Can someone give me a tl;Dr on gamer gate?

Can someone give me a tl;Dr on gamer gate?
>How did it unfold?
>How long did it last?
>What were the results?

I don't trust the jewish Wikipedia version of the story.

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>whore screws around
>someone calls her out on it
>entire gaming journalist site says all gamers are basement autists

>women screams muh injustice
>white knight fags come to her rescue
>gamergate

>whore game dev sucks a million dicks to get more good reviews for her shitty "game"
>august 2014-January 2015
>gawker was destroyed, sjws get a new boogieman

>Whore fucks men for good game reviews
>outed by her boyfriend
>turns out women manipulate beta video game devs and get exposed
>a bunch of other shit revealed
>politics involved and SJW agenda exposed
>youtubers get involved, Milo rises to stardom
>faggot shit flinging shit everywhere
>Sup Forums embarrasses itself with Vivian and donations. Denies it like the Japs deny war crimes against China
>Some feminist bloggers get upset
>rebbitors hop on the meme wagon to get the moral highground
>Sup Forums falls apart from within, moot shits on Sup Forums, Moot leaves

GamerGate was Sup Forums's Vietnam.

Cucks got cucked and people took video games too seriously

they're just video games

anti zoe team won by focusing the efforts on a "shekel shoah" bleeding gawker media enough to where they could not mount a proper defense against mr hulk hogan

I wish they put that in the wikipedia article

>Progressive Journalist infiltrated the gaming Press and collectively shit on their audience ever since

> It will never stop until they lose

>They bleed revenue and left a galvanised cultural force that will reject anything and will fight them wherever they go

Milo is such a fuckwit but i love him

encyclopediadramatica.se/Gamergate

Enjoy

Moot didn't leave because of gamer gate

He left because everyone started calling him a cuck after gamergate.

>it takes something completely unrelated to vidya to take down vidya's worst media outlet

>Zoe Quinn, a slut who calls herself game dev only because she made an interactive text, (seriously) cheats on her boyfriend
>assblasted boyfriend makes a blogpost showing their conversations and how she is a slut who fucks game journos which likely got her positive reviews for her "game"
>vidya autists get mad saying that this is proof how game journos are unethical with their conflict of interest and shit
>some known vidya VA starts the gamergate hashtag calling out the bullshit on vidya journalism
>feminists and social activists get mad that Zoe Quinn was shown to be a slut
>accuse Gamer Gate of being muhsogeekneest that don't want womyn involved in vidya
>media reports Gamer Gate as a hate group that harasses womyn
>endless shitflinging since then

Gamergate is not over. Whenever they threaten our vidya we shall rise again.

What role did Milo play?

that poor poor corpse, being reanimated again and again, he is the zombie that everybody wants to let rest, and the boogieman that everybody uses for personal gain... poor poor gamergate

Only one of Zoe's fuckbuddies was a reviewer, and he never reviewed Depression Quest. GamerGate, supposedly about ethics in journalism, was founded on a lie.

It was worth it to get rid of Gawker, though.

It didn't help them any

>4chans vietnam
Now you're just being dramatic

It was overall a good thing because it woke up a lot of people to whats going on, the elites are trying to control video games and if they had another few years in the shadows probably would have been successful, instead you see real backlash from all the enthusiasts that are having their toys taken away.

it was autism and then managed to get more autistic

>it was a ploy to censor the internet
>it failed

>Worst media outlet
Thats not polygon

Basically it went like this.
>Zoe Quinn, """"game"""" developer sleeps with 5 reviewers for favorable reviews
>her boyfriend lets it all out, including her abusing him emotionally
>the entirety of gaming journalism bands together to say, and I quote, "Gamers are dead" published on 4 sites on the same day
>it comes out that there's something called "Games Journo Pro" which is a list of people involved in gaming journalism who will do whatever the others say
TL;DR non-gamers telling gamers about games

Plus, there was Anita Sarkeesian.
>starts kickstarter for "feminist frequency" which would discuss misogyny in gaming
>raised hundreds of thousands of dollars
>published a video every couple months
>all the videos were garbage

Brianna Wu
>tranny who made a shitty game and somehow got involved, idk how

user, polygon is pretty bad, but it aint buzzfeed

>illuminati in vidya

but this somehow isn't over dramatic and autistic... hmmm

>feminist named zoe powerplays everyone for attention and gibs
>gets busted
>wizards throw a fit, zoe cries harrassment
>major game websites collude to tell gamers they no longer have an identity
>normie gamers, who were unaware that the video game journalism has always been a corrupt cesspool, throw a fit
>mainstream becomes aware of fit, asks feminism what to make of it, feminists claim harassment
>everyone bitches at everyone else

Sup Forumsedditors trying to keep one of the worst industries alive by fighting corruption

It was a means to an end. Glorious seeds were planted for a bright new future.

what is this picture

>some games can be pretty sexist at times
>YOUZ WHORES FAKE GAMER GRLZ

And there you have it. Gamergate.

