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Can I get an apology for gamer gate now?
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Date: September 28th, 2018 2:18 PM Author: Lake mood When gamergate was happening, I posted that it is a big deal because the media was deeply biased, and the SJW “women-as-victims” narrative was unfairly and visciously destroying the gaming culture.
At the time, the only response I got was that only neckbeards could give a shit, and that the lying media SJW narrative was not a real problem, but a delusion for losers. Everyone said that SJWs were a niche movement, and would not have any impact on the broader culture.
Is anyone willing to admit now, that perhaps gamers were the canary in the coalmine? |
Date: September 28th, 2018 2:20 PM Author: thriller gaping This shit was already happening, game boy (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4091716&forum_id=2#36915120) |
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Date: September 28th, 2018 2:22 PM Author: Lake mood I am well aware. But at the time, the consensus was that it was a fringe problem, and only a nerd would give a shit, and that SJWs were not a problem outside of academia. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4091716&forum_id=2#36915146) |
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Date: September 28th, 2018 2:21 PM Author: Cream cruise ship double fault Tweet, tweet (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4091716&forum_id=2#36915127) |
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Date: September 28th, 2018 2:21 PM Author: Dark beady-eyed home factory reset button have trouble believing xo consensus disagreed with you on this. i certainly didn't (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4091716&forum_id=2#36915132) |
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Date: September 28th, 2018 2:24 PM Author: Lake mood I am glad you didn’t. I’ll try to find a post from that time. Despite the thread title, I’m not actually looking for an apology or credit here. I kind of just want to know if the consensus about gamergate has changed in light of these problems exploding into the forefront of the national conversation. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4091716&forum_id=2#36915163) |
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Date: September 28th, 2018 2:32 PM Author: Lake mood please read all the responses in this thread. thank.
http://www.xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=2712542&mc=20&forum_id=2 |
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Date: September 28th, 2018 2:34 PM Author: Dark beady-eyed home factory reset button pathetic showing by these xo poasters. you were right (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4091716&forum_id=2#36915249) |
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Date: February 10th, 2026 10:49 AM Author: Thirsty violent prole indirect expression wow (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4091716&forum_id=2#49660472) |
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Date: September 28th, 2018 2:23 PM Author: Violet buck-toothed tattoo nursing home No one understands gamer gate u nigger lol (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4091716&forum_id=2#36915151) |
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Date: September 28th, 2018 2:38 PM Author: Dark beady-eyed home factory reset button we expect more of xo poas (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4091716&forum_id=2#36915307) |
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Date: September 28th, 2018 2:35 PM Author: overrated cerise church building Sure (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4091716&forum_id=2#36915258) |
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Date: September 28th, 2018 2:35 PM Author: Fiercely-loyal nibblets den Not until you explain it to me as if I'm a golden retriever (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4091716&forum_id=2#36915260) |
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Date: September 28th, 2018 2:45 PM Author: Lake mood Girl cucked her boyfriend by fucking 5 guys, including a video game journalist. Boyfriend called her out for cheating on him. Gamers realized that the journalist gave her game an extremely high review score, apparently in exchange for sex.
Gamers accused the reviewer of unfair bias. Entire internet exploded because gamers dared to question the integrity of the gaming press after finding out that good reviews could be bought for sexual favors. Gamers were accused of misogyny to deflect from the fact that the gaming press was a dishonest cesspit of fake news.
A woman named Anita Sarkeesian made a YouTube channel dedicated exclusively to denigrating gaming culture, and calling all video games “rape simulators”. Gamers got upset and some sent her mean tweets. She used the mean tweets to rile up the national media against video game culture.
The national media went crazy, twisted the entire narrative, and made the story far more confusing so people couldn’t follow it, and default to a position that women are being abused. Many people fell for the fake news, and assumed that all gamers must be rapists because the media said so. |
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Date: September 28th, 2018 2:46 PM Author: Fiercely-loyal nibblets den This is some pretty good work here brother (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4091716&forum_id=2#36915382) |
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Date: September 28th, 2018 2:48 PM Author: drunken windowlicker and then what? gamers hacked the election in response? how does all that lead us to where we are today? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4091716&forum_id=2#36915401) |
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Date: September 28th, 2018 2:53 PM Author: Dark beady-eyed home factory reset button it's a cultural issue. they're acting as a bulwark against woke SJWs destroying every single last bastion of culture - even fucking video game reviews and the actual design of vidya (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4091716&forum_id=2#36915449) |
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Date: September 28th, 2018 3:01 PM Author: Lake mood Prior to gamergate, there is no record of anyone standing up to the SJW narrative in any meaningful way. There was a pattern: SJWs would make unsubstantiated victimhood claims, and the targets of such claims would capitulate and apologize, because that was the socially acceptable thing to do.
Gamergaters were high-functioning autists, and their entire lives revolves around gaming. When their hobby was attacked by SJWs, they did not have the social acumen to gracefully apologize and submit to the SJW agenda. They fought back, and called out the media for lying.
Gamergaters did not win, but they fought the SJWs to a stalemate. Some gaming media sites were actually shut down, and some SJWs lost their jobs. It was the first mass demonstration that the internet could rally against SJWs in a meaningful way.
