GamerGate - Game Journalism for Dummies

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Game Journalism for Dummies 1.) Major in Journalism with a minor in Gender Studies 3.) Use your Gender Studies lense to find every single non-issue in a game 4.) Write article complaining about the biggest non-issue you can find in the game, demanding the non-issue be "fixed." 5.) If the gaming company caves, cool, move on to the next game and start over from step 3. If they don't cave, move on to step 6 6.) Choose "marginalized" community and use your Gender Studies lense to figure out how the non-issue "harms" that community 7.) Write article accusing the gaming companies of being "bigots" for their refusal to "help" the marginalized community 8.) Label any criticism of you as "hatred of the marginalized community" 9.) If anyone from the marginalized group criticizes you, call them sockpuppets or accuse them of having internalized (insert 'ism' here) 10.) Collect money from rage clicks, move on to next game, and return to step 3 Brought to you by: The Game Journos "We hate you, and we like it that way."

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artuno

Apr 05, 2019 at 07:51AM EDT

This is discrediting good game journalism, like the recent ones looking into the shitty management of Bioware and Anthem. Its helping to push devs towards unionization.

There's shitty clickbait journalists who bring in the ad revenue, and there's actual seasoned journalists who do their job.

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Nedhitis

Apr 05, 2019 at 01:38PM EDT in reply to artuno

You could say that the "for dummies" part of the title has a double meaning to it, as in, literally for dummy journalists who actually do these things.

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