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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](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/list/002/691/215/331.png "What the actual f--- are we supposed to do about this")
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![5 MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT #GAMERGATE and the Truth Behind the Myths MYTH: #GamerGate is about women in the games industry. FACT: mGamerGate is overwhelmingly concerned with ethics in journalism and media. In both mainstream and gaming media. #GamerGate has been characterized as an attack on female game developers, critics, and writers, including Zoe Quinn, Anita Sarkeesian and Brianna Wu Primary Concern of 4 However, an October 2014 survey of Reddit.coms Kotaku in Action subreddit la pro-"GamerGate community] found that over 93% of "GamerGate supporters view collusion, corruption, bias, or censorship in games media as their primary concern in #GomerGate, Reasons for these concerns include the GamelournoPros scandal 2 undisclosed affiliate links and multiple instances of writers forgoing appropriate disclosure/recusal measures when dealing with conflicts of interest 456 163% 88% 680% Callusion and Corrption Censorship and Freedom of SpeechOthe Feminism ond Women in Ganes Reporting MYTH: Ethics in gaming journalism isn't a big deal FACT: Millions of people rely on games media With the assortment of other issues facing the world today, something as seemingly trivial as 'ethics in games journalism can sound like the ultimate first-world problem However, the video game market is set to total over 100 billion dollars (USD worldwide in 2014, according to Gartner? Additionally, the industry employs almost 2015 150,000 people in the United States alone8 and many more invest in its dozens of publicly traded companies 2014 Prome Over 100 million Americans purchased video games in 2013, with the average consumer year on them. Many of these people depend on games media being fair and unblased when making purchasing Global Video Game Market Size Projected 6 2013 spending $200 per 2012 Sze of Games Industry In Blons of USD Souroe Gartner MYTH: #GamerGate is an anti-feminist movement FACT: #GamerGate supporters are unabashedly pro-equality A common allegation against the #GamerGate movement is that its supporters are misogynistic and anti-feminist. However, a quick look into the "GamerGate community shows this claim to be false Feminism and Gender Equality in "GamerGate A BasedReport.com surveyO of Reddit's Kotaku in Action subreddit la Pro-#GamerGate community) showed that 89% supporters of are proponents of gender equality, a figure 7% higher than the US national average, Additionally. #GamerGate supporters are more than twice as likely to identify as feminists than the general population (45% vs 20%)an average for the American Support Gender Equality Kołaku in Acton Pro"GamerGate Communityl General US Population Fernw MYTH: #GamerGate is made up of straight white men. FACT: #GamerGate supporters are exceptionally diverse te proponents have been characterized Racial and Ethnic Representation in Pro-GamerGate as straight, white men in publications lke NPR Salon 3, and The Guardian'4 However, as the thousands of women, LGBTO and people of color involved with #GamerGates #NotYourShield movement can attest to, this is a gross misrepresentation Comparing an October 2014 survey of Kotaku n Action (a pro-#GamerGate community) with a November 2014 survey of GamerGhazi lan anti-"GamerGate community) showed that members of the #GamerGate community are more likely to be racially and ethnically diverse 14 Additionally a November 2014 survey of Kotaku in Action showed that #GamerGates gay, lesbian, and bisexual is almost 8 times greater than the general US population (18% vs 23%) MYTH: #GamerGate wont accomplish anything. FACT: #GamerGate already has. h addition to catalyzing updates to ethics policies of Kotak.* ard The Escapist. #GamerGate has found multiple other ways to leave a positive impact In Operation UV, #GamerGate supporters successfully convinced the FTC to create new guidelines regarding the use of for-profit affililate links8 Under the new guidelines, online media outlets will be orced to disclose their use of programs like Amazon Associates, the iTunes Affiliate Program, and the Rakuten Affiliate Network Lastly, #GamerGate supporters have donated over $20,000 to help women enter the gaming ndustry9 and have raised over $115000 in total for various organizations, including the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, PACER National Bullying Prevention Center, UNICEF, Toys for Tots and the World Wildlife Fund20 SOURCES gender 0411122013pd want a straight white male gaming convention how a culture war exploded in the video gaming world and](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/masonry/000/875/314/0ef.png "GamerGate")
