A happy birthday goes out to my fellow leaders of Gamergate. Wayback Machine archive is here for those having trouble with archive.is today.
So, what have you learned over the past decade which makes you think Gamergate is still a cause worthwhile enough to shack up with the other 3 or 4 people (Tops!) who fight the good fight?
Any favourite moments?
Post anything you want about Gamergate, the past ten years and the ten ahead :)
(police talking to crying woman) "What did they [gamers] do?"
(crying woman) "They... they leveled up!"
~~ DIRECTED BY DICK WOLF ~~
edit: For those out of the loop, it was a Law And Order SVU episode ("inspired by real events!" TM) about Gamergate-loving nerds gang-raping a woman in order to... gain high score points in a virtual game of some kind... Which totally for realzies happened... Apparently. And after the travesty of the episode, the screen goes black, and DICK WOLF just flashes across the screen (as Richard Wolf is apparently the director of that episode).
Early on when we sent mass mails to various advertisers so they pulled from gaming "journalist" websites.
Sadly reddit just implemented a rule of "you are not allowed to post the email of a person in a company" (which is obviously only applied against the correct targets) and killed that.
Killed it? That kept going off reddit for a long time, I didn't even recall they tried that until you mentioned it. Reddit was never the primary discussion zone for any of the real autists coming up with ideas and actually doing shit.
A lot of the e-celebs of that time have become no-name forgottens.
In fact, I can't think of too manythat came to be a net positive force in the war against this commie faggotry.
Generally we learned that they're either a) actual grifters/scammers who ran away with our money b) lolcows or c) turncoats.
The ones who stayed the course more or less - Sargon, Vee. Both have shifted to the right, which is correct. I know a lot of you don't like Sargon for all the shit he's done before, but I am just listing off e-celebs I remember offhand, and those are the only two that appear to have remained consistently anti-leftist.
LianaK - Went from cosplaying to turning back into a left wing cunt with TDS.
Shoe0nHead - Abandoned the center/center right buddies and tried to make friends with the BreadTube faggots, realized that they're actually far worse than any of our worst. Now is back to making "moderate" content that pokes fun at the easy targets of the left. Still thinks feminism is a good thing.
ArmouredSkeptic - Left wing shill.
HarmfulOpinions - Still streams but refuses to address the troon elephant in the room or other hot button issues (nationalism, etc).
InternetAristocrat/Mister Metokur - Back to doing what he did before GG, voting Trump now because he knows there is literally no one fucking out there to pick otherwise. Poor dude's dying of actual cancer and streams so his thick Asian wife will have something to work with when he dies, now makes fun of lolcows, some of which are ex GG.
ShortFatOtaku - Had a bitchfit and revealed himself to be a guy who doesn't believe a single thing he says. Makes anti-far left content but thinks it's ok to stay an enlightened centrist with his "muh both sides" argument. Still thinks the poke actually stops COVID.
JonTron - Just moved on and continues to drop a 2 mil view video every 1 year. Hopefully the wife he married didn't turn him into a leftist.
TFYC - Where the hell did these people go?
ReviewTechUSA - turned into an anti-Trump retard in 2016 and started catering to the Redditard variety. Recently got divorced from his wife of many years and now has to deal with his daughter having cancer. Allegedly refused to pay his editor.
David Pakman - Also lost his shit when Trump won, got TDS, now just another left wing shill.
Dave Rubin - Switched to more mainstream conservative but is more or less moved to the right of his former organization, The Young Turks.
Ethan Ralph - Turned into a lolcow. Needed to see a therapist yesterday.
Damn, Metokur/InternetAristocrat was right, there was a LOT of people grifting off of GG. If they had any fucking principles they would've slowly shifted to the right and have been pro Donald Trump, but so many lost their ability to use more than 2 brain cells in their minds because of the 2 extra chromosomes that they were born with that turned them into a TDS leftist.
Vee and Gundam are still producing content worth watching and there's a lot of new upcomers taking their torches to the fire and marching into the next generation.
You missed out Tim Pool (Who covered for Sargon for a week, that's how I got to know who he was), he's went centre-right and is a gun owner now but his content is weak like water and as abundant as it is in the North-East of the country.
Something minor:
Jim fingerbanging Jade on a GG stream and then having a sperg war over it with people crying that this makes the movement look bad or some equally stupid shit.
