The long-ago troll tantrum from video gamers upset by women kicked off the culture wars for the stupid era
That's...one way to paint it. And those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
One of the most unnerving aspects of billionaire Elon Musk's illegal rampage through the federal government is how stupid it is.
It's funny to watch the narratives form in real time, as they get their marching orders. They weren't complaining it was illegal before, but now it's the go-to attack, and everyone is talking about how gosh dang illegal the whole thing is!
Under the false auspices of "efficiency,"
I'd tell Salon to blow me, but I know I'm not their type...I'm an adult.
DOGE owes everything to Gamergate, from its aesthetics to its tactics to its manpower, which largely draws on the same young men — now 10 years older — who were radicalized to the far-right via social media.
Only the left can use social media to radicalize people, reeeeeee!
I love the screeching about "muh illegal Drumph DOGE." 1) DOGE is nothing more than a revamped and empowered Obama office. 2) Severino v. Biden explicitly states "removal at will is the presumption under the Constitution, and because nothing... indicates that Congress constrained the President's presumptive removal authority..." 3) "The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America." The Executive branch is the sole domain of the chief executive.
With Gamergate, young men were encouraged to redirect their sexual frustrations and social anxieties away from useful projects like self-improvement and toward bellowing hate non-stop at a group of women who were turned into symbols of everything the Gamergaters feared they would never have: fulfilling jobs, active sex lives and cool haircuts.
Yeah. I am so angry that I don't have purple hair and a side shave, that I decided to hate wammens. It's why I hate the rule16s too.
This is all depressing, but there is some hope to hang onto. It's important to understand that Gamergate failed.
lol. Someone hasn't been paying attention to the state of the AAA industry or to the state of gaming journalism. If this is what losing looks like, I can only imagine what winning would be.
young men were encouraged to redirect...away from useful projects like self-improvement and toward bellowing hate non-stop
This is especially rich from coming from the "going to the gym is fascist" crowd, the "healthy at any size" crowd, and the "being attractive is oppression" crowd, too. Also, their hobby is shrieking hate and going to protests.
You dont understand that for these people self improvement is paying for man cuddle camp or women scream in woods therapy camp. They literally don’t understand self improvement
This is all depressing, but there is some hope to hang onto. It's important to understand that Gamergate failed.
It really didn't. Gamergate lead directly to the Adpocolypse. The entire advertising rate for gaming dropped through the floor.
YouTube would not monetize game videos that were not Roblox or Fortnight. Roblox and Fortnight got more and more popular (subscribe to Pewdiepie) and at least a couple high budget AAA games failed, including Battlefield 1; largely because Native Advertising (worth hundreds of millions of dollars) evaporated overnight.
The entire industry of gaming journalism and its partner, game industry advertising, had the rug pulled out from underneath it. A little down the track media empires were no longer profitable and got sold. Some of them twice.
Calling Gamergate a failure first requires someone to lie about what it was, then lie about what happened next. ... so standard practice for Salon.
For those of you who do no recognize the name Amanda Marcotte, she is a very long term Democrat operative who got her start as a blogger in the early 2000s, and was hired by the 2008 John Edwards presidential campaign to be their own pet blogger. John Edwards, if you recall, had a child with a mistress and tried to cover it up, and flamed out in spectacular fashion.
What she writes here is standard issue progressive moralizing, one each. You can get any of the so called AI Large Language Models to regurgitate this kind of article at will.
Writing retaliatory articles bitterly and angry crying about Gamergate is all they can do. It's exactly like how there's still hysterical shitlibs on X screaming that "Drumpf is taking advantage of you! He doesn't care about you only his money!"
Like he's fuckin' president and its his last term, lmao, what do you actually believe screaming that is going to accomplish? The actual only best-case scenario is I agree with you, say "I regret my vote", and... he's still president and nothing changes.
oh baby work the shaft!
With how they talk us up, you'd think we were more powerful than a certain religious group lol.
maybe we should institute a funny small hat tradition.
Nah as it's the same path as being a sissy.
Starts dressing different, before you know it you start cutting your genitals /s
it's the first time somebody actually told them "no" in their whole lives. so naturally every time it happens, it's all they can think of.
Rent. Free.
