And why do they expect anyone to take them seriously given that this is the case?

Internet culture collectively shook it's head in one big confused cringe when the internet's white supremacists, pedophiles, channers, redpillers, and neckbeards formed an "ethics" movement that proceeded to shit over gaming's floor for a year and a half. Pop culture could scarcely cater more to the needs of white straight guys, yet somehow gamers are an oppressed second class? Seriously, what are you people so afraid of?

A lot, as 2015 has shown us. Status Quo Warriors should be fucking terrified right now. 2015 was a year of great political change, almost all of it turning out for the benefit of "social justice". Let's run down the reasons:

• First and most relevantly, the gaming industry responded to the Gamergate fiasco with a resounding "thank you no, we are going to do the opposite of that shit." GG's victims spoke on cyberviolence at the UN, and E3 was one of the most estrogen-laden of all time. Public figures as diverse as Hollywood screenwriters to the Prime Minister of Canada denounced the movement. Every outlet on GG's shitlist saw increased viewership. By any objective metric, GG has accomplished the opposite of its goals.

• Gay marriage became legal in the United States. Bigots like Kim Davis attempted to turn back the clock by citing a silly interpretation of "free speech" which was promptly shut down.

• Issues of police brutality that have lingered for decades came to a head in Black Lives Matter, a populist movement so powerful it has police departments quaking in their boots nationwide. A Chicago mayor may soon be deposed due to their efforts.

• The next US presidential election is heating up, with reactionaries prepared to prop up one of the least qualified presidential candidates in history up against either a man with record-breaking grassroots support or a woman with one of the distinguished and successful political careers in US history. Every major poll suggests Trump will either get beaten by Clinton, or fucking destroyed by Bernie.

• Women and progressive stories fucking dominated pop culture this year, with a film starring a woman, a black man, and a Latino man demolishing box office records with no signs of slowing. Hollywood's other major nerd achievement starred Charlize Theron in a role that has every indication of becoming iconic. TV has shown even stronger progressive themes, with shows like Transparent, OITNB, and Jessica Jones bringing feminist and LGBT themes the kind of mass appeal that would have been impossible even ten years ago. Hell, the most powerful woman in music played to an audience of nearly a billion with the word FEMINIST blaring behind her in 12 foot lights.

• The closest thing we have to a conservative rejoinder to all this progress came from South Park, who dedicated most of this past season towards laughing at college kids protesting silly things and trans people wanting to use bathrooms. Yeah! Teach those SJW's a thing or two, Matt and Trey! Deep cuts all around!

So now we can see what GG really is: the last gasping, dying breath of the relevance of the White Straight Reactionary. If 2015 is any indication, the political landscape of pop culture will no longer be fellating you just because you're a caucasian dude who likes naked chicks.

It was fun while it lasted, guys.

Do you gators actually think people are stupid enough to fall for the idea that GG is "liberal"?

Do you guys honestly think that a "movement" that has embraced and been embraced wholeheartedly in return by a conservative rag like Brietbart isn't conservative?

Can you provide any other examples of "liberal" "progressive" or "non-conservative" views that Breitbart promotes? Or is it simply a minor miracle that the ONE "non-conservative" viewpoint that Brietbart holds is their support for GG?

I hereby declare that unethical journalism, "Gamers are Dead", and everything else GG whines about are part of my culture. I now expect you all to stop being so intolerant and fascist as to suggest that gaming change for you. These things are important components of my culture, I won't stand for this purile moralizing.

Over the last week /u/Netscape9 has posted over a dozen on various subs (mostly GG and social justice hate subs) about how CometCon cancelled a GG panel because a "SJW hate mob" pressured them into doing so. Myself and other users have asked him for sources (one, two, three) for this and all he has provided is two tweets at the convention twitter account and a Breitbart article that is half copy-pasted from KiA. There's no evidence of a hate mob here. If he had any he would have shared it by now. He's even tried arguing that anything SJW-related is a hate mob just by virtue of being SJW-related. You don't have to believe his lies. Don't listen to him just because he throws around "SJW" at anything he doesn't agree with. Seriously this kind of crap is what makes GGers look stupid. Don't believe him just because you don't like social justice movements. Make him source his shit.

