GamerGate 3rd Year Anniversary

GamerGate affected me profoundly, and I know there are others who were similarly affected. We were always right. We were right about the incestuous nature of game journalism. We witnessed how a rigid ideology of victimhood created massive blindspots not just in games journalism, but wider mainstream media, how the exact same handful of individuals would be quoted as gospel.

Such a huge range of people were mischaracterized to an extreme degree that it served to inform us on how untrustworthy establishment media is. The 'official' narrative is drastically wrong. Despite this, GamerGate became an effective information network to counter establishment narratives, shaping online discourse for years to come. GamerGate was a pivotal moment in the Great Meme Wars.

I was moved by the memes, the artwork, the pages of digging and archiving, hours upon hours of well reasoned discussion whether on forums or on video, all of which went ignored by media. Those first 6 months or so of GamerGate were something special, hundreds of thousands of people finding each other through the false-narrative, finding each other in the darkness. We were ahead of the curve of mainstream discourse because we knew that we were individuals acting towards common goals, and it didn't matter who was left wing or who was right wing, that the media's black and white view of politics only divides people rather than fostering much needed discussion. We recognized the identity politics moral panic for what it was, years before we saw it affect the mainstream in huge ways, like how we've seen with James Damore at Google. GamerGate is a part of history.

I was moved to create a video in an attempt to capture what I believed the heart of GamerGate to be. This video serves as not just information and summary, but as a love letter to the people of GamerGate.

youtube.com/watch?v=80fqrg0dmTU

Thank you to everyone who has supported GamerGate.

You're all diamonds.

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tldr: op is a fag and a muslim

I still can't comprehend what it was. I watched like a few videos. I think I was still using Sup Forums at the time.
I'm pretty retarded.
I miss the Ethiopian dude tho.

we'll the fucking insane bit is that the people who were huge negative players and anti-gamergate (anita fucking sarkeesian) are now in charge of censoring youtube for what's pretty fucking much gamergate 2.0

It was the first blow to cultural Marxism in a hobby.

YouTube censorship is pretty much gamer gate part 2 electric boogaloo. I know Sup Forums probably doesn't care too much for YouTubers and their Jewing of Jews for ad money but being that YouTube is so big it creates some concern around the fact that many may follow in google's footsteps.

fuck with books: we don't care
just play games
fuck with music: we don't care
just play games
fuck with movies: still don't care
just play games
fuck with games, oh shit

I have a mutual friend of Zoe's and her former BF whatever his name was. I only figured this out about a year into it, but yeah.

Boston is kindov a fucked up place to live.

>he hasn't heard of sad puppies

I can not comprehend this meme. I was browsing Sup Forums at the time for christ's sake and i never even read about it until it was over. It is all a lie. This is a meme. Something this big wouldn't have escaped me and yet, even bow that's i've read about it, i don't fathom how something so insignifiant would be taken so seriously by anyone. I missed the joke.

Mate. It was suppressed by all sides. Even Sup Forums and Sup Forums mostly tried to pretend it didn't happen because it appeared to be such a failure.

In the end though it had the last laugh. I was redpilled by the media response to Gamergate like hundreds of others on here. A thread the other day with hundreds of unique posters all saying the same sort of thing makes it pretty clear that Gamergate has had the long term effect of radicalising a lot of relatively centrist people into full on nationalists.

welcome to capitalism. Where every industry is inevitably taken over by loud self serving zogs with the sole agenda of furthering their own careers and manipulating social views to see them as a pioneer in their industry, when in reality, every industry is being killed by people like Anita Sarkeezian.

Just as crony capitalism has made wages in majority of jobs less than half of what they were worth in the past, so too has it infected video games with the necessity to corrupt creative content to focus on pandering for profit and keeping inline with a globalist narrative, rather than creating a experience based on gameplay

The vast ammount of faggots and trannies in the GamerGate (((movement))) made me realize I should stop playing games.

Who cares? Video games are escapism. Pay attention to what matters in life.

Anita Sarkeezian was a game journalist, who then made her own game and slept with guys to get it published, when it got published but didnt sell, she blamed this on a patriarchal dominance in the games industry, and started a wild fire of feminism that helped lead to the 3rd wave insanity you see today.

