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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 have undone your (Ryulong) most recent revision deletion. Unpleasant yes but it revealed nothing personal about you. Someone being cuntish towards you is not doxing. -MtDNotorious Sodomite 21:14, 6 March 2015 (UTC) AThis. Please stop using revision delete & other sysopabiliies inappropriately & please stop trying to plead some sort of special status as an excuse for breaking community standards. Thanks. Weaşe?óid'^Methirks it is a Weasel 22:02, 6 March 2015 (UTC) AThis. I get that your desire to be a voice for Gamergate has brought you a lot of bad attention. And I think you'd have to agree that RW has done as much as it can to protect you from that attention when it follows you here. At the same time, RW was around before Gamergate, and it will be around long after Gamergate, and Gamergate is not what's going to make us change the way we keep our community running. Please respect our minimal standards while you're here. Thanks. Peace. AgingHippie (talk) 22:31, 6 March 2015 (UTC) My last action was to rev del a message someone else had already reverted from being here. It counts as inappropriate content. I don't need gators getting ideas Ryūlóng慌司01:26 7 March 2015 UTC Again: Please stop using revision delete & other sysop abilities inappropriately & please stop trying to plead some sort of special status as an excuse for breaking community standards. WeaseforďMethinks it ls a weasel 10:51, 7 March 2015 (UTC) Ryulong, if you don't what your mistakes to be used against you, perhaps you could try getting it right first time? Bicyclewheel 18:55, 7 March 2015 (UTC) Stop paying attention to it then for f---- sake-Ryūlóng (琉竜) 23:37, 7 March 2015 (UTC) You probably shouldn't tell a lady who's been here pretty much since day one, and has done an amazing amount of the heavy lifting required to make this community what it is, what she should and shouldn't pay attention to. It's not much of an exaggeration to say this is pretty much Sophie's wiki. Read what I said above: RW was here before Gamergate, and will be here after Gamergate. We've gotten through much worse without compromising the 3 or 4 rules we have. Peace. AgingHippie (talk) 23:52, 7 March 2015 (UTC) If the whole purpose is to ignore what was said why is so much time and energy being put into telling me off for having removed t in the first place? That's what m getting at here. Ryū óng 琉 04:23 8 March 2015 UTC

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Michael Hartman, the CEO of Frogdice, tries to have a reasonable conversation about female costume designs with a Polygon journo, but is unable to get through to him.