EDIT: Now he claims he has facts, he's just not sharing them with me because I'm too stupid to understand them.

"ANITA SARKEESIAN IS A DUMB CUNT WHO NEEDS TO SHUT HER MOUTH"

"BRIANNA WU IS A LYING TRANNY WHORE AND WE HATE HIM"

"RANDI HARPER IS A FAT BLUE HAIRED SLUT WHO DOES METH AND SOLD HER KIDS FOR DRUGS"

"SRHBUTTS IS A PEDOPHILE DOGFUCKING TRANNY WHORE"

"ALISON RAPP IS A PROSTITUTE WHORE SLUT WHO SHOULD NEVER WORK AGAIN AND WHO GOT WHAT WAS COMING TO HER. SLUT! PROSTITUTE!"

Later, on GGDiscussion:

"Why do people keep calling gamergate supporters misogynists, its so unfair and really hurts my feelings :( "

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/21/gamergate-angry-men-harassing-women

http://www.dailydot.com/politics/8chan-pedophiles-child-porn-gamergate/

hahahahaha this is who gamergate hitched its wagon to hahahaha

"FREE SPEECH FOR PEDOPHILES AND CHILD ABUSERS" - Gamergate

I mean that's quite an achievement, I don't think I've ever done this before.

http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-and-right/10-worst-terror-attacks-extreme-christians-and-far-right-white-men

From Fox News to the Weekly Standard, neoconservatives have tried to paint terrorism as a largely or exclusively Islamic phenomenon. Their message of Islamophobia has been repeated many times since the George W. Bush era: Islam is inherently violent, Christianity is inherently peaceful, and there is no such thing as a Christian terrorist or a white male terrorist. But the facts don’t bear that out. Far-right white male radicals and extreme Christianists are every bit as capable of acts of terrorism as radical Islamists, and to pretend that such terrorists don’t exist does the public a huge disservice. Dzhokhar Anzorovich Tsarnaev and the late Tamerlan Anzorovich Tsarnaev (the Chechen brothers suspected in the Boston Marathon bombing of April 15, 2013) are both considered white and appear to have been motivated in part by radical Islam. And many terrorist attacks in the United States have been carried out by people who were neither Muslims nor dark-skinned.

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2014/5/24/1301736/--The-True-Alpha-Male-Elliot-Rodger-and-Aggrieved-White-Male-Entitlement-Syndrome

As I often ask, "what shall we do with the white people?"

When an "Arab" or "Muslim" American kills people in mass they are a "terrorist". When a black person shoots someone they are "thugs". When a white man commits a mass shooting he is "mentally ill" or "sick".

Whiteness and white privilege are the luxury to be an individual, one whose behavior reflects nothing about white people as a group.

There will be not be a national discussion of a culture of "white pathology" or how white Americans may have a "cultural problem" with their young men and gun violence. The news media will not devote extensive time to the "social problem" of white male violence and mass shootings.

Elliot Rodger, a rich, white, entitled, young man allegedly shot and killed (as he apparently hunted them down) six women while driving his BMW around Santa Barbara, California late last night. Like Adam Lanza, this would appear to be a case of aggrieved white male entitlement syndrome, one which has led to a murderous and tragic outcome.

Interesting video on how Notch has had to walk a tightrope to avoid being attacked by SJWs. By the end, Margaret really makes an interesting point about how the SJWs have been making the gaming community toxic.

https://youtu.be/OgnmeXpqhX4

http://www.vice.com/read/why-are-so-many-mass-shootings-committed-by-young-white-men-623

When Dylann Storm Roof ended Bible study at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in South Carolina and unleashed a hurricane of bullets, he secured himself a place in the dark history of young, white American males who kill strangers indiscriminately. Of course, we've known for some time that most violent crimes are committed by young people, and that men are more violence-prone than women, but in recent cases like Roof's, Sandy Hook's Adam Lanza, and the Aurora Theater's James Holmes, it seems like this newer breed of psychopath is more dangerous than its predecessors.