Anitas ramblings are still take as fact and spiritual doctrine by most liberally aligned people. Here is her speech to the UN

youtube.com/watch?v=V3m-bcaCVbM

Gamergate is a window into how government and politics is easily manipulated

7:17 Quinn actually demands from the UN, that the allegations against someone allegedly harassing her shouldn't have to be proved and her pleas are taken seriously.

GAMERGATE WAS NOT ABOUT VIDEO GAMES ITS ABOUT SOCIAL MANIPULATION THROUGH DIGITAL CHANNELS

But still i keep listing the events of it and it looks so lame and small.
Lady has sex with journalists for reviews
Bf tells on her
Corruption for sex
Online banter
Waa bullies
Press take the side of the whiners
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Redpills ?

Was that really all there was to it ?

Some vidya can be fun from time to time, i enjoy some mk8 with gf doesnt seem to harmful

>GAMERGATE WAS NOT ABOUT VIDEO GAMES ITS ABOUT SOCIAL MANIPULATION THROUGH DIGITAL CHANNELS
it was them testing the waters, or learning the extent of their abilities.
they are the same millennials who are now rebranding the right as nazi evil misogynist white supremacists. never actually taking on their opponent in a direct way and debating idea to idea they instead set up a straw man, get society to associate them with that straw man and then knock the straw man over for the easy win.

I always find it laughable how often there are headlines "I SURVIVED 1287571 CONCENTRATION CAMPS AND WW2 + NAZIS IN SPACE AND NOW AGAIN?!?!" when just like you're saying it leaves them as a faceless, dehumanized group of people.

What was GamerGate?
Honestly asking, because I'm Slav and I didn't give a shit about gaming drama and the gaming community as a whole.

>Zoe Quinn dates beta cuck
>cuck knows she's fucking around, does nothing
>Quinn releases a "interactive story" called depression question
>gets gud reviews
>cuck gets upset about this. Sneaks into her purse while she's out fucking, grabs his balls back
>writes a blog post talking about the 5 guys hotdogs she's had in her burger, including one who was a game reviewer for Kotaku
>spams it on Sup Forums
>Sup Forums flips a shit and starts brigading against Kotaku.
>Sekret journalist email list thinks this is unfair towards wimines and all start publishing articles talking about how gamers are shit.
>Reddit joins in with Sup Forums
>Journalists publish new articles almost verbatim talking about how gamers are dead.
>???
>Donald Trump wins the 2016 election.

How would Richard M Nixon have reacted to Gamergate? He probably wouldn't have cared much.

He didn't like the tube, so he wouldn't like Video games.

He recommended all men should read for at least 5 hours a day.

If you're confused about GamerGate stop being a faggot and watch this video youtube.com/watch?v=80fqrg0dmTU

Reminder that it started about a complain because some bitch fucked her way up to publish her game and ended up being a crusade against chaos wizard vampires and their minions financed by the deep state and government agencies as a giant horrifying mind control experiment to shape the face of Earth through an overly complicated series of psyops.

Zoe was Five Guys
Gamergate was a reaction to bizarrely (as most people believed at the time) coordinated silencing campaign from the internet forums to MSM.
3 years ago most people on Sup Forums believed that the problem with the press was JUST incompetence.
The realization how insanely corrupt and power tripping the media is started a chain of events we can fell even now.

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basically this. Makes you wonder if people with thee views were given advantages in media to exacerbate the right and independents into ensuring a conservative swing

*these views, extreme/alt left views.

Hold up.
A slut was a slut. Dude writes how the slut was slutting around. Slut makes a drama out of it and drags the whole of gaming into it.
How the fuck?

exactly its right around when personal feelings began out weighing motive and evidence. After this event its almost as if they learned some secret of psychology as it quickly became the norm in many facets of society.

This.

This nasty woman is speaking at a bookstore near me in a couple weeks. What do?

DARPA.
You know shit really hits the fan when even Sup Forums deletes threads

It also caused m00t to sell Sup Forums. Shit was fucked

i mean damn, its almost as if lots of people with very pro israel views are quickly gaining authority in several areas entertainment and controlling public opinion, like the bible is happening in front of us and theyre gonna be given their land back and then all hell breaks loose.

