My Career is not about Stopping Gamergate.
Gamergate is going to Gamergate.
Living in Constant Fear Because of Relentless Death Threats From Gamergate.
Gamergate proved the power of well-organized reactionaries to threaten Gawker's well-being.
When you're in Gamergate, you fundamentally lose your ability to assess reality.
Gamergate was almost five years ago and still some people have learned nothing.
Gamergate exposed the corruption and then did something about it by getting advertisements pulled.
I love that Clinton's
attack ad specifically names the alt-right, which includes Gamergate,” Wu tweeted.
On February 9th,
Brianna Wu would do a VentureBeat interview talking about Gamergate in greater length.
A consequence of Gamergate is the press more hesitant about discussing Giant Spacekat
or the work we do.
He said he hoped his case
wouldn't be turned into“an alt-right or a Gamergate issue,” but thought it inevitable.
Al Jazeera America had a Gamergate segment on December 9th,
with Wu prominently featured at the center of it.
Even before Gamergate had started, Wu
referred to themselves as the same sort of high profile icon they claim today:.
The Gamergate spin-off debate sub-reddit called GGDiscussion,
spotted the news that was posted by the moderatos on June 14th, 2018[backup].
The final results came a
week later with a blog post from Adobe, clarifying their position on the Gamergate controversy.
It was here that Wu,
along with Eric Johnson of Recode, brought Gamergate to the mainstream for the first time.
None of the links used in that piece when
it's talking about the incident directly correlate Gamergate to the tweeters.
What didn't change
is the fact that Wu would use Gamergate as a scapegoat for any negative reviews or feedback.
Given the level of controversy, to state that“Gamergate is an online movement that harasses
and threatens women” is too unequivocal.
Thus, after a year of investigating, the FBI closed down their Gamergate case due to a lack of actionable evidence.
Look, I was willing to entertain the outside chance you were legit-
even though the odds were astronomical this was Gamergate.
According to their initial tweets about it,
Brianna did it because they wanted to talk business and look past Gamergate political differences.
By the time the 2016 Elections came around, Wu(and others)
took what they did to Gamergate and applied it to Bernie Sanders.
What I would missed about Gamergate was that they were gamers- they
had spent years developing a tolerance for highly repetitive tasks.
Balance does not, for instance, mean that every voice critical of Gamergate must be immediately juxtaposed with an equally
strong voice supporting Gamergate.
Brianna Wu's intention in running for Public Office is to
pass the sort of legislation they had vied for during the Gamergate years.
Supporting this is a piece from the 21st of August-
Wu marking the first anniversary of Gamergate with an article on the Guardian.
They described Wu as a victim of Gamergate, and described Brianna's initial platform as something focused on diversity
and bringing jobs to tech sectors.
A controversy had recently broken out involving two panels that were
supposed to be at SXSW, each of which had taken opposite stances on Gamergate.
Perhaps the real issue was that Gamergate's aim to out corruption in the media industry seemed
like a threat to skeletons in his own closet?