[Thread warning! Mute now if you want to opt out of a history lesson on this drama/digital phenomenon]
I wrote about Gamergate for the sixth time today. I hope the next time I write about it, it is for a book.
A history of my writing on the topic for those who are new:
I wrote about Gamergate for the sixth time today. I hope the next time I write about it, it is for a book.
A history of my writing on the topic for those who are new:
First post, before it was called gamergate. The only other outlet that had mentioned this forming online mob-phenomenon prior was We Hunted The Mammoth. motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/…
side note: my article, THE FIRST ONE, is not on the wikipedia page for the gamergate controversy. 4+ articles from Vice there, why not mine? I was immediately harassed by that mob hungry for Zoe… and my story was reblogged with commentary on the daily beast to so...?
meanwhile look who is name-dropped there! Jesse Singal. How does this man continue to be an expert in things it is impossible for him to be an expert in??? 🤔
anyway, moving on.....
2nd post, sarcastic, trying to get people to laugh because convo had become absurd and trollish. Good post pointing out GamerGate had become many things at this point but conversation still centered around feminist issues medium.com/@fruzse/five-p…
2nd post, sarcastic, trying to get people to laugh because convo had become absurd and trollish. Good post pointing out GamerGate had become many things at this point but conversation still centered around feminist issues medium.com/@fruzse/five-p…
3) Legacy newspaper article abt the organized digital sabotage, privacy breaches, (hacking, doxxing, SWATing) as committed by this "movement" reaching historical proportions csmonitor.com/Technology/Tec…
those three were written in 2014. By then I had enough, because it had become too ludicrous and dangerous of a subject matter to cover. Quietly watched all of 2015. At the end of that year, Milo tried to slander me with this article!!!! WTF
breitbart.com/tech/2015/11/2…
breitbart.com/tech/2015/11/2…
article implying I called police on my own panel. I did not. He paints me as a liar, provides no evidence for it. Plus some dude filmed me????
I was able to disperse the mob he sent my way and get Milo to make 2 corrections in >24 hours because I can be a boss at COMMS 😎
I was able to disperse the mob he sent my way and get Milo to make 2 corrections in >24 hours because I can be a boss at COMMS 😎
dealing with that incident however, used up the last of my energy... didn't talk about the subject matter again publicly for a year+. I did wrote a poem about Gamergate but you'll have to wait for my e-chapbook Tekno Logika to read it....
5) Troll-focused article pointing out the gamergate connection to white supremacy and current administration ( bots + RUSSIA) …. I think I am going to put up a different edit of this on Medium, where I used more colorful and pointed languag maybe forbes.com/sites/fruzsina…
which brings us to today. this article could more or less be substituted for today's political climate forbes.com/sites/fruzsina…
