Why is casual racism/sexism more accepted in video games than other forms of media (these days)?

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The internet is so fucking stupid

In early 2008, a Texan named Mary Alice Altorfer came across a “Pool’s Closed” sign in her neighborhood and called the local news station with a claim that it was promoting racial discrimination. Altorfer’s encounter with an internet meme in real life was soon turned into a news story and after the broadcast, a video clip of the report was uploaded onto YouTube. In the following days, members of Anonymous allegedly launched a harassment campaign against the woman.

It's a "real life 'swastiget'", apparently? I have no idea.

The Habbo Hotel raids by 4chan’s /b/ became so popular that they eventulally gained some offline recognition as well. In Finland, people rallied together outside Sulake’s headquarters (the parent company of Habbo Hotel) in afro wigs and suits, forming a real life “swastiget.” In the center was someone cosplaying the character Suiseiseki from the anime Rozen Maiden.

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― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, November 25, 2014 1:34 PM (42 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Didn't mean for this to sound harsh, just that the link sums up what would be a very unwieldy explanation

one minute youre lightly trolling some online anime hangout the next youre forming a human swastika while cosplaying blackness, life comes at you fast

That it started from rumours of racial profiling and ended in that... I don't know, the psychology here is too deep for me.

As time went on, people would go on to cosplay the “Pool’s Closed” avatars at anime and internet culture conventions

that "charity" jpg manages to finish by quoting/picturing one of the biggest creeps i've seen pop up in this thing

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B3YFqy1CUAANjWM.jpg

tried to explain Gamergate to some work colleagues today, it gave me a new appreciation of how ridiculous the whole thing has been

is that fucking businessweek cover real holy shit lol

goddamnit why can't gamergate go after a deserving target like whoever's been doing their terrible covers

FP'd

Pretty sure whoever it is their strategy for getting fired has backfired.

businessweek's covers are amazing fuiud

looking forward to businessweek's public apology for depicting sarkeesian vanquishing samus

It's not actually about ethics in games journalism, he's a very naughty boy
http://www.theguardian.com/culture/australia-culture-blog/2014/nov/28/alanah-pearce-tells-on-her-internet-trolls-to-their-mothers

(notice that they've proven that anti-gg activists have raised nothing for charity by, er, googling 'zero dollars and zero cents')

― bizarro gazzara, Tuesday, November 25, 2014 2:24 PM (6 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

omfgggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggg

also yo all businessweek covers are boss as hell

this is p funny:

https://twitter.com/gamergatetxt/status/537183981176119296

https://twitter.com/gamergatetxt/status/539536948101390336

"the pure number of complaints won't necessarily affect our analysis"

https://storify.com/a_man_in_black/youtube-patreon-and-the-rise-of-the-professional-v

short version: people acting like mini-Limbaughs, crowing about gamergate and whatever else, are accepting donations via patreon and monetizing their ranting, making others want to do the same.

because it's a crazy small world, one of the founders of Patreon is that dude from ILM favorite, Pomplamoose

no way

in other recent pamplemouse news they grossed over 100k on a month long tour and ended up in the red then documented their expenses on order to educate us or something https://medium.com/@jackconte/pomplamoose-2014-tour-profits-67435851ba37

omg that dude shows up (eventually) in that storify! brave man, looks like

yeah, the best part of that pomplamoose tour is the part where they complain about their losses and don't mention that touring is not anywhere near how they make money

mostly venture-backed iirc

they do mention the patreon videos briefly

do they mention that the author is CEO & Cofounder at Patreon?

yeah, the best part of that pomplamoose tour is the part where they complain about their losses and don't mention that their expenses were completely OTT and ridiculous

haha, that, too

maybe "renting lights" is a code meaning "drugs"

today's best #actually

https://twitter.com/Brian_TGA/status/539855109099126784

wonder what software they do use

paint.net

lol

soo a dude made an "sjw twitter blocker"

https://twitter.com/sjwautoblock

(imitation of an earlier one autoblocking GGers)

it's this guy: https://twitter.com/_betafive_ (dude looks to be kind of an antisemite, on first glance)

i guess his earlier account(s) got suspended for harassment though.

https://twitter.com/search?q=saul%20stjohn&src=typd

it's really amazing how this thing has rolled together p much every minor-league internet shitbag

just really cool well adjusted people

https://twitter.com/freebsdgirl/status/539630899709485057/photo/1

it gets worse

https://twitter.com/onthevraydar/status/539805122399064064

lol maaaaaaan

Wow

http://www.reddit.com/r/AgainstGamerGate/comments/2o0noq/yes_showing_up_at_someones_place_of_work_couldnt/

[–]Tafts_Bathtub [score hidden] 17 hours ago
Let me make this clear before I start: I do not condone this person's actions and think it is an extremely irresponsible thing to do.
Now, let me say this: we can't stop people from doing this. People will always have the capacity to do terrible things to people who have internet notoriety. For instance Scooby1961. Scooby was well known on 4chan as a nice guy who gave good bodybuilding advice...

dying irl lol

oh man someone just told me about that guy on here

https://twitter.com/freebsdgirl/status/539649590161453057

man what

(arthur chu's responses tho this [scroll down] are pretty good)

yeah that's awesome. some real ring of gyges shit.

I would argue that dude is an e-celeb now for being dumb enough to do that

we are all an an e celeb now

people show up to our workplaces to physically intact popular memes, our preferred brand of vapeware is public knowledge, and so forth

worth quoting with edits:

Arthur Chu ‏@arthur_affect
Man they are antithetical to the culture of Twitter - the whole "Justify why you said this"
"Why would you mention your sick dog except as some kind of rhetorical trick"
A channer wrote a defense of chan culture saying universal anonhood changes how you think
When you're used to ID-less spaces any ID-building activity seems "narcissistic"
A lot of it is intentionally being horrible but they legit don't get normal socialization.
He said this as though this were a plus of chan culture rather than a horrifying sickness
I say things on Twitter bc I want ppl to get a sense of who I am & how I think
4chan thinks that kind of thing is "attention whoring" & "preening" bc they are broken
Being likable so you will be liked - they think that's fundamentally dishonest
They ideologically believe in the absence of all accountability you are who you "really" are
This is nonsense. It's the opposite - 4chan ppl become interchangeable id monsters

"Why would you mention your sick dog except as some kind of rhetorical trick"

otm