Gamergate killed shit talk, the most important part of the game. I don't game anymore. A gamergate 2.0 was attempted recently, and it didn't I anywhere. Fucking whiny bitches.
Women killed shit talk. It was women who were always the first to complain about harsh language. It is women who were the first to complain about representation in games. It was women's entryism that was the camel's nose under the tent, the foot in the door, the crack in the foundation.
Blaming gamergate for censorship is like blaming a shooting for gun control. It doesn't happen on its own. Actual people with personal political motives are there waiting to take advantage of any opportunity or excuse to express greater control over others, even occassionally participating in (or outright creating their own) such opportunities.
Between her claiming this is the first time she's heard of the Zoepost and her claiming that r/wallstreetbets blew the lid off of "Gamergate", it's pretty clear that she believes the GameStop short squeeze was Gamergate.
So, what, to avoid censorship, gamers should have self censored? This is an old Bolshevik line that still has little pieces of boot stuck on its tongue to this day. I'm not really sure that's what you mean, though, to be fair.
If you mean the forces behind the anti-Gamergate crowd killed shit talk, then yeah.
But if you mean that people who were concerned about payola and ideological subversion of games somehow caused the culture of bans for shit-talking, well, then you're a lunatic.
If you still today won't admit that it was about money, there's no hope for you. The only reason gamer gate 2.0 didn't happen recently when they tried was all their secrets had been let out by r/wallstreetbets if I recall correctly. The same company tried a repeat performance, and the pattern was recognized.
My vita is sitting lonely because I don't like want the industry turned into.
A happy birthday goes out to my fellow leaders of Gamergate. Wayback Machine archive is here for those having trouble with archive.is today.
So, what have you learned over the past decade which makes you think Gamergate is still a cause worthwhile enough to shack up with the other 3 or 4 people (Tops!) who fight the good fight?
Any favourite moments?
Post anything you want about Gamergate, the past ten years and the ten ahead :)
GG2: SBI Boogaloo earlier this year when more and more people started to realise GG was right all along.
https://kotakuinaction2.win/p/17si5EjpIv/gamergate-2-is-officially-on/c/
It could be worse~
At least you're not Anthony Burch
https://youtu.be/eB6tqxqwSfU?si=jG4FNjy2GTdjZE8z
I'm sure all of Hollywood thanks him for his involvement with the Borderland series and the huge success that has had at the box office this year :)
Thanks now that'll be stuck in my head for a week
Favorite thing not yet listed:
(police talking to crying woman) "What did they [gamers] do?"
(crying woman) "They... they leveled up!"
~~ DIRECTED BY DICK WOLF ~~
edit: For those out of the loop, it was a Law And Order SVU episode ("inspired by real events!" TM) about Gamergate-loving nerds gang-raping a woman in order to... gain high score points in a virtual game of some kind... Which totally for realzies happened... Apparently. And after the travesty of the episode, the screen goes black, and DICK WOLF just flashes across the screen (as Richard Wolf is apparently the director of that episode).
Not a favorite moment, but a favorite piece of media: The Stair Muffin
Early on when we sent mass mails to various advertisers so they pulled from gaming "journalist" websites.
Sadly reddit just implemented a rule of "you are not allowed to post the email of a person in a company" (which is obviously only applied against the correct targets) and killed that.
Killed it? That kept going off reddit for a long time, I didn't even recall they tried that until you mentioned it. Reddit was never the primary discussion zone for any of the real autists coming up with ideas and actually doing shit.
a deranged tranny claiming to be the victim of a drive-by shooting by gamergate at an intersection that doesn't exist.
Going to this and realizing I hadn't gone mad, that it was the world that went mad and that other people recognized it as well.
https://odysee.com/@Cid:a/Milo-and-Mom-give-a-speech:2
A lot of the e-celebs of that time have become no-name forgottens.
In fact, I can't think of too manythat came to be a net positive force in the war against this commie faggotry.
Generally we learned that they're either a) actual grifters/scammers who ran away with our money b) lolcows or c) turncoats.
The ones who stayed the course more or less - Sargon, Vee. Both have shifted to the right, which is correct. I know a lot of you don't like Sargon for all the shit he's done before, but I am just listing off e-celebs I remember offhand, and those are the only two that appear to have remained consistently anti-leftist.
LianaK - Went from cosplaying to turning back into a left wing cunt with TDS.
