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A couple of days ago, embattled indie game designer Zoe Quinn embarrassed some of her biggest critics by posting screenshots she’d collected from a 4channer IRC channel, showing an assortment of hateful and duplicitous #GamerGaters literally conspiring to wreck her reputation and create the illusion of a vast grassroots uprising against alleged corruption in the gaming business.
Her critics, put on the defensive, tried their best to dismiss her screenshots as “cherry picked,” and a few even accused her of writing the very messages she screenshotted and posted. Oh, there might be a few bad apples in the bunch, some were willing to concede, but they were in the minority.
And then they pulled out what they thought was their trump card: the full chat log from the IRC channel #burgersandfries from when the Zoe Quinn “scandal” first erupted in mid-August up until September 6th. All anyone had to do, they suggested, was to read the log, and they would soon see that Quinn was presenting a distorted picture based on out-of-context, “cherry-picked” quotes.
Of course, reading this particular log is a bit easier said than done: it’s 3756 pages, in 10-point type, of chaotic overlapping IRC conversations.
This is a classic case of what’s come to be known as “doc dumping,” which Wikipedia helpfully defines as
the act of responding to an adversary’s request for information by presenting the adversary with a large quantity of data that is transferred in a manner that indicates unfriendliness, hostility, or a legal conflict between the transmitter and the receiver of the information. The shipment of dumped documents is unsorted, or contains a large quantity of information that is extraneous to the issue under inquiry … .
It’s clear that those posting links to the log are hoping that their opponents will take one look at this enormous, messy document and simply give up.
What they didn’t count on was anyone calling their bluff – and actually taking the time to read it. Because if they actually knew what this document contained, and thought anyone would actually read the thing, they would have kept the links to themselves.
Even a quick skim through the document demonstrates that Quinn’s screenshots are hardly cherry-picked; you can flip to literally any page in this long, long document and find evidence of egregious misogyny and outright malice. Look a little deeper and you can find discussions of doxxing and spamming and all sorts of other dirty tricks.
But I’ve given the document a lot more than a quick skim. So far I’ve spent probably ten hours going through it, collecting evidence of all the things that the defenders of 4chan insist isn’t there. Even after ten hours, I’ve only begun to scratch the surface, but I would like to present you with some of my results so far.
Today, let’s look at some of what the 4chan chatters had to say about Zoe Quinn herself.
On Twitter, the standard line of the #GamerGate partisans is that what they’re doing isn’t abut Quinn herself; its a protest against corruption and nepotism in the video game world. They also insist that they’re not motivated by misogyny, and that they are more concerned about the alleged ethical lapses of game journalists than they are with just who Zoe Quinn allegedly slept with.
When it comes to the 4channers in #burgersandfries, these claims are complete and utter bullshit. The name “Zoe” appears 4778 times in the document, more than once per page; by contrast, “Nathan” – the first name of the allegedly corrupt game journalist she allegedly slept with – appears only 108 times. The words “ethics” and “ethical” appear, collectively, only 146 times.
Zoe’s name is in the official thread topic; chatters include it in their jokey nicknames. She’s the topic everyone always comes back to. She’s the reason everyone is there.
I decided to examine each occurrence of the name “Zoe” in order to see just what 4channers thought of her. After about 6 hours on this particular quest, I’ve only made it through roughly one-third of the mentions. But the results are not pretty.
The 4channers express their hatred and disgust towards her; they express their glee at the thought of ruining her career; they fantasize about her being raped and killed. They wonder if all the harassment will drive her to suicide, and only the thought of 4chan getting bad publicity convinces some of them that this isn’t something they should hope for.
They gleefully distribute nude pictures of her, posting links to online archives of them and emailing them directly both to Quinn’s supporters.
They dig up all sorts of information about her and her family and do their best to track down anyone and everyone with even the most tenuous links to her. One industrious researcher even manages to find a picture of Quinn at age 13; while acknowledging that it had no relevance whatsoever to issues of gaming ethics, she posts a link to it anyway.
