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Press Sneak F--- Today, 09:51 PM) Quote Originally Posted by partyphone so at what point in this gamergate thing do we attack major publications for taking ad money from the companies they cover? Hilariously, GamerGate is too busy contacting non-gaming advertisers like NewEgg and Amazon and asking them to remove their ads from gaming sites #3334 Press Sneak F--- Today, 10:36 PM) Quote Originally Posted by Zaph However, their other games site, Gamespot, is very problematic, especially considering their history. They have two editorial hosts making advertorial content for Call of Duty and another editor hosting Blizzard events and hyping their (unreleased) product It is very, very telling that GamerGate hasnt mentioned this once. 5,200,000 Follow Jason Schreier @jasonschreier Monthly US Readers He appears to want some help, shall wer 538,000+ FANS @andreuswolf Nobody at Kotaku has ever claimed or will ever claim to be objective 388,000+ FOLLOWERS "Objectivity" is a silly thing to strive for. h Reply t Retweet * Favorite More 10:00 PM -10 Sep 2014 Up-to-the-minute gaming news is all Everything a gaming blog should be. 6 Kotaku is king PC Magazine Up-to-the-minute gaming news is all thev do MacWorld 0 GamePro Everything a gaming blog should be MacWorld -PC Magazine 1S -Jam Follow Jason Schreier @jasonschreier @Katamuffins @megaloltaku I believe journalism is about fairness, honesty, and transparency, not some unattainable measure of objectivity Blizzard Entertainment ames * Old Spice Old Spice Nintendo UBISOFT Sprint GAMES 1SO arner Brothers EA Games * Samsung * Playstation » Starbucks » Activision El Reply Retweet Favorite eli More AMSUN ACTIVISION. aMC AMSUN livescribe 4:33 PM -10 Sep 2014 AMC Follow Jason Schreier @jasonschreier » Livescribe » State farm » Turbine 数 뚝 TRION State Farm TURTLE ENMASSE @megaloltaku I don't think you follow "Objectivity" leads to bad reporting, obfuscations of truth under the guise of telling both sides turbine apcom e Enmasse Razer Blade NCSoft Turtle Beach Source: comScore, Key Measures, Multi Platform, November 2013 Follow Jason Schreier @jasonschreier * Trion Worl EI Reply Retweet El Favorite Ed] More Source: comScore, Key Measures, Multi Platform, November 2013 RETWEET @andreuswolf By contacting Kotaku's advertisers? By trving to stifle independent press? Don't make me laugh 4:47 PM - 10 Sep 2014 El Reply Retweet Favorite eli More 1:48 PM - 10 Sep 2014

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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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There are definitely some big problems within IGN as well, but they aren't the focus of GamerGate yet because they aren't the main aggressors in this situation. In fact, they've smartly stayed out of things.

While Kotaku/Polygon/etc continue to insult and ridicule the gaming community as misogynistic (which has only served to drive the GamerGate crowd into a bigger frenzy), IGN has remained mostly quiet, keeping the heat off themselves.

I'm sure IGN will get its turn eventually, just not yet. Right now we're focusing on the main transgressors in the present issue. Once that's dealt with, then it might be time.

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