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LoopHoss

Gamergate thing

This is a journal that I'm posting in light of all the Gamergate stuff that has been going on sense the corruption of gaming journalism and in the industry in general has come to light. When people started asking questions and investigating the ones in the spotlight went on the offensive, instantly claiming to have been harassed and rallying their Social Justice Warrior, DDoSing and trolling up twitter and other social media places where people dared to speak out this this kind of thing was wrong.

Anyone interested can look it up (Literally takes less than 5 minutes to discover what all's going on), hopefully most of you that are gamers already know. So now the say that all gamers are racist, misogynistic, straight, white guys and all around horrible people among other things.

I'm fired up over this whole thing but keeping my head on straight, I've never been good at putting things like this into words, but like I said before hopefully most of the gamers in out fandom know that this is all going on and speak out about it.

My name is Caleb, but I go by Loop, I am a White Bisexual Male and a Gamer, I support #Gamergate and I am #NotYourShield Games journalists.
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Added: 9 years, 7 months ago
 
YamatoIouko
9 years, 7 months ago
Gamergate?  I'm not familiar with this hotel.
LoopHoss
9 years, 7 months ago
Ha! But yeah, just been on my mind lately.
YamatoIouko
9 years, 7 months ago
No, seriously, what is "Gamergate"?
Anailaigh
9 years, 7 months ago
google it.
LoopHoss
9 years, 7 months ago
This link is a great summery of what started it all and how all this came to light.: http://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoo.....ergate/ck6u2ul

This video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgW5NRUfs44

has a lot of information in it as well, I was hesitant to link things because people should research their own information I think, but these are good starting places.

Basically when all this came to lite gamers were like "That's not right you guys." to the games journalists, and instead of owning up to it, they went all victim mode and started saying that gamers were harassing them, that they were horrible people and all basement dwellers. then some tried to hide behind a wall of feminism it's just crazy >.>;
YamatoIouko
9 years, 7 months ago
Wait, is this that Zoe Quinn using-sex-for-journalism-favors bullshit?
LoopHoss
9 years, 7 months ago
That started it mostly, yes.
hammse
9 years, 7 months ago
the issue is completely new to me, the official part at least ha, but whoa. both is offline allready whats going on in gam`o`polis :o
HaruTotetsu
9 years, 7 months ago
I think the saddest part of this, is how some journalists were harassed by trollz, and sexist people using this as a cover to keep the general populace off their backs, so they could just generally be unpleasant, giving the people honestly fighting for a better form of gaming journalism, a negative image. here's hoping someone with common sense manages to get into the spotlight with this issue or yet again gamers are going to get branded as bad people where "games are making us violent" all over again...
TheMasturbatingBear
9 years, 7 months ago
I already made a speech about this via twitter:  Beware the corporate gaming media complex.
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