re: #15 oceanclub

The same journo is one of the “celebrities” (OK, it’s him and that guy from Firefly) supporting #gamergate, a bizarre fake backlash against “corruption” in games journalism which has nothing to do with money and everything to do with right-wingers hating even the discussion of progressive issues in association with videogaming. The best bit is he had never even played a video game til 2 weeks ago.

For an overview, see:

npr.org

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The article also reveals that Zoe Quinn, a woman involved with the original “sex for positive reviews” accusation at the heart of ‘Gamergate’ was inundated with anti-woman hate:

For a while Quinn dated a programmer named Eron Gjoni. Gjoni sparked the #Gamergate debate when he wrote online that Quinn had cheated on him, one time with a journalist for the games website Kotaku. The implication was that she had done so to get better reviews for Depression Quest. Quinn and Kotaku have denied those claims, but what followed was #Gamergate.

The claims instigated a huge backlash on Twitter and online forums like Reddit and 4chan. Some people used the allegations against Quinn as proof that there’s corruption in video game journalism — that game developers and game journalists have grown too cozy. Others attacked Quinn based on her gender, calling her a “social justice warrior” — an insulting term for people who are deemed to be uninterested in games themselves, just in using those games as a platform to promote themselves or their ideals.

That’s where things got ugly — horribly ugly.

Quinn was soon flooded with death threats and rape threats. Her personal information, even photos, were hacked and posted online, forcing her to leave her home.

“It’s like the Internet is eager and waiting for a reason to be a total scumbag to you — at least if you’re a woman and you’re a loud, outspoken woman,” she says.