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| Mouse droidz 21:
During 2014 there was some controversy surrounding "gamergate" or something like that. I'm trying to research it and I just don't understand it at all, the FBI even have a file on gamergate. Can someone explain it to me in the easiest way possible? |
| Badspot:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fnRSL3d_xU Basically there was a series of corruption and collusion scandals in the video games press, and people wanted to talk about it (naturally). The whole thing would have blown over in a week but there was a massive counter attack by the press where they labeled all of their opponents as misogynists and tribals. Many games journalists dropped their spaghetti and revealed themselves as hacks that only got into their line of work to fight for social justice. It lingers today as part of the general culture war, with pro-gamergate valuing individual rights and a level playing field (gamers after all), and anti-gamergate valuing collective well-being and representation (also called 'equity' or equality of outcome). |
| Corderlain:
A bunch of journalists were loving each other and kept linking to stuff or writing favorable articles about things without disclosing their relationship with said stuff. Also people got tired of PC culture loving everything up and the media threw a stufffit. Same thing happened with metal and is happening with comics right now. |
| Johnimiester:
Gamergate was an identity politics catfight that started when someone's feelings were hurt that someone else didn't share the same feelings they had for the kind of soma they like indulging in. |
| SubDaWoofer:
asking question in this thread because it makes sense can someone explain #pizzagate to me or somethn |
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