Guns.

We dug too deep. Like Deus Ex tier deep.

Call her a Nazi.

Boston frigging sucks. Wish every day I wasn't stuck here for life. Is this ground zero for Gamergate? Didn't know, but doesn't surprise me.

post her nudes... she is a drunk pickup at best

I was there when it happened. Provided a lot of relevant information and stopped caring within a week while you faggots ignored it and drew cartoons or something instead.

WWII was 70 years ago, they're all dead by now.
You'll see in 2052 we'll still get interviews with nazi camp survivors.

She's vile, my dude. Don't think I could stomach it.

basically the stupid whore fucked a journalist in exchange for good reviews, there was an uproar about corruption, and then the games media started calling all gamers sexist to cover for their blatant corruption. then zoey and a bunch of other whores played the victim and made up fake death threats(they were caught doing this), and the mainstream media picked it up.

that was it. and as much as we tried explaining what really happened, the media and the usual useful idiot lefties kept screaming that we were all evil sexists.

and at the end of it all, the corrupt fucks in kotaku and other gaming sites got entirely away with their bullshit, won a "moral victory", and have been able to invade gaming with political bullshit ever since. every time someone mentions sjw shit being pished in gaming, some lefty brings up gamergate. it's basically their version of the holocaust. their oppression myth that allows them to shame their opponents into silence.

>GamerGate affected me profoundly, and I know there are others who were similarly affected. We were always right. We were right about the incestuous nature of game journalism.

So what the fuck is GamerGate and why does game journalism affect anyone in a significant manner. Does GBBO affect you as well? Does it give you nightmares?

I think Gamegate was the catalyst the redpilled a lot of young disenfranchised people. This lead to a rise in alt-right memes and in a way contributed to the election of Donald Trump. I unironically believe that the most important thing out of GamerGate was Trump being elected.

It's also fucked up that the true motive behind GamerGate got drowned out by the anti-gamergate people and completely ignored. The original purpose was a sort of inquisition into Gaming journalism and the corrupt nepotism plaguing the industry. This all started because some slut was getting good reviews for her games because she was literally sleeping with reviewers and people in the industry despite her games being utter shit. Then old developers and people who have been in the industry for years corroborated the claim that the all the large mainstream journalist sites get payed by big name publishers to write good reviews despite the quality of the games and those games that can't afford good reviews get mediocre reviews and little to no coverage even if the game is objectively great.

I was never involved in gamergate but I credit the journalists involved for completely killing any trust in journalism that I had left.
I mean. I used to believe that journalists tried to be unbiased and ethical, even if they failed, they were trying. Now I know better.

it affects us because it allows them to demonise us and keep pushing politics into our games.

>gamergate effected me profoundly

AH HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Gamergate wasn't a huge issue for most normal people. Perhaps a few gamers got upset but most people see it, think "what's this" sees that it is related to video game and thinks "oh, doesnt apply to me" and move on with their lives.

Gamergate is the biggest non-story of all time and if it took this to redpill you, you don't have redpill DNA running through your veins to begin with and are still bluepilled deep down inside.

I'm so sick of all the kids on Sup Forums going like "muh gamergate".
It wasnt a big deal.
Grown adults don't care about it and never will. Enterprising young adults didn't waste their prime playing video games, let alone getting upset.
It certainly isn't history.

99/100 won't know what you are talking about if you say "hey, gamergate". They'd look at you like you were some schizophrenic retard talking about a nonissue like if every person knows about it.

this

>it allows them to demonise us and keep pushing politics into our games

again, this is something that might happen in the parallel world of the net, but no one really gives a shit. game content/design decision are made based on other criteria

>game content/design decision are made based on other criteria
depends on the studio really.

>Grown adults don't care about it and never will
Grown adults were the ones who made a big deal about it in the first place. We were just bitching about corruption and how bribes/sexual favours were being exchanged for good reviews, and then to cover their asses the reviewers launched a crusade against the "evil sexists", which the mainstream media then picked up. It was never our side who made a big deal about it, it was the left. and to this day they're still using gamergate as an oppression myth to silence us.

