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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](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/list/002/691/215/331.png "What the actual f--- are we supposed to do about this")
![COMICS TMS: I know in the past you've talked about how youve The Internet provides all that. You can interact with the So yes, I get a lot of criticism, that's fine. I bristle at the The Mary Sue Interview: Bill received criticism for stuff that people have percelved people that make the stuff that's important to you! And criticism that starts with a conclusion, 'you are a Nazi Willingham Talks that is, of course, both a blessing and a curse. So criticism can flow much more freely, and it does not racist misogynist homophobe, and that's their opening line. All of those are words to stop a conversation, those are shouting-down, 'you don't even deserve to be heard as political in the books, and I feel like now with the advent of the Internet and people being able to participate more easily in fandoms online, that criticism is a lot easier to share about comics in ge wondering how you feel about that discourse being a much easier thing to share, and much more quickly now Gamergate, Politics in have to go through gatekeepers. The best and the most Comics, and Saving Goodbye to Fables by Carolyn Cox( ' ] | Monday, May 1 1 th 2015 at 3:47 pm u lead off with that, you don't ge erudite and all that are going to get noticed in the long run, butI don't mind that the gatekeepers don't get to decide that. But it's annoying, because of course anyone can call you a s---, and some do. When this whole brouhaha ot the new manners shakes out, when we start to settle on things, one of the things I hope we settle on is that those who will hurl their crap under words. Whe have a conversation with me. I will often hear said-the Gamergate controversy right now is indicative of this-is the arguments that are on that level, and start off on that level, always stay on that level. Because you have just filtered out everyone else [that] is going to argu reasonably, and [now] it's only the verbal bomb throwers. I've got little patie better than mechanisms to silence them, as well. I'm just hoping that the cream rises to the top, that the wa Share tumblr Willingham: There's an old saying I used to love, "a cat can look like a king." Which is, there's no person that's so great that the great unwashed masses unable to see them, the peasant and the king still share some commonality. And now with the Internet, that is the case. What we're trying to do is figure out the rules ohysicall me w mo uthority than tho r that, and yet it's who do it anonymously. Sign your own name to your crap. Stand up for it. When you present yourself to the entire world as a non-person, you have no right to n who can back up his argument is going to e the Internet has changed nything other tha ectt everything. So we've come up with notions and spread The notion tha e the left, it's with this admor dress this way bu my mind th An article not calling Gamergate Nazi women hunters was published on Mary Sue? The f k is going on bo Maybe t sta otice the wa ho ery sing ing. Any ts And yet tha a thing we're wrestling A fish do which it swims. Politics is rife in comics, because comics with now, but we're not really wrestling with that, we're wrestling with 'it's a whole new world, and weve lost manners along the way and we're beginning to percei that we need them. But to etiquette and things like that is kind of old fogey, so we're coming up with new terms stories about le who think and believe s---. Il them manners and](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/965/156/f84.png "Mary Sue Fails")
![Transparency is important to us, and today, we take another step forward. 3331 Roy- (seIf. announcements) Aa submitted 6 hours ago by weffey [A] 3273 comments share sorted by: best▼ you are viewing a single comment's thread view the rest of the comments → 个HdsioneBAN2 899 points 6 hours ago * @ Transparency is important to us Great jokes EDIT: Was given gold, this quote came along with it Silence is golden, and gold is up these days, so silence is a solid investment. - Jarod Kintz Absolutely hilarious in this context permalink embed 个[-] TeCocksmith 420 points 4 hours ago Mention the ceo's husband and see what happens permalink embed parent [-]swagmaster4204204200 692 points 4 hours ago* Buddy Fletcher, husband of Reddit CEO Ellen Pao, is being described as being the operator of Ponzi scheme 144 million dollars of a pension fund was lost Ellen Pao is now accused of frivolous lawsuits to try and stay afloat and some other s---. Seeing as she is a CEO of a large company and has a fraudster for a husband I think it's safe to say we have a textbook ASPD/Sociopath on our hands permalink embed parent , [-] JohnOBrosley 357 points 2 hours ago This guy actually got shadowbanned! http://www.reddit.com/user/swagmaster4204204200](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/964/748/0cc.png "Transparency is important?")
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