Arthur Boop Gies @aegies-6 mr one step forward followed by one step back pic.twitter.com/5MmbMUNcB RETWEETS FAVORIETEN 20:57-6 mrt. 2015-Details Michael Hartman@Muckbeast 17 uur @aegies why is that a step back? Why can't there be variety and all spectrum of character designs?7 Why only one standard? わt3 ★ Arthur Boop Gies @aogies-17 uu @Muckbeast why is "hypersexualized versions of characters" such a regular part of the spectrum? Michael Hartman@Muckbeast 17 uur @aegies Because people like it and it sells. Like every industry in existence Best practices is variety, not expulsion of all sexy stutf Arthur Boop Gies@aegies 17 u @Muckbeast it sells to some people, and is profoundly alienating to others わ £3 Michael Hartman @Muckbeast 17 uu @aegies So again, you're saying only one group of people get to have their preferences catered to? Sorry, that's selfish and unacceptable Michael Hartman @Muckbeast-17 uur @aegies Sorry, but I reject that completely. Variety is the ideal to aspire to, not appeasing just a single set of preferences Arthur Boop Gies@aegies 17 uu @Muckbeast that specific character isn't variety - first, that kind of design is Michael Hartman@Muckbeast-17 uur @aegies Depressingly? Starving children in Africa is depressing. An artist creating a character you don't lke is trivial in the extreme Arthur Boop Gies @aegies-17 uu @Muckbeast if people can't be affected by video games then what are you doing with your life? Michael Hartman @Muckbeast 17 uu @aegies An emotional impact from a video game is wonderful. Being depressed" someone designed a character in a way you don't ike is not Arthur Boop Gies @aegies 17 u @Muckbeast thanks for establishing what people can't care about. わt3 * Michael Hartman @Muckbeast 17 uur @aegies You know as well as I do that getting "depressed" because an artist creates something you don't ike is not a mature reaction Arthur Boop Gies @aogies-17 u @Muckbeast it's not "one artist." please. you're a veteran developer. you know damned well how many committees that design went through Michael Hartman@Muckbeast 16 uur @aegies Im on board with lamenting lack of variety throughout the industry But no single "sexy" character is a step back in my view Arthur Boop Gies@aegies 16 uur @Muckbeast it's not one "sexy" character. it's a space full of them. it's largely the extent of their character development Michael Hartman@Muckbeast 16 uu @aegies Like I said, I'm with you on lamenting lack of variety. But you cant single out one and call it a step back. Not fair to the artist Michael Hartman@Muckbeast 16 uu @aegies 3/5ths of Frogdice's art team are women. It they make a sexy temale character or armor, that isn't a step back it's their vision Arthur Boop Gies @aogies-16 uur @Muckbeast and im not saying you or anyone else does it intentionally. but industry standards speak louder than "m not sexist! Michael Hartman@Muckbeast 16 uur @aegies I think our industry is plodding slowly towards variety, which I like But I still can't call any single "sexy" piece a step back Arthur Boop Gies @aegies 16 uur @Muckbeast and, again, this character doesn't exist in a vacuum. it's not one character, it's most of them Michael Hartman@Muckbeast 16 uu @aegies I don't think that changes anything. it doesn't make a single sexy character a "step back". That implies ANY sexy design is bad. Arthur Boop Gies # '오 Volgen @Muckbeast i'm sorry. you don't get to exist in a reality separate from the rest of gaming and pop culture わta ★ 22:27-7 mrt 2015 archive.today/Ru2zA Michael Hartman@Muckbeast 16 uu @aegies In my reality variety & artistic expression are respected, and no single vision is a "depressing "step back." It is a good reality わ£3*1 TWEETS VOLGEND VOLGERS 18,7K 577 51,5K Volg je nu Michael Hartman @Muckbeast CEO of Frogdice, Inc, game developer for 20+ years Interested in game and gaming industry news. Love geek stuff. Keeping an eye open for new talent Lexington, KY frogdice.com

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The results of Brianna Wu's game.

More than 250,000 people downloaded the free version in the first six months, and the sell-through rate for the $5.99 full version hit four times the industry average of about 2 percent. so she's earned roughly $120k gross if we take these numbers. Apple supposedly takes a 30% cut on average, which leaves her with S84k to offset her $400k development budget. No further comment

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Randi Harper tries to stop harassment, apparently.

Deepak Saxena Friends with Jono Bacon I'm a kernel dev, been doing it for almost 15 years and yes Linus and other maintainers can be not so nice sometimes. I myself have been guilty of yelling at someone over email when they were just not making technical progress no matter how much handholding I did, however, Randi Lee Harper, the personal attacks and meaness you are spewing on this thread goes above and beyond anything I have ever seen in the kernel community 10 mins . Like凸1 Randi Lee Harper Could it be that I'm p----- off that a bunch of RedHat employees decided to jump into my status and start telling me that sexism in tech isnt a real thing because they haven't seen it? Go set yourself on fire Also, cry more because a woman in tech was mean to you. Sorry, but I'm out of Kleenex. You know, from the 20 years that Ive been putting up with your b-------. 1 min Edited - Like 1

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Bob Chipman says stuff. DiGRA retweets.

Bob Chipman BACK If you wouldn't hire an out-and-proud skinhead to work your con, you shouldn't be hiring Gators. Pain and sinplk. わ ★ Katherine CrosS RETWEETS FAVORITES 51 1:57 AM-7 Mar 2015

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Remark made by Doug Tennapel on his 8Chan thread.

▶ TenNapel 03/07/15 Sat 20:48:46 ID b782fa No.2569899-2'A 929ー2589920 >>2gess32 >>25es 35-25e9944-2559949 )-25ess 52-5 9959 222 e 961-25ess2 2589973 My Christianity will not only clash with liberals, but will likely clash with everyone who reads this at some point. If you and I spend enough time together, and I dont care if you went to my church, you and I are going to clash at some point. So my bigger question with anyone about anything isn't "are we going to clash?" but "How are we going to treat each other when we do? If I disagree with a Mormon, and I do, then do I try to kill his career as a game dev? If I disagree with a Satanist, do I try to undermine his whole life as if he doesn't deserve to make a living off his craft? This is where the liberals in my life have acted really crummy... like bad liberals. And I'm far more liberal in how I treat them. That said, look at this group. Look at my audience. I have many, many LGBTs who read and love my work. Of course, the left says they're sock puppets but that's the left's job. I know my people and they treat me very well. So the damage the press or the industry has done to me is NOTHING compared to the benefit and love I've experienced from my audience. I'll swallow the left's hatred any day so long as I get to serve my audience. Really, it's insulting to me but it's not that hard once you get a thick skin. Many of you are learning that now.

