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Brianna Wu does this occasionally, where he basically says he regrets acting like a cunt to someone and he wants to mend fences.
It never feels genuine. He's not a genuine person. But that he's using the GamerGate TV show (produced by Norman Lear's production company Act III, in case you didn't know!) makes it even more bullshitty, because it's far more of a humblebrag than anything resembling an attempt to actually try and be reasonable.
I still very much doubt the GamerGate show will be produced, but worse things by lolcows have been created, so who knows if people will be stupid enough to do anything about it. Like everything else Wu is involved in, though, I'm betting he's greatly exaggerating his part in the process.
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I don't know where to put this, but Devolver Digital is behaving unprofessionally woke when it comes to someone like Marsupial Gamer wanting GamerGate 2.0 to happen. Speaking of GamerGate, this is the same Devolver Digital that Mike Wilson is in. You know, the male feminist cuckold that gave Anita Sarkeesian $10K from Devolver Digital back at E3 2021, while she bitches about GamerGate?
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Outrage Over ‘Call of Duty’ LGBTQ Pride Brings Us Full Circle to Gamergate / https://archive.is/ntkLi
Almost a decade ago, video-game culture helped give rise to the "anti-woke" movement that continues to plague us today
shoot-em-up video game 'Call of Duty' is the latest cultural product to go 'woke,' according to right-wingers. Activision
Another day, another multibillion-dollar corporate giant in the crosshairs of the “anti-woke” right. This time, it’s Activision Blizzard, the fifth-largest video game firm in the world, that aggrieved reactionaries are threatening to boycott.
As with so many of these stories, the inciting “controversy” is ridiculously minor. Nickmercs (real name Nick Kolcheff), a streamer who came up playing games including Activision’s Call of Duty titles and now has millions of subscribers across Twitch and YouTube, earlier this year partnered with the brand to launch his own “skin” in the war-based, first-person shooter franchise — fans could purchase these assets to play the game as his custom character. There are strong opinions in the gaming world about these influencer partnerships, so not everyone was thrilled with the addition. But that’s not even the main story here.
No, the real drama erupted a week after the Nickmercs bundle went on sale, when Kolcheff tweeted in apparent support of anti-LGBTQ protesters who fought LGBTQ supporters in Glendale, California outside a school board meeting about recognizing Pride Month. Replying to Esports broadcaster Chris Puckett, who shared a video of the chaotic brawl and tweeted, “Let people love who they love and live your own life,” Kolcheff wrote: “They should leave little children alone. That’s the real issue.”
By the next day, Activision had removed the Nickmercs products from their stores, and the Call of Duty Twitter account seemed to confirm that the decision was connected to Kolcheff’s comment on the Glendale fracas. The game also reiterated their commitment to Pride Month. (It has featured Pride content for several years.) Activision did not immediately respond to Rolling Stone‘s request for comment as to whether the decision to cut ties with Kolcheff was prompted by additional factors.
The same right-wingers who have lately pounced on Bud Light, Disney, Target and Chik-fil-A for efforts at expanding diversity and inclusion fired up the outrage machine to retaliate, with gamers announcing their intent to quit Call of Duty forever. Kolcheff didn’t back down from the tweet, saying on a stream that he thinks LGBTQ identities shouldn’t be discussed in school while arguing that the comment “wasn’t anti-gay.” Another big streamer with a custom CoD bundle, TimTheTatman (real name Timothy Betar), tweeted that Kolcheff was a friend and he therefore wanted his own product removed in solidarity — a request that Activision granted. His post received more than a quarter of a million likes and thousands of supportive comments.
The outrage campaign that quickly took shape around the incident mocked Call of Duty as “Call of Groomers,” alluding to the baseless homophobic and transphobic smear which holds that any discussion of queerness and gender with children is a pretext for pedophiles to prey on them. While not particularly catchy — and despite CoD only grooming kids for military recruitment — the slogan succeeded on Twitter, to the delight of major “anti-woke” influencers.
On first glance, this wave of indignation over a company’s nominal endorsement of Pride is exactly like the dozen or so that preceded it. If there’s an obvious difference, it’s that a violent video game glorifying war has stretched the reactionaries’ already strained definitions of “wokeness” to their absolute breaking point.
But this freaking out that a popular shoot-em-up entertainment has somehow been breached by liberal attitudes of acceptance is also a revealing throwback to the troll movement that opened the floodgates to such crusades almost a decade ago: Gamergate. In 2014 and 2015, male gamers waged relentless misogynistic harassment of women in the industry, using the excuse of a trumped-up media scandal to vent their fury at what they saw as progressive and feminist values in games. Targets were doxxed and threatened with rape and violence as these men lamented the supposed collapse of a purely masculine climate. In those days, the “woke” crowd was maligned as an army of “social justice warriors.”
The recent Call of Duty blowback of course follows the script of the past year’s increasingly extreme anti-LGBTQ rhetoric. However, it also echoes the old Gamergate narrative: a pastime regarded as dude-ish and heteronormative, resistant to any incursion of outsiders, now recognizes a diverse set of fans. You can no longer retreat into the sexless, murderous world of Call of Duty without risking the sight of a rainbow flag and getting incredibly mad that gay people exist — even online, on a virtual battlefield. Worse still, Activision welcomes those customers.
