I'll be putting at least one of them on a batch of holographic stickers to stock up for a little vandal shitposting IRL.
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For a while, GG had a lot of presence on 4Chan, and 4Chan makes anime mascot girls for basically everything. I don't know that there was ever more to it than that, although I do think that among the people that were concerned about the allegations of misogyny—either because they had not yet realized what leftism was like or because they were and remain leftists themselves—having a female mascot that was possessed of a normal, not hambeast body but also not dressed in a bikini was appealing in much the same way #NotYourShield was.
"Vivian James" is supposed to sound like "Video Games," and the clover on her headband is a nod to the 4chan logo. There are probably also details behind some of the other design choices, but I've forgotten them.
there was a pro-gamergate feminist group, the fine young capitalists, that had a crowdfunding campaign for a game they were trying to develop, and the biggest contributors got to- you know what, it's easier to just let encyclopedia dramatica explain it edit: the link in question is absolutely not safe for work, snark aside, they go into the details pretty well, and I'm pretty sure I already screwed up some of the details.
the tl'dr is a charity got some money from 4channers after they found out the charity in question got double-pegged by Quinn and got to make a character for the charity in question's game. that character was the snarky ginger we all know and love.
To be honest, I already knew about TFYC and Quinn, but I had completely forgotten that Vivian was a result of their project. My memory of some of the lore is clearly not as good as it should be. Thanks for the reminder.
hey, no worries, gamergate was barely on my radar at the time.
The colors meant something but I can't remember what.
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