And then there is the ongoing discussion of her vagina, described variously as “wide,” large enough to “fit 12 dicks at once, and “a festering cheese-filled vagina” that leaves “a trail of cunt slime” wherever she goes. Several 4channers speculate about its smell.
It’s not clear how exactly the size or shape or smell of Quinn’s vagina relates to the high-minded issues of gaming ethics that the #GamerGaters are said to be concerned with. But in the IRC log no one ever seems to call out any of those talking about Quinn in the crudest sexual terms.
Lets’ go to the logs directly. Everything that follows is cut and pasted directly from the full log, available here.
That said, IRC discussions can be chaotic and confusing, generally with more than one conversation going on at once, so in some cases, I have removed extraneous comments in order to make what is being said clearer. I’ve indicated all cuts with ellipses, and if you want to see what I’ve removed it should be trivial for you to locate the quotes in the full log by doing a search for an appropriate phrase or the relevant time and date stamp.
TRIGGER WARNING for discussion of rape, suicide and murder.
The log starts early on in the Zoe Quinn “scandal,” and numerous people in the chat talk about distributing her nude pictures to as many people as possible:
Aug 18 17.37.57 <SweetJBro> lol I’m tweeting Zoe’s nudes to some of her defenders.
A few days later, several other chatters talk about harassing Quinn by sending her own nude pictures to her:
Aug 21 23.20.35 there should be a massive campaign to tweet zoe her own nudes …
Aug 21 23.21.01 <Silver|2> They’ve been tweeted at her a lot
Here’s a chatter making clear that he’s mainly interested in seeing Quinn suffer:
Aug 18 20.10.06 i couldnt care less about vidya, i just want to see zoe receive her comeuppance
Here are some speculating about her state of mind:
Aug 19 01.34.01 if you were zoe right now what would you do
Aug 19 01.34.07 <FIVE-GUYS> get mugged
Aug 19 01.36.41 in all seriousness, i dont know
Aug 19 01.37.03 <FIVE-GUYS> ive never been in a situation like this
Aug 19 01.37.15 i’d probably kill myself tbh
Here are some others talking about the possibility of Quinn committing suicide, a possibility one chatter greets with a smiley:
Aug 19 02.28.30 okay, is zoe actually depressed?
Aug 19 02.28.35 i bet she is now
Aug 19 02.28.37 <mugg> diagnosed etc?
Aug 19 02.28.39 kek …
Aug 19 02.29.22 <Opus> I think she tried killing herself before
Aug 19 02.29.28 <kailasha> she should try that again :^)
“Kek,” by the way, is a nerdy version of “lol.”
Here one chatter suggests that focusing only on Quinn is a bad idea – because it will make 4channers look bad:
Aug 21 17.23.31 <sarahv> The problem is that making it about Zoe sleeping around amounts to a personal attack which, while funny and something she totally deserves, will hurt our chances of pushing the other point …
Aug 21 17.23.38 <rd0951> ./v should be focused on the implications of gaming journalism …
Aug 21 17.23.47 Because SJWs will cherry-pick the /b/ shit posting and say “See? It’s sexist MRAs!”
A few days later, this (relative) voice of moderation gleefully jokes about Quinn being choked to death during sex:
Aug 22 02.02.46 <CutestGAmerGorl> Okay guys, how much does Zoe like being choked
Aug 22 02.02.49 <CutestGAmerGorl> during sex? …
Aug 22 02.02.58 <sarahv> clearly not enough
Here one chatter openly fantasizes about driving Quinn to “an hero” — that is, kill — herself:
Aug 21 17.48.06 I’m debating whether or not we should just attack zoe …
Aug 21 17.48.29 <Opfag> push her… push her further….. further, until eventually she an heroes …
Aug 21 17.48.51 <OtherGentleman> … What makes you think she has the balls to kill herself?
Aug 21 17.48.57 I kind of want to just make her life irrepairably horrible …
Aug 21 17.49.16 <NASA_Agent> but what if she suicides …
Aug 21 17.49.24 <Opfag> Good.
