, both the good and the bad, and don't attempt to lower themselves to insults like "pissbaby", all I can feel is fear. I don't come from a rich family, my job prospects are low, and I live in a region where there are zero investors willing to support or back game development. So, all of the above just makes me want to tell guys like Jason Schrier, "you and the people you work for scare me, because they can easily turn a gigantic audience against me and rob me of any income source." But I cant, because I'm not white, and I'm not from the United States, and these people seem to ignore anyone from outside of these two groups all while talking about the "disenfranchised masses" that need helping, saving, and representation

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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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It's either being labeled as a sexist white man-chan or a white knight SJW drone.
There is no middle ground in this, and reading this makes me feel bad for the people who want to keep their job and support something they don't agree with.

It's also ironic that while 4chan and /v/ are vilified, they give the poster privacy, making these confessions possible

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