It’s been a pretty shitty week. I don’t think I need to explain why. So here’s something to help take the edge off — a new meme featuring a phrase anyone who’s ever said anything critical of GamerGate has heard, again and again: “Actually, it’s about ethics in games journalism.”
This new meme, which started really taking off today on Twitter and Tumblr, seems to be becoming the new “not all men.” Which makes sense: “Not all men” is to mansplaining what “Actually … ” is to Gatersplaining.
Here are some of my favorites, taken from Twitter and from the new Tumblr blog titled, naturally, Actually … it’s about ethics in games journalism.
I made one myself out of an old #NotAllMen meme:
I made one! #ActuallyItsAboutEthicsInGameJournalism #GamerGate #Gamersplaining pic.twitter.com/NQK1F6Myga
— David Futrelle (@DavidFutrelle) October 24, 2014
This blog, meanwhile, uses the phrase as a caption for New Yorker cartoons.
And then there’s this Tweet.
https://twitter.com/alqaeda/status/524985414973935616
Thank you, anonymous meme-makers, and whoever came up with this in the first place! We needed this.
Actually, it’s about being shitheel doucheweasels.
I’ve been laughing so hard at these all day.
Practically perfect in so many ways!
Hah! I needed a laugh. 😀
Slightly off topic, but this creepazoid you once wrote about, Attila Vinczer, is really stinkin’ up the joint at Raw Story today!
Supurb. The Al Qaeda one made me laugh (and the whole twitter account holds some excellent dark humor).
I love the Blade Runner one.
OK..the Blade Runner one made me cry laughing a little..and the Al-Qaeda one…lol
Ethics in videogame journalism = never mention that you find extreme objectification of the female main character during gameplay a bit distracting, that’s deeply unethical!!
How could you write this article without mentioning the best one? http://i.imgur.com/KSpYGnN.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/LwxOmKR.jpg
Oh, I REALLY liked the one with the One Ring. That was really clever. Thanks, David, for bringing those to us.
I loved the cat. It really did appear to be saying that!
I made one out of an old #NotAllMem meme:
https://twitter.com/DavidFutrelle/status/525771733299499009
WOMEN ARE UNETHICAL PROBABLY
The Blade Runner one, too good.
http://cdn.meme.am/instances/500x/55614257.jpg
My personal fave was the PvZ one. I can almost hear the zombies moaning “ethics ethicssss” and then, my Doom Shroom goes off on the lot of them!
http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2014/297/b/a/9ehk_by_jewelleddragon13-d840cru.jpg
“Actually, it’s about ETHICS in GAME JOURNAMALISM!!!” — every rage toon ever.
There’s also this gem:
https://twitter.com/ConstantFail/status/525711907748343808
Ooh, that’s a good one.
And here’s a better New Yorker cartoon:
https://twitter.com/NotFaulty/status/525687179646083072
Said this on twitter, but I’ll repost here in case there’s someone here with actual graphical skills: someone with tech skills should take http://www.allyourbasearebelongtous.com/gif/allyourbase.gif … and shop in “actually…” after “WHAT YOU SAY!!”
also, http://youtu.be/a6XBZMuQ2wE
My first try at posting a pic here. Hope I get the tags right.
[img]https://imgflip.com/i/dg0er[/img]