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>	This industry is beyond corrupt. It is beyond destructive. It’s become a cult, so bloated on its own self-righteousness and loathing of everyone who doesn’t conform to the hivemind that it is that it’s impossible to stay and not become either part of that hivemind or completely fucking insane.	<
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/pol/ explains GamerGate

GamerGate was an event that happened in 2014 after some foid fucked reviewers to get good ratings on her shitty game. SJWs wanted to cancel gamers, so they decided to leak on 4cuck to defend their precious video games.

Then, a bunch of giggle chats sent death threats and bomb threats to the foids involved. 4channers usually say GamerGate is the reason Trump won in 2016 evendoe this very likely wasn't the case because nobody in the real world who actually matters cares about some obsessed shitskin videogames. GamerGate is what led to Moot leaving 4cuck, leading to his creation of /qa/, the birthplace of the Sharty and general soy culture, However, GamerGate likely did not have a hand in the development of the nu-male concept itself that eventually became the basis for the soyjak.

Zoe Quinn - The Former Center of the Controversy

Chelsea Van Valkenburg, aka Zoe Quinn, is an indie game developer who fucked her way to the top of the indie game industry without a single recognizable skill, meaning she prostituted herself to sexually starved male gaming journalists in exchange for positive reviews. This is comparable to being king of the hobos.

Her crimes are so numerous that going into detail about them would take up too much space in this article, so here's a highlighted list instead.

Things that Zoe has done include, but are not limited to:

• Cheating on her boyfriend with at least 5 different people, all of whom could give her game positive coverage or otherwise further her career.
• Fucking her PR agent
• Fucking the judge of one contest she was a finalist in
• Fucking two judges of a separate contest she won
• Fucking gaming news journalists to help her cover up the aforementioned acts
• Intentionally sabotaging at least three charities for feminism and colon cancer
• Sabotaging a fourth charity and getting a major figure in the gaming industry fired as a bonus
• Setting up a scam to replace those charities
• Stealing the money donated to said charities
• Planning to set up a charity for victims of trolling and probably steal the money from that too
• Faking a mugging to ask for pity donations
• Asking for donations for her broken computer
• Fucking her married boss to advance at her job
• Sending white knights to harass people who disagree with her on the internet
• Getting several websites shut down by her personal army
• Sexually harassing a man and using intimidation tactics to make him apologize for exposing her
• Being a feminist
• Raping her boyfriend (according to her *own* definition of rape)
• Threatening to kill herself if her boyfriend exposed her
• Posing naked online for money
• Convincing her mentally ill boyfriend he was going crazy when he suspected her of cheating
• Faking her own doxing and hacking
• Convincing various sites to suppress bad press about her using her connections
• Making up sob stories about abuse to keep people from exposing her
• Threatening to ruin people's careers for exposing her
• Faking harassment to promote a game about depression
• Silencing people with depression when they criticize it
• Creating a game using something that can't be considered programming
• Starting a raid of a site for people with depression to promote her depression game
• Stealing a game
• Capitalizing on the death of Robin Williams to promote her game
• Pretending that online trolling has left her homeless
• Being on a site that would try to get suicidal people to kill themselves
• Stealing code
• Beating up a tranny for being a tranny
• Claiming she murdered someone
• Trying to get a porn photographer fired by claiming she sexually harassed her because she got mad that Zoe stole her money

And the list goes on and on.

Most importantly, when all this became public, specifically the part where she fucked a gaming journalist who gave her favorable coverage, gamers began demanding more transparency in gaming journalism, to which the gaming media responded with a hefty "fuck you".

The media's plan, step by step

So began the long, convoluted road of retarded damage control by the gaming press. The entire thing could have been avoided, had they simply admitted fault, fired the reporters that failed to disclose their personal relationships with game devs and promised to not let it happen again.

Instead, the media went on an all out war against the gamers for whom they write, alienating its entire readership and turning from journalists who write about games for gamers, to journalists who write about gamers for other journalists. Effectively reducing their readerbase to less than three.

First, Shift the Goal Posts

First in the bag of cheap, journo tricks that only work in old media was "Faulty Logic|Framing the narrative", "Moving the goal posts" or "Spinning". Basically, trying to change the topic. This will be a well they will often go to throughout this entire ordeal even though it had long since run dry.

The plan was to change the topic and make it about feminism and harassment, instead of what it was really about, corruption in journalism. Soon gaming websites were flooded with articles about how poor Zoe is being trolled by stupid, mean gamers who are only doing it because they hate strong, independent women in gaming who only occasionally drink an entire bucket of cum.

