The funniest thing is, this wasn't even the initial motivation or goal.
All we initially wanted was for Kotaku and Polygon to stop spotlighting games made by their friends, hookups and roommates. And then we started looking to who was covering what, and the more we looked, the more corruption we uncovered. We got slandered as misogynistic, racist 'dudebros'. Every news outlet parroted this narrative, and we couldn't understand why. And then we read, and we learned all about their Marxist agenda.
And now they will be fighting us for as long as we live.
Gamergate really unintentionally struck the weakest chain link on the whole operation. Games journalists are just journalists who weren't good enough to get paid to bitch about what they really wanted to, and the whole operation got sloppy because "It's just videogames, no one is going to pay attention"
It was influence peddlers looking for a score; they got caught, and suddenly we were attacked by a political vanguard that tried to divide and conquer everyone who played video games.
The funniest thing is, this wasn't even the initial motivation or goal.
All we initially wanted was for Kotaku and Polygon to stop spotlighting games made by their friends, hookups and roommates. And then we started looking to who was covering what, and the more we looked, the more corruption we uncovered. We got slandered as misogynistic, racist 'dudebros'. Every news outlet parroted this narrative, and we couldn't understand why. And then we read, and we learned all about their Marxist agenda.
And now they will be fighting us for as long as we live.
Gamergate really unintentionally struck the weakest chain link on the whole operation. Games journalists are just journalists who weren't good enough to get paid to bitch about what they really wanted to, and the whole operation got sloppy because "It's just videogames, no one is going to pay attention"
It was influence peddlers looking for a score; they got caught, and suddenly we were attacked by a political vanguard that tried to divide and conquer everyone who played video games.