Kotaku is a shitty video game publication with journalistic standards in line with things like HuffPost, MSNBC, and WaPo. So, really just subversion propaganda.
The "InAction" part is from the creation of the sub during the whole GamerGate thing. The "2", good luck, that gets asked about once a month. Something about mods being fags.
If you aren't familiar with GamerGate, maybe someone who's been around longer can give a synopsis. You can't really research it, as all the propaganda outlets describe it as you'd expect with all their race baiting and comparison to Nazi stuff.
If you can find The Joey Post, it's a word-for-word transcription of the original The Zoe Post about the entire situation, except the names were swapped and genders of the offenders were swapped, in order to get leftists to actually read it, since then it is a story about an evil toxic male abusing a woman psychologically while cheating on her.
Zoe's behavior is what got me on the "manosphere"/MRA side. It also helped me realize that the "problems" we're dealing with now is not just one thing.
Some people try to shoehorn their beliefs into one or two "problems" that must be addressed and if we do address those "problems" we'll finally achieve our utopia - to the manosphere, it is addressing gynocentrism, and if one simply repeals the 19th Amendment a majority of our problems will be gone.
To libertarians, abolishing government would achieve our utopia. To the 1488'ers, doing something about ( ( ( T H E M ) ) ) would achieve our utopia. All of societies ills can be easily blamed on one group of people or another.
After GG started, I came to realize it's a whole bunch of moving parts that feed upon each other. You can easily link a whole bunch of shit to each other if you try hard enough because one belief can sometimes lead to another belief. Sometimes the groups are related, but sometimes we got standalone complexes as well.
Like it never occurred to me, for example, to link the goals of the manosphere, who are mostly concerned with their primary enemy (feminism and gynocentrism) with say, libertarians who just want to be left the fuck alone, for example, but because of the multi-disciplinary nature and scope of the far left and how fucks like Zoe were PROTECTED by them they've made enemies out of multiple disparate groups.
1- Depression Quest got coverage, not reviews (while I haven't personally verified this point, that theres apparently "no review" is the go-to gotcha when people come to whiteknight Quinn)
2- Eron Gjoni (the ex) is alive and well. Alec Holowka, dev for Night in the Woods is the guy who killed himself after Zoe started #metooing him.
Also important to point out Zoe Quinn is an alias, she comes from a wealth family and quite a lot of the nonsense around her likely stems from people being opportunistic.
Gamergate is really simple: Some journalists were caught giving good press to games developed by someone they were close with, and instantly jumped to cover up and blame anyone who caught on to this rather than transparently express the fuckup.
Everything from rapidly plummeting opinions on journalists to requirements to state that promotion is paid for in videos is a result of this fuckup, but it's not done yet.
Kotaku is a shitty video game publication with journalistic standards in line with things like HuffPost, MSNBC, and WaPo. So, really just subversion propaganda.
The "InAction" part is from the creation of the sub during the whole GamerGate thing. The "2", good luck, that gets asked about once a month. Something about mods being fags.
If you aren't familiar with GamerGate, maybe someone who's been around longer can give a synopsis. You can't really research it, as all the propaganda outlets describe it as you'd expect with all their race baiting and comparison to Nazi stuff.
Bravo!
I almost forgot about the whole Five Guys thing.
If you can find The Joey Post, it's a word-for-word transcription of the original The Zoe Post about the entire situation, except the names were swapped and genders of the offenders were swapped, in order to get leftists to actually read it, since then it is a story about an evil toxic male abusing a woman psychologically while cheating on her.
Zoe's behavior is what got me on the "manosphere"/MRA side. It also helped me realize that the "problems" we're dealing with now is not just one thing.
Some people try to shoehorn their beliefs into one or two "problems" that must be addressed and if we do address those "problems" we'll finally achieve our utopia - to the manosphere, it is addressing gynocentrism, and if one simply repeals the 19th Amendment a majority of our problems will be gone.
To libertarians, abolishing government would achieve our utopia. To the 1488'ers, doing something about ( ( ( T H E M ) ) ) would achieve our utopia. All of societies ills can be easily blamed on one group of people or another.
After GG started, I came to realize it's a whole bunch of moving parts that feed upon each other. You can easily link a whole bunch of shit to each other if you try hard enough because one belief can sometimes lead to another belief. Sometimes the groups are related, but sometimes we got standalone complexes as well.
Like it never occurred to me, for example, to link the goals of the manosphere, who are mostly concerned with their primary enemy (feminism and gynocentrism) with say, libertarians who just want to be left the fuck alone, for example, but because of the multi-disciplinary nature and scope of the far left and how fucks like Zoe were PROTECTED by them they've made enemies out of multiple disparate groups.
Couple things wrong there;
1- Depression Quest got coverage, not reviews (while I haven't personally verified this point, that theres apparently "no review" is the go-to gotcha when people come to whiteknight Quinn)
2- Eron Gjoni (the ex) is alive and well. Alec Holowka, dev for Night in the Woods is the guy who killed himself after Zoe started #metooing him.
What's worse is that fucker STILL has a job.
Honestly, I agree. I guess I've seen it pointed out too many times in GG recaps, but it's far too late in the discourse to matter.
Also important to point out Zoe Quinn is an alias, she comes from a wealth family and quite a lot of the nonsense around her likely stems from people being opportunistic.
Gamergate is really simple: Some journalists were caught giving good press to games developed by someone they were close with, and instantly jumped to cover up and blame anyone who caught on to this rather than transparently express the fuckup.
Everything from rapidly plummeting opinions on journalists to requirements to state that promotion is paid for in videos is a result of this fuckup, but it's not done yet.