It’s a useful case study in the projection that underlies the past decade of right-wing resentment. For all the times that side claims liberals and leftists need the coddling comfort of “safe spaces” to operate in society, conservatives are the ones predictably incensed by the appearance of anyone else on the cultural territory they claim as their own: beer, big box stores, fast food, amusement parks, and, naturally, video games. The right feels threatened by the knowledge that they have no monopoly over these things — and they threaten “newcomers” in kind.
Moreover, the anti-LGBTQ activists must know this is a fight they can’t really win, except as a small and seething political class that tries to oppress and intimidate the larger, more tolerant whole of the country. Humans continue to defy and surpass traditional norms and categories. Companies, seeking to maximize profit, cater to as many of them as possible. The joke nowadays is that the right is cutting ties with so many brands, they’ll eventually have to go back to sewing their clothes and growing their food. But what the Call of Duty story reveals is that they won’t run out of stuff to protest — they can always start over at the beginning.
Almost a decade ago, video-game culture helped give rise to the "anti-woke" movement that continues to plague us today
shoot-em-up video game 'Call of Duty' is the latest cultural product to go 'woke,' according to right-wingers. Activision
Another day, another multibillion-dollar corporate giant in the crosshairs of the “anti-woke” right. This time, it’s Activision Blizzard, the fifth-largest video game firm in the world, that aggrieved reactionaries are threatening to boycott.
As with so many of these stories, the inciting “controversy” is ridiculously minor. Nickmercs (real name Nick Kolcheff), a streamer who came up playing games including Activision’s Call of Duty titles and now has millions of subscribers across Twitch and YouTube, earlier this year partnered with the brand to launch his own “skin” in the war-based, first-person shooter franchise — fans could purchase these assets to play the game as his custom character. There are strong opinions in the gaming world about these influencer partnerships, so not everyone was thrilled with the addition. But that’s not even the main story here.
No, the real drama erupted a week after the Nickmercs bundle went on sale, when Kolcheff tweeted in apparent support of anti-LGBTQ protesters who fought LGBTQ supporters in Glendale, California outside a school board meeting about recognizing Pride Month. Replying to Esports broadcaster Chris Puckett, who shared a video of the chaotic brawl and tweeted, “Let people love who they love and live your own life,” Kolcheff wrote: “They should leave little children alone. That’s the real issue.”
By the next day, Activision had removed the Nickmercs products from their stores, and the Call of Duty Twitter account seemed to confirm that the decision was connected to Kolcheff’s comment on the Glendale fracas. The game also reiterated their commitment to Pride Month. (It has featured Pride content for several years.) Activision did not immediately respond to Rolling Stone‘s request for comment as to whether the decision to cut ties with Kolcheff was prompted by additional factors.
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The same right-wingers who have lately pounced on Bud Light, Disney, Target and Chik-fil-A for efforts at expanding diversity and inclusion fired up the outrage machine to retaliate, with gamers announcing their intent to quit Call of Duty forever. Kolcheff didn’t back down from the tweet, saying on a stream that he thinks LGBTQ identities shouldn’t be discussed in school while arguing that the comment “wasn’t anti-gay.” Another big streamer with a custom CoD bundle, TimTheTatman (real name Timothy Betar), tweeted that Kolcheff was a friend and he therefore wanted his own product removed in solidarity — a request that Activision granted. His post received more than a quarter of a million likes and thousands of supportive comments.
The outrage campaign that quickly took shape around the incident mocked Call of Duty as “Call of Groomers,” alluding to the baseless homophobic and transphobic smear which holds that any discussion of queerness and gender with children is a pretext for pedophiles to prey on them. While not particularly catchy — and despite CoD only grooming kids for military recruitment — the slogan succeeded on Twitter, to the delight of major “anti-woke” influencers.
On first glance, this wave of indignation over a company’s nominal endorsement of Pride is exactly like the dozen or so that preceded it. If there’s an obvious difference, it’s that a violent video game glorifying war has stretched the reactionaries’ already strained definitions of “wokeness” to their absolute breaking point.
But this freaking out that a popular shoot-em-up entertainment has somehow been breached by liberal attitudes of acceptance is also a revealing throwback to the troll movement that opened the floodgates to such crusades almost a decade ago: Gamergate. In 2014 and 2015, male gamers waged relentless misogynistic harassment of women in the industry, using the excuse of a trumped-up media scandal to vent their fury at what they saw as progressive and feminist values in games. Targets were doxxed and threatened with rape and violence as these men lamented the supposed collapse of a purely masculine climate. In those days, the “woke” crowd was maligned as an army of “social justice warriors.”
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The recent Call of Duty blowback of course follows the script of the past year’s increasingly extreme anti-LGBTQ rhetoric. However, it also echoes the old Gamergate narrative: a pastime regarded as dude-ish and heteronormative, resistant to any incursion of outsiders, now recognizes a diverse set of fans. You can no longer retreat into the sexless, murderous world of Call of Duty without risking the sight of a rainbow flag and getting incredibly mad that gay people exist — even online, on a virtual battlefield. Worse still, Activision welcomes those customers.
