The memes above? A fan of indie game developer Brianna Wu made them, using the text from some of Wu’s acerbic tweets about #GamerGaters. Wu thought the memes were funny, and posted them to Twitter.
This was just sent to me, a new meme called Oppressed Gamergater. Love it. http://t.co/Sp9sQPgLxQ pic.twitter.com/6UEWRgPGcn
— Brianna Wu (@BriannaWu) October 9, 2014
Haha. This Oppressed Gamergater thing is so full of win. I'll RT the best ones. http://t.co/Sp9sQPgLxQ pic.twitter.com/4DQtwfpGN5
— Brianna Wu (@BriannaWu) October 9, 2014
It turns out that #GamerGaters don’t really have much of a sense of humor about themselves.
Over on 8chan, the regulars decided to take over the meme.
A fan made a meme of 6 of my Tweets. #Gamergate spent day filling it with 36 pages of garbage http://t.co/tjzQxePXH0 pic.twitter.com/aailgFlNM9
— Brianna Wu (@BriannaWu) October 9, 2014
It got nastier — TRIGGER WARNING for what follows for explicit, violent threats.
#Gamergate is zerging a meme an Isometric fan made of my Tweets. It's up to 45 pages of attacks like this one. pic.twitter.com/fYhHr5QeZm
— Brianna Wu (@BriannaWu) October 9, 2014
And nastier still.
8chan/#gamergate generated 60 pages of this today attacking me. I'm going on a Twitter break till I feel more safe. pic.twitter.com/A0GYsdJ3KA
— Brianna Wu (@BriannaWu) October 10, 2014
Oh, but #GamerGate isn’t about misogyny. …
Then, believe it or not, it got worse:
8chan/#gamergate just doxxed me, posting all kinds of personal information about me.
Guys, THIS is the war on industry women. Wake up.
— Brianna Wu (@BriannaWu) October 11, 2014
And then it escalated to death threats:
And, here's the part of the night where I call the police. pic.twitter.com/uMByxBEtYz
— Brianna Wu (@BriannaWu) October 11, 2014
The police just came by. Husband and I are going somewhere safe.
Remember, #gamergate isn't about attacking women. pic.twitter.com/ZU6oEVxMGL
— Brianna Wu (@BriannaWu) October 11, 2014
All this because she made a few fucking jokes on Twitter. About #GamerGaters. While being a woman.
Oh, but #GamerGate is about ethics.
But guess what, assholes:
Announcement: I AM NOT GOING ANYWHERE. I am going to keep making games. And I will keep speaking up for women in gamedev.
— Brianna Wu (@BriannaWu) October 11, 2014
To the women out there scared to make games because they see this happening, I swear – WE WILL CHANGE THIS CULTURE FOR YOU.
— Brianna Wu (@BriannaWu) October 11, 2014
RE: creepy cupcake
Funny. Most of the online threats I got were from people I knew offline. It’s almost like people online are real people, who I often interact with off the computer as well!
But I’m glad you don’t have that problem. Good for you.
RE: Kizone Kaprow
What the everloving fuck are you going on about?
Kizone Kaprow’s comment is basically spam, but the link is sort of interesting, showing what horrible dicks commenters at Reason are.
@LBT:
Ah, I think I know what Kizone Kaprow is saying. You see…
…I miss the psychic spam and his special castle. 🙁
Fun fact, they’re not calling Brianna “Literally Wu”.
Er, “now calling”, not “not calling”.