what is gamergate

Originally posted by a deleted user

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No really what is it.

Is it a gate, are the dogs out? Who let the dogs out?

No, it's a terrible incident in which Richard Nixon played SSBB and LOST TO CHENEY.

gamergate is an online dating service

It is gaming heaven, and only the gamest shall pass.

this involves many hours without sleep. Will you die enougghhh???

gamergate is what happens when moms stop grounding their sons

the world's angriest babies

Gamergate is a campaign of harassment, death threats, and the bottled rage, misogyny and confusion of male gamers (and by extension their MRA counterparts).

It's pretty much about silencing critics of gaming culture while keeping their 'space' woman free or blaming them for what they perceive as attacks on their culture or whatever.

They respond with death threats, posting home addresses of their targets ("my I would never do anything with this *posts it for the homicidal nerds in the room*") and in general driving their targets into secrecy and hiding, including Zoe Quinn, Anita Sarkeesian (who for extra fun had to cancel a talk because of a very real terrorist threat due to lackidasical gun laws and lax security), and Brianna Wu (Who apparently made the mistake of declaring herself a feminist and who was largely unrelated to gamergate before then.)

It's the nasty, ugly side of gaming culture that has been festering on the internet for years before finally exploding when confronted with a world view they didn't find comfortable and did not feel like reconciling with and have thus done everything in an effort to make it go away instead of growing as human beings.

Literally the worst example of male nerd entitlement and the very best argument against "sexism is over".

as my good friend fish once said, be a gamer dater, not a gamer gater

please don't date video games

GAMER DATE
AT gamerDATE R DO T T COM.
GAMER
DATE
I'M SO ALONE
gamer dater but i hardly know k k n ow her please gamer
date
GAMER DATE AT GAMER DATER DOT COM PEACE OUT

Gamergate: (n) An unforgivable insult to all decent, hardworking Gators everywhere.

i'm in the computer lab right there and the guy next to me named his dog ron paul

hes just talkin about this dog

im trying to work out simpsons reciprocal indexes without laughing at his terrible dog name and hes so sincere its great

ron paul isn't as good a dog name as charles barkley but it's still pretty good

its a sausage dog

hes keyboardsmashing on some girls keyboard now & im kinda confused like
thats really annoying dude?
i'm not sure why she's not pissed off at him i guess they must be friends

but like he introduced himself today i guess shes pretending :v

This is gamergate

ron paul isn't as good a dog name as charles barkley but it's still pretty good

i cant wait to name animals after manga, anime, and video game references every day for the rest of my life

gamergate is the rebranding of the tea party to appeal to younger voters

Gamergate is what ruined Adam Baldwin for me.

The... the hero of *sniff* Canton, the *sniff sniff* man they call *sob*

gamer gate at gamer gater dot com.
for real though when i first heard about gamergate i thought it was like something to do with gamer dater.

I thought gators had taken over the world.

and I was right these are, by far, the worst gators

why are we naming all scandals "-----gate"? because of watergate? thats kinda dumb in all honesty.