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![Wikipedia and the war on women's dignity By With research contributions from tarantino, James P. Persica, and Eric Barbour Between what has become known as GamerGate and the Apple iCloud incident, you could be forgiven for thinking that the Internet has declared a full-on war on women's privacy. Over 100 female celebrities have had their iCloud accounts hacked and personal, mostly nude photographs of themselves published on 4chan and Reddit. Video game developer Zoe Quinn endured a vituperative online harassment campaign from men's rights advocates after her ex-boyfriend publicly accused her of infidelity including, and, as it turned out, wrongly, of having had an affair with a journalist to ensure favorable coverage of her interactive fiction game, Depression Quest. In addition to being unfairly accused of corruption and called all kinds of names, both on the Internet and through anonymous phone calls, Quinn found her address revealed on Reddit together with illegally obtained nude photographs of hersef Feminist media critic Anita Sarkeesian recently went into hiding, after her latest series of videos analyzing how women are used as background decoration in video games resulted in death threats against her and her parents and the publication of their Sarkeesian has become a popular target for misogynists. Attacks on the critic by men's rights advocates and Internet trolls included graphic threats of r--- as well as a crudely-made video game in which players scored points for punching Sarkeesian in the face. Following the latest Twitter onslaught, a slew of Angry Men on the Internet were predictably quick to suggest that she may have made up the death threats to garner sympathy and donations. Two men's rights activists are now asking you to part with your hard-earned cash to help fund a documentary on Sarkeesian and her perceived transgressions against the straight white males of the gamer community A ittle knowledge How does Wikipedia factor into this? The site is prime real estate for activists of all persuasions, and gamers and men's rights advocates, like many others, have been trying to influence its contents from the beginning. Sarkeesian's Wikipedia biography was infamously vandalized after she started her online funding campaign for Tropes vs. Women, and has since been fought over by men's rights advocates and feminists alike. To this day, the article and its discussion page focus prominently on the harassment she and her supporters continue to receive. It comes as no surprise that Zoe Quinn's Wikipedia biography has received an equal amount of negative attention. The issue: should a trumped-up non-scandal relating to someone's very private life be included in their article? Should the harassment of Quinn kicked off by the actions of a vengeful, narcissistic ex-boyfriend be perpetuated on a site that currently comes up as the first google hit for her name? Should Wikipedia be used to shame Quinn through quoting selective online sources? For a few weeks, it looked like Wikipedia video game aficionado Woodroar and administrators like Mr. Stradivarius and Black Kite had been successful in keeping Quinn's article free from mentions of the attempts at ruining her professional and personal reputation. Sadly, they did not prevail. Quinn's biography now features a section devoted to the incident, and attempts have been made at including a section titled Accusations of personal and professional misconduct. The talk page for Quinn's article tells a long but incomplete story of the sustained battle between men's rights activists and editors striving for neutrality. Some of the comments posted there were deemed so biased and intrusive that they were subsequently oversighted, which, in Wikipedia parlance, means that they are no longer viewable in the site's public archives. Most of the main advocates for depriving Quinn and other notable women of their right to privacy have a history of tendentious editing on Wikipedia and excel at gaming the site's myriad - and in some instances contradictory policies, which they can quote in their sleep. As you will see, they are an interesting bunch indeed. And by interesting, we mean that a screenwriter would have a hard time coming up with a selection of equally colorful characters. gir One of the anonymous Wikipedians who argued most vociferously for the inclusion of Quinn's harassment in her Wikipedia biography and finally managed to do so at uses the handle That was not the first nickname this on Five months after first appearing on Wikıpedia, this user very briefly claimed a transgender identity before adopting a na has been most active on the article talk pages for Zoe Quinn and Anita Sarkeesian, with 70 and 58 contributions respectively. Other areas of interest include the frequently vandalized article about radical feminism, the 2014 Isla Vista killings, and the men's rights movement. This Wikipedian can be quite subtle when masking their bias in article talk page discussions, and until you look at the bulk of their contributions in context, you may come away with the