We didn’t even go after her. It was all about Quinn. Sarkeesian and Wu inserted themselves into the picture and we were trying to tell them to fuck off. That was until Sarkeesian got chummy with game devs. Then there was a problem.
This gets forgotten. Even the Quinn stuff is over-emphasised - Quinn was hypothetically a side note in the controversy except for the massive circling of the narrative wagons in her defence, and the controversy would have been just about the collusion across the games press and the internet censorship, were it not for the fact that she kept inserting herself to help orchestrate all this (and victimise herself). This was the point of 'Literally Who'.
Sarkeesian was several degrees further removed. She was Literally Who 2. At first the only connection in general was that the entire games press and industry suddenly turned into berserk feminists and LW2 had previously been the loudest feminist with regards to video games. Nothing else. She managed to make 'GG attacked me' true only by repeating it, wishing it to be true and brute forcing it into the zeitgeist. The rumours that any dev listened to her direct input even seemed weak until around the release of Mirrors Edge 2, two years deep into GG.
Quinn was the initial starting point which lead to the discovery of GameJournoPros. And due to her people looked more into connection between "devs" and "journos" and found many many more examples without disclosure of relationships.
Exactly, but GG never would have caught fire without the DMCA of Mundane Matt, the reddit comments graveyard, the Gamers Are Dead articles and the censorship of 4chan, etc. At that point it was obviously bigger than one slut or a few bad apples.
We didn’t even go after her. It was all about Quinn. Sarkeesian and Wu inserted themselves into the picture and we were trying to tell them to fuck off. That was until Sarkeesian got chummy with game devs. Then there was a problem.
This gets forgotten. Even the Quinn stuff is over-emphasised - Quinn was hypothetically a side note in the controversy except for the massive circling of the narrative wagons in her defence, and the controversy would have been just about the collusion across the games press and the internet censorship, were it not for the fact that she kept inserting herself to help orchestrate all this (and victimise herself). This was the point of 'Literally Who'.
Sarkeesian was several degrees further removed. She was Literally Who 2. At first the only connection in general was that the entire games press and industry suddenly turned into berserk feminists and LW2 had previously been the loudest feminist with regards to video games. Nothing else. She managed to make 'GG attacked me' true only by repeating it, wishing it to be true and brute forcing it into the zeitgeist. The rumours that any dev listened to her direct input even seemed weak until around the release of Mirrors Edge 2, two years deep into GG.
Quinn was the initial starting point which lead to the discovery of GameJournoPros. And due to her people looked more into connection between "devs" and "journos" and found many many more examples without disclosure of relationships.
Exactly, but GG never would have caught fire without the DMCA of Mundane Matt, the reddit comments graveyard, the Gamers Are Dead articles and the censorship of 4chan, etc. At that point it was obviously bigger than one slut or a few bad apples.