>implying other forms of media are not escapism

everything in moderation

I think you're misunderstanding it. It was originally just people complaining about nepotism within journalism, and then quickly spiralled.

GG was pretty much the proto alt right. Without it Trump wouldn't be president.

wear a fedora, disrupt the event saying you support her patreon and bought her book and games and that, as a male feminist, you are now owed sex.

>Grown adults were the ones who made a big deal about it in the first place.
Yes, pathetic ones that play video games and collect disability checks.
>We were just bitching about corruption and how bribes/sexual favours were being exchanged for good reviews, and then to cover their asses the reviewers launched a crusade against the "evil sexists", which the mainstream media then picked up.
The main stream media barely covered gamergate. What some CNBC newspiece airing in the late, late hours made 2 minutes of time.? That doesn't count.
>It was never our side who made a big deal about it, it was the left. and to this day they're still using gamergate as an oppression myth to silence us.
Good. It isn't an effective tool once again and if a normal person here's someone making a big deal about this and framing some sexist conspiratorial aspect of the gaming industry, this "myth" is like me saying the earth is flat.
It might get me a few people to listen but most people are not going to take you seriously at all.

Gamergate is a waste of time and effort. If they want to perpetuate the feminist spin of this myth, by all means, let them. It will never catch on.

*hears

>my dude
Go back to kekistan and never open your mouth here again with your dude vernacular.

replace games with media, such as your favorite tv show or brand name, or movie franchise. it will all be rehashed in order to fit determined archtypes of good and bad.

Gamergate and BLM in 2014 were definitely a "beginning" of what we now have.

I bet a lot of these people who identified with BOTH movements marched arm-in-arm at Occupy Wall Street.

You faggots made fun of it, but I was in Zuccotti for day 6 and 7. It was the real deal and then the CIA successfully infiltrated it and splintered the country.

I do blame /new/ a bit. (it was /new/ in 2010, no?)

How would that silence anyone, though?
>Umm, sweetie, shut the fuck up you bigot, you don't want to create another gamergate and call a whore out, do you?

I wish there was a way to get that kind of open, peaceful conversation going then.

>reminder the police were actually agitators back then and Occupy was entirely a peace movement.

Things have really changed. Kinda scary and sad to think about how fucked our country is...

gamergate was the final nail in the coffin for 'video game journalists', now i think its mostly casual cucks who read that shit

>>reminder the police were actually agitators back then and Occupy was entirely a peace movement.

That is a complete lie
OWS was a socialist astroturf violent movment

It was a microcosm of the issues we see in the media today. It gave hundreds of thousands, perhaps even millions of normies around the world (myself included) an insight into how the political bias of the media can rapidly form bullshit narratives through lying by omission, or by simply making shit up. Personally, it sowed the seeds of my now fully flourished mistrust of the media, long before I started browsing Sup Forums. It didn't turn everyone it reached into full-on 14/88er ethnonationalists, but it taught a great many young people about the dangers of lapping up whatever narrative the MSM tries to feed you.

kekistan is ok shill

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What does the CIA gain from fomenting civil war?

The fact that you don't know the whole story and call it a non issue makes me wonder if you even know what you're talking about.

The media shitstorm was pretty huge and it poured into the mainstream media in the most cancerous way imaginable. All these funny trustworthy leftist sites covered it, but we already knew the whole story and better than them, so we noticed the buzzwords, the misinformation, the lies. This was not new for me, but many of my normie friends got redpilled hard by this and it even created a huge uproar on the internet about being truly progressive and being a neopuritan liberal keyboard crusader. This polarized left and right more and separated moderates from the toxic ideology that is modern leftism. This literally made alternative political options a thing.

fags

I took a shit in your mother's vagina. Go smell it and see.

Wrong amigo. You sucked the MSM's cockles back then, no?

If you were actually around before it was co-opted (by like the 3rd week it was entirely co-opted).

But those were an intense few weeks where you literally had people from all over the political spectrum having important discussions together.

THat's why the CIA shut it down so god damn fast.

All the people that were "in charge" by the third week did covertly and had (((ties)))).

Control of both sides, dumbass.

