Gamergate Year Two inc.
People ponder about our "victories" this year, but I think we've seen some great things. GG has just become such a daily hobby, that the huge developments get forgotten.
So. List 'em.
This is the scoreboard thread.
GAWKER DECLARED BANKRUPTCY.
Remember, we're talking triumphs. Things we celebrate. That doesn't mean GG had to personally win the fight start to finish, or pull the trigger on the final bullet. THAT is what the depressed doomsayers are demanding be the requirement, but I don't subscribe to that. If something happened that we celebrated, then I label it a win for GG.
With Gawker's financial collapse, we see the downfall of the media empire some would say has been GG's greatest foe. please use archive.ism and all it's corrupt, nepotistic crony collusionary subsidiaries… gone. Consider that. KOTAKU IS KILL. We danced. I was there. You were there. What's more, our never-ending megaphoning (despite endless bans/censoring) got the word out how horrible Kotaku was that even non-GG civilians and people firmly in the "I don't give a fuck about those GG losers" crowd celebrated Gawker/Kotaku's end.
We linked and plugged Gawker's articles, and Kotaku's blatant bias and incompetence everywhere, and even Gawker themselves admitted that "Gamergate cost Gawker SEVEN FIGURES" in lost advertising. They said that, not us. Gamergate year one had everyone attacking us, while in year two, GAWKER LITERALLY DIED AND THE WORLD LAUGHED WITH US.
Torrential Downpour
I call this a huge success. It may not be as visually easy to spread in bite-sized chunks like #NotYourShield was (an NYS selfie with note is easier to digest than a FireEmblem comparison infographic), but once again the GG megaphone did it's work, and word spread far and wide of TreeHouse's agenda-driven abaomination, and once again the "what's gamergate" crowd knows damn well that the localization of these games were a fucktastic embarressment.
aGG sex crimes unmasked
Valis77 exposed. A Feminist Frequency mod proven to have "corrupted a minor". Thanks to GG.
HanibalTheVictor. Feminist frequency's White Knight Warlord proven to have "corrupted a minor. Thanks to GG.
The Wayne Foundation anti-child trafficking organization takes it to Nintendo for employing someone with radical views on REAL CHILD PORN FEATURING REAL CHILDREN. Bonus: And smacks down Patrick Klepik. Thanks to GG.
MULTIPLE ANTI-GG SITES CLOSE DOWN
"Gamers are dead. Gamers don't have to be your audience."
Of course, we could pre-emptiveley list the Gawker Media empire:
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…and all the others that unified to attack and lie about Gamergate. But don't forget the others! Game.on.net and Offworld.com both united to PROCLAIM that if you didn't support them in standing against Gamergate… "There's the door. You are not welcome." And they're gone.
TheMarySue is hemorrhaging numbers and is literally begging for donations, IGN is in full meltdown, and Polygon has officially become a laughing stock. Even sites where gamergate posts are banned are having megathreads mocking Polygon. And did Ben Kuchera step down willingly from Polygon, or was he fired? "It's complicated".
MovieBob? "Am I in financial difficulty? Only in the sense that it's better to be employed than unemployed." Jon McIntosh has left Feminist Frequency, which is floundering. Anita's speech to the UN was a disaster. Brianna Wu is facing a Kickstarter revolt. Srhbutts's life of CP distribution is on the Internet FOREVER, and both Sam Bidle and Leigh Alexander have fled, one possibly pursued by the Hulkster's lawyers.
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