It all goes back to the zoeypost and gjoni basically saying that his ex got caught cheating on him with 5 different guys (that he knew about, she was the village bicycle), threads were made on /v/ speculating who they were, shitposters ran with it and started digging, people figured out she got positive coverage from some of them (big sticking point where they claim we said REVIEWS!, no, positive coverage, yes of her shitty depression quest game)
Honestly, i remember ignoring the threads for the first day and then peeking in because holy shit they were reaching bump limit within minutes when people really started cooking, and then people started asking questions, and then game journalists circled the wagons and wrote hitpiece after hitpiece, and then it really took off, and then luggage lad (moot) banned discussion, AND THEN IT CAME OUT HE WAS TRYING TO GET INTO THE PANTS OF A GAWKER EMPLOYEE THAT DEFINITELY HAD A VESTED INTEREST IN SHUTTING US DOWN. And then KIA was started, and then people discovered 8chan, and the floodgates to twitter opened. And thats about all i remember from the early days, they were fucking wild.
And people making cats out of the hashtag graphs, and the hangouts with retards like king of pol/jim, good, cozy times, even if pol was a grifting retard. And a whole slew of other minor e-celebs i forget the names of on both sides
Dude the moment all the gaming sites releasing the articles "Gamer are dead" on the same day I know those piece of shit journalist were complotting.
Initially I thought there is some mistakes in hiring when low quality articles and feminism related articles keep popping up written by that one trash writer, but then gamergate happen and only then I realize they're actual group with strong network trying to shove feminism into gaming. No wonder the bias in their articles were strong, it have hidden agenda behind.
The "Gamers are Dead; Gamers are Over" hitpiece authored by Leigh Alexander is actually inspired by Adrienne Shaw's dissertation paper called "The Gamer Must Die". Shaw is a feminist that's a contributing member to a think tank called DiGRA, who also promoted Anita Sarkeesian works.
What happened exactly. I've tried to read about it, but it always gets bogged down in inane details.
It all goes back to the zoeypost and gjoni basically saying that his ex got caught cheating on him with 5 different guys (that he knew about, she was the village bicycle), threads were made on /v/ speculating who they were, shitposters ran with it and started digging, people figured out she got positive coverage from some of them (big sticking point where they claim we said REVIEWS!, no, positive coverage, yes of her shitty depression quest game)
Honestly, i remember ignoring the threads for the first day and then peeking in because holy shit they were reaching bump limit within minutes when people really started cooking, and then people started asking questions, and then game journalists circled the wagons and wrote hitpiece after hitpiece, and then it really took off, and then luggage lad (moot) banned discussion, AND THEN IT CAME OUT HE WAS TRYING TO GET INTO THE PANTS OF A GAWKER EMPLOYEE THAT DEFINITELY HAD A VESTED INTEREST IN SHUTTING US DOWN. And then KIA was started, and then people discovered 8chan, and the floodgates to twitter opened. And thats about all i remember from the early days, they were fucking wild.
And people making cats out of the hashtag graphs, and the hangouts with retards like king of pol/jim, good, cozy times, even if pol was a grifting retard. And a whole slew of other minor e-celebs i forget the names of on both sides
Dude the moment all the gaming sites releasing the articles "Gamer are dead" on the same day I know those piece of shit journalist were complotting.
Initially I thought there is some mistakes in hiring when low quality articles and feminism related articles keep popping up written by that one trash writer, but then gamergate happen and only then I realize they're actual group with strong network trying to shove feminism into gaming. No wonder the bias in their articles were strong, it have hidden agenda behind.
Just a food for thought:
The "Gamers are Dead; Gamers are Over" hitpiece authored by Leigh Alexander is actually inspired by Adrienne Shaw's dissertation paper called "The Gamer Must Die". Shaw is a feminist that's a contributing member to a think tank called DiGRA, who also promoted Anita Sarkeesian works.
I remember thinking: "Wow. It's like what the professionals would do, but it's being done by total armatures."
But as the years went forward GamerGate became the fucking norm.
People sometimes forget. It's called GamerGate, because that's the name we gave it when the press lied and started screaming about Gamers.
So, like, a bunch of loser writers were all fucking some girl in exchange for pro-feminist garbage articles?.Or something?