This fooled nophono. Anyone who was in on what was going on knew what this was really about, and even the feminists (who usually jump to the defense of any woman in gaming, no matter how wrong she is) were unable to preform the necessary mental gymnastics needed to make an argument of how sleeping around to get ahead was consistent with women's lib. Some of them were willing to denounce Zoe, while most chose to simply shut their mouths and bury their heads in the sand, like a good feminist should.

Step Two, Fire Anyone who Doesn't Toe the Line

Soon one of the mods of " Shitty Webcomics Tumblr", who is an actual journalist and writes gaming news articles as a hobby in his spare time, handed in his resignation along with several other reporters to the sites they wrote for after he revealed that the entire industry is keeping a code of silence on this entire thing and anyone within the industry pressing the issue is marked as a traitor and swiftly disposed of.

Gaming sites have no problem firing their writers because for every one of them there are 20 more waiting to take their place. Since gaming sites have nothing even resembling standards, no credentials are required, making the hiring pool wider than Zoe's vagina. So the "journalist" shills replacing the poor schmucks who got shit-canned (probably on the same day) are a bunch of dime-a-dozen blogtard nobodies, with nothing new, interesting, or insightful to say whatsoever.

Step Three, Call Gamers Faggots

When this didn't work, the highly professional reporters turned to twitter and began calling gamers fat, neckbearded, virgin, loser, autistic, terrorist nerds who spend all day masturbating in their mother's basement. All of this and more is true, but this is far from the professional conduct expected from "journalists". Try to imagine these kinds of tweets from anyone who is an actual part of the press... Now try to imagine someone who isn't from FOX News. You think Walter Cronkite ever rented out one of the back pages of a newspaper to call JFK a faggot? Probably not.

They even went so far as to create a tag called #describeagamerin4words, 50% of which was being used to laugh at journalists. These people were dumb enough to attack their audience. Nice going.

Step Three 1/2, be Forced to Apologize by your Editor for Calling Gamers Faggots

Hilariously, word got back to the editors, CEO's and sponsors of these sites and many of the "journalists" were humiliated and forced by them to make public apologies.

Apology accepted, you faggots

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  MovieBob humiliated and forced to apologize by his editor
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  Another gaming journalist being forced to apologize by his editor
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  Third journalist being forced to apologize

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  Someone about to get fired

Step Four: OH SHIT! PEOPLE ARE LEAKING INFO!

Randi Harper joins the fry

One of the oldest techniques of the journalism trade is the leak, only this time, it was used against them.

As would be expected, a lot of writers who wanted to tell the truth about what was going on were not happy about being told to get with the party line or join the unemployment line. They were even less happy when they were told to write articles denouncing gamers or get fired. So they did what journalists do and leaked information.

Many people working for gaming press began anonymously posting wherever they could and exposing the gaming site's strategy ahead of time. They exposed that they were planning to try and change the topic, how they were planning to do it, what they were going to change the topic to, and the reason they were doing it, which was that they were all getting angry calls from sponsors who were paying attention and were not fooled by any of this so they started getting dropped by them and hemorrhaging money.

All the negative attention prompted a massive letter writing campaign where any site or reporter suspect of misconduct was swiftly told on to his editor. But, since the editors were already in on this and refused to do anything, the emails were then sent to the sponsors instead.

The sponsors, not wanting to be associated with sites known for sex scandals and having their reporters call their readership fat racists, started calling up the sites and demanding an explanation as to why they were being flooded by complaints by people telling them that one of their clients just called them a faggot on twitter. The effectiveness of this became known thanks to more leaks and only lead to more emails being sent, driving the gaming sites to go into maximum damage control mode and...

Step Five, "Gamer" and "Gaming" are DEAD!

Finally, in a pathetic, last ditch effort to stop this, the correspondents started going on a final, coordinated PR assault between several gaming news websites that together all published about 20 articles on the same day about how the terms "Gamer" and "Gamer Culture" are officially dead. Essentially trying to stop the bleeding by saying gamers can no longer criticize them because gamers as an identity have ceased to exist overnight. But, as happy as we would have been for that to be true, sadly it isn't. Hilariously, they even used non-gaming websites that are part of the same news network to post more of these articles to create the false impression that this is the popular opinion shared by multiple people.

This was made even easier by the cross-breeding between all news sites. A big part of them is represented by a single PR firm or are a part of a larger parent company. Also, of the gaming journalists that DO have jobs, many have to write for multiple sites just to make ends meet. Allowing some to infiltrate some actually reputable news sources like Forbes and The Guardian as "contributors" (basically not actually a part of the paid staff, just amateurs trying to get publicity being used by the site as filler material) and create the impression that this is serious.

