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Online Troll Urges Game Developer Rachel Bryk To Commit Suicide Online trolls urged trans game developer Rachel Bryk to jump off a bridge. She did Not good Game developer Rachel Bryk cyberbullied into suicide: vocativ.com /culturengbut.·"But #GamerGate is about ethics in journalism." Hide summary Vocativ f SHARE TWEET S SHARESENDMip//voctw/ExN Gaming communities are mourning the death of prominent transgender game developer Rachel Bryk, who committed suicide on April 23. Bryk, 23, was plagued by chronic pain, which she told friends was a result of rheumatoid arthritis and fibromyalgia. She took her own life by jumping from the George Washington Bridge, which connects Manhattan to New Jersey, something she discussed on social media platform ask. fm in the days before her death. Rachel Bryk, beloved transgender game developer, commits suicide By Leigh Cuen La Ouen Transgender Game Developer Rachel Bryk Commits Suicide Mew on web Over the past two years, Bryk had become one of the most prominent game developers on a software project called Dolphin. She was well-known for her work on Gamecube and Wii emulators-her favorite being Pucca's Kisses. Despite her beloved status in online gaming communities, Bryk commented on a popular suffered constant, trans-phobic harassment After her death, word quickly spread throughout these communities, and forums were flooded with memorial posts in her honor, and tributes to her work and collaborative nature. 4chan forum that she was withdrawing from various sites because she 22 Trans-Positive Video Games Created In Honor Of Leelah Alcorn What prompted Bryk's final decision to take her own life remains unclear. Friends have contacted Vocativ suggesting that her chronic pain may have been a factor and despite the respect she earned in the gaming community, Bryk wrangled with depression, Just days before her death, the online harrassment she had been subjected to for months took a more direct form. Commen ters mocked her suicidal comments, saying Tumping off a bridge isn'trocket science. The last note from a commenter, simply said "Good Riddance, to which she replied "Yeah pretty much. WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU WEAPONIZE THE DEATH OF THIS POOR WOMAN SHE W HUMAN BEING Y U F------ M NSTER SHE WAS SICK, SHE HAD PROBLEMS, SHE NEEDED HELP, BUT ITS OBVIOUS PEOPLE DID NOTHING TO HELP HER. SHE TOLD PEOPLE SHE WILL KILL HERSELF, BUT NOBODY LISTEN AND LESS DID SOMETHING TO STOP IT THIS SHONS WHAT IS ACTUALLY WRONG WITH THE WORLD. PEOPLE CARING TOO MUCH ABOUT FICTION AND TOO LITTLE ON REAL LIFE. SHE DESERVES BETTER REST IN PEACE!!! Gamers across the world were deeply saddened by the news, and many have used this tragedy to discuss the dangers of transphobia in online communities. One former colleague from Dolphin commented: "No matter what, she was always willing to help anyone. Of all the devs she was the most helpful on the forums, always pitching in. Dolphin is a smaller place without her. thes Then Trolis encourage Rachel to cornenit suicide by jurnping off a bridge

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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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