#gamergate — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #gamergate, aggregated by home.social.
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While the liberal gaming media was busy moralising, professing their victimhood and censoring discourse the burgeoning alt right welcomed the young gamer demographic with open arms.
The more I learn about #GamerGate the more surprised I am, but also it all starts to makes sense. That's what the terminally online "left" does.
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A prescient text by Mark Fisher, written a year before #GamerGate.
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The [Vampires’ Castle] pious moralising has been a feature of a certain ‘left’ for many years – but, if one wasn’t a member of this particular church, its sermons could be avoided. Social media means that this is no longer the case, and there is little protection from the psychic pathologies propagated by these discourses.(...)
No-one is essentially anything. Sadly, the right act on this insight more effectively than the left does. The bourgeois-identitarian left knows how to propagate guilt and conduct a witch hunt, but it doesn’t know how to make converts. But that, after all, is not the point. The aim is not to popularise a leftist position, or to win people over to it, but to remain in a position of elite superiority, but now with class superiority redoubled by moral superiority too. ‘How dare you talk – it’s we who speak for those who suffer!’
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This is the logical conclusion to #GamerGate.
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Trying to sort through GamerGate is like sinking into quicksand, but the general tenor of the discussion has been: A fair number of gamers hate the journalists who cover them, and the journalists hate them back.(...)
The antagonism of the gaming press toward its audience stems partly from justified outrage at the horrible behavior of a small subset of it, but also from helpless resentment toward the entirety of the press’s shrinking audience—hence the self-defeating attempt to generalize the former into the latter. Rather than stressing that the vast majority of gamers are reasonable people who don’t harass women, hold reactionary, protectionist views, or start vitriolic online campaigns against the press, the websites trashed the entire term “gamer” and, to no one’s surprise, earned 10 times the enmity overnight.
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Excellent piece of investigative journalism shining light on an overlooked aspect of #GamerGate.
People like Zoe Quinn make my blood boil. The narcissists, grifters, pathological liars, abusing the good will and naivety of others. Not so different from Trump, who similarly abused controversy and attention for his personal gain, all while being shielded from scrutiny by his connections. Just goes to show that grifters can be found all across the political spectrum.
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@skeuomorphology/117104796627664288
Exactly this! The same bullshit!
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Chat, can you recommend to me thoughtful, well-researched books about #GamerGate ? Maybe published a little after it happened so that the author has a chance to summarise and reflect?
Note - my sympathies are with the women & other victims, I do not need to need to read about how the perpetrators still believe their behaviour was justified. I can simply open Steam comments for that POV, tyvm!
Boosts welcome #AskFedi
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Un estudio de la Universidad de Deusto revela que las niñas sufren exclusión en los videojuegos y que las madres asumen en solitario la educación digital de su prole. https://www.deusto.es/es/inicio/vive/actualidad/noticias/un-estudio-de-la-universidad-de-deusto-revela-que-las-ninas-sufren-exclusion-en-los-videojuegos-y-que-las-madres-asumen-en-solitario-la-educacion-digital-de-su-prole/noticia
Ocho de cada 10 usuarias de videojuegos sufren acoso machista: "Han amenazado con violarme" https://www.elperiodico.com/es/sociedad/20241011/jugadoras-videojuegos-gamers-acoso-machista-violar-discriminacion-109149944
Anatomía del machismo en el videojuego: 20% de desarrolladoras, pocas periodistas y acoso online. https://www.eldiario.es/cultura/videojuegos/anatomia-machismo-videojuego-20-desarrolladoras-periodistas-acoso-online_1_9870640.html
“Vete a fregar”: la mitad de las mujeres 'gamers' que juegan online con hombres viven o presencian ataques machistas. https://www.eldiario.es/castilla-la-mancha/vete-fregar-mitad-mujeres-gamers-juegan-online-hombres-viven-presencian-ataques-machistas_1_9612400.html
#Gamergate: los videojuegos en su peor momento. Al mundo del videojuego le ha salido un sarpullido, una corriente organizada de ataques contra mujeres que desarrollan juegos o los critican. https://www.eldiario.es/cultura/fenomenos/gamergate-videojuegos-peor-momento_1_5857780.html
Gamergate (GamerGate, o #GamerGate para formar un hashtag) es el nombre dado a una campaña de ciberacoso a través del uso del hashtag #GamerGate que tuvo lugar a partir del año 2014 en plataformas tales como Reddit, 4chan o 8chan. Se utiliza como un término general para denominar tanto la controversia, como la campaña de hostigamiento, como al movimiento que surgió alrededor. https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamergate
Y podría poner más.
