#GAMERGATE ANTI-BULLYING CAMPAIGN COST GAWKER OVER A MILLION DOLLARS

The cost to Gawker Media of its ridicule and viciousness toward video gamers was "seven figures" in lost advertising revenue, according to the company's head of advertising, Andrew Gorenstein. In addition, founder Nick Denton has stepped down as president and editorial director Joel Johnson has been removed from his post and will probably leave the company, reports Capital New York. "Ultimately #GamerGate is reaffirming what we’ve known to be true for decades: nerds should be constantly shamed and degraded into submission," Gawker writer Sam Biddle tweeted in October, sparking a firestorm of outrage which solidified into a sustained letter-writing campaign to Gawker's advertisers, which continues today, against the bullying of marginalised groups by mainstream media outlets.

There’s so much vitriol hurtled by both sides that I can’t tell what the “#gamergate” issue is really about and what/who the sides are.

Feminist gamer slept with game magazine reviewers to get better reviews.

Then people who exposed this were attacked for being anti-woman, and the Left tried to censor all negative mention of the woman. The censorship attempts caused it to blow up.

Why Is The Zoe Quinn Scandal Blacked Out Across The Internet?

>>There’s so much vitriol hurtled by both sides that I can’t tell what the “#gamergate” issue is really about and what/who the sides are.

Zoe Quinn (an “indie game developer”) slept around on her boyfriend with a lot of video games journalists and media folk and then got her crappy text based video game “Depression Quest” oked by Steam for release. The boyfriend called her out on it, publishing numerous chat logs, leading many to conclude that the very “feminist” status that many women have in the video gaming community seems a bit hypocritical seeing as one of their main women might be engaged in a sex for promotion scandal.

Adam Baldwin dubbed the phenomenon #gamergate and it is mostly based on outrage against corruption in gamer journalism. As soon as that happened, the anti-gamergate journalists all published “Gamers Are Dead” type articles and many of the female figures ran around screaming about receiving death threats from 4chan trolls. The anti-gamergaters have also proclaimed that #gamergate is dead many times.

Here’s the core truth about #Gamergate: Gamers, and we’re talking leftists and moderates as well, are sick and tired of feminists demonizing the games they play. The journalists responded by calling all gamers sexist nazi basement-dwellers. This further exacerbated the anger of #Gamergate. It’s a fun phenomenon.

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