I‘m on a brief blog hiatus, but I wanted to direct your attention to idledillettante’s definitive account of how Eron Gjoni, Zoe Quinn’s vengeful ex-boyfriend, not only launched what became #GamerGate but has shaped and directed it both in public and behind the scenes. And it’s all carefully documented with screenshots of Gjoni’s own words online — on 4chan, on Reddit, on Twitter, and on his own blog, often in direct violation of the restraining order that’s supposed to prohibit him talking about Quinn online.
Here’s idledilletante’s summary of the whole sordid story:
1. Eron knowingly promoted his tell-all blog post about Quinn on 4chan, knowing it was likely to cause harassment.
2. Rather than try to quell the harassment (As he might have you believe), Gjoni actually basked in the attention, to try and stir up even more agita against his ex.
3. Once confronted with his actions, Eron tried to distance himself from #gamergate, and move his involvement of Quinn behind the scenes. Unfortunately we have evidence of this string-pulling.
4. Eron’s fight against his restraining order is merely a continuation of the harassment he was already engaging in. If he wins his legal battle he’s likely to post even more private info about Quinn as a reward for his backers.
5. Gjoni has essentially ruined his good name in pursuit of this revenge quest. He knows this, and it makes him bitter that his plans to sideline Quinn in her own industry have backfired so spectacularly.
6. Gjoni sexually harasses women critical of him; especially when caught in a lie or backed into a corner logically. I find this a telling clue about his real attitude about women, although Gjoni claims to be a feminist.
But I suggest you read the whole thing; the details are creepy and revealing indeed.
GOBACK really needs to go back to the drawing board, because the current gameplan isn’t working out for him at all.
@Goback and how much time does #GG actually spend talking about those issues as opposed to who some woman allegedly slept with or the videos some other woman dared to make that they disagree with? There was a very short time before I really knew any of the facts that I entertained the possibility that they might actually be sincere in wanting to fight corruption but even for the most “incurious” person it’s not hard to see what they’re really about.
As a researcher, I was so disappointed when I realized so much of this isn’t general human nature, but rather specific 4-chan[‘s idiosyncratic belief that anonymity, groupthink, mass opinion, and shouting leads to pureness, brilliance, truth, and progress. That shit ain’t interesting, that’s just some tiny group of internet weirdos.
ADDENDUM: Not that it being interesting would make up for it being terrible, of course. It’s just not useful to try to understand mechanisms for terrible behavior that don’t come from things that effect big numbers of people.
Finally, I mixed up affect and effect and have to go die now.
Did Cernovich watch that one episode on Seinfeld on repeat? The one where the guys stop masturbating and become brilliant, while Elaine stops and becomes an idiot? Because “When you don’t mastubate, your senses are sharper. You become more in touch with your primal instincts” sounds like something straight out of that episode.
Cernovich might want to read the various studies (for example http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7820161) concluding that abstinence, yes produces greater sperm volume and concentration, but also produces decreased motility, increased senescence, and abnormal morphology.
In other words, the exact opposite of super sperm. But lots more of it.
Buttercup:
Well, that works in his favor as well. If his *gag* “super serum” isn’t that potent then it’s a lot less likely that someone is going to come around in 2-3 months wanting a paternity test.
An STD test is another story, because no guy has ever lied about being clean, ever…
Mildlymagnificent, this needs to be its own post. Or possibly engraved on a mile-high granite monolith at the center of the internet. Seriously it is the heart of SO MUCH toxic spillage that poisons the internet (not to mention much of meatspace). We as a species would do so much better if this was a lesson humans learned early.
YESS! Blockquote monster avoided! *fistpump*
NIOg, I totally agree. Mildly Magnificent hit the nail right on the head– That’s why I’ve written about Gjoni for as long as I have, screencapping all this shit he says.
And w0rdspinner; I hadn’t seen that thing about JuiceBro Lawyer. Just makes him look even more paranoid and crazy; that guy is certainly crazy.
Thanks everyone for reading. That article took a lot of research, spelunking into Gjoni’s reality distortion field. The hardest part was organizing all the information so that the reader wouldn’t lose track of which was is up.