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CW: Daily random quote out of context from my academic book about Mastodon
At that time, there was growing discontent with Twitter. Since 2014, Twitter had been reeling due to #Gamergate, an online campaign against feminists, ostensibly to defend the honor of video gamers....
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Enno ein artikkel om degenereringa som skjedde dei siste åra i norske #Gamreactor.
Er det her den norske utgåva av #GamerGate?
https://www.gamer.no/artikler/eksredaktor-foler-seg-utnytta-av-gamereactor-ekstremt-darleg/520654
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Slay the Spire 2 ist mein bisheriges Lieblingsspiel des Jahres - umso verrückter zu Lernen, dass es gerade auf Steam review bomb Attacken gibt, weil *checks notes* Anita Sarkeesian in den Credits als Consultant aufgeführt wird... #gamergate ist mittlerweile über 10 Jahre her und war schon damals absolut lächerlich... Leute, get a life
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The fuck!? Anita Sarkeesian was involved in #SlayTheSpire2!?
Well, a shame that I have to mark the whole fucking studio as fucking woke pieces of shit, remove that game from memory, and stay the fuck away from them.
Fuck her, fuck everything she touches, fuck everyone who works with her.
#Videogames #Gaming #Games #Gamergate #AltRight #MAGA #Woke #SlayTheSpire #AnitaSarkeesian
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"Then as now, politicians, pundits and industry leaders officially disapproved of the worst excesses of the manosphere, but declined to take an explicit stand, terrified that any display of moral integrity would alienate their base."
#Politics #Feminism #Gamergate #Manosphere
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/13/gamergate-andrew-tate-manosphere-feminists
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🎮💌 Behold, a tech blogger's "love letter" to 'girl games' which is basically a #nostalgia trip wrapped in hyperlinks and #SEO sugarcoat. They managed to turn what could be a simple appreciation into a labyrinth of buzzwords and subscription plugs. 🙄💻 #JustHitPlayAlready
https://aftermath.site/a-love-letter-to-girl-games/ #techblogger #gamergate #gamingculture #HackerNews #ngated -
@michaelharley He's often credited with coining the hashtag #gamergate and has something of a history. This is from over 10 years ago, though, so maybe he's had a redemption arc I missed.
I will still watch this, even if they were to do a Star Trek style animation treatment.
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Bueeno pos si nos hicimos ilusiones con lo de la nueva serie de animación de Firefly resulta que no todo es tan bonito. No sabía yo que el Baldwin fue el instigador y creador del puñetero #gamergate y aún así lo mantienen en el equipo, con lo que ya no importa que mantengan alejado al Whedon.
https://bsky.app/profile/unburntwitch.com/post/3mh4khlowxs2n
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https://bsky.app/profile/gilduran.com/post/3mewlwl2tuc27
So, speaking of #Thiel, #palatir, #Persona, and deep espionage on everyone in the West, a discovery in the Epstein files reveals that Thiel was funding #Weev. If you don’t know who that is, you’re a lucky person, and probably weren’t in the first line of attack for #GamerGate.
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This is great.
on epstien, 4chan + #reddit #enshittification and whiteness.
https://www.tiktok.com/@jasmineagolphin/video/7603394364903083278Please watch.
(hey @pluralistic you might find this POV interesting)
#epstein #gamergate #4chan #misogyny #patriarchy #whiteSupremacy #racism
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#Gamergate : un laboratoire de l’antiféminisme trumpiste
https://revueladeferlante.fr/gamergate-un-laboratoire-de-lantifeminisme-trumpiste/"États-Unis, 2014 : Taylor Swift squatte le haut des charts avec son cinquième album 1989. La popularité de Barack Obama s’essouffle, et, sur Internet, un réseau social explose : Twitter (renommé X en […]"
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Truly, can we talk about how the erosion of law of nations, of #NATO, of multiple democracies as we see it today ties back to 2014 #Gamergate.
And that's a conversation so many are not ready to have for lack of knowledge or acknowledgement.
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In 2018, #VenkateshRao wrote that #GamerGate was “the original flashpoint, the #FortSumter battle” of our #CultureWars https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2018/03/06/a-quick-battle-field-guide-to-the-new-culture-wars/