Aug 21 17.49.29 Then we get to troll #Rememberzoe
One chatter warns that this strategy might … make 4chan look a tad misogynistic:
Aug 21 17.49.45 The more you try to attack her directly, the more she gets to play the victim card and make a bunch of friends who will support her because, since she has a vagina, any attack is misgony
Meanwhile, one of the other chatters suggests a rather creative division of labor amongst partisans of different 4chan message boards:
Aug 21 17.49.48 <rd0951> ./v should be in charge of the gaming journalism aspect of it. /pol should be in charge of the feminism aspect, and /b should be in charge of harassing her into killing herself
In the following excerpt, the IRC channel moderator asks one chatter why he is so obsessed with elaborate fantasies of Quinn dying in particularly gruesome ways:
Aug 21 18.26.37 <Cyberserker> You need a reason …
Aug 21 18.28.14 <Opfag> Well I don’t have a legitimate reason.
Aug 21 18.28.21 <Cyberserker> Nothing?
Aug 21 18.28.21 <Opfag> I just want to see her die horribly.
Aug 21 18.28.29 <Cyberserker> I’m talking about [your particular fantasies]
Aug 21 18.28.33 <Opfag> Oh.
Aug 21 18.28.39 <totality> sometimes you just want someone to get hurt
Aug 21 18.28.43 <Opfag> That, I have no idea
Aug 21 18.28.48 <totality> nothing wrong with that
Aug 21 18.28.51 all I know is I want zoe to die like that
While some fantasize about Quinn dying, others fill the chat with crude and often bizarre sexual remarks. All of the following comments came from a mere seven minutes in the chatroom:
Aug 22 02.21.54 i want to smell zoe quinn’s armpits …
Aug 22 02.25.42 you all would fuck the zoeholes
Aug 22 02.25.46 <JTG> given a chance too
Aug 22 02.25.47 <The_Remover> I am extremely aroused right now …Aug 22 02.26.47 someone seduce zoe quinn
Aug 22 02.26.53 <vanu> follow the shekels
Aug 22 02.26.56 <The_Remover> I volunteer to take one for the team
Aug 22 02.26.57 <vanu> to her vagina …Aug 22 02.28.51 meditate to nude pictures of zoe
Aug 22 02.28.53 <The_Remover> she gonna get raped
Of course, the 4channers are quick to profess disgust at the assorted nude pictures of Quinn they’re happily passing around to one another and the internet at large:
Aug 22 04.50.24 by the by, trigger warning on that mediafire archive. don’t download if you don’t want to see zoe naked …
Aug 22 21.17.13 <JCTheDenthog> Zoe’s mouth must be the strongest vacuum in nature to compensate for her face, body, and everything
Another suggests that his 4chan brethren download Quinn’s nudes if not for their own sexual gratification than for possible further blackmail later:
Aug 22 04.53.14 Eugh, why would you want to have her on your HDD? …
Aug 22 04.53.45 <The_Remover> because, a couple of months from now, when all this shit has died down, a raid may just be in order …
Aug 22 04.54.10 and i bet her dad doesn’t know she did porn …
Several days into the scandal, one chatter laments that there’s not much dirt left to dig on Quinn:
Aug 22 23.00.55 <Drinky_Kraw> I don’t think there’s anything left to harass Zoe over anyway. …
Aug 22 23.01.00 <Drinky_Kraw> The laundry is pretty much all aired
By the 23rd, some bored chatters compare notes on what they see as the relative sexual pros and cons of Quinn and game critic Anita Sarkeesian:
Aug 23 05.40.20 <Josh_> Zoe has a gross robotic hand, blue hair, and tats 4 days
Aug 23 05.40.29 <Josh_> if I was forced to put my dick in one of them
Aug 23 05.40.29 <Josh_> Anita
Aug 23 05.40.39 <GribFabdabgib> If I had to put my dick in them, yeah Anita
Aug 23 05.40.43 Anita is a skinny bitch whos all bones
Aug 23 05.40.48 <DarkHiero> True …Aug 23 05.41.07 <DarkHiero> But at least it looks like she tries to take care of herself. …
Aug 23 05.41.15 <Headsmash_> From just looks alone, Id rather do Zoe than Anita. Fat bitches usually give better head anyway.
