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the ONION Noah's Ark Water Park forecast: Chances of Fun 100% America's Finest News Source AV CLUB CLICKHOLE VIDEOPOLITICS SPORTS SCIENCETECH LOCALENTERTAINMENTFANTASY FOOTBALL Q search ORECENT NEWS Evidence Links Misogynist Hate Group "GamerGate" To Robin Williams Suicide Pueblo Indians Can't Keep Pace With Area Mom's Appetite For Earthenware NEWS IN BRIEF Media Race News Media News ISSUE 50.42 Oct 21,2014 Area Man Released After Being Wrongfully Employed For 9 Years Share on Facebook 16.1K Share on Twitter 1.2K 241 New Census Study Finds That 40% Of U.S Population Is Filler Second-Grader Likes To Save Purple Pills For Last Cake Left Out In Break Room With No Instructions WASHINGTON-New evidence links the woman-hating misogynist group “GamerGate," to the death of Robin Williams. A twitter user going by the alias "TruFcts" has uncovered a suicide note left by Williams on his GeoCities webpage. "I just couldn't take it anymore," says Williams' note, "ever since Zelda was born, I've been doxed by GamerGaters, they keep telling me that Link is a better character." Williams' note later goes on a sexist rant on the concept of "Link" being a "boy's name." We've chosen not to reveal Williams' note in its entirety, due to some of our readers possibly being girls named Jesse, or Ryan, or Alex (etc.) and may be triggered by his offensive views on "boys' names." We believe our suimmariza »f his biased and sexist views accurately represent what he rying to say ited 8chan.org, the headquarters o This story was confirmed by our own staff wher the GamerGate hate group. Our reporter posted a thread asking if GamerGate was responsible for the death of Williams, despite the movemen his death. Within moments, a user by the name of "The Leader of GamerGate," confirmed their involvement t gaining traction until after Famous game designer Zoe Quinn weighed in on the controversy earlier today. "Personally, I like the name Link for a girl. Part of me is shocked that Williams was such a shitlord, but then I remembered he did Mrs. Doubtfire. What a garbage human being." Quinn has received praise on her progressive social justice views and insistence to degrade and belittle those who disagree with her. As a result she has received constant death threats and harassment from the GamerGate crowd for seemingly no good reason. Clearly their methods are effective because currently googling "Zoe Quinn" brings back pages and pages »f people talking about her text adventure not being an actual game, completely burying the momentous amount of praise she's received over her loi know that she's considered very important by a small minority of white male journalists who excel at tearing down what others have achieved and talking about the issues that they've never personally experienced. ng career. Regardless, people should Academic Anita Sarkeesian took a moment to redirect the conversation in a much more positive direction. "Why are we still taking about this transgender-discriminating hack? This is a testament to the prodigious vexations of contemporary collective society. We value the o be called Zelda? Only a man as sexist and misogynist as Robin a right to tell a woman what to call herself." Sarkeesian later made the case that all name should be used by women, as denying them that right would be sexist. She concluded by saying that "Robin" is clearly a girl's name and Williams' should be ashamed of his attempt to oppress women further by using names specifically meant for them. n-seeking death of a scintillating burnou r real issues: Does Zelda eve iams would think he has Share on Facebo Share on Twitte POPULAR ONION VIDEO WATCH MORE VIDEOS t Kid Successfully Avoid Ridicule By Swimming With Shirt The Onion Reviews 'The Hunger Games: Catchin

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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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