impression that this is indeed a woman or a , we ic evidence which suggests identifying information about potentially underage persons. Suffice it to say that having first identified as transgender and now constitute a tiny minority has been used successfully in the past by various sociopathic male participants including biographies of his perceived literary enemies on Wikipedia. Other male editors have displayed a more benign but no less woman ar. Pretending to be a a small-time American novelist and full-time Wikipedia contributor mostly known for defacing the is a member of a Wikipedia task force aimed at countering the encyclopedia's bias against women, their activity on the site as well as their overall Internet footprint suggest a misogynistic agenda. In addition to complaining about Wikipedia being overrun by feminists on the men's rights discussion board of fellow social networking site and two extremely misogynistic subreddits, the latter of which is NSFW. The descriptions speak for themselves: "Woman logic is logic that contradicts itself, uses circular reasoning, or promotes special exceptions towards the woman and disqualifies males as an exception." "This subreddit is for the display of images of the act of unbirthing; stuffing someone (entirely) within female genitalia for mostly pleasuring purposes. Since it's obvious that a female cannot accomplish this in real life, it is mostly rooted towards drawn images."r/sexycentaurs, another subreddit set up, is likewise NSFW. The opinion they express on Reddit about the iCloud hacking incident indicates no empathy for the female victims; they choose to view this particular violation of women's privacy and dignity as nothing more than a copyright issue: "There are no laws on the books that prevent people from sharing stolen images except copyright law. L.. People are saying that speech that they don't like should be censored, especially if they don't like it. That's wrong. Morality = Even though this information is publicly available to any Wikipedia contributor who is mystified by a supposedly female colleague seemingly intent on attacking other women's biographies and viewpoints, the site's "outing" policy forbids any case of this rule, combined with Assume Good Faith, one of the fundamental principles of Wikipedia, means that while the few actual women of Wikipedia may know that they're being played, the way the site is set up prevents them from doing anything about it. Dr is another Wikipedia participant with an interest in Zoe Quinn's biography. Over the past two weeks, he has made a staggering 100 contributions to Quinn's article talk page, a number of which have been oversighted. His other areas of activity on the encyclopedia include the articles on furry fandom, Satanism, and the Virginia Tech massacre. Judging by this edit to his personal Wikipedia page, he has little sympathy for the victims of school shooters and spree killers in general. Yet while he claims that there is "entirely too much irrelevant material on Wikipedia, including such nonsense as the names of victims of spree killers", and that his favorite webcomic "is probably more notable than they are, and neither belongs on Wikipedia," he personally authored an additional section of Zoe Quinn's biography dealing exclusively with accusations of personal and professional misconduct against Quinn that has also since been deleted. On Wikipedia's administrator's noticeboard, he subsequently accused other editors of censorship and justified his actions by opining, "The entire reason that Zoe Quinn has gotten coverage is precisely because of the controversies she has been embroiled in, and her notability is pretty much entirely contingent upon these controversies-and notably, per the standards people are claiming above, if we are complaining about single sources here, it is worth remembering that Zoe Quinn's claims of harassment ultimately come from t will happen and what makes him a judge of Zoe Quinn's notability? At the time of writing, he described himself as a colleague of Quinn's, "a [sic] independent game designer working on a fantasy roleplaying game Like many Wikipedians, he uses his pseudonym in other Internet venues. Searching for his nickname will currently lead you to a site where male fans of the children's television series My Little Pony publish mostly erotic fiction about the equine cartoon characters from the showw Titanium Dragon is a frequent participant and has produced 16 stories of brony fiction for the site. He also maintains a regularly updated blog where interested parties can read about his dislike for the prose of award-winning writers Zadie Smith and Denis Johnson, whose short stories he considers "dreary." Many of his blog entries on the My Little Pony fan site make it clear that "Mr. Dragon" considers himself an auteur of sorts as well as a connoisseur of "the terminology used in literary circles". He is also fond of the odd literary conspiracy theory, such as the one about Truman Capote being the true author of Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird". So fond, indeed, that he added it to the Wikipedia article for the classic novel and sourced it to a blog entry written by his fellow My Little Pony fanboy, who goes by the name of Bad Horse eccentric. We year-old brony currently running a we one-man wannabe games developing outfit in a suburb of as we can tell, this self-styled arbiter of Wikipedia notability has yet to publish a game of his own. Could his animosity toward Zoe Quinn be motivated by professional jealousy rather than outright misogyny? As the case of Qworty has shown, this can be a strong incentive for contributing to Wikipedia. Or is it more likely that, like so many members of his demographic, Merrill simply hasn't spent much time around women and blames this on the evils of feminism? His](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/list/000/831/518/72f.png "Doxxing of a trans")
![I-1 File (hide): 1420870444 (58.94 KB, 370x500, 37:50, 0c8b4adf782a5 NEW SHILL TYPE Acid Man 01/10/15 (Sat) 01:14:04 ID: 4710a1 No.367 [Replyl 5722582 Watch Thread] WE HAVE INVOKED POSSIBLY THE MOST DANGEROUS SHILL TYPE OF THEM ALL I'm sorry for f------ with a whole thread for this, but I have to stress the importance of it. I'm speaking from experience nearly fifteen years long fighting for a political cause MEET THE STAMPEDE RUNNER >Claims to be an unconditional or hardcore supporter of the cause >Advocated dangerous escalations of rhetoric or action, seemingly towards the goals of the cause but actually calculated to alienate neutrals and fracture the base into supporters/opposers of their ideas >Derides those who oppose them as uncommitted or weak. "Coward" is literally their favorite insult >They play to the supporter's egos, trying to fluff them into believing they have more power than they do. This is especially dangerous because the people with the highest morale are the most apt to believe it. Their goal is to push the cause forward with unstoppable momentum in a BAD direction. Such that by the time they realize they are making a mistake the momentum is too much to stop and ends in DISASTER! This tactic is employed by shills when a cause has proven too resilient to hold down or contain. They try to get out ahead of it and whip it up into a confused frenzy, like running cattle into a stampede IF YOU CAN NOT HOLD THE BULL BACK, YOU CAN KILL IT BY PUSHING IT FORWARD AND STAMPEDING IT OFF A CLIFF! #Gamer ate right now s in he sweet spot" or th s ype o shilling. We have so much momentum hat hey know hey can't stop us were so redp lled hey know hey can't steer us. so they're going to try and push us hard until we acture and run headlong o our deaths The Response CRITICAL THINKING! With ANY initiative proposed from here on out, consider the possible outcomes ONLY IN THE LONGEST TERM. Consider our ACTUAL, KNOWN capabilities against the promises of hookers and heaven the shills will feed you with REFUSE TO TAKE SIDES! WHEN IN DOUBT, STICK WITH WHAT YOU -KNOW- AND NOW WHAT SOME SHILL IS SCREAMING ABOUT. TRUST YOURSELF AND REJECT ANYONE PUSHING AN IDEA THAT DIVIDES US! tis better to do nothing than to drive ahead with the base fractured over an outside the fence idea DENY YOUR OWN INVINCIBILITY, and realize our power comes from real effort and being SMART, not BRAZEN Remember that if you're posting in this board and you're a part of this campaign, there is NO ONE who can call you a coward. You hae already stood up where TENS OF THOUSANDS BEFORE YOU HAVE BUCKLED And memento mori. "Remember you are mortal." Remember you are fallible. Remember that blind action is automatic failure, and we CAN fail if we choose to fail by making poor choices in tactics, battles, enemies, and terrain. We are not Khorne. We are Sun Tzu. We're here to win the WAR, not to fight the BATTLE. The battles that we MUST fight, we fight on OUR terms, in the times and places of OUR choosing, under the rules WE have set and WE M------------ DO IT TOGETHER OR NOTAT ALL! We live and die by our camaraderie. By our wits. By our planning. By our autistic determination. Not by the hair of our balls and unthinking aggression IF YOU ARE FIGHTING A MARATHON BOSS, WHAT HAPPENS IF YOU GET AGGRESSIVE HALFWAY IN AND BLOW ALL YOUR SP, YOUR MP, YOUR ITEMS AND YOUR SUPER MOVES TRYING TO DAMAGE RACE SOMETHING WITH A BILLION HP? Come on gamers. You know exactly what happens. You b------------- and the boss burns you down because you've given up the power to outlast it Don't fall for this one. The best of the best in times past have been broken by the stampede tactic. People smart enough to take and deflect everything that was thrown at them have been split by this, and with division comes weakness and eventually failure THIS SHILL IS THE THIRTEENTH ANGEL Godspeed anons 44 posts and 8 image replies omitted. Click to expand](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/list/000/894/700/179.png "The worst kind of shill and how to deal with them")
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