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<strong>Welcome to the official Wiki of #GamerGate and #NotYourShield.</strong>
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<strong>Welcome to the official Wikipedia of #GamerGate and #NotYourShield.</strong>
  
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#GamerGate is a hashtag and quasi-"movement" of gamers around the world that began in August of 2014.  #NotYourShield is a sister hashtag, created to lend a greater voice to female and minority gamers who supported #GamerGate and who were dismissed and ignored by the games media.
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<strong>GamerGate 2019 Anniversary Contest Winners:</strong><br>
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Mikisayaka33  -LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD<br>
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Spark<br>
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Hyatt<br>
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Gamergater123<br>
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Np99 <br>
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<strong>on behalf of gamers everywhere, you have our deepest thanks for your hard work!</strong>
  
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The #GamerGate Twitter hashtag was originally coined by actor Adam Baldwin in response to the mass censorship of gaming sites occurring around the so-called "Burgers and Fries" scandal.  This scandal concerned the public discovery that a little known indie game developer named Chelsea Van Valkenburg (nomme de plume Zoe Quinn) had cheated on her boyfriend with a journalist from the gaming site Kotaku and four other people in the games media industry.  Gamers around the 'net took an immediate interest in the scandal, because Kotaku had already attracted some attention for giving Quinn's game, Depression Quest, unusually positive coverage.  Suspicion of industry relationships and quid-pro-quo favors among the videogames industry and press had been going on for years, and it seemed that a smoking gun had finally been found.
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To the shock of the gaming communities however, a wave of censorship descended across the topic like an iron curtain.  Every prominent games forum on the 'net banned discussion of the scandal, and just one single thread on Reddit saw over forty thousand comments deleted.  Even 4chan, the once legendary site where you could discuss almost anything, banned people from discussing the issue.  The games media declared that there was no scandal, and "nothing to see here." When this was challenged, the response came in the form of a nonsensical accusation that gamers interested in the topic were misogynists, and only interested because the subject of scrutiny was a woman's relationship.  The public's concern about improprieties in the games media industry were not just dismissed - they were utterly silenced.  In response, gamers created their own communities on Reddit and 8chan with a special emphasis on free speech and activism.
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The censorship campaign sparked even further public backlash, and the situation grew more heated until August 27th and 28th of 2014, when thirteen major games media sites released a series of articles now known colloquially the "Gamers Are Dead" articles.  Beginning with author Leigh Alexander of Gamasutra, these articles all shared identical messaging and tone, and united to form a simple, political, and utterly untrue statement: "Gamers, as a demographic and hobby, are all sexist, misogynist, racist, horrible people and the games industry should discount them as an audience."
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== GamerGate in Brief ==
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GamerGate is a hashtag and consumer-revolt of gamers around the world that began in August of 2014.  #NotYourShield is a sister hashtag, created to lend a greater voice to female and minority gamers who supported #GamerGate and who were dismissed and ignored by the games media.  Beginning in 2014 the video games media, spurred by a scandal involving one of their own, launched a vicious attack on gamers and gamer culture. Their goal was the self-professed slander of "gamer" as an identity and the pushing of a "Social Justice" political agenda into the world of videogames through cronyism, censorship, and collusion within the videogame trade press and mainstream media.
  
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The gamer community immediately recognized this as a deflection tactic.  For so many competing publications to attack gamers with such a unified voice almost simultaneously, there had to exist exactly the sort of back-door collusion within the industry that gamers had long suspected.  Indeed, months later a man named William Usher, owner of the gaming site One Angry Gamer, would work with Breitbart reporter Milo Yiannoupolis to expose the existence of the "GameJournoPros" mailing list to the world.  Patterned off of "Journo-List" of mainstream media fame, this was a secret mailing list where major names in the games media colluded to craft narratives, blacklist industry people, support their industry friends, and decide what stories needed to be spread or buried at their whim.
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The united backlash by the global gamer community against this dishonest media campaign became the event known to the world as #GamerGate.  This is their story.
  
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The united backlash by the global gamer community against this dishonest media campaign became the event known to the world as #GamerGate.
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== Why a Wiki?==
  
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The official #GamerGate Wikipedia article is a product of the Wikipedia standard of "Verifiability, Not Truth." Since 2014, #GamerGate wanted the article to cover the problems they had found in the games media, the dishonest way the media had colluded and lied about gamers, and the actions being taken to protest these problems. An opposing side, including some highly privileged Wikipedia editors who had personal ties to relevant media and industry personalities, wanted the article to reflect only what the "reliable sources" in the games media were falsely reporting: That #GamerGate was a "hate mob filled with violent misogynists attacking women in the games industry." After many bans and arbitrations, and even the personal involvement of the owner of Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales, the faction opposing #GamerGate won out. Since that time the official Wikipedia article has become an exercise in hysterical propaganda, and has been used to poison discourse against #GamerGate all around the world. 
  
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Read more about the problems with Wikipedia and #GamerGate here:  [[Wikipedia]]
  
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Latest revision as of 17:37, 20 September 2019

Welcome to the official Wikipedia of #GamerGate and #NotYourShield.

Viv5.jpeg

GamerGate 2019 Anniversary Contest Winners:
Mikisayaka33 -LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Spark
Hyatt
Gamergater123
Np99
on behalf of gamers everywhere, you have our deepest thanks for your hard work!

Featured Articles

Gamergate Gamers Are Dead
8chan KotakuInAction
NotYourShield GameJournoPros

GamerGate in Brief

GamerGate is a hashtag and consumer-revolt of gamers around the world that began in August of 2014. #NotYourShield is a sister hashtag, created to lend a greater voice to female and minority gamers who supported #GamerGate and who were dismissed and ignored by the games media. Beginning in 2014 the video games media, spurred by a scandal involving one of their own, launched a vicious attack on gamers and gamer culture. Their goal was the self-professed slander of "gamer" as an identity and the pushing of a "Social Justice" political agenda into the world of videogames through cronyism, censorship, and collusion within the videogame trade press and mainstream media.

The united backlash by the global gamer community against this dishonest media campaign became the event known to the world as #GamerGate. This is their story.

Why a Wiki?

The official #GamerGate Wikipedia article is a product of the Wikipedia standard of "Verifiability, Not Truth." Since 2014, #GamerGate wanted the article to cover the problems they had found in the games media, the dishonest way the media had colluded and lied about gamers, and the actions being taken to protest these problems. An opposing side, including some highly privileged Wikipedia editors who had personal ties to relevant media and industry personalities, wanted the article to reflect only what the "reliable sources" in the games media were falsely reporting: That #GamerGate was a "hate mob filled with violent misogynists attacking women in the games industry." After many bans and arbitrations, and even the personal involvement of the owner of Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales, the faction opposing #GamerGate won out. Since that time the official Wikipedia article has become an exercise in hysterical propaganda, and has been used to poison discourse against #GamerGate all around the world.

Read more about the problems with Wikipedia and #GamerGate here: Wikipedia

How to Contribute

Register an account and check out the To do page, or create Relevant Articles yourself. Please follow the related guidelines.

Recent Edits and Created Articles

Click to see Recent Changes

Wiki Administrative Contacts

Acid Man [1] [2] [3]

Bonegolem [4]

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