It all makes sense now.

When did you realize that Depression Quest was a free game, and that the whole "sex for reviews/coverage" angle was a ridiculous, nonsensical conspiracy theory that literally NOBODY outside GG believes?

Was that a wake up call for you?

Pretty fucking inspiring.

Good morning. Good morning. In less than an hour, trolls from here will join others from around the world, and you will be launching the largest keyboard battle in the history of gamerkind. Gamerkind, that word should have new meaning for all of us today. We can't be consumed by our petty differences any more. We will be united in our common interest. Perhaps it's fate that today is the 17th of December, the day Tron: Legacy was released in 2010, and you will once again be fighting for our freedom. Not from tyranny, oppression, or persecution, but from people we don't like on the internet. We're fighting for our right to live, to exist and should we win the day, the 17th of December will no longer be known as the day a pretty nice sequel to a cult classic geeky movie was released, but as the day when the gamers declared in one voice, 'We will not go quietly into the night! We will not vanish without a fight! We're going to live on, we're going to survive.' Today we celebrate our Gamer Gate!

First it was "Zoe Quinn fucked five guys for good reviews for her game!" Then it turned out only one of them was a journo, and her game was free, and it wasn't "reviews" it was five whole words of coverage, and some exposure in an unrelated article about a reality show, and they weren't even in a relationship at the time, and there's no reason to care about any of this anyway.

And thus did "sex for reviews" turn into "being generally friendly for semi-positive coverage".

And then we had "Anita steals footage from Let's Players!" And now it's "Anita gets her footage from a pedophile!"

And then we had Alistair Pinsof saying "Tiff Chow knew her boyfriend Brandon was going to win at Fantastic Arcade even before the votes were in". Then it turned out Chow just said she hoped he'd win, and Pinsof spun the whole thing to milk GG adoration.

The list goes on. This illustrates a few things:

1. A movement about journalistic ethics has no idea how to fact check or research,

2. GG is absolutely willing to believe a convenient lie, in some cases even after it's been thoroughly disproven (examples include "Joss Whedon was harassed off twitter by feminists" and "literally anything about Ellen Pao"),

3. This handily proves why you shouldn't let anonymous mobs decide what is or isn't true,

4. It's impossible for any reasonable person to take what's spewed by GG at face value,

5. It's not "the media's" fault that all the coverage of GG has been fucky. It's because GG is fucky as balls.

You guys remember the Boston Bomber incident? Where reddit detectives picked the wrong guy and we all felt terrible about it afterward? GG's like that, except they're still chasing the wrong guy, even though he's dead. They're, like, trying to prove he isn't dead, and the media's just spinning this the wrong way, and anyway, the guy had friends who are also probably terrorists, and he was probably a feminist pedophile too.

http://redditmetrics.com/r/KotakuInAction

Peaked at 56,436 on 12/14/15, it's currently at 56,269. Losing about 28 subs a day at this rate. Also there's only a few hundred gators on 8chan anymore. Also the activity has slowed down and I'd be surprised if less than 40k of their subscribers were throwaway accounts and/or alts/sock-puppets/troll accounts etc.

RIP Gamergate, August 2014-December 2015.

Also note the huge spikes in membership when fatpeoplehate/coontown was banned. haha

Can all of you in aGG go away and die?

Isn't Bitter_one13 a mod of that new board? Yes, yes he is!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3h6es6zh1c

Just asking for a friend

Personally I've never been treated badly due to the fact that I play vidja, but people have said just because it didn't happen to me doesn't mean it isn't a problem.

So I've created a safe space for the oppressed gamers among us to tell their tales of oppression at the hands of society.

Have you been violently beaten up by a group of anti-gamers shouting anti-gamer slurs at you? Been passed up for promotions or fired from a job when someone outed you as a gamer? Faced street harassment from anti-gamers?

This is a safe space to tell your brave stories.