Gamergaters claim credit for Hulk Hogan’s victory over Gawker, recommend suicide to Gawkerites

Milo: “DADDIES”

Me:

Also, I want to remain in complete denial that such a thing as a H*lk H*g*n s*x t*p* exists [censored for the sensitive, and those prone to getting vivid mental images]. Let’s just call it ‘Hulk Hogan’s crocheted pot-holder’ or something.

“Our ethics have won”

“DADDIES”

I used to work at a group home for troubled teens. The pay was terrible, not to mention having to deal with a whole bunch of angry, demanding teens. So staff members quit on a regular basis, as soon as they could line up something better.

Every time, without fail, every kid who’d ever had a problem with the person who quit would say, “I got so-and-so fired!”

Looks like some of those kids grew up to be GamerGoonz.

At first I was thinking of Hulk Hogan calling out Gamergate, saying something like, “What the hell are you guys talking about?” Or saying it’s wrong to encourage suicide. Wouldn’t it be awesome to see such a testosterone idol they probably aspire to be like turn out to say something that (GASP) a feminazi would say?

Then I saw the last pic. Not the best sign.

ETA: Yeah, I wrote this knowing practically nothing about Hulk Hogan. Now that “I Am a Real American” song sounds even more like the anthem for every reason why the rest of the world loves to insult ‘Murica.

On second thought, my previous comment was unfair to the group home kids: they’re teenagers, they’re supposed to act like teenagers, and given the problems in their lives, that bit of wishful thinking was probably the only way they felt they had any power at all.

Regardless of what I might think of Hogan personally, the verdict sets a good precedent for revenge porn victims. Make it a financial loss instead of profit, and other sites are going to decide it’s not worth the risk.

Would be interesting to see the GamerGoonz’ reaction if the precedent led to Jennifer Lawrence or any of the other victims effectively shutting down the sites that showed their stolen pictures.

@syntax

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As for this post, I’m starting to feel like we need content warning and maybe some ROT13 or something to hide Milo’s tweets from now on.

(No, not seriously, but just ewww.)

I think it’s wrong that they put up Hogan’s s*x t*pe, but it’s really hilarious how if it was their side putting up a sex tape/nude pics of someone they hate (which they have done before!) it would be totally morally fine. Do…do Gators think they are above morality or something? Or do they not care if they are moral, but for some reason care (or pretend to care to get people to think they aren’t total shitheads) if other people are, when it’s someone they don’t like doing whatever it is they think is wrong, but yet they themselves do on a more than regular basis? I guess morality is something that should apply to other people, when they are dealing with the precious Gamergaters’ feels, but they do not have to abide by their own rules. Hypocrisy at its finest. Or maybe, for some unknown and confusing reason, they think they are doing what is moral when they do the exact same bad things they accuse others of, but their enemies are immoral no matter what? Gah!

Man, I should really stop twisting my brain into a pretzel trying to figure out misogynist/bigot logic. It makes my head get a ow.

And EWEWEWEWEWEWEW at the “Daddies” tweet. What is wrong with Milo, for real?

Even in the realm of manospherians, GribbleGrots are some of the most despicable people I’ve ever had the misfortune of running across.
The endlessly parroted cry of “ethics” that even they can’t believe is true anymore;
the whiny, entitled way they demand that everything cater to them and nobody else (while also saying that “SJWs” should just go make their own games, and then getting incredibly angry whenever they do because holy fuck, why isn’t this game catering to my straight white maleness);
the way they openly combine the misogyny and toxic masculinity of the manosphere with video games so that everyone outside of the video game “culture” can go back to believing we’re all just children or angry basement-dwellers;
the never-ending harassment that comes from said misogyny and toxic masculinity;
the way they are just as intentionally dense as the manosphere when it comes to reading comprehension so that they can misconstrue everything you say and try to turn it into you somehow being the evil person;
the fact that they run on the exact same sort of form-letter-response thing that manospherians will do whenever they drive-by troll, so even attempting to actually engage in a conversation with them just ends up with you hearing the literal exact same thing you’ve heard five million times before…

Sorry for the rant, it’s just always incredibly frustrating to remember that my favorite hobby is so widely infested by such disgusting people.

@Josh and @Tara:

I’m in the same camp as you two on that. I really do want to see this set a precedence for revenge porn victims. (Of course, I could point out that Hulk being a cishet rich white dude might have helped him considerably in that regard).

Though, GGers celebrating this makes me doubly happy that he was effectively scrubbed from the WWE after that video of him dropping racial slurs. He’s not mentioned in broadcasts, they don’t sell his merchandise, and they don’t promo him. He doesn’t exist to them anymore.

@paradoxical intention

Ha, yeah, we FINALLY get to stop hearing about how Hogan is the greatest wrestler ever. I wonder if they’ll take him out of the next game’s wrestlemania mode? Just skip over the Andre match entirely?

ETA: And yeah, Hogan being a ‘white’ (he’s mixed, but his mother would be considered ‘white hispanic’ so it doesn’t really matter) male definitely helped his case. That and being a celebrity.