That's...one way to paint it. And those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
It's funny to watch the narratives form in real time, as they get their marching orders. They weren't complaining it was illegal before, but now it's the go-to attack, and everyone is talking about how gosh dang illegal the whole thing is!
I'd tell Salon to blow me, but I know I'm not their type...I'm an adult.
Only the left can use social media to radicalize people, reeeeeee!
I love the screeching about "muh illegal Drumph DOGE." 1) DOGE is nothing more than a revamped and empowered Obama office. 2) Severino v. Biden explicitly states "removal at will is the presumption under the Constitution, and because nothing... indicates that Congress constrained the President's presumptive removal authority..." 3) "The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America." The Executive branch is the sole domain of the chief executive.
All we had to do was say: "No. Fuck you."
Rent free pedo, rent free.
I continue to be amazed at the power I wield with wanting objective gaming coverage
Objectivity is rayyyyyyyyyyyyyysisssssss you BIGOT!!!!!
Yeah. I am so angry that I don't have purple hair and a side shave, that I decided to hate wammens. It's why I hate the rule16s too.
lol. Someone hasn't been paying attention to the state of the AAA industry or to the state of gaming journalism. If this is what losing looks like, I can only imagine what winning would be.
This is especially rich from coming from the "going to the gym is fascist" crowd, the "healthy at any size" crowd, and the "being attractive is oppression" crowd, too. Also, their hobby is shrieking hate and going to protests.
You dont understand that for these people self improvement is paying for man cuddle camp or women scream in woods therapy camp. They literally don’t understand self improvement
As leftist activist grifters dragging the industry into irrelevance and insolvency
Giving away the milk for free isn’t an achievement
No one is intimidated by or jealous of your trashy gay fashion
It really didn't. Gamergate lead directly to the Adpocolypse. The entire advertising rate for gaming dropped through the floor.
YouTube would not monetize game videos that were not Roblox or Fortnight. Roblox and Fortnight got more and more popular (subscribe to Pewdiepie) and at least a couple high budget AAA games failed, including Battlefield 1; largely because Native Advertising (worth hundreds of millions of dollars) evaporated overnight.
The entire industry of gaming journalism and its partner, game industry advertising, had the rug pulled out from underneath it. A little down the track media empires were no longer profitable and got sold. Some of them twice.
Calling Gamergate a failure first requires someone to lie about what it was, then lie about what happened next. ... so standard practice for Salon.
Someone doesn't need to buy salt anymore
Never forget Salon making pro pedo articles in gamergate days https://archive.is/rvXG6
Unlimited power!
Holy shit Leader, stop bogarting the keys to the time machine!
Seriously the way you eat Szechuan sauce is almost a fetish! Get help.
For those of you who do no recognize the name Amanda Marcotte, she is a very long term Democrat operative who got her start as a blogger in the early 2000s, and was hired by the 2008 John Edwards presidential campaign to be their own pet blogger. John Edwards, if you recall, had a child with a mistress and tried to cover it up, and flamed out in spectacular fashion.
What she writes here is standard issue progressive moralizing, one each. You can get any of the so called AI Large Language Models to regurgitate this kind of article at will.
i think she was loosely involved with the Atheism Plus movement and fagging it up too.
Wouldn't surprise me in the least.
I'm glad we're still living inside her empty head rent-free. It's been nearly 11 years since Gamergate started.
To think that they refuse to let their little holocaust go after all these years
Writing retaliatory articles bitterly and angry crying about Gamergate is all they can do. It's exactly like how there's still hysterical shitlibs on X screaming that "Drumpf is taking advantage of you! He doesn't care about you only his money!"
Like he's fuckin' president and its his last term, lmao, what do you actually believe screaming that is going to accomplish? The actual only best-case scenario is I agree with you, say "I regret my vote", and... he's still president and nothing changes.
It is all they can do, but to whine and cry.
GIANT CUNT of a "feminist" woman. She's of the Anita Sarkeesian, Zoe Quinn, Rebecca Twatson, etc. type. Add Taylor Lorenz to that list.
God I can't believe that fuck is still around - is she still living with her cats?
My favorite part about Gamergate is that for most of the last 10 years I heard more about it from shrieking trannies than anyone else.
Proud to serve with everyone here, even the haters and the losers o7
The meme war accepts all on the front lines.
Doesn't this imply if they had just left gaming alone a decade ago none of this would have happened? lmao