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Statement made by a gamedev on 8Chan

Ive a game dev over the past couple of years working for a company on a pretty big game with a substantial community you all have probably heard of. We have a presence at PAX East Though I'm not a woman myself, I sympathize with the women who made those quotes because I find myself in a similar situation of being afraid to speak up about something I care about, Gamergate and the fight against s----- games journalism. The difference is that they fear getting harassed online while I fear being ostracized by friends at work or, at worst, losing my job, especially since Im not that experienced outside of school and don't hold any clout at all. If you think about it, though, all of our fears stem from the same thing, games journalism perpetuating the idea that Gamergate (and gamers in general according to some people like Leigh Alexander) is the worst thing to have ever sprung from the internet Now I'm not sure whether or not the dangers to my employment are real, but it's just not something I want to risk. It's why I never comment on Gamergate outside of chans. Even before GG I barely use my reddit account pretty much only having it to express my critical views of OWS back when it was a thing, and I haven't even commented on r/KiA at all because I don't want that history following me, especially if I was to post on our game's subreddit as a known dev. And Id never consider ever participating on Twitter since the only point of it seems to be mobs arguing in 140-character bites and the fastest way to get actual harassers calling my employer Funny enough, even though Ive never seen anyone at work ever mention Gamergate since the early days of the Quinnspiracy when the TotalBiscuit thread on reddit got nuked (which was simply viewed as a peculiarity at the time), someone this week posted to our internal general chatroom the Yahoo! article on this very panel I was really worried for a moment. I thought that it was going to start up a conversation about how terrible Gamergate is. Id be forced to decide between staying silent and watch the misconception circulate within my own company of speak up and put myself at risk. Fortunately, nobody made a reply about the article with the chatroom moving along with other topics All in all, s--- sucks

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About the speech Brianna Wu gave...

"I've had 48 death threats now in six months," Wu said in an interview Friday. "To stand up to GamerGate, that's my choice. I can't make that choice for the women I work with." But Wu made two public appearances at the convention, including a Friday night live edition of the gaming podcast Isometric. Even though the GamerGate controversy has made national headlines, Wu's appearance did not attract a large crowd. The podcast took place in a room designed to hold hundreds, but about 70 turned out. These included two plainclothes security workers, gruff and denim-clad, who cast suspicious eyes toward anybody who got near the stage.

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Conversation between a neutral Journalist and Anti-GG

