Gamergate, A retrospective.

enjoycarrots · 2021-10-20T19:36:43+00:00

Gamergate is really interesting because there's some truth on both "sides" of the issue. Right wing reactionaries, misogynists, and internet trolls really did latch onto the gamergate banner, dox people, harass them, and use the entire occurrence as a chance to recruit people down the alt-right pipeline. (Edit: I should also strongly note that they were not, by far, the entirety of the movement). On the other hand, the anti-gamergate crowd really did do some horrible shit, quite often the same shit they accused gamergate of. They behaved atrociously on places like wikipedia, and of course reddit. Game journalism really was and is bad, full of nepotism, and corrupt. "SJW" people really do exist and push their ideology. The loudest people on both sides of the issue were terminally online ideologues who behaved reprehensibly, and the drama threw a whole pile of shit on top of what should have been a valid set of issues.

SpanishM · 2021-10-20T18:50:52+00:00

GG gives you an idea of how corrupt journalism is -for those who didn't know it already. But the most interesting part of this is that lots of people already believe the lies, despite all evidence.

Anyway, fighting corrupt journalism should be a priority for us.

BTW, there should be another version of the wikipedia). The existing one is hijacked by the mob.

Forgetaboutthelonely · 2021-10-20T08:56:58+00:00

So, It's been a few years since the whole Gamergate fiasco. But I was listening through this video and I thought it could make for some interesting conversations. Most people wouldn't know this but I actually started this account to talk about gamergate.

But for a lot of people off of the internet. Gamergate was their first exposure to the dreaded "SJW" and the "Gender wars" as I've heard them called.

I don't have a whole lot to include on my thoughts of the video. I know it's a bit long so I can copy the youtube transcript into a comment.

I thought it would be interesting to compare what went on then to what's going on currently.

griii2 · 2021-10-22T23:20:41+00:00

I don't get it. This Candace Owens does not know shit about computers - she admits not having an idea what doxing is - yet she is launching a startup to somehow magically unmask anonymous trolls on the internet. She is so clueless that she is doing a campaign on kickstarter, yet she is somehow taken seriously, and not by the bad guys but also by this Rubin Report. And the bad guys are so scared of this miraculous tech touted on kickstarter by this absolute nobody, that they orchestrate a harassment/DDOX campaign against her?

Something really smells here.