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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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[added on reflection] Let me also say on other thing. There are a number of us in academia who love games, care about games, and believe games are important. We have been working for years to make games a legitimate tool for education and for study, and we were making progress. People were starting to take games seriously. And then came GamerGate. I have seen the careful progress of a decade come crashing down, and now, when I go to talk about games to industry groups or fellow academics, GamerGate always comes up as an example of how terrible and immature people who play games are. It will take years and years to repair the damage, and it is absolutely devastating to the serious study and application of the power of games to real problems. We are going to have trouble getting grants, getting foundations to fund games, and getting people to take us seriously. It is devastating and makes me very sad.

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VIDEOGAMES fun! edutational! gamergate

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Oh, Slate...

XXfactor BITWISE DECODING THE TECH WORLD. FEB. 5 2015 12:04 PM WHAT WOMEN REALLY THINK MARCH 6 2015 1:15 PMM The Wikipedia Ouroboros On Wikipedia, Gamergate he online encyclopedia chews up and spits out ad facts, and its own policies are letting it eoo Refuses to Die 927 336 218 By Amanda Marcotte By David Auerbach Both articles from Slate 20 15 221 The Internet has finally eaten itself Wikipedia still has some serious problems handling controversial topics. Photo illustration by Slate. Photos via NASA, Creative Commons. Photo by Lionel Bonaventure/AFP/Getty Images ast week, the Internet finally ate itself a Wikipedia disciplinary case centered around Gamergate had concluded with the scandalous banning of feminist editors, even though the case hadn't A Wikipedia article misreported that As a media phenomenon, Gamergate may have died out a few months ago, but that doesn't mean the die-hard Gamergaters have gone away. Lauren Williams at ThinkProgress has written managed to get five Wikipedia editors banned or restricted from editing Wikipedia- for tweaking the Wikipedia pages of feminist critics and developers to erase slander hat anti-feminists were trying to pass off as factual information n in-depth investigation of how Gamergaters have inished and nobody had been bann correct. Scandal usually travels faster than truth, but this time it fully lapped the facts. How did this temporal paradox come to pass? Yet by the rules of Wikipedia, the page was Hey Amanda Marcotte, next time you try doing journalism maybe try and fact-check it, perhaps with the article on the left, posted a month before on the very same site you wrote yours on Slate), and talking about the very same misinformation that was spread about "five feminist editors" getting banned from Wikipedia when no such thing ocurred. Maybe then we could trust the rest of the stuff you preach about in the rest of your article

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Moviebob's Twitter

Bob Chipman @the_moviebob 4h "Oh, so 2 million people are all idiots, huh??" Like that's a ridiculous proposition. You see the grosses on the TRANSFORMERS movies? 35 ★99 Bob Chipman @the moviebob 4h you generally get for saying this or that anime isn't that good. Not even 1/3 really. So that's something わ 16 ★61 View conversation Bob Chipman @the_moviebob 4h Heh. So, apparently this "massive* fan-army has been sicced on me because l called out a Tuber, but it's like 1/3rd of the blowback... 719 ★66 Bob Chipman retweeted **~*Buttholes*~+★ @LookIt5K 4h In which @Totalbiscuit directly sics his notoriously toxic and vile fanbase on @the_moviebob, because ethics TotalBiscuit @Totalbiscuit Follow i.imgur.com/s4besAU.png - do with it what you will, come after me fine, come after my audience, enjoy the consequences RETWEETS FAVORITES

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Totalbiscuit responds to a point made by Bob Chipman

a TotalBiscuit @Totalbiscuit 1m Christ what school did you go to? Mine was law, was yours clown? 27 ★99 Totalscuit @Totalbiscuit 1m he puts the burden of proof on his critics" YES THAT IS HOW THE BURDEN OF PROOF WORKS, IT'S ON THE ACCUSER 51 ★103

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Michael Hartman quote

Michael Hartman @Muckbeast Following SorǐIC hllling] l i ind disturbing in the modorn online climate: devs who think ridiculing your customers (gamers) is a smart or appropriate move. Kentucky, USA わ ★ RETWEETSFAVORITES 39 51 10:19 PM-8 Mar 2015 Reply to @Muckbeast Michael Hartman @Muckbeast 13nm make games to bring joy to people. It is literally that simple. I deeply appreciate every single person who ever played one of my games 21 ★28 Michael Hartman @Muckbeast - 12m Once you feel comfortable mocking your customers, you really shouldn't be in this business. You've lost the love and passion for your craft. t 21 ★30

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Randi Harper needs her safe space, apparently.