I guess gamers aren't real anymore because news sites said so. Time to stop criticizing them and go home guys.

However, both thanks to the leaks and to the fact this was all so transparently coordinated, no one bought it (not that they would have anyway). It is unclear what the sites were trying to achieve by this unless they seriously believed that posting all those articles would immediately convince any gamer who read them that gaming isn't real anymore.

Step Six through eighty: ???????????????

From then on the strategy became a never-ending (six months and counting as of this writing) display of flailing ranging from writing 100 more articles (that didn't help much because anyone who cares about this already knows what's going on and those who don't give a fuck will continue not to), to threatening to call the police, to a petition signed by 600 "Game Developers", urging gamers to "Stop the hate" the reported number quickly inflated to "thousands of signatures".

On a fun little side-note, Someone went through the list's "A" count and found that the majority of people listed were either journalists, have never worked on a single game in their life, or worked in an irrelevant role on maybe one or two games like publicity or being the fucking janitor or something. Of those that actually did make games, most made perhaps one shitty iPhone game. In response, Boogie2988 made a counter petition asking game journalists to cut the shit and it got more than ten times as many signatures.

To get back to the point, all the attempts only drew more attention to GamerGate, making the ad-space on the sites involved worthless regardless of whether they successfully smeared the people complaining about them or not.

So what are the actual problems with game journalism?

Fair and balanced.

So now you must be asking: "What's the actual problem that people are protesting?". I'm glad you asked!

Social Justice pandering

The first issue at hand is the sudden shift to political agenda in gaming press over the last few years.

The field has become overrun by Tumblr feminists, white knights, social justice warriors and scam artists. Those who are not actively part of any of those while working in the gaming press are pressured by those who are from within and from without to conform or find another job. Resulting in a flood of brilliant articles like:

• How games oppress women
• Why seeing tits in a video game is misogyny and gave me a panic attack
• Rape in video games
• How women are raped by video games
• 5 ways a video game raped me

and

• Raping the rape-rape in rape town video game rape

At the moment the various gaming sites are trying to paint these complaints as a bunch of fat guys who don't want to let girls into their clubhouse. Ignoring the fact that maybe it's easier to let them into your clubhouse when you've already stuck your meat wand into every orifice in their body like these journalists seems to have done.

Which brings us to the next problem...

Zero distance between subject and reporter

In the wake of GamerGate columnists, when they are not already colluding on ideological grounds in an attempt to convert gaming into left-wing propaganda, have been found to be:

• Befriending the people they write about
• Going to parties with the people they write about
• Dating the people they write about
• Sleeping with the people they write about
• Financially supporting the people they write about
• Being financially supported by the people they write about
• Entering business ventures with the people they write about
• Profiting from the business ventures they enter with the people they write about
• Using their position to drum up press and profit from the business ventures they enter with the people they write about
• Share their PR firms and mother corporations with the people they write about
• Collude to take down the competition with and for the people they write about
• And countless other improprieties

The entire indie game dev scene is in bed (sometimes literally) with their reporters, conducting shady, back-door business deals to promote each other either for favors, sexual or otherwise, or under the command of a larger corporation that owns both the person being written about, the person who is doing the writing and the award show in which the former wins, justified by the writings of the latter.

Paid review scores

But it's not just cocksucking and marxism that can effect your score, there is also money at play.

Gaming companies impose score-base embargos on reviewers in exchange for early access, pay sites to become their personal PR department (either directly or by buying up their ad spaces at inflated prices just before releasing the game), whine and dine them, bribe them with anything from 5 star hotels to literal prostitutes and expect to, in exchange, have them give their game a perfect score (as well as fake the user scores on sites where those exist) so that those who buy the games based on early aggregator scores won't know what kind of shit they got until it's too late.

You Think Maybe a Flowchart Would Make This Easier for you?

Wait, this is no longer updated. Pending new flowchart.

Celebrity Smackdown

Somehow people who actually matter got wind of this (not e-celebs) and got involved. Number one was Adam Baldwin of "Firefly" who coined the term "#GamerGate". He was closely followed by feminist professor Christina Hoff Sommers, Hideki Kamiya (who hates Kotaku but then went apeshit like he always does and blocked everyone), The owner of WikiLeaks, The lead singer of "Disturbed", journalist Milo Yiannopoulos, Richard Dawkins (just asked some questions about clickbait but didn't get involved) and other dipshits.

On the opposing side some celebrities joined the anti-GG side, but aside from cocked up has-been Adam Sessler, none of them tweeted about it more than twice.