Amusingly, he wrote on Twitter this morning:
https://twitter.com/eron_gj/status/541374495723102209
Conspiracy Theories? Hilariously Misquoted? In Eron-ese, that’s pretty much an ackonwledgment of a direct hit.
His next hearing is soon, I’m hoping he will actually face criminal charges for all of this.
Bizzaro sperm am Number 1.
Gamergate has no legitimate issues.
However, the people gamergate is attacking do have legitimate issues, including with corruption in journalism – after all, they were *already* criticizing them before gamergate existed.
So, the solution here is simple: Stop being a gamergater and join the very enemies of it, who actually are working for the very goals gamergate CLAIMS to have.
Note how gamergate completely ignores actual corruption in AAA, as well as awful practices. Example: Shadows of Mordor, the newest Assassin’s Creed, general EA policies, the issue with Early Access games…
Gamergate only focuses on small indy devs.
This is akin to a group TOTALLY caring for corruption among corporations…
…but somehow only was targeting tiny family-run stores in backwater villages that have 4 customers/day while giving exxon and BP a free pass.
I suspected Gjoni didn’t just post an account of a shitty ex on the internet and then oh no, look what happened, he never wanted any of this you guys. It’s good to have it confirmed so I can show other people proof that he engineered this.
Also, I wonder how big the overlap is between guys who brag about “raw dogging” and guys who howl so very loudly about women “oops”ing them into fatherhood for fabulous prizes.
“Hilariously misquoted” seems to be Gater-speak for “Quoted me directly instead of repeating my second-hand retellings”.
The whole point of doxxing is outsourcing attacks. “I don’t have the resources or the gumption to attack this person myself, so I’ll set all this information to the four winds in the hopes that someone angrier, more unhinged or more determined than I am carries something out against them”.
Ew is right. I wouldn’t want him fully clothed in the same room as me, much less buck-naked and having sex.
I was thinking more along the lines of General Jack D. Ripper and his Precious Bodily Fluids, finding a totally loopy mansplanation for why he felt tired after “the physical act of love”. As though a couple minutes’ rather intense exertion wouldn’t explain everything…
Liquid fucking gold, y’all! LIQUID FUCKING GOLD!
Why is this man not in prison for contempt of court? Violating a restraining order = contempt. His ass should be inside a jail cell by now.
Question: I wanted to let y’all know of this super-reasonable MRA edit to a law case article on Wikipedia… Is there a more appropriate place to send that than here?
If not, here it is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burnham_v._Superior_Court_of_California#Procedural_and_factual_history
(I appended all of those “[citation needed”s to it. 😉 )
Exactly. It’s the worst sort of cowardice. Gjoni wanted to own Zoe Quinn, couldn’t control her, and felt he could recruit other men to control her. So he sicced a pack of rabid 4chan misogynists on her, then tried to step back and disown it when it got out of hand.
Hope he enjoys his handmade albatross necklace.
This is really consistent with all of EG’s other behavior. As shitty as he’s been, he seems to genuinely believe that he is not a bad person. So idledilettante writes a post, which EG reads and he thinks, Wow this makes me sound like a wanker, and his reaction is not to wonder if he is actually a wanker but to believe that idledilettante is, in some way, mischaracterizing him. It’s axiomatic to him that he’s not a bad person, so this post that makes him look like a bad person must be in error.
Will you let us know how it goes?
I wonder if it is ever going to come home to him that he is the baddie. I have been party to situations where that never happened. They just went on and on believing themselves to be dreadfully misunderstood.
“As shitty as he’s been, he seems to genuinely believe that he is not a bad person. So idledilettante writes a post, which EG reads and he thinks, Wow this makes me sound like a wanker, and his reaction is not to wonder if he is actually a wanker but to believe that idledilettante is, in some way, mischaracterizing him.”
Seems like S.O.P. with these assholes. When called on your abuse either blame the victim or some ridiculous shadowy conspiracy of your “enemies” .
Is it just me, or does Gijoni look like Roosh?
He does look like Roosh. Sounds like him, too.