Randi Harper @freebsdgirl 4h I am sorry, journalists, but this is kind of a place for me to just vent. > like you, i really do, but not for this. <3 わ£3*20 ..。 Randi Harper @freebsdgirl 2h @Robobengt this one is more official-ish. less tweets, i think. I'm still figuring out my role as CEO & keeping normal persona. Randi Harper @freebsdgirl 5h If you send a follow request and I know you, I'lI likely approve it. If I don't know you... meh. maybe. わ ★11 Randi Harper @freebsdgirl 2h @Robobengt also a few famous people followed me and now i'm freaking out that i tweet too much & don't want to scare them off. P View conversation 3 Randi Harper @freebsdgirl 5h If you get a follow from @randileeharper, yes, that is me. Being a CEO is scary, and I want a private account for yelling :P Randi Harper @freebsdgirl 2h @tommckearney that's how it works with a private account. わ£3 . £31 *34

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In other news, KiA hit 30K subs today.

1203、Sep 15 10:41:09くcreesch> 1204 , Sep 15 10:41:09くcreesch> 1205. Sep 15 10:41:21くForest|-' 1206-Sep 15 10:41:25 <Forest L> 1207,Sep 15 10:41:41 〈Forest L> 1208.1 Sep 15 10:42:28くcreesch> 1209, Sep 15 10:42:49 <IAmAN00bie> 1210. Sep 15 10:42:50 <Forest I-' 1211, Sep 15 10:42:56 くForest.> <Piemonkey> apparently KIA is censoring people themselves «Piemonkey» hahahahah oh who the f--- cares 50s e eie I have no idea who are what KIA is except an car manufacture Forest L: why, they're hilarious kotaku inaction the #gamergate people | lobyUR Genshoe en re

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Claim made by ToddInTheShadows

Toddln TheShadows @ShadowTodd @HalfTangible Gamergate had dedicated chatrooms devoted to harming people and 2:22 PM - 8 Mar 2015

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Arhur Boop Gies (Polygon, @aegies) complains about sexy women in games yet owns a SuicideGirls account.

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Ryulong on RationalWiki

I have undone your (Ryulong) most recent revision deletion. Unpleasant yes but it revealed nothing personal about you. Someone being cuntish towards you is not doxing. -MtDNotorious Sodomite 21:14, 6 March 2015 (UTC) AThis. Please stop using revision delete & other sysopabiliies inappropriately & please stop trying to plead some sort of special status as an excuse for breaking community standards. Thanks. Weaşe?óid'^Methirks it is a Weasel 22:02, 6 March 2015 (UTC) AThis. I get that your desire to be a voice for Gamergate has brought you a lot of bad attention. And I think you'd have to agree that RW has done as much as it can to protect you from that attention when it follows you here. At the same time, RW was around before Gamergate, and it will be around long after Gamergate, and Gamergate is not what's going to make us change the way we keep our community running. Please respect our minimal standards while you're here. Thanks. Peace. AgingHippie (talk) 22:31, 6 March 2015 (UTC) My last action was to rev del a message someone else had already reverted from being here. It counts as inappropriate content. I don't need gators getting ideas Ryūlóng慌司01:26 7 March 2015 UTC Again: Please stop using revision delete & other sysop abilities inappropriately & please stop trying to plead some sort of special status as an excuse for breaking community standards. WeaseforďMethinks it ls a weasel 10:51, 7 March 2015 (UTC) Ryulong, if you don't what your mistakes to be used against you, perhaps you could try getting it right first time? Bicyclewheel 18:55, 7 March 2015 (UTC) Stop paying attention to it then for f---- sake-Ryūlóng (琉竜) 23:37, 7 March 2015 (UTC) You probably shouldn't tell a lady who's been here pretty much since day one, and has done an amazing amount of the heavy lifting required to make this community what it is, what she should and shouldn't pay attention to. It's not much of an exaggeration to say this is pretty much Sophie's wiki. Read what I said above: RW was here before Gamergate, and will be here after Gamergate. We've gotten through much worse without compromising the 3 or 4 rules we have. Peace. AgingHippie (talk) 23:52, 7 March 2015 (UTC) If the whole purpose is to ignore what was said why is so much time and energy being put into telling me off for having removed t in the first place? That's what m getting at here. Ryū óng 琉 04:23 8 March 2015 UTC

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Michael Hartman, the CEO of Frogdice, tries to have a reasonable conversation about female costume designs with a Polygon journo, but is unable to get through to him.

