David Wong Re: Zoe Quinn Article Discussion Administrator 価quote Reply #252 on: Today at 05:08 PM Karma: 4244 By far my favorite line from any of this is, "Oh, sure, we were mad about corruption in journalism before now. But this incident was just the last straw!" Offline And they can't figure out that the reason this was the last straw is because they hate women none of those other straws mattered. But that blast of outrage from the lizard part of their brain that they're interpreting as "the last straw" is a shitload of pent-up hatred that they really need to find another way to work through TERROR If a thousand males throw trash on your lawn over the course of 20 years, then finally a single woman comes along and drops a single Jolly Rancher wrapper and you explode into a rage, you can sit there and say she's merely the "last straw" all you want, but you're lying to yourself. There's a reason gamers "last straw" tends to have boobs Logged am Cracked Executive Editor David Wong, I just wrote a book aboutq ant parasites that take over your brain. Here I am on Facebook. David Wong Administrator Re: Zoe Quinn Article Discussion « Reply #275 on: Today at 05:41 PM quote Karma: 4243 from: Mortal Wombat on Today at 05:25 PM Offline l think at this point, a lot of the people who are arguing that this is a real issue the ones that are doing the, "I'm the reasonable one here, I know some of the amergate people went overboard but their point is still really important, right? Right? those people might not be motivated by a deep-seated misogyny or whatever at this point, but by another deep-seated hangup of human nature the desperate need to believe you were not a sucker and did not just jump on a really dumb bandwagon. ook at them I feel like such an idiot"I reckon a lot of people in that position would have a powerful urge to double down and try to salvage a noble storyline out of a week of wasted afternoons instead of facing the fact they've been duped TERROR I think this accounts for a lot of people who are like, "The harassment was terrible, and I agree with you that was too much, BUT.. The "but" being a last desperate rasp at reasons why they did not just spend a week putting egg on their face I actually think that's 95% of the "movement" now-people like to jump on these internet drama bandwagons (the 9/11 Truther stuff was no different, it caught up a lot of non-conspiracy nuts at first) and it's hard to back off. It becomes this self sustaining thing where they're no longer in the movement because they believe in it, but rather because the "other side" mocked them and insulted them. So now that becomes the movement - "TI'm literally campaigning for you to take me seriously about this issue that we all agree is a non-issue." Logged am Cracked Executive Editor David Wong, I just wrote a book about giant parasites that take over your brain. Here I am on Facebook.

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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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David Wong Re: Zoe Quinn Article Discussion Administrator 価quote Reply #252 on: Today at 05:08 PM Karma: 4244 By far my favorite line from any of this is, "Oh, sure, we were mad about corruption in journalism before now. But this incident was just the last straw!" Offline And they can't figure out that the reason this was the last straw is because they hate women none of those other straws mattered. But that blast of outrage from the lizard part of their brain that they're interpreting as "the last straw" is a shitload of pent-up hatred that they really need to find another way to work through TERROR If a thousand males throw trash on your lawn over the course of 20 years, then finally a single woman comes along and drops a single Jolly Rancher wrapper and you explode into a rage, you can sit there and say she's merely the "last straw" all you want, but you're lying to yourself. There's a reason gamers "last straw" tends to have boobs Logged am Cracked Executive Editor David Wong, I just wrote a book aboutq ant parasites that take over your brain. Here I am on Facebook. David Wong Administrator Re: Zoe Quinn Article Discussion « Reply #275 on: Today at 05:41 PM quote Karma: 4243 from: Mortal Wombat on Today at 05:25 PM Offline l think at this point, a lot of the people who are arguing that this is a real issue the ones that are doing the, "I'm the reasonable one here, I know some of the amergate people went overboard but their point is still really important, right? Right? those people might not be motivated by a deep-seated misogyny or whatever at this point, but by another deep-seated hangup of human nature the desperate need to believe you were not a sucker and did not just jump on a really dumb bandwagon. ook at them I feel like such an idiot"I reckon a lot of people in that position would have a powerful urge to double down and try to salvage a noble storyline out of a week of wasted afternoons instead of facing the fact they've been duped TERROR I think this accounts for a lot of people who are like, "The harassment was terrible, and I agree with you that was too much, BUT.. The "but" being a last desperate rasp at reasons why they did not just spend a week putting egg on their face I actually think that's 95% of the "movement" now-people like to jump on these internet drama bandwagons (the 9/11 Truther stuff was no different, it caught up a lot of non-conspiracy nuts at first) and it's hard to back off. It becomes this self sustaining thing where they're no longer in the movement because they believe in it, but rather because the "other side" mocked them and insulted them. So now that becomes the movement - "TI'm literally campaigning for you to take me seriously about this issue that we all agree is a non-issue." Logged am Cracked Executive Editor David Wong, I just wrote a book about giant parasites that take over your brain. Here I am on Facebook.

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Sep 16, 2014 at 10:18PM EDT

“can’t figure out the reason this was the last straw is because they hate women”
You’re right, Wong. I didn’t know I hated women until you said this. Thank god Wong’s around to tell me what my own thoughts are. /sarcasm

… alternatively, it could have been because the issue was exacerbated by mass censorship and journalists hysterically throwing insults at their target audience. But eh, details.

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aquapendulum

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Sep 16, 2014 at 09:58PM EDT

In other words: he it exactly the reason why #GG is still going on.

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