Aug 23 05.41.21 <DarkHiero> If I’m putting my dick in crazy, that matters.
Aug 23 05.42.00 <DTrig> Yeah but odds are good you get the clap/crabs from Zoe
Aug 23 05.42.14 <Headsmash_> Same could be said for Anita based on what we know
Aug 23 05.42.17 <Headsmash_> lol
Aug 23 05.42.32 * DarkHiero shrugs
Aug 23 05.42.34 Anita looks like she douches though
Aug 23 05.42.36 <DTrig> ANd cleans up
Aug 23 05.42.39 Zoe…. eh
And then it’s back to another discussion of suicide:
Aug 23 19.38.17 <Headsmash_> So does anyone think Zoe’s gonna off herself and become a catalyst for misogyny and hatred of women in video games and video game culture? …
Aug 23 19.38.47 if zoe offed herself she probably wouldn’t be anything but an ED article ..
Aug 23 19.38.55 <Araf> Headsmash_: She won’t, she has a too big ego …
Aug 23 19.39.13 <Headsmash_> I’m not too sure about that. I think she could.
Aug 23 19.39.16 <Araf> She would off herself if everyone ignored her and abandoned her, which is not the case. …
Aug 23 19.39.25 <Headsmash_> Depends on how much she gets stuck in the victimization complex. …
Aug 23 19.39.28 Really the 5guys scandal is the most famous Zoe has been …
Aug 23 19.39.43 <rd0952> yeah but she’s also been harassed night and day for a week
Other chatters indulge in sadistic fantasies:
Aug 24 12.24.22 who really wants to meet zoe quinn and be kind and comfort her in this time of crisis
Aug 24 12.24.43 <Cyberserker> Not if you comfort her with a knife-hug
Aug 24 12.24.45 <Cameralady> and slowly, through friendship and blossoming relationship, get her to repair her shitty ways and come clean and become a good person …Aug 24 12.24.52 <Cameralady> and then
Aug 24 12.24.56 <Cameralady> once she’s reformed
Aug 24 12.24.58 <Cyberserker> knife-hug?
Aug 24 12.25.07 dump her in the most brutal, heartwrenching way possible
One chatter wants his fellow 4channers to declare victory and move on:
Aug 24 15.16.10 <PaperDinosaur> Also Zoe is no longer the target to be focused on
Aug 24 15.16.13 <Josh_> ^^
Aug 24 15.16.14 <sarahv> ^^^^^
Aug 24 15.16.18 It’s about the 5guys
Aug 24 15.16.21 <sarahv> It always has been
Aug 24 15.16.28 <Josh_> It’s more about the journos
Aug 24 15.16.33 <PaperDinosaur> She’s done, we’ve wrecked her in a professional manner. …
Aug 24 15.16.42 <sarahv> Unfortunately most of the people involved in this seem to be interested in destroying Zoe
Aug 24 15.16.46 stop digging up shit on zoe’s past
Aug 24 15.16.47 <PaperDinosaur> Now we have to wreck her shield, the people who tried to defend her
Soon afterwards the same guy who suggested that they move on from Quinn is back making jokes about her killing herself:
Aug 24 16.33.54 <PaperDinosaur> Guys, lets me fair to Zoe here
Aug 24 16.34.02 If every time I did something people sent me nues of her
Aug 24 16.34.07 <PaperDinosaur> I’d fucking kill myself
That same evening, Quinn’s ex-boyfriend – the fellow who started the whole thing going with a long series of blog entries documenting Quinn’s alleged infidelities – shows up on the channel to ask questions from the assembled mob.
