@morealias.bsky.socialThe dogpile that show up... well... let's just say I'm used to it. It's what the old days of #gamergate was like.
We'd engage neutrally and get brigaded by the antis. Yelled at, called names, all sorts of foulness, demands made to answer up, etc. Standard OP tactics.
@morealias.bsky.socialI know it's a slog (6 hour tour) but this is a really good respective on how The First World Wa- I mean #gamergate started.
@morealias.bsky.socialOkay, I watched the whole ass video. It's good. It is how it all went down. Man, I never really thought about how Quinn was #gamergate's Ferdinand II of Austria...
@morealias.bsky.social"I've, in good faith, tried to do that."
/raised eyebrow
Oh yeah... you've provided a whole lot of 'evidence'.
"frame yourself as a victim"
I asked the OP a question and over four hundred of you showed up to scream at me about how I'm a serial harasser and how #gamergate is the real hate mob.
@sparky50732252.bsky.social@morealias.bsky.socialI'm not "equivocating generic art criticism with" Grummz.
That's what the journos were doing back when #gamergate blew up originally. Notice the first person to respond to me in this thread? And the second, their friend calling for the brigade?
@boblivion.bsky.social
@vehkposting.bsky.social"#istandwithjontron" predates "#gamergate" by a day.
@morealias.bsky.social"At times, GG was like saying "I don't like jerks" and then like 10,000 strangers coming out of the woodwork..."
You don't fuckin say?
I asked one person a question and next thing I know I've got over 300 angry harassment responses...
So #gamergate was the harassment campaign you say?
@morealias.bsky.socialNo he isn't. Just becuase he trash talks video game journos and runs Xitter* doesn't make him "#gamergate aligned". He isn't a gamer, he can't game, he pays people top play for him.
* Running Xitter doesn't make him anything other than the asshole who runs Xitter. Xitter is not #gamergate.
@theblackjester.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gyGamergaters Jesuits are out there manipulating you into targeting Hambly, Mac, Dick Sucking Pervert (Anita Sarkeesian), et al....
Be careful. Also, stop hitting the self owns.
@haveabj.bsky.socialGamergaters Jesuits are out there manipulating you into targeting Hambly, Mac, Dick Sucking Pervert (Anita Sarkeesian), et al....
Be careful. Also, stop hitting the self owns.
@arize3k.bsky.socialReal people who supported #Gamergate attended this event: www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0Ru... Meanwhile journalists pull stunts like these archive.is/s4ab2 and refuse to cover news fairly.
@arize3k.bsky.socialHow's that Chuck Tingle game going? Have you buddied up with Mark Kern to develop it at Vaporware Inc? 🙂 I've seen people blame #Gamergate and my buddies @8chan.bsky.social for winning big on the 10th anniversary and getting Trump elected but others say they could not have done it... without you! 😉
@arize3k.bsky.socialSounds like a question for @tachy.bsky.social
He wrotes books on #Gamergate I'll have you know
@morealias.bsky.socialI said there is good and bad in the industry and all you can focus on is I mention there is bad... right, no critical thought.
This BTW was endemic in the other side the entire time from the start of #gamergate.
@morealias.bsky.socialThe whole time we were called "just white basement dweller guys", when GamerGate was one of the most diverse groups of people imaginable. Google "#notyourshield & #gamergate" and see if any of that still remains if you weren't around for the fight back then.
@matthewremski.bsky.socialOut today on the Conspirituality Podcast Patreon: my full(ish) review of Max Haiven’s The Player and the Played. This is part 3 of my reel series: looking at QAnon as the catalyst for the playgrom of Jan 6th.
@lisarokusek.myatproto.socialThis was always where #GamerGate was going. You could taste it!
What a terrible train ride we are on.
@rwg.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy[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 […]