It’s a useful case study in the projection that underlies the past decade of right-wing resentment. For all the times that side claims liberals and leftists need the coddling comfort of “safe spaces” to operate in society, conservatives are the ones predictably incensed by the appearance of anyone else on the cultural territory they claim as their own: beer, big box stores, fast food, amusement parks, and, naturally, video games. The right feels threatened by the knowledge that they have no monopoly over these things — and they threaten “newcomers” in kind.
Moreover, the anti-LGBTQ activists must know this is a fight they can’t really win, except as a small and seething political class that tries to oppress and intimidate the larger, more tolerant whole of the country. Humans continue to defy and surpass traditional norms and categories. Companies, seeking to maximize profit, cater to as many of them as possible. The joke nowadays is that the right is cutting ties with so many brands, they’ll eventually have to go back to sewing their clothes and growing their food. But what the Call of Duty story reveals is that they won’t run out of stuff to protest — they can always start over at the beginning.
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>Gamergate
I don't mind seeing Gamergate in a headline because it means I can immediately just disregard everything the retard saying it has to say.
All I read is this:
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Press F to do...something(?)
Feminist Frequency to disband at the end of the year
Feminist Frequency to disband at the end of the year
Bonus point about exhaustion and wellbeing. Usually they mention "safety" but I guess she forgot?
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What has the bitch even been doing the last five years? Seriously when is the last time anyone even noticed Anita Sarkeesian?
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I’ll never understand why Anita never covered Metroid: Other M, which is legitimately sexist (and has a bunch of other things horribly wrong with it)
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I think all she's done is do the usual DEI consultant gig. Hire one for better ESG score or just asscoverage in a future lawsuit.
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Part of me hopes FF's disbandment is because people actually got tired of the grift. Orr that the topics on injustices she was railing about have either been commodified or normified (eg: lack of representation) to where they can't be trotted out and paraded around any more.
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Gonna be 9 years soon and vidya its more pozzed than ever with no end in sight
Nothing short of musk buying nintendo or something like that could reverse this shit, and even then politics would just be back to normie-standards but all the other shit like greedy monetization and shit standards will remain
>bitches about sexism
Like bitch go choke on a dick as usual and stop shitting up the web
As for devolver, the only surprise is seeing a corpo account being that unprofessional, nigger should get fired before he fucks up and causes a scandal
Nothing short of musk buying nintendo or something like that could reverse this shit, and even then politics would just be back to normie-standards but all the other shit like greedy monetization and shit standards will remain
>has slutty demon avatar
>bitches about sexism
Like bitch go choke on a dick as usual and stop shitting up the web
As for devolver, the only surprise is seeing a corpo account being that unprofessional, nigger should get fired before he fucks up and causes a scandal
Fuck faggots, fuck streamers and fuck cowadoody fans: you crackhead niggers are just gonna keep buying that turd in a box forever, its been 15 fucking years since modern warfare, play another game you cunts!
More like the grift its over and shes moving to more profitable scams
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Anita never liked or played video games. If no one was paying or giving her a script on what to talk about it then of course she wouldn't touch it.
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Chasing down actual examples of sexism was never her grift. Other M had the bad optics of picking on a foreign nation instead of browbeating (western) male sexists.
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Based off a South Park game it's to break wind in front of someone's face.
Seems fitting.
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Well she doesn't play games and most likely her list of games came from someone else. That's what happened with the comics. She never bothered to read them. She just got a list from someone else.
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After all that controversy coming from Sweet Baby Inc, it looks like GamerGate 2.0 is back on the menu. Get ready, it's going to be a shitstorm.
Fag Alert Major Fag Alert
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So some GamerGate Joe Biden supporter is making a huge ass book on Gamergate in 2024……
I'm not making this shit up…..
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I know your post is nearly a year old and people already responded to you but, if I may, I'd like to add something that nobody else mentioned. In addition to what everybody else mentioned (Anita doesn't actually play games, Anita doesn't care about actual sexism, doesn't want to be accused of racism for going after a Japanese game) the reason she never covered it was because everyone else almost universally agreed that it was sexist (in addition to being a bad game)
See, the way these activist/grifter types generally work is they try to bait controversy to draw attention (and eventually, money) to their cause. This is why, for example, PETA will go after Pokemon for promoting animal cruelty instead of actual agreed upon instances of unethical treatment of animals, and this is why Anita generally tried to claim sexism when sexism wasn't there instead of focusing on actual legitimate examples of sexism. She never covered Other M because almost everybody hated it, and almost everybody agreed it was sexist. There was no currency in it for her.
The only way to generate attention on it was to defend it, which is what her fat acolyte and beta orbiter MovieBob did
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It's the same rage baiting bullshit journos do to drum up clicks.
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It would force her to admit that her "everything is sexist" bullshit is in fact bullshit, and even the "neckbeard incel soggy knees gamer" stereotype is bullshit and even those guys will criticize overtly sexist stuff. Sort of like nobody defends Duke Nukem Forever as "based" just because it includes some actual misogyny, because even that is cringe and the game itself is nearly unplayable cringe.