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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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![In 'N Out Chef 10/09/14 (Thu) 08:36:34 ID: b63b3d No.74825 74933 74840 74845 275002 File (hide): 1412868994869 ipg (25.29 KB, 300x178, 75:44, bemeys,jpg) The conscious and intelligent ma- nipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mecha- nism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country... We are gov- emed, our minds molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of This is a logical result of the way in which our democratic society is organized..." 7359 314 >74337 >74590 Another point on the article. Contained within this piece is the idea that the demands of consumers, gamers, and a consumer revolt are somehow base, unworthy or, in need of improvement only "sophisticated" criticism can provide > But above all there need never be a conflict between a journalist's or critic's duty to inform and a reader's desire to be told only what they wanted to hear > But, crucially, in their view a proper games press would never criticise gamers, gamer culture, or their favourite games in anything except the most objectively" technical ways > Beyond that, games writing should serve no other purpose, no "agenda" save that of the gaming consumer defined in the narrowest terms possible > On the doorway to paradise appeared the words: Agendas Are Unethical Understanding this meta-point requires context as to the nature of what this "criticism" or "non-objective" reporting actually manifests as in reality This criticism takes the form of tired screeds, painting gamers as inherantly misogynist, decadent, "entitled", and that they and their hobby are in need of improvement whether they agreee to this or not. Attempts to resist this agenda setting are labelled as "extremist", or a "terror", campaign", or "torches and pitchforks" > They are now all but criminalising the very notion that writers should be paid for their work, suggesting this is a conflict of interest in its own right. > [They] believe the only way to the paradise of "ethical journalism" is through expelling such people from the ranks of the gaming press and, indeed from any and all media that comments on gaming Underlying this point is the idea that the setting such agendas and levelling such criticism is a "critic's duty to inform", and that gamers calling for advertisements to be withdrawn are restricting freedoms and 'legitimate' criticism of gaming. (But as TotalBiscuit commented advertisement revenue is a priviledge, not a right, and by viciously attacking gamers sites have lost that priviledge, not their right to speak.) But in these viewpoints, we can see the philosophy of another character from the Curtis "Century of the Self" series that the article heavily references. That character is Edward Berneys, the father of public relations rna Berneys believed in the national importantce of public relations. That its shaping of public thought, culture, opinion and behaviour was an important aspect of modern democratic society. The mass public, the "mob", could not be relied upon to think for themselves or move society, or in particular vote, in the "right" direction. And so cadres of guiding men should use public relations and propaganda as a kind of "enlightened despotism to direct the masses in ways they 'should' go An underlying philosophy of the article is that the critics of video games have a similar "duty" to critice, direct, and ultimately guide gamers and video games down a more 'enlightened' path We Should Expect this Idea to be alluded to in the coming series of articles this month Game journalists see themselves as the 'enlightened depots' of gaming culture and discussion. Their attacks on gamers, their constant accusations of misogyny, and above all their censorship is justified as they are 'cleaning up' a morally degenerate or at best unaware hobby. The are agents of improvement, and their own corruption, cronyism, intimidation, and exploitation is natually to be ignored or justified by the ends This point is unlikely to be stated directly, but I suspect it will serve as a ideological basis for many articles which appear. To counter this we must present evidence of journalists unethical behaviour to show that, even if their argument was valid, they are unsuited custodians of a moral message The vicars have hiked their robes once too often](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/844/720/189.png "189.png")
![File (hide): 1424229815480 png (28.57 KB, 400x400, 1:1, Capture PNG) questions to gamergate from a dev. Leader 02/17/15 (Tue) 21:23:35 ID: 37d32c No.375572 2375801 375812 22375820 375859 3758752375877 23758 2375892375725 2375894 2375950 22375954 2375955 22378042378127 2378184 22378184 22378193 22378202 Watch Thread] Greetings I am a developer of a moderately successful indie game (how can i prove this without compromising identity? does it matter? we'll be one of the indie hits of 2015. 250k sales in early access so far) Being involved in the dev side of things, my twitter feed is mostly filled with other devs and anti-gg rhetoric. Being a reasonable and objective person, I wanted to come hear the other side of the story, as the pro-gg side on twitter has a lot of shitlords as does the anti-gg. So l have a few questions 1) why the f--- does gg continually focus on individuals like anita and zoey quinn? surely these people have little or nothing to do with the overall goals of GG and continual focus on these individuals is not only distracting to the movement as a whole, but actively stopping it from being taken seriously. I am currently unable to speak about anything i disagree with in anti-gg sentiment because then i have to get lumped with shitlords who send d--- pics to anita. even the banner image in this sub refers to feminist frequency. Who gives a flying f--- about feminist frequency, jesus christ, f--- sake, monkey christ shitballs. i dont agree with most of what FF says, but it's a reasonable and introspective commentary on what is happening in game development, which seems to be exactly what GG wants 2) At which outcome will GG be considered a success? 3) why does GG not care at all about harassment being done in the movement's name? There are a lot of people in the industry who will gladly participate in a conversation about ethics, but for many constant death threats just outweigh that issue. I feel that if for ONE F------ DAY GG could get its s--- together and actually take a f------ stand and seperate the movement from the harassers, it will all resolve. The SJW's on the other hand will not be willing to sit at a table and have a discussion on any other issue until the harassment problem dissapates. I can't f------ stand that people say s--- like 'gamers are dead, I identify as a gamer, but I can't say that s--- in public anymore a big divide between the dev and r communities which f------ sucks and its worse. does gg not realise or not care that everyone else sees this as the ter problem now, thanks to f-------- on twitter. There is al I have more questions and comments if this thread doesn't get saged. I sincerely wish l can have a decent conversation on this matter, but i fear it will be all for nought. regards some f------ ㄩ Leader 02/17/15 (Tue) 21:44:56 ID: d757c0 No. 375659 22375897 22375993 File (hide): 1424231095990 png (15.21 KB, 180x209, 180:209, 1422910350888.png) >375572 (OP) WIZARDS: why does GG not care at all about harassment done in the movement's name? A guy names SailHatan, proGG, tracked down the guy who sent death threats to Anita and handed them off to the cops. The cops said they can't do anything with it unless Anita presses charges. SailHatan passed the info on to Anita. That's the last we heard about it 9 Another proGG, Gel, started the antiharassment patrol, and she and many others donated a lot of their free time to trying to police trolls on Twitter with little effect. She quit becayse she was getting harassed endlessly for her efforts We've also donated to anti-bullying charities KiA and /gamergate/ have strict no doxxing, no brigading, no harassing policies When we learned that the FBl was investigating the swatting and threats, we f------ cheered because we want these people gone as much as anybody else No SENSE oF So lemme turn the question back to you, OP You tell me. What the f--- else can we do?](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/list/000/916/145/fec.jpg "Hmmm...")
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