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HES Bob Chipman Follow Follow The Escapist hired some mega-conservatives and GamerGate is very happy. But GG is left-leaning, I thought? Hmmm. Curious. Confusing The defining game series of the last/current generation is a pro-war right-wing neocon wankfest. Years later, right-wing lunatics... RETWEETSFAVORITES 15 RETEET 25 3.00 AM-21 Feb 2015 10:43 AM Bob start slithering into the games press, feigning "nerd cred" to spread their poisonous, hate -based ideology to a new generation... lan Miles Cheong@stillgray The once venerable establishment is now home to wingnut anti-feminist pundits. Free from politics, my ass 11 3, gee, who could've predicted that? Who could've POSSIBLY seen that coming? eES Logan Westbrook@LoganWestbrook 29m @the moviebob No Bob, you misunderstand. Media can't change perceptions. To suggest otherwise is to advocate f in bloggers who aren't even gamers to write MockingGrey GreyTheTick 28m @the moviebob I don't want to be the "actually," guy. But while COD certainly fetishizes guns and the military, I'm not sure if calling- n Miles "It was a joke you guys!" Bob Chipman @the_moviebob-28m American cuiture had a chance, however slim, in the fallout of the Iraq/Afghanistar/Bush disasters, to FINALLY accept that. 邙 Damned if you do, damned if you don't There's always some neckbeard who's going to call you an SJW Follow Has the escapist commented at all about hiring a known bigot/transphobe or? 邙 lan Miles Cheong stillarav 19h Polygon gave The Order: 1886 a bad review. Boogie says they gave it a good review because they are SJWs who like small breasts, Go figure Follow @tellahtruth @GNT_Josh @Hailinel The Escapist has been getting rid of various liberal staff and is now hiring from a pool of questionable NeoGAF New Threads @NeoGAFNewThread Follow Justin Grahamm The Escapist hires on transphobic Brandon Morse neogaf.com/forum/showthre So if understand recent events correctly, The Escapist is undergoing a Kafka-esque metamorphosis into a rightwing nutjob media website? the escapist fires good people, hires bigots #gamergate celebrates Mitch-\ ( ) /"Bowman ollow Here's a tip: If you're a developer, just don't talk to anyone from The Escapist anymore Problem solved Follow If you support inclusiveness and diversity in gaming (and in general), don't support The Escapist. And hope the good people left leave soon FAT NERD CAT ollow The Escapist becomes the Fox News of Video games mcc This person ("liz") personally directed harassment toward me, more than once twitter.com/untimelygamer Captain America @bobleponge1000 4h So the Escapist has apparently decided that the worst the gaming community has to offer should be their audience. I pity their forum mods. mcc L.E., personaly directed her followers at my tweets for purposes of directing abuse, in order to silence a message of mine she d 35 mcc Now, according to a tweet from their founder, the Escapist is going to be running content from her. Giving an abuse ringleader a platform Over/under how many months until a harassment campaign originates in the Escapist's comment sections mcc Don't try to tell me, after this, the abuse is not coming from the game Untimely Gamer @untimelygamer Follow It isn't "Gamergate" that's abusive. Just games TotalBiscuit may be a noxious ass whose worldview is complete poison, but he's never advocated hate speech. The Escapist's new friends have. な Follow Want to prove me wrong? Then the games community needs to treat the escapist like an outsider attacking the community & not a member of it The Escapist's Endorsement of Transphobia

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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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