They control the socialist left. They control the Richard Spencer right.

Divide and Conquer 101, fagsalot.

Go to the store in the morning and dump a liter of piss on the books they're hoping to sell.

Also, as I've said in another post - during the first few weeks OWS was a threat to the establishment. People from all political and financial backgrounds were coming together and having a really important peaceful discussion. And setting up camps across the country.

I can only speak first-hand for zuccotti for the first few weeks. I was there and when I wasn't I followed it very closesly.

The conversation we were having them is very much in line with Trump's movement. Not exactly though, and our country is now divided so it's a tougher game.

You're ignoring the forest and focusing on the tree.

The "events" of Gamergate aren't the significant part. The significant part was the dishonest representation, witch-hunting, and online lynch-mobbing that resulted from disparate opinions on those events.

Your position on one side of the issue or the other was grounds for people to justify extra-judicial actions against you. It was also grounds for slandering you and misrepresenting you intentionally to make you the villain in an otherwise ridiculous and pointless argument.

It made it apparent to millions that journalist are agenda-pushing hacks. And this carried over into ruining their credibility as an industry and helped contribute to Donald Trump winning the Presidency.

All because journalists over-played their hand over video games.

Original protest had left and right pissed at ((the markets and those who caused the whole stunt)) but then it changed. In Spain or was the same and it became a radical left gibs refugees welcome I need feminism because mind my pronouns our culture is evil punch a Nazi. How very convenient that they lost focus.

You could have explained it to me without calling me names. For future reference, it's more persuasive. If I weren't already inclined to believe you, I'd assume your opinion was horseshit because you felt the need to belittle someone critical of it.

What, you niggers don't have buses?

>Here is her speech to the UN
Bitch, that's the Women's UN. They're basically just an international Women's Rights group had has nothing to do with the real UN, other than sharing an assembly hall. It's just something the real UN threw together to shut them up.

>it's basically their version of the holocaust. their oppression myth that allows them to shame their opponents into silence.

But like the holocaust, it never happened. I think they are overplaying their little victory. Even the biggest gamer normie is starting to get fed up with the blatant pandering in 'AAA' gaming. Why do you think a game like Witcher 3 felt like a breath of fresh air to a lot of people. Because the development team wasn't trying to fill a quota they were making a game pure and simple. Anti-gamergate journalists tried to shit on Witcher 3 for being 'too white' and 'misogynist' and it fell on deaf ears nobody gave a shit about their whining because they were too busy enjoying a good game. They realized it wasn't working and moved on.

Once people realize that these faggot activists aren't gamers and all they want is to attention whore and grandstand they will stop listening to them and their influence will wane. This is why the left always loses. They are too radical with change and always overplay their hand. This is why they lost 2016. This is why they are losing the culture war. Once the business side of the industry realizes that they are making a huge mistake by pandering to people like Feminist Frequency and they see a huge drop in sales in 'AAA' games, which we are already seeing with ME: Andromeda. Then the influence of people like Quinn and Sarkeesian will wane. Ultimately Zoe Quinn and her ilk will fall into irrelevance which is a fate worse than death for narcissists like them.

This guy gets it.

But I'm 100% sure in the states it was CIA that co-opted it. Could have been Soros - I don't remember if he was even part of the discussion back then... And it's impossible to find good information on Occupy Wall Street's early days because of the media's depiction of it (sound familiar?) and what the movement became.

Sorry it's just how I talk here. Don't take it personally user.

Its a massive framework of social engineering OP. Anita and the other whores, thats what they did to get their little interviews and play hard that favourite card of woman, victimization. The fact the (((MSN))), the (((UN))) even given them air time and a voice for their shitty as narrative means this is a concerted effort to emasculate us in the only place men have segregate from (((their))) banker usury reality and fucking women.

I fully expect it. Especially since to call into question the details is illegal.