Here is one of the questions he chose to answer:
Aug 25 00.02.21 <Cyberserker> Last question is from several people actually. I wanted to save it until the end due to how popular it was.
Aug 25 00.02.22 <Cyberserker> “Would you say Zoe was a “big girl” for you?” …Aug 25 00.03.04 <Eron_G> she is heavier than people I usually date. …
Aug 25 00.03.12 <Cyberserker> Fair enough …
Aug 25 00.03.14 <ebola-chan> Did she not fly so good?
And a few that he didn’t:
Aug 25 00.04.13 What does her pusy smell like must answer …
Aug 25 00.07.11 Eron, when you went down on her, did you taste the other guys semen? If so, what did it taste like? …
Aug 25 00.10.40 Eron I don’t think you want your headphones back, it’s most likely splattered in Nathan’s semen and Robin’s Menstrual fluids. …
Aug 25 00.16.52 eron are you going to take up sucking dick now that you’ve been cucked by the 2/10 ugly jew
Later that morning the chatters are back to sharing their creepy and violent sexual fantasies:
Aug 25 00.19.28 <EronLovesZoe> I feel like I would probably fuck Zoe. But not out of a loving sense of sexual attraction. More of that “hate fuck” sense where you just want to assert your dominance as a male on her, a primal savagery. Then I’d probably have to sterilize myself to prevent the genome from spreading.
Aug 25 00.19.59 I’d slap a saddle on zoe and ride her throught the midwest
Aug 25 00.20.02 I wouldn’t even get that far EronLovesZoe, I’d just start raging and headbutting her and gnawing on her cheek …Aug 25 00.20.10 that seabiscuit looking ass bith
And talking again about the pros and cons of trying to get Quinn to kill herself:
Aug 25 07.18.18 <Logan> Any chance we can get Zoe to commit suicide?
Aug 25 07.18.29 if we can get more daming evidence
Aug 25 07.18.29 I think the [doxxing info removed by DF] is a good shot.
Aug 25 07.18.33 <temet> like her fucking a train of lack dudes …
Aug 25 07.18.39 <PaperDinosaur> fuck off Logan
Aug 25 07.18.39 <temet> black
Aug 25 07.18.51 <Logan> Nah 21st century doing a train is so 90s. …
Aug 25 07.18.59 <PaperDinosaur> If she commits suicide we lose everything …
Aug 25 07.20.34 <PaperDinosaur> If you can’t see how driving Zoe to suicide would fuck this entire thing up then you’re a fucking idiot
Aug 25 07.20.41 Imagine the kotaku article …
Aug 25 07.20.48 <temet> PaperDinosaur is right
Aug 25 07.20.51 <temet> not the right PR play
Not. The. Right. PR. Play.
And on that note I am going to end this installment.
This is only a small fraction of the terrible stuff said about Quinn, in the small portion of the log I have managed to read through so far.
I may return with more installments. Honestly, I’m not sure how much more I can stomach.
But I will certainly write more about the 4channers’ discussions about doxxing and hacking Quinn and others; again, I have looked only at a portion of the logs so far, but there is already a great deal there.
EDIT: Just realized that WordPress ate a bunch of the names of the posters in the quotes here. (WordPress likes to eat angle brackets.) I’ll manually add the names back in when I get the chance.
@thebewilderness:
How bizarre is it that these self proclaimed gamers are coming here to object to people talking about what is being done to Zoe? This is not even close to a gaming site. David’s rummaging through the IRC logs must have ruffled lots of feathers for them to come up in arms over here to debate.
Despite David posting about gamergate at least a couple times before now, it wasn’t until this post that they started actually paying attention.
Too bad. Your side is irrevocably associated with rape threats, death threats, and harassment. Should have done something to counter the assholes who were using them, but you didn’t, and now your credibility is shot.
Please provide examples of Zoe Quinn’s defenders using rape threats, death threats or harassment. Otherwise, shove your false equivalence up your ass.
You mean the rape threats, death threats and harassment? Yeah, those are unfortunate.