Andrew Griffinandrew griffin 4h I wrote this piece, which has since been tweeted by @Glinner, carefully so that it didn't side with anything: twitter.com/Glinner/status.. Andrew Griffinandrew_griffin 4h Not out of naive commitment to objectivity but from a sense that people can make up their own minds Andrew Griffin_andrew_griffin -4h The joke, in my opinion, was clearly not worth getting outraged about. But the outrage was notable, not least because it trended here Andrew Griffinandrew_griffin 4h Now @glinner and more tweeted as if I'm a GamerGater, or sympathetic. Would genuinely appreciate anyone's thoughts on if it looked that way Graham Linehan @Glinner 3h @_andrew_griffin you called them 'activists' and a 'community. Activists don't send SWAT teams to women's houses to terrorise them. Andrew Griffinandrew griffin 3h @Glinner I don't see activists as a morally-charged word. They're activists, for bad causes. Graham Linehan Glinner 3h @.andrew_griffin then present the facts and detail how #notyourshield started on 4chan as a smokescreen for abuse tinyurl.com/n7nt99z わロ★ Andrew Griffin_andrew_griffin-3h @Glinner i said pretty much that. The went on to talk about sock puppets Maybe not enough but it's there Graham Linehan @Glinner Follow @_andrew_griffin rather than their doxxing, their SWAT-ing, their sending pics of dead babies to Quinm, Wu etc, then you ARE editorialising FAVORITE 9:47 AM-6 Mar 2015 Andrew Griffin_andrew griffin 2h @Glinner but that's not what this piece was about. We write about all of those things i100.independent.co.uk/article/meanwh.. Graham Linehan Glinner 2h @_andrew_griffin whatever, man. You added to the confusion with that particular piece and that's all I have to say about it Andrew Griffin_andrew_griffin -2h @Glinner that's not all you had to say: you also insulted me to your 500k followers. But yes 'whatever get feeling you've made your mind up Graham Linehan @Glinner 2h @_andrew_griffin I didn't include your username and you should be thankful I didn't Andrew Griffin@_andrew griffin 2h @Glinner that sounds fairly menacing Graham Linehan @Glinner 1h _andrew griffin ha. Try being Zoe Quinn. My point is I could have tweeted yr username and I didn't because you would have had many more わ ★ Graham Linehan @Glinner 1h @_andrew_griffin than me telling you what a disaster that piece was. Andrew Griffinandrew_griffin 1h @Glinner I'm not even going to bother with how crass your first sentence is. Re the rest: yes, I understood what you meant Andrew Griffin_andrew griffin 1h @Glinner and that's why it was threatening: "you should be thankful I went easy on you because I could have done more" is a threat Graham Linehan @Glinner 1h @_andrew_griffin again, try being Zoe Quinn if that's your threshold. You wouldn't last an hour under her circumstances. Andrew Griffin_andrew_griffin 1h @Glinner this is so, so crass. I'm not engaging with it, sorry

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We don't have to support our claims, you white boy sockpuppet!

fartlebee @fartlebee 1h love videogames, but to identify as a Gamer at this point is about the same as saying you support attacking industry women #gamergate Traverse Town Zolom @tratowzolom @fartlebee How exactly are gamers attacking women? Honest question. Reply * Favorite More 10:33 AM-23 Sep 2014 Reply to @fartlebee fartlebee @fartlebee 1h @tratowzolom 13 tweet account asking for evidence of harassment in the industry yet again. It's been done. I don't need to prove it to you fartlebee @fartlebee 1h @tratowzolom look at this obvious sock account. Claiming a very specific identity just to derail critics lol fartlebee @fartlebee 1h @tratowzolom check out this account held by a white boy lol Traverse Town Zolom @tratowzolom 55m @fartlebee Really dude? pic.twitter.com。HIqripOi8。 Reply * Favorite More SQUARE CNIX

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Marcus L. Crassus talked to people from EA

Marcus L. Crassus @BinaryBerserker Follow Met up with a couple game dev friends from EA Discussed #Gamergate Many support but don't speak due to SJW's causing people their jobs... RETWEETS FAVORITES 43 43 圃器盘個 8:11 AM-7 Mar 2015

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/r/KotakuInAction wins "Subreddit of the Day" award

