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Gerard McDermott QMicDermie -6m 47 #GamerGate will go through quiet patches but can not be destroyed. Nothing has worked so far despite massive time and money spent Tweets Tweets & replies Photos & videos Gerard McDermott @MicDermie 2m Finally, #GamerGate already won. Weeks ago Gerard McDermott @McDermie - 6m Gerard McDermott @McDermie 6m 3/7 #GamerGate will be where bad behaviour and conflicts of interest will be exposed. Like a Media Watch for the videogame press 7/7 #GamerGate will result in new media and new indie support/awards. Not immediately but too many devs are in it andComments about the web, tech, trends they want change Gerard McDermott @McDermie Owner of GMAC Internet Solutions privacy and how the internet is being used and abused around the world Gerard McDermott @McDermie -6m 2/7 #GamerGate will be a permanent thing. The people who abused have 34 *2 Melbourne Australia gmacinternet.com.au already moved on. What is left are the ones who DID care about media Gerard McDermott @McDermie -6m O Joined June 2009 6/7 #GamerGate will continue to be blamed for abuse because there is nowhere else to point the finger. Over time that will stop Gerard McDermott @McDermie -6m 1/7 #GamerGate has become its own videogame subculture. The people in it have networked and become friends Leaders have come and gone Gerard McDermott @McDermie -6m 5/7 #GamerGate exists because it WAS always about the media and was always going to happen at some point. Trolls come and go Gerard McDermott @McDermie -6m 232 *1 Some friends are not going to like this but here goes... I've been watching #GamerGate closely since the start. Here's the situation..

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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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To be honest, the revelation of Gamergate being permanent is kind of depressing.

Only because I had hoped that people would have the conscious to not be total asshats so GamerGate wouldn't have needed to happen.

But no, we have people with with their heads cemented into their assholes to the point where GamerGate has to be a permanent thing to try and keep them in check

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I think by permanent, he means that the ethos will stay even though the movement will evolve. If the corrupt journalists, devs, et al. won't budge, the people who have participated and support GG will move onto making their own sites, their own games, and their own award ceremonies. Let them have their dwindling audiences and pretentious art games until it's just the LWs, Leigh, and Kuchera sitting around stewing in their own unwarranted self-importance. Everyone else will be too busy having fun and actually playing games to notice.

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