Howdy, weltallic here.
Older users may know me for my yearly GamerGate Retrospectives and Vivian James media archive on KotakuInAction.
My account was permanently suspended by reddit admins a week ago, so I'm posting ALL my Imgur albums here for your linking/viewing pleasure. If you're interested in why I was IP banned (new accounts banned on sight), check out my comment below this post.
Enjoy!
Gaming & Pop-Culture:
Big Tech:
News & Politics:
- CNBC
- MSNBC
GamerGate:
Ladies of GamerGate say Sorry for being White Males (audio)
False Flags, Fake Tweets, Alt Accounts & LIES!
FTC using KotakuInAction as Evidence
GamerGate Parties are BEST parties
Honey Badger Brigade (Calgary Expo)
Films
Television
Buffy Reboot (Anita Sarkeesian)
Masters of the Universe: Revelation
Comic Books
Spider-Woman vs Spider-man (pose)
What If... Miles Morales Became Thor?
Video Games
Carmen SanDiego (OG female video game villain
Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE (bridal gown censorship)
Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus
Misc:
Decency - Virtual Morality Police
"Real women don't look like that!"
Reddit Mod Busted for Framing Novelist
Woke entertainment making "history"
EDIT Imgur shadowbanned me. Albums have been re-uploaded.
I'm archiving all of this offline (will tag it properly later) so if anyone wants something from this collection in the future, let me know.
Doing God's work.
You can also click the "..." in the top right corner of each album to download them as ZIP files.
I'm sure I have more albums than this, but these are just the ones I bookmarked. I'll need to sift through the index.
Can you put the archive up on archive.org? Not sure if it will stay up there but it would at least make it easy for everyone else to download.
By 'archiving offline' I mean I'm scraping and downloading all of these albums and organizing them similarly in a local store. If I feel the backup is sufficiently well organized (at least to the level of these albums and this list) I may upload it somewhere or drop a torrent. Sooner if there is much interest.
Relatedly, Hydrus is nice for this kind of work (both the grabbing and organizing).
Looks useful but I wish it had OCR. I've only found one non-botnet desktop program that does OCR for my image collection (anytxt.net) and it's atrociously buggy :/
They all give me 404 right now, any chance you will make your copies available in some form?
I will, yes. I didn't get all of the text (some of the albums had html captions), but I got all of the images. I'll finish sorting them into categories and put up a torrent or similar.
Can this please be sidebar material.
Preferably with archived links.
Yessssss
Respect for the old guard.
This is a treasue trove, thanks! Looking forward to anything else you will be posting. The retros were always a great read.
Nice looking list. I may steal the style a bit.
Holy Red Pill bonanza!
DAMN man. What tools do you use to organize and store all this data?
Or just a big text file?
I just Right-Click/save stuff I see on the Internet, and sometimes created a folder in Windows.
https://i.imgur.com/0L2XzEm.jpg
Nothing special.
Were you the one who made all those lists of bad people with each getting a spiel that ended in "Get fucked."?
That was my GamerGate 2019 Retrospective.
The only one tagged NSFW, and also the most upvoted of all my yearly retrospectives.
I always wondered if there was a connection...
It's effective rhetoric. You don't care what the censors think of the word, and it contains many very strong consonants for added invective effect.
So much anger boiled down to two words. Great job.
Surprised Zoe Quinn isn't on the list despite being at the start of the whole thing.
I considered it creating an album for her, but I figured her notoriety and soliciting (both past and present) were known well enough in GG circles.
That, and my folder on her is huge.
I should probably make one, though.
Even after all these years seeing all those empty for GB 2016 still make me lmao. What a disaster. Even with all that massive hype and months of headlines that movie still could sell any tickets.
Just as a reminder 100% of these are no longer visible on imgur.
Imgur and Reddit are related, so you need to find a different Image site to host it.
I think Poal has it's own image hosting site, you can try that on.
I asked Imgur tech support why. Never got a response.
So I asked on Twitter: Here's the reply:
https://i.imgur.com/IxebMNd.png
LOL
Tried some of the links now, and they seem to work again. Or have you uploaded them with a different account and changed the links?
Edit: I see now, different host, that explains it.
Do you have any copies on your own?
One good thing about reddit was RES. On Scored, it's harder to notice (and control) reply notifications.
Anyway, I've re-hosted all albums here and in my GamerGate 2022 Retrospective... but that still leaves the older retrospectives, plus the Vivian James art albums.
More work to do!
Like fookin magic... all my Imgur albums are working again.
https://imgur.com/a/z8enI6Z
What the actual fuck.
I mean... this is... great news? I don't have to replace every single reddit post I made with new working links.
But... but... I've spent SO MUCH TIME downloading/re-hosting so many of my old albums. I replaced every single Imgur link in my GamerGate 2022 and 2021 Retrospectives, and was just about to start 2020.
I'm grateful I don't have to face the daunting task of downloading/rehosting the 60 or so Vivian James art albums I still had in my To Do list... but still...
All that time spent re-uploading/relinking.
It may be worth archiving them, at least.
...aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand they're 404 again.
sigh.
My "replace Imgur with IMGchest" project reached all the way back to the 2019 Retrospective when Imgur magically returned again, so I stopped it there.
Time to fire up IMGchest again.
What is IMGchest?
I get 404s for the albums now, did they kick you off imgur?
Everything I upload gets instant 404.
Confirmed shadowban.
I assume you can find other ways to share, if nothing else by uploading it all in a zip to some filesharing site, or creating a torrent.
Fixed!
... for now.
Has anyone archived all these yet?
respect for the post.
also, I came.
I know how to evade Reddit's IP bans. PM me if you want help with that.
Sad that they pinged you. Your posts were/are always high quality.
Welcome home again.
https://i.imgur.com/xjsbUTD.mp4
Others in the KIA community have been targeted with bans by the DNC-toad licking admins as well. The reason is obvious: the elections are upon us again and the DNC election machine is gearing up to neutralize dissenting opinions.
The internet landscape is one of the key battlegrounds for the DNC.
A first name is not a dox. The fun thing about the story though is that the woman - when confronted with being called by her first name - is to post about it more on reddit. Almost as if she doesn't really care about it. Without her TIFU post most people would never have heard of Claire.
To quote someone else about this woman moment: "WHOA EVERYONE! DID YOU SEE THAT I GOT DOXXED IN ANOTHER THREAD?? YOU SHOULD CHECK IT OUT AND SEE THAT I GOT DOXXED!"
Depends on which first name. Claire? No. Eric? Yes.
Eric Ciaramella, the unsayable, unwritable name of the pro-Ukraine "whistleblower" at the center of the second botched impeachement attempt.
Twitter, Reddit, et. al. were handing out permabans for first names, last names, initials, slant rhymes, and occasionally innocuous statements that were vaguely reminiscent of that lying twat.
I had to look up the spelling of the last name. I started with "Eevee Charmander" as the last thread of the memory. 2019 was a long time ago, somehow.