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HOW TO LOSE A PUBLIC RELATIONS BATTLE ON THE INTERNET Print article Send a Tip by MILO YTIANNOPOULOS1o Oct 2014, 8:09 AM PDT POST A COMMENT You can't wage guerrilla warfare armed only with flak cannons. But that's precisely what the gaming and tech media are trying to do with GamerGate, a consumer revolt against unethical press practices that is striking terror into the heart of the video games journalism establishment and rocking developers Opinion piece after opinion piece are flooding out about the supposedly ugly beliefs and tactics of GamerGate supporters, yet no one outside the tight liberal blogging circle and its social justice warrior intimates, are buying the story. The mud isn't sticking, which is why the frequency and hysteria of these claims is going through the roof. The wrong tools are being deployed, in a misunderstanding of what victory looks like. To #GamerGate supporters, the withdrawal of sponsorship from Intel on Gamasutra, a games news website which published hateful rhetoric about its own audience, was a huge win. Despite universal condemnation from the press, Intel has stuck to its guns and will not advertise on Gamasutra for the foreseeable future, Good on them. wringing liberal media in all of this And that's the essence of the problem for the hand-v The polite, insistent, fact-based and entirely reasonable concerns of GamerGate are invulnerable to scrambling, desperate, politically illiterate and completely absurd attempts to paint the movement as a misogynistic, right-wing lobby group. It isn't one, and advertisers know it. All you accomplish when you tell brazen falsehoods about a sizeable group of disgruntled consumers is make them even more determined to punish you for the contempt you have shown them. That is what's happening with each new wave of ideological garbage, such as this ludicrous summary of GamerGate by Gawker today, a fact-free screed penned by someone suspended for plagiarism. So extreme are the contortions through which the weakened, social media-obsessed media has to put itself in order to slam legitimate concerns about press ethics, we now have the spectacle of Gawker apparently claiming that there's nothing wrong with journalists who financially support the people they write about and reporting, contrary to the facts, that Intel had reversed its position on Gamasutra when it has do o such thing Developers and studios themselves aren't thanking journalists for pretending that GamerGate is some sort of lea Party conspiracy. All the press is doing, say sources im the industry, is driving a wedge between themselves and the people who make games - leaving ournalists ever more isolated and vulnerable in a world where more people trust self-employed YouTubers to make games recommendations than trust professional reviewers. It's a terrible strategy Advertising rates are surely set to plummet, as developers and studios object to outright lies being told about their own customers by journalists who have nothing in common with ordinary gamers and who, in many cases, actively despise their own readers, use every opportunity to poke fun at them, take the word of liars over their own common sense and on ideological crusade against people whose politics they don't like But you can't fight a war of factual disclosures with attacks on character - something you'd expect journalists to instinctively understand. Perhaps the people these blogging hipsters hang out with, in cringeworthy San Francisco neo-speakeasies, respond to the mere mention of the word "conservative" with the same horror the wannabe journalists do But ordinary consumers - the gamers on whose continuing interest gaming publications utterly depend - aren't impressed. Just how stupid do Polygon and Kotaku think their readers are? Do they really believe that EA, Bungie, Capcom and the like don't already know exactly what their customers are like? Do they think that their discredited and widely derided publications are going to change a single mind not already determined t hate gamers for the mere crime of being white men? For the media, GamerGate is an opportunity to sneer and bully from the safety of venture- funded ivory towers. But that battle has already been lost: the smear tactics failed. Now r #GamerGate supporters, this is a war for the soul of the games industry. Gamers do care any more that these journalists hate them. They're fighting a war they intend to win a war that simply doesn't require positive headlines to succeed. You'd think video game journalists, of all people, would realise the futility of trying t smite Paladins

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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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Enjoyed reading the article, but yeah I think at this point, this is just a battle between gamers and the video game industry corruption. The PR battle was already lost since the beginning of Gamergate and Literally Whospiracy.

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