This is a topic close to my heart, and I probably will get a bit emotional. I will attempt throughout the course of this to choke back the vitriol and attempt to stay objective whilst focusing mostly on facts. As a courtesy to you I will endeavor to always post this message at the beginning of any article I write where I am close to the topic I discuss.
This article is mostly going to be concerned with a specific group of particularly vocal individuals with, in my opinion, questionable ethics. Of course we all know I'm talking about; individual who identify themselves as feminists. By no means is this railing against ALL feminists and in fact, ill only be discussing the actions of a few people who are exploiting the automatic reverence and respect people feel for the mantle. Individuals who tarnish the reputation of the ideology in a blind grab for power over others rather than devoting any efforts to ending the horrors wrought upon women for the sin of simply not being born a man in places like turkey, or the middle east where even openly expressing anything but subservience is an act in favor of the liberation of women.
Throughout the post I will attempt to detail what I believe to be the main aspects of the #gamergate scandal, which despite what you may have been lead to believe is still an active movement. For an indiscernible amount of time prior to the scandal being a widely known about and discussed topic, various individuals who subscribed to the aforementioned ideological structure had, through a nepotistic system, been colluding with the video game industry under the guise of journalists. Via the financial gain, nepotism and having access to a large audience this group of individuals, although not thoroughly organised yet managed in no small part to basically ruin videogame journalism for everyone. The events that brought all this to light revolved around woman named Zoë Quinn and her former boyfriend Eron Gjoni.
Eron Gjoni in an action that brought these individuals to mainstream consciousness and may have worked to forward their political power posted a detailed story involving her actions and how she was allegedly sleeping with her boss.
The article can be found here: https://thezoepost.wordpress.com/
If you want a detailed account of these events you can read that. There are other versions of the story but as far as I'm aware this is the only primary source available. Unfortunately before the details were completely hashed out the story made it to 4chan, several individuals from the website began a very in depth harassment campaign which I personally witnessed. Of course there where also those advocating strongly against this course of action as not only is it morally questionable at the least, but victim hood is a type of social currency that has brought more than one reprehensible individual to power over the years. As far as I am aware she simply wanted her game to be put on steam and a few poor choices lead to the outrageous spiraling vortex of shit that eventually allowed people with more extremist views to come into power in the video game industry.
Although not guilty of much more than run of the mill collusion BEFORE these events, afterwords we saw what was to become a regular occurrence in the years to come. Lies about the scale, gravity, and perpetrators of the harassment became the accepted norm despite many notable youtubers and journalists debunking them, sitewide archives and many informational images that frequently appear on imageboards like this one.
https://imgur.com/a/4VOcx
The harassment campaign wrought by various morally unscrupulous internet activists in a knee jerk reaction to the endangerment of something they held near and dear to heart was the social force that lead the now all too powerful drama vultures that now have immense draw and force in the industry.
The attention and pity she earned through her claims of harassment lead to her present social power and financial standing. They say all press is good press and this is doubly true on the internet.
In may of 2012 an unpopular feminist blogger named Anita Sarkeesian created a kickstarter campaign called "Tropes vs. Women in videogames"
Despite being mostly unknown, she claimed to be under what, if she is to be believed, is the largest harassment campaign ever to have been perpetrated on a single individual. This obviously lead her to enormous success and financial gain, with her kickstarter alone generating nearly 16000$ as well as garnering her an immense twitter and youtube following, allowing her a platform to espouse her totalitarian identity politics to a massive audience. Since then she has embedded herself deeply into the video game industry. Anita Sarkeesian is an individual who has garnered much hatred among average men and other feminists who are disturbed by how her actions are impacting the cause they have been devoted to.
You may have noticed how I have not mentioned really any specific words, or events. This is because there is simply too much for me to get into. Instead at the end of this article I will link to a few youtube videos that outline her current position of political power and from there finding information about her past actions should be simple, there is plenty of information readily available and the sources ive linked are sources who I have found to be generally reputable.
Of course, if there is significant interest I will devote more energy and effort into a more detailed article outlining specific events and actions when I have more than a couple of hours to work on it.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmb8hO2ilV9vRa8cilis88A (specifically the feminism vs facts series, Take this one with a grain of salt I havent gone through all of his videos extensively but from what I have seen he does make an effort to remain factual and objective)
