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#GamerGate's scary plan to wipe Gawker Media from the face of the Earth Updated by Todd VanDerWerffon October 30, 2014, 2:20 p.m. ET @tvoti y TWEET (59) f SHARE (5) g, +1 in LINKEDIN EMAIL PRINT Most Rea Don't get what's wrong with Here's why it's so offe Nintendo 2 This is what North America w ㄩ SELE START on Jupiter 3 The woman who filmed the vir catcalling is already getting: 4 One poll that explains why t divided on Common #GamerGate's latest tactic aims to wipe Gawker Media from the face of the Earth. Shutterstock 5 DON'T MISS STORIES. FOLLOW VOx! Likeolw 163K followers email address Follow163K followers GO received One of the most fascinating things about #GamerGate, the purported attempt by gamers to raise issues of ethics in games journalism that has functionally turned out to primarily be about harassing women online, is the way that it has pointed out a bunch of underlying weaknesses in the online media model, weaknesses that future movements may exploit to even greater benefit. Get Vox in youri These weaknesses may have been stumbled upon accidentally, but they reveal just how shaky the business model of online publishing still is. It's unlikely that #GamerGate will succeed at what it's trying to do, which is functionally cause Gawker Media to cease to exist as a company, but its strategy is something that has the potential to be incredibly destructive ema ress By signing up, you agree to our The problem with advertising I wrote a little bit last week about how the movement seemed to intuitively grasp that advertiser boycotts of online media would go much further than they did in the old days of print and broadcast media being the only games in town. The movement even got normally implacable Gawker to apologize for tweets one of its writers made, rather than anything published on the site It's the movement's latest tactic that's truly innovative, however. In a movement dubbed "Operation Baby Seal," the subreddit Kotaku!nAction (one of the two or three actual websites where #GamerGate participants congregate to talk shop) is aiming to get angry #GamerGate participants to write letters of complaint to Google AdSense and Amazon's similar advertising program to get them to yank advertising at the source. Rather than complaining to actual advertisers, Operation Baby Seal aims to complain to the middlemen who funnel ads from the advertisers to sites that need them. Cut off Google AdSense for one site, and a huge, major source of revenue is lost. How will Operation Baby Seal manage this trick? It's not particularly clear (and, I should say here, the operation ems unlikely to succeed for sheer logistical reasons) but it mostly involves having aggrieved gamers send bunches and bunches of complaint emails about Gawker Media sites violating Google and Amazon's terms of service. (Yes, the #GamerGate folks read the terms of service.) The examples are to be drawn from this wiki, which collects a bunch for easy collation into form letters THE GRUDGE BETWEEN #GAMERGATE AND GAWKER MEDIA RUNS DEEP

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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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Vox Media: I found out you've been going after advertisers to pressure them to stop funding Gawker. I want to know where you learned to do that young man? Who taught you to do that!?"

Gamers: FROM YOU, OKAY!? I learned it from watching you.

Remember that time gawker told its readers to pressure advertisers of big companies in order to get people fired for stuff they said that was bad?

Well turnabout is fair game.

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