This is the average intelligence of an anti-gamergater.

There hasn't been a single answer that is correct in this thread, only the answer the Media Jew wants.

ORIGINS

Gamer gate started as a movement to display the corruption in the gaming industry journalism. For example a game such as Diablo lll got a 88/100 on MetaCritic and was raved about in gaming magazines even though the vast majority of users thought the game was total dogshit that couldn't even launch properly thus the 40/100 user review. There are hundreds of other games like this, Mass Effect 3, Call of Duty, Battlefield or any EA title. Games with a lesser companies(and less money) backing them were still judged fairly.

ZOE QUINNS ENTRANCE

Zoe quinn was a whore as many other people have stated who slept with many influential people to get her awful game much needed attention and this is where everything turned into a total clusterfuck(Thanks the the Media Jew)

OUTCOME

This became a war on the patriarchy, feminism and Zoe Quinn(all of which were scapegoats) instead of what it was originally intended to be, a war on big companies paying reviewers to give their shit product a shining review. The proof is in the thread and the past threads all over the internet claiming this was all about Political Correctness and all that happy shit while failing to mention the original cause.

>My respectable opponent, would you please take a look at your own situation and acknowledge that there could be ethical improvements?
>FUCKING BASEMENT DWELLERS REEE SLIP INTO A VOLCANO AND DIE YOU WHITE MALES SHOULD ALL BE HUNG AND USED AS PINATAS

I forgot to add that by bringing in the whole PC part it made any rational conversation about the topic go out the window because of the nature of people in this day and age and thus the companies got to keep their reputation and keep paying their reviewers under the table.

I'll post something a little more accurate.

>Zoe makes a game called "Depression Quest"
>people don't give a shit until her boyfriend releases some shit
>turns out that nepotism was involved and the exaggerated rumor that she fucked five guys for them
>everyone got mad because she only got reviews because she had, connections and not that her "game" was any good- all gaming communities upset
>people started arguing she fucked five guys for reviews than the bigger picture
>smarter and productive people were e-mailing companies that sponsored media outlets that supported shit
>zoe being snarky on twitter made the impatient attack her (not necessarily Sup Forums)
>shit load of gaming media outlets put out an article that gaming was dying because of zoe quinn being attacked
>everyone on Sup Forums is upset at how their favorite media outlets could paint them in wrong light
>from media outlets, down to certain well-known figures in video games supporting zoe quinn- it was a depressing week
>on the side- other prestigious figures came into the mix with huge curiosity- Milo (2014 milo was the best), Factual Fem main host, Alex Baldwin (much earlier though), etc..
>eventually, moot banned discussion of gamergays from Sup Forums, which caused a huge riot
>people left for up right infinity chan and hotwheels
side story
>tfyc claims on reddit zoe was sexist because tfyc solely lets women suggest a game and the making of the game is by anyone they hired (i think this is how it went)
>they share their kickstarter
>anons wanted to make this a reality because if a group makes 20% of the donation, they get to make their own character
>they did it and made "Vivian James"
>reddit also wants in on the spotlight and makes their reddit counterpart

side story II
>zoe calls out "straight white males in their basement are perpetuating HATE"
>literally every minority comes out to fuck w/ them, and the hashtag known as "#NotYourShield" came into play
>sjws said Sup Forums was weaponizing minorities

1/2?

Video game journalism has been on a downward slide for the last decade as liberals with communications and journalism degrees can't find real work.

Being unethical bigots they are happy to work with publishers to lie to consumers taking bribes and acting as the PR wing for the big publishers. But they are also hard core regressive leftist, and are so deep into identity politics that they honestly believe they are not sexist, racist authoritarian shitlords.