Gamergate was not the only movement that opened the door to today’s anti-SJW movements, but it was historically significant. Gamergate pioneered organized meme warfare, which was used to great success by Donald Trump’s supporters in 2016. Pepe the frog was a result of gamergate. “Fake News” is today’s analogue to “bias in games journalism”, a much clunkier catchphrase from gamergate. Much of the energy behind Trumps campaign and the rise against cuckery was driven by the cultural forces unleashed in gamergate. |
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Date: September 28th, 2018 3:08 PM Author: drunken windowlicker what sites besides gawker got shut down? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4091716&forum_id=2#36915613) |
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Date: September 28th, 2018 3:18 PM Author: Lake mood Gawker was the big one. Several large sites struggled significantly (Gamasutra and NeoGaf come to mind). Many other sites quickly changed their disclosure policies upon losing millions of dollars in advertiser support.
Link related:
http://thisisvideogames.com/gamergatewiki/index.php/GamerGate_Achievements
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Date: February 10th, 2026 10:52 AM Author: Thirsty violent prole indirect expression (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4091716&forum_id=2#49660483) |
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Date: September 28th, 2018 3:21 PM Author: internet-worthy nudist idiot center Maybe the best summary of gamergate I've ever seen (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4091716&forum_id=2#36915735) |
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Date: September 28th, 2018 9:26 PM Author: Electric Frozen French Chef Literally the first time I think I have understood what this was all about. Thank you. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4091716&forum_id=2#36918622) |
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Date: September 28th, 2018 2:37 PM Author: Chartreuse Odious Water Buffalo sjws are out of control but gamergate was still some faggot neckbeard shit (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4091716&forum_id=2#36915289) |
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Date: September 28th, 2018 2:40 PM Author: Dark beady-eyed home factory reset button not at all. SJWs started writing bad reviews for there not being enough gay trannies. showed that college cultural marxist shit had bled into every piece of culture, even fucking video games. gamers stood up and were crucified for it (and still are) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4091716&forum_id=2#36915320) |
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Date: September 28th, 2018 2:37 PM Author: glittery grizzly gay wizard xo is filled with out of touch gen x boomers.
it's true that nobody cares about vidya itself but it's ridiculous when people argue SJW insanity is confined to the yale gender studies department and doesn't matter irl. although perhaps fewer people would argue that today it was definitely a popular take on xo a couple of years ago |
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Date: September 28th, 2018 2:46 PM Author: crystalline cruel-hearted school cafeteria coldplay fan (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4091716&forum_id=2#36915377) |
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Date: September 28th, 2018 2:49 PM Author: Azure National Security Agency University yep. Around 2012ish many xo poa insisted there was no point in getting worked up over hardline trans rights shit because it was a "fringe issue" that would never go beyond the internet (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4091716&forum_id=2#36915403) |
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Date: September 28th, 2018 9:24 PM Author: Plum Field Cuckold lol of course steez is a gamergate geek who nonchalantly says "vidya" like it's an actual word (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4091716&forum_id=2#36918611) |
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Date: September 28th, 2018 2:42 PM Author: Ruby Affirmative Action Foreskin I generally don't like deep internet culture but "gamergate" did "redpill" a lot of geeks (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4091716&forum_id=2#36915337) |
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Date: September 28th, 2018 2:43 PM Author: Cerebral ticket booth legend been saying this for years (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4091716&forum_id=2#36915357) |
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Date: September 28th, 2018 2:47 PM Author: drunken windowlicker trumpmos are over estimating their numbers. they've been acting like they're a majority when they're far from it. all they're proving is that minority rule doesn't work. that much will be confirmed 5 weeks from now. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4091716&forum_id=2#36915388) |
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Date: September 28th, 2018 3:23 PM Author: internet-worthy nudist idiot center go back to India (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4091716&forum_id=2#36915752) |
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Date: September 28th, 2018 2:58 PM Author: Emerald Personal Credit Line Cuckoldry gamergate wasn't important because it redpilled "gamers," it was important because it redpilled internet culture in general. in the New Reality, IRL culture has become downstream of internet culture. it's the internet weirdos driving cultural phenomena now, both the crazy tumblr and reddit leftists and the 4chan and frog twitter thought criminals on the right
but yeah you were definitely right in your post that you linked, and the people responding to you were clueless |
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Date: September 28th, 2018 3:01 PM Author: Lake mood (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4091716&forum_id=2#36915554) |
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Date: September 28th, 2018 3:06 PM Author: Dark beady-eyed home factory reset button (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4091716&forum_id=2#36915591) |
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Date: September 28th, 2018 8:50 PM Author: Cream cruise ship double fault I never really understood gamergate, but if it was the nerd version of the current lib hysterics, I apologize for not taking you seriously (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4091716&forum_id=2#36918406) |
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Date: September 28th, 2018 9:20 PM Author: flushed outnumbered half-breed queen of the night what's a Gamergate? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4091716&forum_id=2#36918589) |
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Date: September 28th, 2018 9:23 PM Author: Lascivious potus what about comicsgate? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4091716&forum_id=2#36918608) |
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Date: February 10th, 2026 10:48 AM Author: swashbuckling aqua clown (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4091716&forum_id=2#49660467) |