Archive of deepfreezes article https://archive.ph/AArXb and I pulled this list from this old reddit post. https://old.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/2gsslk/is_there_a_list_of_all_the_gamers_are_dead/
[–]SuperflyD 17 points 9 years ago*
This doesn't have some of the newer stuff which is just more pointless circle-jerking. 'Gamers' don't have to be your audience. 'Gamers' are over. Exclusive[2] http://archive.today/l1kTW Leigh Alexander Gamasutra Aug 28, 10:00am
An awful week to care about video games[3] http://archive.today/rkvO8 Chris Plante Polygon Aug 28, 1:21pm
The death of the “gamers” and the women who “killed” them[4] https://archive.today/ZyLdw Casey Johnson Ars Technica Aug 28, 5:00pm
A Guide to Ending "Gamers"[5] http://archive.today/2t93l Devin Wilson Gamasutra Aug 28, 7:57 pm
We Might Be Witnessing The 'Death of An Identity'[6] https://archive.today/ht088 Luke Plunkett Kotaku Aug 28, 8:00pm
Gaming Is Leaving “Gamers” Behind[7] http://archive.today/jVqJ8 Joseph Bernstein Buzzfeed Aug 28, 8:29 pm
Sexism, Misogyny, and online attacks: It's a horrible time to consider yourself a gamer[8] https://archive.today/HkPHc Patrick O'Rourke Financial Post Aug 28, 9:33pm
It's Dangerous to Go Alone: Why Are Gamers So Angry?[9] http://archive.today/9NxHy Arthur Chu The Daily Beast Aug 28, time unknown
The End of Gamers[10] https://archive.today/L4vJG Dan Golding Tumblr Aug 28, time unknown
This guy's embarassing relationship drama is killing the 'gamer' identity[11] https://archive.today/L4n6p Mike Pearl Vice Aug 29, time unknown
Dr. Nerdlove https://archive.today/UwiC2# August 29, 2014
Eurogamer https://archive.today/CTpxW Dan Whitehead Saturday, 30 August 2014
Destructoid Blog https://archive.today/tIS6L Fenriff 12:09 PM on 08.28.2014
GamesONnet https://archive.today/oD3QV Tim Colwill August 29, 2014 1:37 pm
Gamespot https://archive.today/GWHD7 Emanuel Maiberg
Gamasutra https://archive.today/h78pg#selection-10.13-2948.5 September 1, 2014 Kris Ligman
The Week https://archive.today/bnWvI
The Guardian https://archive.today/DGj1S Jenn Frank Monday 1 September 2014
Gameranx https://archive.today/yomy2 Stephen Daly 3rd Sep, 2014
Gamasutra https://archive.today/W0Jha Tadhg Kelly 08/31/14 11:57:00 am
Destructoid https://archive.today/KXpV4 https://archive.today/VFYOb Jonathan Holmes 7:30 PM 08.31.2014
Rock, Paper, Shotgun https://archive.today/RXjWz Graham Smith September 1st, 2014 at 7:00 pm
Tumblr https://archive.today/CyAUk
Paste https://archive.today/x921m Garrett Martin September 4, 2014
THE INDEPENDENT https://archive.today/c6svO TOM MENDELSOHN Friday 5 September 2014
Vox https://archive.today/z4i22 Todd VanDerWerff September 6, 2014, 2:45 p.m. ET
Gamasutra https://archive.today/vT7vp Greg Costikyan on 09/07/14 12:55:00 am
Examiner https://archive.today/YRH03 Leo Reyna September 6, 2014
The Mary Sue https://archive.today/11OEl Victoria McNally Thursday August 28th 2014 1:30 pm
Uproxx https://archive.today/XBvF8 DAN SEITZ / 09.02.14
On the Media https://archive.today/K13nk Alex Goldman Friday, September 05, 2014 - 10:53 AM
ArsTechnica https://archive.today/SadEJ Casey Johnston - Sept 9 2014, 11:20pm MST
The New Yorker https://archive.today/nb14y SIMON PARKIN
Wired https://archive.today/LTFr9 10 SEPTEMBER 14 CASEY JOHNSTON Edit: Most of this is thanx to GameFAQs users in the threads still ongoing there.
Great round up!
Don't forget the GamersJournoPro list for all those in this together.