my odd my skill for writin writing a feature than the rest not going to make people happy. What it's understanding of what I feel and why I feel it. It's going to talk about the subreddit in question, r/kotakulnAction and why I feel it It's roughly written (outside of this introduction it was d subreddit foousing around senious discussion was one of the best. What made me better than my colleagues? My priority was on the people using the subreddit. My helped. If someone had a question, I answered it. I afforded everyone as much decency and respect as I would afford e other moderators there, this was a t was never about people, it was about the industry, Conventions, interviews, access, whatever. They relished what minor power being a moderator some internet forum had given them and did not think highly to being equal to those they moderated. They justified t with insults to these people, saying even that the users were idiots for not knowing every detail of every piece reddit. It made me sick. I had become the PR manager of the subreddit out of necessity, Nobody else could do the job n the first place. I'm happy the other mods didnt get put i that position, as these industry folks were the very people those mods insulted. Those people didn't deserve t When this #GamerGate stuff started there was a a rock and a hard place, but some of ideas of getting out of that position. Mine was that we treat it like any other news story: allow discussion and links but ban direct harassment and doxing. That was always the policy. Others wanted complete censorship. Obviously that's what they went with. I've always been a proponent for free speech and an opponent of censorship, If the reason that the articles and discussion were banned was out of legitimate concern for the community I would've been okay with that. I wasn't okay with censoring information out of personal bias, vendetta, and outright fabrications. I will never be okay with that. However, I wasnt in a position to fight it. GamerGate was a very small thing back then, and I thought it would blow over thread dedicated to a quite neutral opinion on the topic, and further banning users involved in pro-GamerGate with this. A moderat information about censorship, administrator involvement, stuff like that. It was several pages. Immediately after it posting I was accused of being the leak. During and after reading through it I posted various inaccuracies that shot some holes in that theory; I a noticeable lack of information from private sources being chief among them. It didn't sway the person who first accused me. He was adamant, Insistent even, that I was the only one it could be. His evidence? I was strongly anti- o indeed swear quite a bit I am indeed anti-censorship, but even to the others this was shaky reasoning. I started investigating and came believe it was someone who could access one but not the other. My original guess was an IRC global operator who could spy on channels without us knowing, but that went nowhere because they promised it wasn't any of them after the accuser asked their friend on the staff. My second guess was a former moderator who had access to our IRC room (and idled often in there) but not to our modmail. This moderator left the mod team after very vocal opinions on the subjects of social justice, equality, and related topics became too much for him. He could not argue for these ideas with our users and remain a moderator, so he resigned. I respect him for that. I respected him for a lot of things. I suspected this moderator of doing so because outside of the snoonet operators and outside of the accuser himself nobody else came close to possibly doing it. I shared these thoughts with another moderator, and he thought the same. Still, it was only some hours later before the accuser successfully banned me from the subreddit, IRC, and back At first I was distraught. I made a statement expressing disbelief, and it took me a whole day before it really sunk in. Even the other moderators couldn't believe it. Still, there it was. I was even more shocked to see the characte assassination and direct attacks against me. Reddit employees were calling me out publicly. This is to be expected, of course. The correct thing to do is to lie down and take it. To think that your position as a moderator on reddit would mean enough that you wouldn't dare go up against those accusations. If you do nothing you can be a mod somewhere else, get back to the table, and everything is fine. If you stand up for yourself, though? They will come at you with everything they've got. They thought they knew me when I was a moderator there. I didn't like to make waves if I could avold it and I didn't like causing anyone trouble. I was nice to everyone, including them, and they thought I was man defends himselt from those that do wrong, and a brave man is exactly what Mr. and Mrs. Mendel raised. When I happened. I hugged a friend (in a completely innocent way, being asexual and all), and she seemed a bit scared. I was physically much, much bigger than her and it intimidated her. I wasn't at all aware of it because I take it for granted, but it made me rethink how I handle myself. The same thing happened when I defended myself. I did it too well, and it came off as a major attack against them. My strategy was simple: tell the truth. You'd be surprised how much a liar to And they did do anything and everything, for a while at least. Harassment, lies, threats, Isolation, they did all and more and it didn't work. I made it clear: every time they attacked me I would delend myself from it. They tell a lie, I tell the truth. It's amazing what sort of a shield that is. Eventually they come to fear you and the things you might say. I got tired of the back and forth and threatened once for myself: Attack again and I'll release everything know You see, I'm meticulous and slightly forgetful. I take notes, record things, and track information in order to keep it all in my head. I do it for everything: TV shows, movie series, the works, of course I did this with reddit as well. I never intended for it to be used for anything more than reminding myself of what mod sald what or what account belongs to fears a drop of truth cowers under the fear of a flood. It kept me safe for a while. of course, that only bothered the Last year I worked in education teaching programming to college students as an adjunct. The pay was bad but I loved much for and was a lang. However, someone changed that. A former friend found out about the things I was doing online: y that I care ption, and fighting for tr shut me up they should take my job. They contacted my employer and wove a tale that was sure to get my fired. him I was a keep my job, but with such a record there was no way I could've stayed. Even if I stayed I was already gone. I haven't spoken to that friend much since, only through the occasional email he sends me asking me to reconsider my positions year ago I was a person who loved video games. I was a gamer who loved talking about games so much that I happy. I can't say for certain. It's hard to remember what the light felt like when you live your life huddled in the harassment and sexism. 