Was anyone here part of Gamergate?

[cirno.enthusiast]

As I younger fellow, I'm curious about this mythical event that changed the course of human civilization forever. I wanna know if anyone here was on /v/ back then

 

[Apeson]

Hard time finding anyone here old enough to have taken part in it, but the wikipedia article on it is a pretty good way to learn about it. Not because it's accurate or genuine, but because it's genuinely one of the angriest, leakiest and most biased articles on that site and that fact alone is a pretty good reflection of what made gamergate so infamous. The cunt on the internet side of the fight pretty much made a narrative and ran with it and is still running with it to this day to such a degree that it makes the architects of the holocaust blush. Gamergate was the biggest water-mudying operation to ever happen on the internet because it took an accusation about a foid fucking game critics for good reviews and turned it upside down and on it's head and made it about "muh incels" and every major publication and journo ran with it in some sort of cunt-on-the-internet induced mass-hysteria.

 

[Chloroform]

I was playing minecraft and dancing oppa gangam style while this happened

 

[YellowLee]

what if gamergate was called sprunkigate

 

[garry尼尔森]

noob I was like a toddler when gamergate happened

 

[1876 o algo]

Yea I sent a pipebomb Brianna Wu

 

[𓅰𓅪𓃯]

I was aware of it at the time as I was always on YouTube. Due to the fact I was six however I literally did not understand nor really care for it beyond namesake.

noob I was like a toddler when gamergate happened

This site is 17+ brah...

 

[cirno.enthusiast]

Hard time finding anyone here old enough to have taken part in it, but the wikipedia article on it is a pretty good way to learn about it. Not because it's accurate or genuine, but because it's genuinely one of the angriest, leakiest and most biased articles on that site and that fact alone is a pretty good reflection of what made gamergate so infamous. The cunt on the internet side of the fight pretty much made a narrative and ran with it and is still running with it to this day to such a degree that it makes the architects of the holocaust blush. Gamergate was the biggest water-mudying operation to ever happen on the internet because it took an accusation about a foid fucking game critics for good reviews and turned it upside down and on it's head and made it about "muh incels" and every major publication and journo ran with it in some sort of cunt-on-the-internet induced mass-hysteria.

The way people talk makes it seem like a multi year long clusterfuck with several factions and events, which is also needlessly convoluted to learn about.

 

[FloydTech]

Spoiler: bbc

 

[FartmingerFuckwadCheesest]

I don't remember much, but I know a lot of it was a load of bollocks. Total shitstorm.
>Zoe Quinn slept with five journalists to get a good review on one her games. She later claimed she was harrassed by gamers as well as 4chan? But that was a falseflag.
>4chan was of course involved because Chris Poole's "girlfriend" (Mallory Blair), the one who cucked him, posted quite frequently about Gamergate online. Jay Louis Irwin, a 4chan /g/ janny, also knew her at one point. And if I recall, one or two /v/ mods were friends with some of the other women involved in Gamergate. So that's why when it happened, there was a lot of censorship on the website, because it was personal for a lot of people, not just Moot. He also went to XOXO fest that year, specifically for Anita Sarkeesian's panel.
Then because of replies like these:

>This only fuels the flame about 4chan being le heckin' evil and Gamergate being about muh heckin' misogyny in gaming and how men are evil, especially the 4channers, and only reinforces their shitoko
>"The Fappening" also didn't help their case either
>And even though it was mainly about "feminism" in gaming, some of the women in question weren't really women, like John Walker Flynt (Brianna Wu) and Nicholas Edwin (Sarah) Nyberg, for instance.
>And most of these people's tweets were trying to make it about them: constant attentionwhoring, look at me, look at me! Having nothing to do with Zoe Quinn and her Depression RPG.
>Leigh Alexander wasn't all that important, a dime-a-dozen "journalist" who wrote about Gamergate as it was happening, but was a scapegoat for "online harassment" that was overblown. Same goes for Anita Sarkeesian.
>Some guy called Phil Fish, a literal soy boy, got doxxed and fell off the face of the earth afterward.
>Also think about the contemporary attitude in America; progressivism was riding high, ergo, they needed more diversity in gaming, and any pushback would've been met with vitriol and claims of misogyny.
>It was all a complete waste of time and energy
There were also schizoposts trying to turn Gamergate into more than it really was, like this one:

 

[FartmingerFuckwadCheesest]