Shoe0nHead - Abandoned the center/center right buddies and tried to make friends with the BreadTube faggots, realized that they're actually far worse than any of our worst. Now is back to making "moderate" content that pokes fun at the easy targets of the left. Still thinks feminism is a good thing.
ArmouredSkeptic - Left wing shill.
HarmfulOpinions - Still streams but refuses to address the troon elephant in the room or other hot button issues (nationalism, etc).
InternetAristocrat/Mister Metokur - Back to doing what he did before GG, voting Trump now because he knows there is literally no one fucking out there to pick otherwise. Poor dude's dying of actual cancer and streams so his thick Asian wife will have something to work with when he dies, now makes fun of lolcows, some of which are ex GG.
ShortFatOtaku - Had a bitchfit and revealed himself to be a guy who doesn't believe a single thing he says. Makes anti-far left content but thinks it's ok to stay an enlightened centrist with his "muh both sides" argument. Still thinks the poke actually stops COVID.
JonTron - Just moved on and continues to drop a 2 mil view video every 1 year. Hopefully the wife he married didn't turn him into a leftist.
TFYC - Where the hell did these people go?
ReviewTechUSA - turned into an anti-Trump retard in 2016 and started catering to the Redditard variety. Recently got divorced from his wife of many years and now has to deal with his daughter having cancer. Allegedly refused to pay his editor.
David Pakman - Also lost his shit when Trump won, got TDS, now just another left wing shill.
Dave Rubin - Switched to more mainstream conservative but is more or less moved to the right of his former organization, The Young Turks.
Ethan Ralph - Turned into a lolcow. Needed to see a therapist yesterday.
Damn, Metokur/InternetAristocrat was right, there was a LOT of people grifting off of GG. If they had any fucking principles they would've slowly shifted to the right and have been pro Donald Trump, but so many lost their ability to use more than 2 brain cells in their minds because of the 2 extra chromosomes that they were born with that turned them into a TDS leftist.
Vee and Gundam are still producing content worth watching and there's a lot of new upcomers taking their torches to the fire and marching into the next generation.
You missed out Tim Pool (Who covered for Sargon for a week, that's how I got to know who he was), he's went centre-right and is a gun owner now but his content is weak like water and as abundant as it is in the North-East of the country.
Yeah, I kinda skipped over Tim Pool because he didn't directly participate in GG compared to Vee and Gundam.
Gundam still refuses to vote Trump, gotta pull his head out of his ass. He's your last hope buddy.
Something minor: Jim fingerbanging Jade on a GG stream and then having a sperg war over it with people crying that this makes the movement look bad or some equally stupid shit.
Gamergate killed shit talk, the most important part of the game. I don't game anymore. A gamergate 2.0 was attempted recently, and it didn't I anywhere. Fucking whiny bitches.
Women killed shit talk. It was women who were always the first to complain about harsh language. It is women who were the first to complain about representation in games. It was women's entryism that was the camel's nose under the tent, the foot in the door, the crack in the foundation.
You have only yourself to blame.
Leave and do not return. You do not belong here.
Fuck you. It's 2024, it's been proven COMPANIES killed shit talk for profit. Ignorance is self inflicted. Regurgitating ignorance is just yuck.
Woman moment. You don't even know which side was which.
Blaming gamergate for censorship is like blaming a shooting for gun control. It doesn't happen on its own. Actual people with personal political motives are there waiting to take advantage of any opportunity or excuse to express greater control over others, even occassionally participating in (or outright creating their own) such opportunities.
Between her claiming this is the first time she's heard of the Zoepost and her claiming that r/wallstreetbets blew the lid off of "Gamergate", it's pretty clear that she believes the GameStop short squeeze was Gamergate.
Newfags gonna newfag.
Those of us that played Ghost Recon, not COD first disagree.
So, what, to avoid censorship, gamers should have self censored? This is an old Bolshevik line that still has little pieces of boot stuck on its tongue to this day. I'm not really sure that's what you mean, though, to be fair.
If you mean the forces behind the anti-Gamergate crowd killed shit talk, then yeah.
But if you mean that people who were concerned about payola and ideological subversion of games somehow caused the culture of bans for shit-talking, well, then you're a lunatic.
If you still today won't admit that it was about money, there's no hope for you. The only reason gamer gate 2.0 didn't happen recently when they tried was all their secrets had been let out by r/wallstreetbets if I recall correctly. The same company tried a repeat performance, and the pattern was recognized.
My vita is sitting lonely because I don't like want the industry turned into.