• barrbaric [he/him]
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      8 months ago

      Some guy said his ex, an extremely small-time indie dev, slept with five people at games journalism sites in exchange for positive reviews. IIRC he posted it on 4chan, which is the most normal social media to do this on.

      This was used as proof that the wamen were destroying vibeo game.

        • barrbaric [he/him]
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          8 months ago

          Literally just that she allegedly slept with five men, and 4chan tried (and arguably succeeded?) at making the phrase a meme.

      • mctoasterson@reddthat.com
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        8 months ago

        ...and if I recall all the people and companies involved were basically irrelevant and it would've been hard to argue any meaningful benefit derived from the supposed sexual favors.

        • barrbaric [he/him]
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          8 months ago

          More or less. The game she was supposedly getting good reviews for was free anyway. It was always a weird thing to care about when you consider that "video games journalism" was largely just outsourced advertising.

          • IMF_DOOM [she/her, undecided]
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            8 months ago

            it didnt even get a review, it was just included in a list of 100 short indie games that people might be interested in playing iirc