It clearly goes beyond that list as the entire media complex was looking after itself then.
Fight like hell!
Then?
Play games.
I meant that your tense is wrong. "was" and "then" are inaccurate.
Play games!
Man it seems so quaint now that it expanded to 'fans dont have to be your audience" in everything.
At least it's starting to come tumbling down. All those woke projects were propped up with DEI funding with the intent on saturating pop culture with nothing but leftist propaganda to force a change in the zeitgeist. It hasn't turned out as they hoped, and now studios are closing because investors are expecting a return, and all those promises they were sold that appealing to some mythical 'wider audience' has turned out to be a lie. I just hate that so much of my 401k goes through BlackRock, so I've been indirectly bankrolling this shit with a percent of my paycheck every week.
Indeed. Not to mention that the cultists who actually like this shit have it blow up in their faces when games they shit on like Hogwarts Legacy or Black Myth: Wukong make huge sums of money. I do think that a lot of the situations where they made money were only due to the fact that these games were dependent on the DEI funding tey got to make any profit at all.
These aged quite well since the creatures who wrote them still blame us for every misfortune that befalls them.
They basically won. They are still writing, and all the games are shit. Only a few of those outlets went under.
In a world where games journalism is widely regarded as dead, with YouTubers taking over for them, where woke games and movies are flopping one after another, a world where companies like Ford are openly abandoning their DEI departments and trust in the media has never been lower, it's some blackpilled bullshit to say we're losing.
We exposed the fact that the woke virus is being pushed in a coordinated fashion by some of the richest people in the world, a fact that is even on normie lips. They are desperately propping up these outlets to try to get The Message out, and several of them still went under. Of course we weren't going to destroy all of Wall Street and international finance in a few years, but they are weaker and more exposed than ever before. Revealing a second health bar does not mean you are losing.
They rebranded DIE with BRIDGE, and you call that a victory. We have to import our games from China, replacing one source of communist propaganda with another, and you call that a victory. They are funding outlets with unlimited funny money, while inflating your currency to nothing, and you call that a victory
It's only a victory for those that hate white straight males.
Yes. Because basically all of that was already happening in secret -- and now it's revealed and people are pushing back at last. From normies to elites. We helped expose the fight that people didn't even know we should be having.
If you think throwing more bullshit in an onboarding packet someplace is the same as having a dedicated political commissar department, I've got a BRIDGE to sell you.
Happy anniversary, frens.
You are based.
and what do we have to show for it?
The whole thing made me the person I am today instead of the sad, self-loathing soyboi type I was before, and I have the (much better...though it took time) state of my life now to show for it.
Lots of work left to be done in the world at large, but I remain hopeful and steadfast. I've changed a handful of minds for the better along the way.
This week? Jizzney had to listen to what the money was saying and axe Acolyte.
Keep 'em going broke, lads.
Happy 10th deathiversary everyone! Bra- err, staaaaaaair muffiiiiiiiiiiinsssssssss
Gee, a lot of those "journalists" seem to have one thing in common, I wonder if anyone nose what it might be?
I feel like we should have Red Sun as the gg anthem considering no matter how much 'we die' we rise from the grave harder than Allucard....
10 years, 10 years of this because their egos were so large they'd rather attack their own audience then admit they did an oopsie. It's funny because their hubris may have led to a great redpilling and the now current downfall of western gaming from studios to media in general.
And we're still fucking here.
If we're going with Allucard references I'd opt for Get Ready to Die just for how upbeat it is about the hellscape we're combating. This is very much a fight and it isn't over by a long shot.
Still alive,
still gaming.
Ain't paying,
never will.
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I haven't thought about most of those names in 6+ years. That feels pretty good. What feels better is not being Anthony Burch.
So, how have you guys been holding up since our deaths?
I got sent back from the afterlife since Enma-sama said 'just because a corpo journalist said you're dead is not an excuse to be dead.'.
Indies continue to dominate. Games are doing just fine. Triple a is digging it's grave and can go there, where it belongs and take all the famous IPs to hell with it. Time to start over with a fresh industry.
'Video games are stupid, of course'. -gaming journos
Just for the record
seems appropriate, lol
Most of you guys are useless wastes of biomass who's lives consist solely of consooming digital content and talking about digital content, but you were the vanguard of the American culture war, so congratulations!