• DragonBallZinn [he/him]
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      4 months ago

      Ian-Miles Cheong and Cadence Owens were both anti-gamergate.

      Also, I suspect that there is more than one Hexbearian that was a gamergater back in the day.

      • sharedburdens [she/her, comrade/them]
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        4 months ago

        I was actually aware that all games journalism is garbage at the age of like 10 because a child can be capable of internalizing that people taking money are going to be extremely charitable reviewing the people giving them money

      • zed_proclaimer [he/him]
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        4 months ago

        Turns out when you are fighting over meaningless culture war vidya game bullshit it’s very easy to swap sides since there are no material stakes

      • LeylaLove [she/her, love/loves]
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        4 months ago

        Yeah, I mean I was a middle schooler when Gamergate started and I never went harassing people because of it, but I definitely was caught up in Gamergate when it was first going down. It's one of the reasons I'll always love Hbomberguy, because watching his videos was how I ended the youtube algorithm death slide that was Gamergate.

        • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]
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          4 months ago

          Algorithm death slide is a good phrase, mine ended on the third hour-long unstructured Sargon rant with me going "god this guy is whiny, I'm sick of his voice"

      • Thordros [he/him, comrade/them]
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        4 months ago

        Also, I suspect that there is more than one Hexbearian that was a gamergater back in the day.

        I was really big into Gamergate for about 45 minutes. Then I looked it up, and it turned out it was just some dude being super pissed off that his ex did The Sex after they broke up.

        • DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml
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          4 months ago

          Yeah, all the "ethics in game journalism" stuff was just code for "we want to make video gaming more sexist."

        • DragonBallZinn [he/him]
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          4 months ago

          As a bit, Anita Sarkeesian should run on free speech and call herself “Cancel culture’s first victim.”

          …because she is. And she has done more for free speech than any CHUD ever will.