Arthur Boop Gies @aegies-6 mr one step forward followed by one step back pic.twitter.com/5MmbMUNcB RETWEETS FAVORIETEN 20:57-6 mrt. 2015-Details Michael Hartman@Muckbeast 17 uur @aegies why is that a step back? Why can't there be variety and all spectrum of character designs?7 Why only one standard? わt3 ★ Arthur Boop Gies @aogies-17 uu @Muckbeast why is "hypersexualized versions of characters" such a regular part of the spectrum? Michael Hartman@Muckbeast 17 uur @aegies Because people like it and it sells. Like every industry in existence Best practices is variety, not expulsion of all sexy stutf Arthur Boop Gies@aegies 17 u @Muckbeast it sells to some people, and is profoundly alienating to others わ £3 Michael Hartman @Muckbeast 17 uu @aegies So again, you're saying only one group of people get to have their preferences catered to? Sorry, that's selfish and unacceptable Michael Hartman @Muckbeast-17 uur @aegies Sorry, but I reject that completely. Variety is the ideal to aspire to, not appeasing just a single set of preferences Arthur Boop Gies@aegies 17 uu @Muckbeast that specific character isn't variety - first, that kind of design is Michael Hartman@Muckbeast-17 uur @aegies Depressingly? Starving children in Africa is depressing. An artist creating a character you don't lke is trivial in the extreme Arthur Boop Gies @aegies-17 uu @Muckbeast if people can't be affected by video games then what are you doing with your life? Michael Hartman @Muckbeast 17 uu @aegies An emotional impact from a video game is wonderful. Being depressed" someone designed a character in a way you don't ike is not Arthur Boop Gies @aegies 17 u @Muckbeast thanks for establishing what people can't care about. わt3 * Michael Hartman @Muckbeast 17 uur @aegies You know as well as I do that getting "depressed" because an artist creates something you don't ike is not a mature reaction Arthur Boop Gies @aogies-17 u @Muckbeast it's not "one artist." please. you're a veteran developer. you know damned well how many committees that design went through Michael Hartman@Muckbeast 16 uur @aegies Im on board with lamenting lack of variety throughout the industry But no single "sexy" character is a step back in my view Arthur Boop Gies@aegies 16 uur @Muckbeast it's not one "sexy" character. it's a space full of them. it's largely the extent of their character development Michael Hartman@Muckbeast 16 uu @aegies Like I said, I'm with you on lamenting lack of variety. But you cant single out one and call it a step back. Not fair to the artist Michael Hartman@Muckbeast 16 uu @aegies 3/5ths of Frogdice's art team are women. It they make a sexy temale character or armor, that isn't a step back it's their vision Arthur Boop Gies @aogies-16 uur @Muckbeast and im not saying you or anyone else does it intentionally. but industry standards speak louder than "m not sexist! Michael Hartman@Muckbeast 16 uur @aegies I think our industry is plodding slowly towards variety, which I like But I still can't call any single "sexy" piece a step back Arthur Boop Gies @aegies 16 uur @Muckbeast and, again, this character doesn't exist in a vacuum. it's not one character, it's most of them Michael Hartman@Muckbeast 16 uu @aegies I don't think that changes anything. it doesn't make a single sexy character a "step back". That implies ANY sexy design is bad. Arthur Boop Gies # '오 Volgen @Muckbeast i'm sorry. you don't get to exist in a reality separate from the rest of gaming and pop culture わta ★ 22:27-7 mrt 2015 archive.today/Ru2zA Michael Hartman@Muckbeast 16 uu @aegies In my reality variety & artistic expression are respected, and no single vision is a "depressing "step back." It is a good reality わ£3*1 TWEETS VOLGEND VOLGERS 18,7K 577 51,5K Volg je nu Michael Hartman @Muckbeast CEO of Frogdice, Inc, game developer for 20+ years Interested in game and gaming industry news. Love geek stuff. Keeping an eye open for new talent Lexington, KY frogdice.com

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GamerGate - WE'RE DEAD AGAIN!

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Mar 09, 2015 at 10:49AM EDT

It's so funny to see how they kill us time and time again, yet they can't bother with the White Mage behind us, resurrecting us the Moment we perish, because they themselves are that Whitemage, giving us reason to exist and Content to respond to

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Genral Urist

Genral Urist

Mar 09, 2015 at 10:59AM EDT

Slow and painful…

so slow that it hasn't even started declining yet!

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