And understand: every time you try to insist “Yeah but she…” while soft-selling what her harassers have done, you just make yourself look that much worse.
Aww, are their feelings being hurt because people use the mean word in response to the rape threats, death threats and harassment? Too bad so sad.
Lisa:
Yet here you are…
I hope you aren’t another drive by poster. You probably are, but I’ll respond anyway. I’m not sure exactly what you’re trying to say here. Can you clarify? And can you point me to the reasoned comments from the gamer’s side? And please don’t call it the “gamer’s” side. I’m a gamer.
So, you’re saying this started when she posted the evidence? Nothing happened before that? Or people didn’t hate her before that? Or did people start hating her when they sensed psychically that she was going to post “evidence?” Because the hate came first.
Can you point me to one of yours?
Is this the “White Male” thing? We don’t ignore the argument because they are a “white male.” The argument has already been discussed and dismissed by its merits (or lack there of). But we recognize the people coming in waves holding this opinion are probably white men and most likely have the opinion because of privileges from being a “white male.” This completely allows white men to not have this opinion, and even have OTHER opinions that are totally not wrong. It even allows people who aren’t white men to have this opinion, though it’s less common. It’s a fun cause and effect thing! He isn’t wrong because he’s a white male. He has the opinion because he’s a white male. The opinion is wrong no matter what.
I’m going to show good faith and assume these people actually buy what they are saying. Assuming that’s true …
trying to turn this into a campaign to improve gaming journalism is an ends-means issue.
To adapt police language, any benefits are fruit from the poisoned tree. It’s no good going from here, start over, get a new name.
(true story: I always interpreted “qui veut le fin veut les moyens” as meaning that in seeking some goal you must take responsibility for the methods used. I just found out today that it’s actually the opposite – a variation on “le fin justifie les moyens”)
Also, Sarkeesian isn’t using poor examples. She’s not saying that the tropes are unjustified, she’s saying they are pervasive. Whether or not there’s an explanation for why they are used in a given game is totally irrelevent to the point she’s making.
A good example of playing the victim card might be Eron Gjoni, the ex of Zoe Quinn’s who started this mess by posting a 10,000 word screed on why she cheated and how it makes her manipulative abuser. He really seems to think ginning up a virtual mob was a reasonable reaction to being broken up with. Feel free to tweet him and tell him what a piece of shit he is… I did.
(Running up to gelar with a cool, soothing eyepillow, filled with gentle and sweet-smelling herbs) There, there. Just lie back and put this on your poor eyes.
Better now? 🙂
None of us have claimed Zoe is perfect.
She just doesn’t deserve mass cyberstalking and death threats, no matter WHO she fucked.
And that’s what 4 chan gave us evidence of when they doc-dumped their fucking that is what they were doing-going after Zoe at the behest of her shitweasel ex.
You keep publicly denying this.
The chatlogs prove y’all Gamergate people are more full of shit than a flock of Christmas turkeys on this point.
And to reiterate what I said upthread, if you don’t like the state of gaming journalism, one great way to fix that is to collectively create a site to your own group standards and do your own games reporting.
Oop..fucking chatlogs.
I’ve seen the same jerks discounting the women being harassed complain about the shittalking in games (mostly in a I’M TIRED OF BEING CALLED A [SLUR] BY TWELVE YEAR OLDS, I AS A MATURE 15 YEAR OLD SHOULD BE ABLE TO USE WHATEVER LANGUAGE I WANT THOUGH BECAUSE FREE SPEECH STOP TRYING TO THOUGHT POLICE ME STUPID SJWS context)
seraph4377 sez:
They just want journalistic integrity.
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Unless it makes them look bad.
I’m just impressed thay so many of them have finished their math homework and chores in time to be allowed onto the computer for a few hours of trolling us before beddy-byes.
Industrious wee things, aren’t you?
