Transparent and documented though it was, the obsessive campaign worked. Mercedes-Benz—listed on the site as a former partner, and therefore a target—briefly paused its ads on a network that serves ads to Gawker. I've been told that we've lost thousands of dollars already, and could potentially lose thousands more, if not millions. Consequently, the editorial director of Gawker Media, Joel Johnson, took to the front page of Gawker to clarify that Sam Biddle does not want to bully anyone, and that Gawker Media as a company and institution is not pro-bullying. (Let's note here that the admitted goal of our Gamergate trolls is not to eke an apology out of Sam, or the company, but to literally put us out of business entirely.)
amazing the years of gawker pissing numerous ppl + groups off and it was the gamers that figured out how to hurt it
― Mordy, Wednesday, 22 October 2014 21:39 (nine years ago) link
max otm
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 22 October 2014 21:56 (nine years ago) link
this whole thing has become like the "most photographed barn in america" of the internet.
― ryan, Wednesday, 22 October 2014 21:56 (nine years ago) link
the one two punch of johnson + max sort of has and eats the cake at once though, no?
― everybody loves lana del raymond (s.clover), Wednesday, 22 October 2014 21:58 (nine years ago) link
― ryan, Wednesday, October 22, 2014 5:56 PM (26 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
ha otm
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 22 October 2014 22:23 (nine years ago) link
max's post is rad but i think this is pretty on point: https://twitter.com/sarahjeong/status/525018087532539905
― JoeStork, Wednesday, 22 October 2014 23:22 (nine years ago) link
pretty sure that qualifies as bullying
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 22 October 2014 23:23 (nine years ago) link
apologies for apologies
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 22 October 2014 23:29 (nine years ago) link
Gamergate vs. Gawker... I'm so torn.
― jmm, Wednesday, 22 October 2014 23:46 (nine years ago) link
Just glad someone is finally stepping up and saying bullying is bad.
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 22 October 2014 23:53 (nine years ago) link
just consider for a second tho, what if its not?
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 22 October 2014 23:54 (nine years ago) link
Show me the evidence and verify
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 22 October 2014 23:57 (nine years ago) link
http://thisfeliciaday.tumblr.com/post/100700417809/the-only-thing-i-have-to-say-about-gamer-gate
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 22 October 2014 23:59 (nine years ago) link
― lag∞n, Wednesday, October 22, 2014 7:54 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-QwwCgiOrblg/TpdZduT0LdI/AAAAAAABGJw/3sDn3zdqPqA/s1600/owen%2Bwilson%2Btenenbaums.jpg
― horseshoe, Thursday, 23 October 2014 00:01 (nine years ago) link
my role model tbh
― lag∞n, Thursday, 23 October 2014 00:08 (nine years ago) link
Is there a good up-to-date summary of what gamergate is exactly? I get the sense that it involves a lot of basement dwellers rage-fapping into their mesh shorts while trolling women in a hostile and threatening manner. I'm not really interested in gaming or "gamer culture" so it's off my radar aside from just being a word that crosses my view a lot now.
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Thursday, 23 October 2014 00:12 (nine years ago) link
wired et al seem to post a new one of those sorts of summaries every day
― Clay, Thursday, 23 October 2014 00:14 (nine years ago) link
https://twitter.com/colincidence/status/524631128482021377
― jmm, Thursday, 23 October 2014 00:16 (nine years ago) link
At this point it just seems like a forum raid done on a larger and more personally damaging scale
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Thursday, 23 October 2014 00:17 (nine years ago) link
i stand with #gamergate against the evils of slap bass tbh
― lag∞n, Thursday, 23 October 2014 00:18 (nine years ago) link
Are forum raids just 90s things
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Thursday, 23 October 2014 00:19 (nine years ago) link
good investigation into the nasty lil places gmrgt sprang from http://gawker.com/these-are-the-creepy-4chan-successors-behind-gamergates-1648966614
― lag∞n, Thursday, 23 October 2014 00:19 (nine years ago) link
learning about w1zardchan kinda messed my day up
― Clay, Thursday, 23 October 2014 00:22 (nine years ago) link
ok, I get it now, this is worse than I pictured it
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Thursday, 23 October 2014 00:22 (nine years ago) link
ya btw no one read that link unless u want to be very sad abt the world
― lag∞n, Thursday, 23 October 2014 00:25 (nine years ago) link
GG is crowdsourced trolling.
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 23 October 2014 00:26 (nine years ago) link
every link I am now getting to about this and other related/similar things is making my stomach knot up. I feel like I want to keep my daughter off the internet. I hope the law and tech evolve in a way that makes it more feasible to give real consequences to these wastes of human life.
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Thursday, 23 October 2014 00:28 (nine years ago) link
it's like mobilizing a bunch of wannabe elliot rodgers types, ISIS style
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Thursday, 23 October 2014 00:28 (nine years ago) link
otm
― woof, Thursday, 23 October 2014 00:29 (nine years ago) link
every link I am now getting to about this and other related/similar things is making my stomach knot up.
Yep. I haven't been contributing much to this thread because for a lot of the time I've been feeling genuinely quite sick and afraid every time I read something about it. The Clickhole article was the first time I've actually had a proper hearty laugh at the situation in what feels like a long time.
― emil.y, Thursday, 23 October 2014 00:35 (nine years ago) link
Serious Q: how common is this sort of severe internet harassment for women with an internet presence? Is it primarily women in *chan-friendly* fields like gaming or is this just standard now? I mean not just getting hate comments but actually being attacked in more serious ways like the woman who had her games' metacritic score bombed, got personal threats, had her company targeted, etc.? Like hate mail doesn't seem like a new thing but this stuff does.
