#gamergate — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #gamergate, aggregated by home.social.
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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.