1 support women and minorities in STEM (and taught and worked beside many), and 1 hate the idea of old bays clubs". Do I support LGBT rights? People tend to forget that asexuals are a part of that "LGBT the chance anyone can be incredible. The idea that because I support GamerGate I must not support these things i transparency and honesty when their make the decision to support GamerGate. Its opposition pushed me into them and I accepted their kindness. I would've supported the other side if GamerGate had been the bad one, but that wasn't the case. It still isn't the what is GamerGate to me? What is KotakuInAction, GamerGate's reddit hub? I wasn't as evil and worthless as others were calling me. It's the idea that I am not a monster simply for pissing off a angry forum moderat a waste, and that care. Most GamerGate is the confirmation that my dreams of ethical behavior are right. That amid a crowd of hundreds who call m wrong, there are thousands more who support me, we forget sometimes about the silent majority, and for a long time I forget they existed. They're here now, and they helped me a great deal. They saw the people wishing I would stop talking and said "Nol Speak your mind! They saw the people wishing me dead and said "No! They're wrong about youl They saw the people hating me, and lying about me, and scheming to take me down, and they said "No. Come with us and we'll see that justice is served. I needed to hear those words, and they said them. For a Subreddit of the Day post this is a bit unorthodox. I could have done an artidle filled with citations to different artidles and links to different fact sheets but I didn't. That isn't what I'm about.I wanted to tell you why I believe that tell you why I am willing to take the increased harassment for talking about this. I am willing to do it because I upbringing. From a rotting vacant in Pittsburgh to a cheap house in Tampa, my beliefs have been impacted wouldn't wish on anyone, and I've experienced joy I hope all people get to experience. I've been a stock boy, a bunger Through all my thirty years of life I have kept one thing in mind: I am a product of Earth and nothing more. I am n A person's belilefs are not determined by whoever yells at them the loudest. My beliefs represent my courage, and I anyone tell me I'm worthless. Someone told me recently that I'm unlikable as a human being. They were wrong. Deep down I believe we're all great, wonderful people. Some lose their way now and again, and that's fine so long as they can find it. I take a lot of flak for saying this, more so than I could ever understand given the subject, but I'l say it again: You're awesome, all of you, and I'm glad to help you in any way I can. this. Not only was finally writing this all down helpful for informing those who were ( also my head and onto a page. ago I was hovering over the submit button for suicidewatch, thinking to myself, "oh Xavier, how far must you sink t Thank you again for reading. Now, finally, it's time to hear from the mods of /r/KotakutnAction. In particular I'm going e talking to one mod who has been nothing but kind to me, so let's give him a warm welcome. the I play video games and talk about t ota e, but it's also for talking about general issues the video game, etc sum practices in games journalism. It deals with issues of nepotism, collusion between competing publications spinning the news for certain people/topics, among others. It's the culmination of years of gamers distrusting the rters and detractors believe what they We're invested in video games, to see them abuse their status to benefit or damage people or games. As for GamerGate's detractors, I think it's a combination of seeing the worst of the Internet that's been associated with GamerGate, and a belief that we're t and sexism that has been attributed GamerGate supporters, most notably by major media outlets. I think a o really communicate with one another. Both sides are looking for ways to discredit major figures on either end the spectrum, and being able to have a productive conversation about these issues has become impossible. Attempts have been made before, but were seen as "fraternizing with the enemy," which further keeps a e anything else you would like to s u/TheHat2 The people on KIA truly beleve that GamerGate is a cause worth fighting for. we feel we've been There you have it. Hat has been a helpful person to me for the past year. He's kept me in the loop, given me a place to talk about what's been going on, and he's introduced me to an audience that is dying to hear about it. Imagine that, people actually wanting to hear me talk. Hilarious. Be sure to check out /r/KotakuInAction if you're interested in This has been your fortune, Xavier Mendel, signing As an aside, today is also my 31st birthday. Feel free to send milkshakes. Party at my house, and you're all invited

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GamerGate - Arhur Boop Gies (Polygon, @aegies) complains about sexy women in games yet owns a SuicideGirls account.

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Tiber Septim

Tiber Septim

Mar 08, 2015 at 10:36PM EDT

Can SJW stop being massive hypocrites?, see tonight,only on NatGeo.

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RTheSecond

RTheSecond

Mar 09, 2015 at 12:59AM EDT

Its like they gave the fuck up at this point

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