Kotaku is a shitty gaming blog famous for left wing politics. This community was created to fight against it, but the mods became drunk on power and we ended up with this sub here, which is why it's KotakuInAction2.
What's with the red haired gamer girl? That have a story. She have a name?
Her name is Vivian James. Named to sound like video games. And there is a story.
Reddit's KotakuInAction became a hub for the GamerGate consumer revolt that started in 2014. The consumer revolt started when many video game journalists put out articles declaring "Gamers are Dead" and "Gamers don't have to be your audience".
The journalists did this as a response to the Quinspiracy. The Quinspiracy revolved around Zoe Quin, a game developer, who was sleeping with video game journalist Nathan Grayson while she received positive coverage from him. And Nathan Grayson did not disclose that they were close with each other while covering her, while covering stories about Zoe Quin & Zoe Quin's video game.
GamerGate & Quinspiracy are not the same thing but they are very connected. At the time, there was some group, I don't know if it was a company or non-profit or whatever it was called The Fine Young Capitalists. They were crowd funding on crowd fund website KickStarter to fund a contest for female game developers, they were going to help at least one female game dev that won the contest, develop a game.
Well apparently Zoe Quinn and TFYC had a beef with each other over the Tranny issue. TFYC were ok with Trans "Women" but only if they could prove they have trans for X amount of months, they did not want some guy to just call themselves trans for the purpose of winning the award that the TFYC made for women. This wasn't good enough for Zoe Quinn so she threw alot of shade at TFYC.
Anyways, as people who were concerned about the Quinspiracy kept getting slandered as women-haters, a movement began on 4 Chan's /v/ board (which is a video game board) to donate money to the TFYC's KickStarter about the contest. I think one of the KickStarter goals involved TFYC making someone's custom character. People on 4 Chan came up with Vivian James to be put into a game by TFYC. That is why alot of depictions of Vivian have 4 leaf clover, 4 Chan's symbol, in her hair. The Green & Purple colors come from inspiration of those being the same colors used by the Women's suffrage movement.
So that is the story of how Vivian James came to be. After GamerGate, GamerGate discussion would be censored on 4 Chan along various sub-reddits, making KIA1 one of the first GamerGate hubs. There is more history since, but that is the start of things.
Kotaku is a shitty gaming blog famous for left wing politics. This community was created to fight against it, but the mods became drunk on power and we ended up with this sub here, which is why it's KotakuInAction2.
Isn't Kotaku just a mod of otaku--a fan as I understand it.
What's with the red haired gamer girl? That have a story. She have a name?
Her name is Vivian James. Named to sound like video games. And there is a story.
Reddit's KotakuInAction became a hub for the GamerGate consumer revolt that started in 2014. The consumer revolt started when many video game journalists put out articles declaring "Gamers are Dead" and "Gamers don't have to be your audience".
The journalists did this as a response to the Quinspiracy. The Quinspiracy revolved around Zoe Quin, a game developer, who was sleeping with video game journalist Nathan Grayson while she received positive coverage from him. And Nathan Grayson did not disclose that they were close with each other while covering her, while covering stories about Zoe Quin & Zoe Quin's video game.
GamerGate & Quinspiracy are not the same thing but they are very connected. At the time, there was some group, I don't know if it was a company or non-profit or whatever it was called The Fine Young Capitalists. They were crowd funding on crowd fund website KickStarter to fund a contest for female game developers, they were going to help at least one female game dev that won the contest, develop a game.
Well apparently Zoe Quinn and TFYC had a beef with each other over the Tranny issue. TFYC were ok with Trans "Women" but only if they could prove they have trans for X amount of months, they did not want some guy to just call themselves trans for the purpose of winning the award that the TFYC made for women. This wasn't good enough for Zoe Quinn so she threw alot of shade at TFYC.
Anyways, as people who were concerned about the Quinspiracy kept getting slandered as women-haters, a movement began on 4 Chan's /v/ board (which is a video game board) to donate money to the TFYC's KickStarter about the contest. I think one of the KickStarter goals involved TFYC making someone's custom character. People on 4 Chan came up with Vivian James to be put into a game by TFYC. That is why alot of depictions of Vivian have 4 leaf clover, 4 Chan's symbol, in her hair. The Green & Purple colors come from inspiration of those being the same colors used by the Women's suffrage movement.
So that is the story of how Vivian James came to be. After GamerGate, GamerGate discussion would be censored on 4 Chan along various sub-reddits, making KIA1 one of the first GamerGate hubs. There is more history since, but that is the start of things.
Thank you gamergate chronicler!