#GamerGate

Norasferatu 🧛

NoraReed

gamergate made the blueprint for radicalizing some kinds of nerds and created a few reactionary celebrities and also they did a really good job of testing what would be permissable

Brianna Wu

BriannaWu

1/ A high-profile journalist writing a book about online radicalization told me recently that all his research kept pointing back to Gamergate, and he regretted not taking it more seriously.

ThyBonesConsumed

ThyBonesConsumd

Keep in mind that THIS is what you're getting when you're buying Soyboypunk Current Year™ 1/? Also, I like how these so-called "anti-SJW" """""Centrists™""""" claim to

Joss Prior🍄...low-grade evil...

joss_prior

CW: Suicide, Transphobia.Please do not read unless you have a stoic disposition.This thread starts on 4chan in 2014, and explains how the worst internet trolls from 4chan, organized and persuaded

Katherine Cross

Quinnae_Moon

You're already hearing this a lot, I imagine, but those of us who have warned for years that what's said and done online is consequential, that people like this were

Barry Block

Mf144Simon

Why are Gamers Called Reactionaries? (A thread)If you look at mainstream Twitter discourse, you'd think gamers are Ben Shapiro-watching racist misogynists who love dunking on libs for no reason other

AntiFash Gordon

AntiFashGordon

1/ Let's talk about the New York Times firing editor Lauren Wolfe, and rise of the alt-right, starting in 2014 with GamerGate.Wolfe tweeted that she had "chills" on inauguration day.The

Rachel Thomas

math_rachel

There has been some great work on framing AI ethics issues as ultimately about power.I want to elaborate on *why* power imbalances are a problem. 1/ *Why* power imbalances are

one wag

Theophite

so i think it's basically that in 2014, tech realized that a million people's feelings on a topic could be focused into a laser and aimed at one entity, and

Peter Krupa

peterkrupa

pouring one out this morning for the outraged memelords on Reddit who are just figuring this out.https://twitter.com/Ike_Saul/status/1354783930839404547 a thing that is real is white guys on the internet who think

Gwen Snyder is uncivil

gwensnyderPHL

At this point it's just impossible to miss the broader WSB troll culture's deep antisemitism.There's just a flood of evidence here on Twitter that it's been aggressively co-opted by antisemitic

wake me when it's over, touch my face

Doubting_Tom

Not going to dunk on P*ter C*ffin for evading a block to see people talking about them, because I just checked their timeline despite being blocked myself.But they're on about

Lark @ Home, In Perpetuity

Larkspurns

Look. The quality of mercy is twice blessed, yeah? I have no fucking interest whatsoever in "reaching out" to shitsmears that want me and the people I love dead. However.

the traveler's blair waldorf

appleciderwitch

failure to address gamergate is just another point of this country's reinforcement and encouragement of white supremacist movements that were already on-going, GG came out of existing fringe movements onlinehttps://twitter.com/qorquiq/s

Katherine Cross

Quinnae_Moon

Wolfe, who was fired from the NYT for a tweet where she said she had "chills" after Biden landed in DC ahead of the inauguration, is the latest victim of

Cheryl Lynn Eaton

cheryllynneaton

I wonder who will control the Trump bots if Trump loses. I suppose they will go to the highest bidder in the private sector. Will they go Q? Johnny Depp?

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