Yes! You win! Noddy also used, “I’m not saying she deserved it, buuuuuuuut …”
I also got a bingo from Lisa, with “it’s about journo corruption,” “feminism,” “mysoginy [sic],” “not all GGers,” “ZQ deserved it,” “use critical thinking,” “form your own opinion,” and “both sides do it.” Really, Lisa’s post was almost an entire bingo card by itself.
Lisa, rape and death threats and hating her because she is uppity doesn’t actually improve your position. It simply demonstrates that is is entirely about misogynist mobs rampaging.
I’m going to make up some new cards for the next post David makes on this topic. Anyone want to make suggestions on the word list? Here’s what I have now:
cherry-picking
not all 4channers
ZQ is crazy
both sides do it
read the whole log!
just messed-up kids
ZQ deserved it
I’m not saying ZQ deserved it, but …
ZQ made it all up
ZQ wants publicity
you’re missing the point
#GG is not about ZQ
EG told people not to harass her
no doxxing
journo corruption
feminism
4chan has valid concerns!
Adam Baldwin
form your own opinion
critical thinking
it’s not really misogyny (or misgony)
this isn’t evidence
those were jokes
nepotism
Anita Sarkeesian
grassroots
the trolls are feminist false flags
ZQ didn’t do what I say the FBI told her to do
no true #GGer
I changed up a few and remove a couple, because the trolls don’t seem to be calling ZQ any gendered names for instance, and I don’t want it to be like those “License Plates of the 50 States” travel games where the kid who got the card with Alaska on it was automatically the loser.
@Policy of Madness
Suggestions:
-Some of the people in gamergate are women, therefore it can’t be misogynist;
-It started as misogyny, but now it’s about journalistic integrity;
-It’s got nothing to do with 4chan.
No SJW in there anywhere? also “Mysoginy”
Also, I meant to say thanks David, for going though that log.
Not really relevant to this thread, but I just wanted to say I like this cartoon. Especially the last panel.
Macha: I am incredibly sorry. I mean that. I just meant it as an example for this kind of stuff.
I shouldn’t have. Sorry…
Oh, no need to be defensive dear heart. I just live in fear that if THAT kerfuffle starts up again, we’ll all wind up blogged to death by the blogwolves.
Lisa and Noddy. You’ve just used the same arguments we’ve already debunked long ago. Please try harder. You people are boring and unoriginal and bring shame to 4th an which is supposed to have good trolling prowess.
Let’s pretend everything they say about Zoe is true!
Being corrupt and promiscuous does not mean that someone should die, kill themselves, or be subject to this vitriol.
Not participating in the vitriol does not matter if you defend the people who do so.
Yes, I’m a gamer. Ooo, a female gamer, how scary!
,,,,,literally no one cares if you’re a woman. You can claim whatever motivation you want behind it. But at the end of the day, you all paid $150,000 to hear a woman COMPLAIN about video games and 4chan put $20,000 towards women MAKING video games. All that really says to me is that tumblr and twitter is for complainers and 4chan actually gets stuff done. Just sayin’…
RE: kirbywarp
So feel free to give a citation.
For people so insistent on fighting journalistic corruption, they seem utterly incapable of this.
RE: WWTH’s Nintendo vid
OMG! Kids playing my childhood! (I still have my NES.) And while at first I was like, “Lolz, kids so spoiled,” after a second I was like, “Yeah, you know, game consoles have improved over the years.” (But seriously, NESs are built like tanks. Mine STILL works.)
By the way, if anyone is interested in using the pre-emptive rebuttals I made earlier in this threat in lieu of going through and basically writing it up from scratch every time someone makes the same ludicrous accusations (https://www.wehuntedthemammoth.com/2014/09/08/zoe-quinns-screenshots-of-4chans-dirty-tricks-were-just-the-appetizer-heres-the-first-course-of-the-dinner-directly-from-the-irc-log/comment-page-6/#comment-578869) I made a slightly modified Tumblr version here: http://kav-p.tumblr.com/post/97093150579/open-letter-to-gamer-gate-people-from-a-gamer
I hope it’s useful for you. 🙂