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CATHODE DEBRIS Video game culture, italo disco and found space trash Archive First uses of the #gamergate and #notyourshield hashtags There's been some suggestion lately that #gamergate and #notyourshield are semi-legitmate hashtags. There's been some suggestion not everyone is there to attack women, but to express genuine outrage at corruption in the games industry, or to identify themselves as minority members of the "gamer" subculture The most basic dilligence shows that they certainly didn't start this way. The events of the last two weeks will be refered to for years to come, and it's important the astroturfed origins of both #gamergate and #notyourshield are recorded #gamergate users generally claim to be against corruption of the video game blog scene and that they do not support the harassment of women. I used twitter analytics website topsy.com to find the originator of the hashtag and check this claim out Full Metal Jacket's Animal Mother and noted right winger, on the 27th of August It was used to promote a chemtrail-esque conspiracy video harassing game developer Zoe Quinn after her ex-boyfriend aired his grudges over the internet Adam Baldwin @AdamBaldwin Follow #GamerGate: pt. 1: m,youtube.com/watch?v=C5-51P. pt. 2: youtube.com/watch?v=pKmy50 Reply Retweet ★ Favourite More YouTube 一, PLAYLIST | 2 /29 Quinnspiracy Theory: In-N-Out Edition 1960 IN-N-OUT BURGER »1 ) 0:00 / 24:45 0You Tube Quinnspiracy Theory: In-N-Out Edition Whose a guy gotta f--- around here to get some fries with this? All Links Included Below The Break ZoePo View on web RETWEETS FAVOURITES 131169s 6:22 pm -27 Aug 2014 Flag media In conclusion #gamergate began as a means to insult, harass and objectify a female developer #notyourshield has even more blatantly manufactured origins ltasplanned by users of website 4chan as a "special jamming op (read: culturejamming) to use alledged minority viewpoints as, well, a shield for the harassment of female gamedevs THE TADS TOOETHER NOTYOURSHELD EVERYONE RETWEET THE ELL #notyourShield was first deployed by twitter user @Ninonu on September 2nd Conclusion: #notyourshield is an example of cynical cultureamming intended to deflect criticism of the ongoing harassment of Zoe Quinn, Anita Sarkeesian, their friends, family and a growing circle of female or female friendly developers and journalists The idea that these tags represent legitmate flustration is wrong and harmful #gamergate #notyourshield

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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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