As the video game industry grows past the movie industry more and more money is devoted to the journalism, and more and more unemployable leftist trash get hired on to write increasingly more ridiculous ideologically driven drivel.

Some of their more motivated friends are actual game developers, and have made a few games. This indy development is even further up the ass of identity politics than the journalists. Edge in a few people that couldn't make it as writers and have no actual programming skills. One such talented young developer makes a text only 'game' about depression. To ensure good reviews of her game she fucks a bunch of the reporters, who in turn pay her back with high tier reviews. The whore's boyfriend finds out and posts about her cheating on him.

Game players having been growing increasingly unhappy about the state of reporting on video games have enough and start in a unorganized mob to demand better from the gaming journalists. The regressive left journalists conspire with each other to attack their core audience.

Mainstream media is only too happy to interview their retarded half brother the games journalists and does a fine amount of mainstream reporting; which is to say they asked one side and ran with it.

Over the next 2 years all major games news adopt ethics policies like the gamers demanded and the special snowflakes that popped up overnight have either died off or moved onto more lucrative means of extracting money out of white knights and feminists.

companies the have advertised on the soon to be defunct gawker media

This. Thank you for correcting the record (for reals though).

What the fuck are you talking about? You just said exactly what everyone in this thread is saying.

(you)

oh my fucking god people actually believe this?

GamerGate had nothing to do with his "cuckdom".

>>Whore fucks men for good game reviews
this literally never happened

You want a summary? Ok.

>Games journalism is a joke
>Zoe Quinn proves to be another example in a long list of that
>People have enough
>Things are going well for a while
>Everything turns to shit once the same fucks that ruined gaming flock to the thing trying to save it
>Bunch of fucking attention whores and greedy kikes turn it into a hug circle

Fast forward two years
>Hasn't accomplished shit
>Cringe inducing faggots still a part of it

It's fucking chanology all over again.

>tfyc claims on reddit zoe was sexist because tfyc solely lets women suggest a game and the making of the game is by anyone they hired

oops, meant tfyc was called out sexist by zoe, and was attacked by her

they only wanted coverage and support from her, but rip- they got coverage and much more from gamergays anyway

>thinking gamergate had anything to do with Gawker being sold

A useless cunt was a slut and all the feminists threw their money at her because women aren't accountable for their actions

>because women aren't accountable for their actions

Every thread I saw while scrolling was crying about Zoe Quinn, she is not GamerGate nor is the cause of Gamergate, she is only a puppet used by huge Game companies for damage control.

I don't have screencaps anymore but every single prominent games media website except i think IGN published a gamers are dead article on the same day, it was something like 10+ seperate articles that all said the same thing.
A little bit of investigative journalism later and it was discovered they all hung out in a private webgroup called gamesjournospros and passed their articles between each other for maximum collusion.

No, but it sure pissed him the fuck off when we started drawing connections to SJWs and calling him a cuck.

Also Sup Forums doesn't make any shekels and moot wanted legitimacy.

>5guys and fries
>"games journalism"
>Internet blackout on "gamergate"
>all mods everywhere were in on it
>the "death of gamers" conspiracy findings
>gamergaters are just evil misogynists and trolls
>dumb cunts at the UN
>fade to black

>some known vidya VA starts the gamergate hashtag
Pretty sure out of all the things he's known for, his minor voice role in fuckin' Mass Effect or whatever it was is at the bottom of the list.

nice argument. you should try looking into how much the military spends on vidya. guess who came up with first person shooters? but ookkkaaay

I just ignored it and kept playing vidya. The whole thing was fucking cancer on both sides.

The whole "we need MORE REVELATIONS!!!" part of Gamergate after the initial discoveries (GameJournoPro and gamers are dead) just destroyed the movement, especially when it became yet another sjw-hating circlejerk.

The elites aren't trying to control video games from the shadows in order to turn everyone into a liberal leftist. It's just vidya. Of course a lot of vidya journalism is going to be biased: you don't see people launching crusades at CNN or MSNBC for shilling Hillary, so why insist on "fixing" ethics in vidya journalism?

>America tries to be australia
Sure thing lil' buddy

You are a fucking moron. The 'gamers are dead' articles were about the fact that gaming is now mainstream, so there is no reason to think that there are some niche people called 'gamers'. It's about as meaningful as 'tv watchers'. And they published this shit because the faggot gamergaters were getting negative attention for being miserable sacks of shit and people started writing about how gamers were awful. The 'gamers are dead' articles were a defense of video gamers and people who play them.