>Yes, pathetic ones that play video games and collect disability checks.
no, it was literally just some people bitching about zoey fucking some guy for reviews. and then the media created the whole "evil sexist" narrative and gave it non-stop coverage for months. they made a big deal out of it, not us.
>The main stream media barely covered gamergate. What some CNBC newspiece airing in the late, late hours made 2 minutes of time.? That doesn't count.
wrong
>Good. It isn't an effective tool once again and if a normal person here's someone making a big deal about this and framing some sexist conspiratorial aspect of the gaming industry, this "myth" is like me saying the earth is flat.
you have no idea what you're talking about and you should fucking kill yourself.

obviously no one who doesn't play games cares about politics infesting games. i never claimed they did. but when gamers complain to other gamers on gaming sites about politics in games, they get shut down and silenced by leftist faggots, mods, and journalists who go "oy vey idz annuddah gamahgate!"

>Gamergate is a waste of time and effort. If they want to perpetuate the feminist spin of this myth, by all means, let them. It will never catch on.
except it has caught on. every game is full of political bullshit now.

It started because she fucked her way through journalists to get her shitty game traction. It really was about journalistic integrity, which gaming publications have essentially none.

and then a million white knight shills back them up, you get banned, some roaste journalist makes an argument about how gamers are still sexist, and then some game devs feel the need to apologise to virtue signal. and then they ramp up the politics even more.

people always leave out the fact that the story was HEAVILY censored on Sup Forums, reddit, neogaf, somethingawful, and even Sup Forums, at times.

There was a point in history where the only place you could talk about LITERALLY WHO was fucking Sup Forums. THAT, is what was so fucked up—the universal censorship, deleting of posts, and shadowbanning, for something as innocuous as video game reviews. Then, in the midst of this wild censorship, the media launched a coordinated offense against anyone who dared not toe the line. Many were redpilled on media collusion just by seeing the eerily similar attitude and verbiage used by like 12 sites all on the same day.

tl:dr - Zoe Quinn was an unexpected "untouchable", a "made man", as it were. She fucked some guys for attention, got caught, but no one was allowed to talk about it. Zoe is deeply involved with some rabbit hole bullshit on re-purposing video games for social development (propaganda)

Upboated

> Waste of time and effort.
Gee, I wonder why Trump is president and not the feminist ideal that is Shillary?

it was censored so badly that even as someone who tried to keep very up to date, i didn't have a clue what was going on until internetaristocrat made a couple videos on it. it was ridiculous. ironically, youtube was one of the only places where you could have something resembling a good discussion on it. even though it literally just started out as a people bemoaning one whore fucking for reviews.

> It made it apparent to millions that journalist are agenda-pushing hacks. And this carried over into ruining their credibility as an industry and helped contribute to Donald Trump winning the Presidency.
This is the amazing part about this. For a couple years prior, gamers who would otherwise never engaged in politics are... engaging in politics. People were starting to see the bullshit the media spills out regarding video games and it all points to the same thing or root of the problem, social justice warriors.

Unlike other communities, gamers aren't afraid to call people out on their bullshit. Countless years of being told or telling people to die, fucking their/your mothers, being a fag, jacking off to polygons all come together to form a fist of hateful truth.

Feminist fucked up when they touched our games.

Gamergate went from trying to preserve journalistic integrity by pointing out affiliates to pointing out feminist bullshit, all because feminazi decided to take the gamergate dogma and spin it to a harassment campaign. It clearly mirrors what's happening RIGHT NOW in the nation THIS MOMENT.

Not just that. They even made a law and order so about it presenting gamers as terrorists, and the media pushed the narrative of "evil white loser nerds, that's why we bully you".
Literally the same ad hominems used against trumpfags. Then the #notyourshield shit happened, which was basically calling out virtue signalling cunts. I think they tried to bite more than they could chew and got a huge cultural backlash. Hope they don't learn from that mistake

but life sucks
The graphics are shit
The gameplay mechanics are boring and unbalanced.
Free 2 play but Pay 2 win.

Sure it's got more players but in the end its outdated and boring as hell.

If Zoe Quinn never fucked 5 guys and cried when she was faced with anger.


Hillary would have won the election, Brexit mat not have happened.

Anita started hitting the Hornets nest, and then moving to the next one and hitting it. Anita united Conservatives, True Liberals, Right Wingers, and all sorts of shut in between on the political compass making the largest right wing push the US has seen in over 100 years.

Thank you Zoe, opening your legs woke up the Final Boss of the Internet.