I don't remember much, but I know a lot of it was a load of bollocks. Total shitstorm.
>Zoe Quinn slept with five journalists to get a good review on one her games. She later claimed she was harrassed by gamers as well as 4chan? But that was a falseflag.
>4chan was of course involved because Chris Poole's "girlfriend" (Mallory Blair), the one who cucked him, posted quite frequently about Gamergate online. Jay Louis Irwin, a 4chan /g/ janny, also knew her at one point. And if I recall, one or two /v/ mods were friends with some of the other women involved in Gamergate. So that's why when it happened, there was a lot of censorship on the website, because it was personal for a lot of people, not just Moot. He also went to XOXO fest that year, specifically for Anita Sarkeesian's panel.
Then because of replies like these:
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>This only fuels the flame about 4chan being le heckin' evil and Gamergate being about muh heckin' misogyny in gaming and how men are evil, especially the 4channers, and only reinforces their shitoko
>"The Fappening" also didn't help their case either
>And even though it was mainly about "feminism" in gaming, some of the women in question weren't really women, like John Walker Flynt (Brianna Wu) and Nicholas Edwin (Sarah) Nyberg, for instance.
>And most of these people's tweets were trying to make it about them: constant attentionwhoring, look at me, look at me! Having nothing to do with Zoe Quinn and her Depression RPG.
>Leigh Alexander wasn't all that important, a dime-a-dozen "journalist" who wrote about Gamergate as it was happening, but was a scapegoat for "online harassment" that was overblown. Same goes for Anita Sarkeesian.
>Some guy called Phil Fish, a literal soy boy, got doxxed and fell off the face of the earth afterward.
>Also think about the contemporary attitude in America; progressivism was riding high, ergo, they needed more diversity in gaming, and any pushback would've been met with vitriol and claims of misogyny.
>It was all a complete waste of time and energy
There were also schizoposts trying to turn Gamergate into more than it really was, like this one:
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I focused too much on the 4cuck angle, but the rest of it was just general back-and-forth bickering on Twitter, people inserting themselves for relevancy, as well as articles pandering to "Why are there not more women in gaming?" and "gamers are harassing women and being misogynistic!"
Again, a waste of time and energy that amounted to nothing

It was a precursor to people getting their titties in a twist over "le SJWS" about a year or so later.

 

[Sloppyjakky]

i was 6-7 so no

 

[FloydTech]

i remember my dad made me watch a video about it

 

[Dagonet]

I just played Angry Birds man

 

[Apeson]

i remember my dad made me watch a video about it

doofenshmirtz ahh childhood story

 

[FartmingerFuckwadCheesest]

doofenshmirtz ahh childhood story

>You see, Perry da Platypus, my father had me stand outside his yard as a garden gnome, and my only companion was a balloon with a face on it. Well, you already knew that, but my other companion was a tablet.
>No, it wasn't one of those elecreal womanic gizmos you play Subway Surfers on; it was a literal stone tablet.
>Anyway, one night it was cold, and I was so tired, and I didn't want to use the tablet as a pillow, which I had been doing for months up until that point.
>So I crawled back into my warm, soft bed, still in my gnome attire. I made sure not to make a sound to alert either my mother or father, especially Roger... but then, the lights flickered! And I heard-
<Bewege dich nicht
>So then my father sat me down in our lounge and turned on the fernsehen-box, and I had to sit through ten whole hours of learning about Gamergate. By the end, I was so depleted I crawled back outside and sought comfort in Balloon-y.
<Bewege dich nicht

 

[cirno.enthusiast]

i remember my dad made me watch a video about it

Lemme guess, it was made by that Alt Right playbook guy.

 

[lifesucksthenyoudie]

As I younger fellow, I'm curious about this mythical event that changed the course of human civilization forever. I wanna know if anyone here was on /v/ back then

I was like 11 and I'm pretty sure I'm one of the older users of this site, so if I wasn't there then I doubt anyone else would've
I did know what 4cuck was though, I once tried posting on 'cuck /b/ when I was like 9 so we could have a meme "go viral" but we didn't understand the website lol

 

[lifesucksthenyoudie]

>Some guy called Phil Fish, a literal soy boy, got doxxed and fell off the face of the earth afterward.

Lol fuck this cacaot, I thought Fez was okay but everything about the game that appealed to me was created by a completely different dude that Fish stole his work from. Talentless hack, there wasn't even a Fez 2 to begin with because he can't code

 

[CadoTheFartingChud]

Hard time finding anyone here old enough to have taken part in it, but the wikipedia article on it is a pretty good way to learn about it. Not because it's accurate or genuine, but because it's genuinely one of the angriest, leakiest and most biased articles on that site and that fact alone is a pretty good reflection of what made gamergate so infamous. The cunt on the internet side of the fight pretty much made a narrative and ran with it and is still running with it to this day to such a degree that it makes the architects of the holocaust blush. Gamergate was the biggest water-mudying operation to ever happen on the internet because it took an accusation about a foid fucking game critics for good reviews and turned it upside down and on it's head and made it about "muh incels" and every major publication and journo ran with it in some sort of cunt-on-the-internet induced mass-hysteria.

I don't understand how "lol this whore is fucking journos to promote her shit game" turned into a culture war thing