>The 'gamers are dead' articles were a defense of video gamers and people who play them.

Found him!

$0.20 have been deposited to your account

>people get fed up with bullshit
>try to combat bullshit
>realize bullshit has the entire media on their side
>become a boogeyman for bullshit supporters to use anytime someone calls them out on their bullshit

Basically I'm never getting involved in 'change' again. If something this small and unimportant can be defended like that, nothing bigger is ever going to gain traction.

Trump's effect on the media has done nothing but solidify this view of mine. What a depressing mess of a world we were born into.

a bunch of people from Sup Forums and reddit and a bunch of people from something awful and reddit spent over a year arguing with eachother about video game politics on twitter

well meme'd you tinfoil retard!

You forgot
>literally a fucking leaf

>whore makes """""""game""""""" called """""""""Depression"""""""""" Quest
>wizard Chan post "that's not really depression"
>whore traverse through several layers of internet, filth, and shit flinging just to tell a group of virgins on a bastardized mongolian image sharing forum "missssogyneeee"
>whore's ex-boyfriend comes into the equation and says she's been sleeping with reviewers
>group of "women" video game devs comes and calls her a piece of shit based on the time they interacted with her
>Sup Forums spazzed out
>reddit spazzed out
>moot starts shit flinging making things worse
>branded cuckhold king by 300lb virgin weaboos
Then something else happened. I don't know why people hated it. Was the best shit flinging I've seen in years. Hoped it lasted forever.

>The elites aren't trying to control games from the shadows
Well someone is, all major game developer institutions like IGDA who run GDC are insane lefties, these people dictate the public discourse between game developers because they yes/no all of the talks people submit for the conference and push the liberal agenda online.

>All drop within hours of each other
>All defending hambeasts and hating on the people that actually play games

I think the real scary part that got people fucking pissed more than anything was the media blackout and the reach Zoe had shutting down all discussion on the internet about how her cheating. People thought there was a lot more to it based on all of that shit alone. To this day she's still gotten away with all of her bullshit, but now everyone knows it.

The good thing it did was make video game blogs more of a complete joke and opened people's eyes to the wider culture war radical lefties started. In effect, the slow, silent takeover of gaming had to play their trump card too soon and is getting fucked into irrelevance as people aren't buying the shit they are trying to sell.

>It's an america can't do anything right episode

Some slut fucked guys (conflict of interest for """""indie"""" games """"""journalists""""""""") and lied about it when some random guy caught feefees about said sloot.
Sup Forums went full retard and doxxed people because they hated indie games (((journalism))) to begin with (rock paper shotgun for example), which is understandable
Sloot and her feminazi army plays the victim card and makes """"""""gamer""""""" into a slur with all games media sites doing hits on the guys who found out about sloot being in bed with indie devs/journalists (turns out the women in the """""gaming world""""" really get around, surprise surprise)
Sup Forums is taken over by feminist mods
That's more or less what I remember about it, that's when I left Sup Forums for good
Look up Jim's videos on it if they're still up

Was it Robin Williams who coined the hashtag #gamergate? I know it wasn't a Sup Forumsirgin who did it.

They got the Fukken UN to speak about online Trolls instead of FGM in the third World.

This was maybe the most unethical thing they did in my humble opinion.

Now Hillary is paying people to umm.....defending video game journalists?

It all makes sense now

If you were literate and read them you would see that this was obviously true.

They learned that Trump and GamerGate are connected since the Time article and this thread appears.

GG is still going on? KEK that other user is right, it really is digital vietnam

>Hasn't accomplished shit
It did do one thing that's been rather lasting, both in vidya and on the internet as a whole: Shortly after Gamergate happened, a lot of review sites started to say where they got their games from and "possible" connections that they can optionally state. Its boiled over to Steam and Amazon that I've noticed shortly after that.

As an aside, I would also fathom a guess that a number of people who were upset about the whole thing are also likely Trump supporters as both are upset with the status quo.

This is everything I needed to know about Gamergate

youtube.com/watch?v=xNEGOwvheSM

This is embarrassing america

>These obtuse shitslingers, these wailing hyper-consumers, these childish (...)

