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Brianna Wu @Spacekatgal-1 h Got scores of emails from former Gamergaters. These are good people that got caught up in a bad crowd and woke up. pic.twitter.com/maVHfmSzqy l, a Once Supporter of GamerGate, have had a Change of Heart 8:16 PM (1 hour ago) TehUnown - <tehunown@gmail.com> to spacekatgal Dear Mrs. Wu (may I call you that?) Hide photo I used to be an avid supporter of #GamerGate. I did it all. I emailed advertisers, I partook in streams, convos, threads, all of it, I was simply infatuated with GamerGate because l "knew" there was corruption in games journalism. Because l knew the "Social Justice Warriors" were "c----" as I was told I was brainwashed I now find myself typing this, here and now, realizing what I was really supporting. I shutdown my twitter account made with the sole purpose of crusading for GamerGate, deleted any GG propaganda from my images folder, and unsubscribed readership for KiA. Then recently I opened my eyes. All of a sudden l saw fellow supporters harassing others, yelling, screaming, threatening and doxxing. I saw what the tag was all about at that moment. I realized that we were HURTING people more than helping. It driving women away from gaming This "ethics in journalism" shtick was all a ruse. A ruse created to hide this real reasorn FAMORITES I now find myself typing this, here and now, realizing what I was really supporting. I shutdown my twitter account made with the sole purpose of crusading for GamerGate, deleted any GG propaganda from my images folder, and unsubscribed readership for KIA. 9:25 PM-12 Dec 2014 Details I've turned a new leaf here. I no longer have to live with the guilt of being on such an unsanitary stance and now I get to see these men full of hatred scramble around and try to say "WELL WI DIDNT DOO DAT IT WAZ 3RD PARTEH GNAA"- or whatever the f--- the alibi is now. It's quite amusing As for the helping those in need, I used the money I was going to throw into the GamerGate Charity Scam pool to buy Revolution60 and donated to Anita Sarkeesian to continue her astounding work. I'm now quite the fan of her. And thank YOU for allowing us former supporters of GamerGate have a voice and expose GamerGate for what it really is! signe kee Daniel Keenan P.S. e-mail me back if you are actually going to put this on your blog. I'd really appreciate that:) 9:49 PM (13 minutes ago) TehUnown - <tehunown@gmail.com> to Bri BTW, forget all that s--- above Yes, I fabricated it all. Every single line Why? To prove the point that many of your "letters from former GamerGaters" may most likely be shams Without checking, without verification, you post up a snippet of my e-mail claiming it as "proof" no questions asked It's quite sad Brianna, that you are this gullible. To not verify anything with fact. And this not only echos onto you, it echos on to the entire Anti-GG crowd So how many, Brianna? How many of these e-mails are fake? How many other things are fake?-Fabricated just to"prove" your point? -Anon

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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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I didn't get why you'd point out the timestamps because I don't think that people were even wondering whether TehUnown was being deceptive. It's pretty obvious. Regardless, he has shown that if he could create a false conversion story and be spotlighted by Wu so could some Anti-Gamergaters. This shows that those conversion stories aren't reliable and that Wu is too eager to find any dirt on Gamergate.

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