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Thursday, 23 October 2014 00:38 (nine years ago) link
SeanieSkykiller @SeanieSkykiller 4h4 hours ago
@ClickHole Yes that whole last paragraph where you connect #GamerGate with harassment has no sources, why?
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Thursday, 23 October 2014 00:39 (nine years ago) link
Serious Q: how common is this sort of severe internet harassment for women with an internet presence? Is it primarily women in *chan-friendly* fields like gaming or is this just standard now?
In gaming it's very common
BTW, after Felicia Day posted a blog about how she has been afraid to speak out she got doxxed within an hour
― u2 removal machine (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 23 October 2014 00:44 (nine years ago) link
I have plenty of female friends in the music world who have been harassed to the point of death/rape threats. My personal presence online is super bland and fairly restricted but I know that even that isn't necessarily a barrier to harassment.
xposts to Hurting
― emil.y, Thursday, 23 October 2014 00:45 (nine years ago) link
(To clarify, not "harassed to the point of death, also rape threats" but "harassed to the point of death threats and rape threats".)
― emil.y, Thursday, 23 October 2014 00:47 (nine years ago) link
Yeah I have read about specific incidents before but it is suddenly hitting me how pervasive this is.
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Thursday, 23 October 2014 00:51 (nine years ago) link
It used to be massively common even a long time ago in places like IRC chatrooms. If you went online with an obvious female name, BAM instant skeeveball PMs. And if you rejected/told them to GTFO you'd be called slut/lesbian/i know where u live/etc/start another chatroom bagging you out etc.
― Gumbercules? I love that guy! (Trayce), Thursday, 23 October 2014 01:05 (nine years ago) link
This is basically why I never ever play MMORPGs or other online linked gamnig - i just CBF dealing with this shite.
study circulated a lilwhile ago scientists made a bunch of twitter bots that all tweeted the same stuff, the ones with overtly female profiles got ~100x more harassment
― lag∞n, Thursday, 23 October 2014 01:10 (nine years ago) link
The new phenomenon mostly seems to be the coupling of this kind of harassment with the power to actually do anything beyond say offensive stuff.
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Thursday, 23 October 2014 01:23 (nine years ago) link
jesus christ, doxxing felicia day like ten seconds after she spoke thoughtfully and honestly about her past trouble with stalkers. there isn't an epithet scathing enough to describe these assholes.
― you little affront to god (reddening), Thursday, 23 October 2014 01:53 (nine years ago) link
looool https://twitter.com/AdrianChen/status/525108164640112640
― everybody loves lana del raymond (s.clover), Thursday, 23 October 2014 02:49 (nine years ago) link
@tinybaby 35m35 minutes ago@AdrianChen @max_read congratulations to Adrian Chen on accepting his new position as head of #GamerGate
lol
― Clay, Thursday, 23 October 2014 03:00 (nine years ago) link
ROBERTO EBOLAÑO @Arturo_Ulises 2h2 hours ago@tinybaby @AdrianChen @max_read Don't let go of that Triforce, Adrian! #GoldenPower
Adrian Chen @AdrianChen 2h2 hours ago@tinybaby @max_read thanks. it wasn't easy. I had to bully thousands of nerds.
― Gumbercules? I love that guy! (Trayce), Thursday, 23 October 2014 04:05 (nine years ago) link
lol this dude tried to actually give Gamergate useful advice to make it a more legit advocacy group: http://www.zenofdesign.com/dear-gamergate-please-form-a-consumer-organization-kthxbye/
it was not appreciated:JEWS says: October 3, 2014 at 6:38 am
no, fuck off
an organization like GAMR would act as a massive BOTTLENECK for #GamerGate’s effectiveness
this manifesto is bad and you should feel badReply
JEWS says: October 3, 2014 at 7:10 am
i’m feeling generous enough to rebut you point-by-point
2. a “congress” cannot faithfully represent an amorphous group of people that anyone can enter and leave anonymously 3-5. see 2 6. this is slacktivism 7. #burgersandfries and /gg/ 8. see 2 9-10. /v/irgins have done this for years and we’ll continue to do it 11-12. see 2 13. i seriously hope you’re kidding about the mailing list 14. see 7 15. this deprives us of agency as an audience 16. irrelevant to gamergate
0/10, see me after class pete Reply Adam says: October 3, 2014 at 5:52 pm
An excellent response from a guy named JEWS. Reply
Eatmyshit says: October 3, 2014 at 8:48 am
You can just eat shit out of my asshole. You suck, your games suck. You’re human garbage. Swallow your own tongue.
― JoeStork, Thursday, 23 October 2014 06:35 (nine years ago) link
funny to see the "you guys should have a platform and officers!"/"no that's the point!" occupy debate repeated as disingenuous farce
― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 23 October 2014 06:57 (nine years ago) link
next time is tragedy iirc, thatll be fun
― local eire man (darraghmac), Thursday, 23 October 2014 09:33 (nine years ago) link
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― kelly sleater's pro kinney (how's life), Thursday, 23 October 2014 10:39 (nine years ago) link
Re: the harassment, none of GG seem to have any idea of filtering bias (for all that they're about "This is clearly fallacy #23") - that all harassment of pro-GG is brought breathlessly and unexamined to them, and the anti-GG harassment only turns up when it gets in the news, when it is generally accompanied by a reason why it's fake - there are seriously people on the pro-GG side who believe that Anita Sarkeezian only got a death threat once, and they've seen an imgur saying it was fake, so...
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 23 October 2014 13:17 (nine years ago) link
xp lol yup, poor gamersgate
― Nhex, Thursday, 23 October 2014 14:05 (nine years ago) link