>sjws said Sup Forums was weaponizing minorities
kek, still have the caption

>Well someone is, all major game developer institutions like IGDA who run GDC are insane lefties

Where do you see that happening in the actual games? I don't see the cultural marxism propaganda in Call of Duty, GTA V, Metal Gear, or Pokemon, neither do I see them in most successful indie games that aren't shilled to high hell walking simulators.

It's not because some fags are organizing conferences discussing sexism in vidya that it necessarily happens.

>They got the Fukken UN to speak about online Trolls instead of FGM in the third World.
Not "the UN", some feminists made a speech at the UN on online trolls and harassment. All kinds of speeches frequently happen at the UN. It's a really big organization. That's nothing out of the ordinary.

Yep, and it's even more cancerous. Doesn't even really care about game journalism at this point, it's just yet another "FUCK SJWS" circlejerking shithole, along with the occasional "MORE DISCOVERIES AND LINKS TO WEALTHY/WELL-KNOWN PERSONALITIES" conspiracy theories from "diggers" (AKA people that know how to use google).

gawker is dead so that is good thank you hulk hogan/

this, maybe it did something maybe it didn't but one way or another it lowered the level of discourse on the internet a few levels further and has been responsible for insane amounts of shitposting everywhere.

I didn't even care about any of it until we started getting refugees from literally every forum/subreddit/v/.

To this day I still think the most important aspect of gamergate was the blackout on discussing it. It's a shame more people don't remember it, though that will happen when you have an active scrub campaign rewriting everything that happened.

Trump and gamergate are only connected in that many gamergaters are Trump supporters, and use the same obsessive fake twitter account/conspiracy shit for Trump that they did to track down the connections between video game journalists and common core. Also via Breitbart, which will pander to anyone into far right conspiracy shit. (Cf. Milo)

How would you describe gators? The point of the article is that everyone plays games now, so don't shit on video games/gamers just because of the behavior of the GG crowd.

Censorship of Japanese games. A lot of them have decided that since making video games is actually hard, they would just join a niche translation team and butcher the game before it can be released to to West.

A bunch of people got a wake up call when news outlets that they had believed had been trustworthy outlets completely shit the bed and went with a narrative that could have been shattered with 2 minutes of google searching.

Those same people are seeing the media bias shitfest that is this year's election cycle thanks to that. After all, if "trusted" media couldn't report on the truth for what amounted to a minor scuffle in the gaming sphere, then what else are they deliberately getting wrong?

2/2??

>people attack gamasutra, gawker, etc.
>gawker loses millions in ad revenue

can't really think much from here on out- there was a huge drought, but unfortunately, gawker was the main thing affected.


side story III
>InternetAristocrat flirts with jane? or whatever her name is
>they literally ditch gamergate after seeing how mediocre it became
>somewhat of a shitstorm takes place

>caring about nip pedo sim games

What do you think the image you posted is supposed to illustrate?

>some girl named Zoe Quinn fucked some dudes for favorable reviews on her self-indulgent crap game
>Sup Forums enjoys internet drama about it
>her friends in the media run coordinated smear campaign against "gamers"
>it escalates into mainstream press and becomes a full blown Social Justice shitfest
Really the only important thing to take away is that journalists conspire to set narratives related to entertainment media in the same way they do for politics.

>Sup Forums
>favorite media outlet
>caring what people think about a group of virgin weaboo neckbeards on an indian carpet sharing website

>Where do you see that happening in the actual games?
Have you watched a game trailer from the past year that wasn't from japan?
Have you not noticed that jap games are getting censored way, way more than they used to?
IGDA are precisely the people that shill those walking simulators, all indie GOTY awards went to a bitch in a prison film that is supposedly a game because you can pick each chapter you watch.
You still get good indie games because there are people that make games because they love them, not because they want to evangelize tough points about "sexism"

>It's not because some fags are organizing conferences discussing sexism in vidya that it necessarily happens.
Those fags are the only people that have a voice, humans are easily shamed or bowed by what they percieve as popular opinion.
It's been gestating for a long time and only just now starting to take over, it comes with anything that starts making stupid money.

You're missing a few things
>Sup Forums is attacked by m00t who goes full SJW
>mass exodus from Sup Forums
>funny junk is the #1 safe haven for gators, followed by cripple chan

will be posting gamergate memories on the side

reminder that 2014 Milo was the best

All praise unto Todd our lord

>tfw leaving Sup Forums to play Fallout 4
Absolutely based

Too funny. Good idea though, really.

Catapult them Mexicans over that wall.