Astral Codex Ten

GamerGate

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GamerGate

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GamerGate is a recurring concept in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 3 times across 3 issues between January 21, 2021 and March 10, 2023. The archive places it in contexts such as “I got an email from a former member of the GamerGate movement”; “the whole thing culminated in Gamergate”; “Brianna Wu (one of the main people involved in Gamergate on the SJW side)“. It most often appears alongside Twitter, California, Eliezer Yudkowsky.

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  • Category: Concepts
  • Mention count: 3
  • Issue count: 3
  • First seen: January 21, 2021
  • Last seen: March 10, 2023

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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.

Still Alive
January 21, 2021 · Original source
I got an email from a former member of the GamerGate movement, offering advice on managing PR. It was very thorough and they had obviously put a lot of effort into it, but it was all premised on this idea that GamerGate was some kind of shining PR success, even though as I remember it they managed to take a complaint about a video game review and mishandle it so badly that they literally got condemned by the UN General Assembly. But it's the thought that counts, and I am humbled by their support.
Highlights From The Comments On Culture Wars
May 18, 2021 · Original source
The part where I think you're wrong - dangerously so, is in the response. It's not that MRAs appeared to combat feminism, the whole thing culminated in Gamergate, and when feminism lost mainstream credibility, MRAs faded too.
So they join MRA/PUA groups - until 90% of them realize that the leadership of those groups just truly, deeply hates women and literally wants them to die. They don't want to be part of that so they go on to join Gamergate. When the doxxing and the threats start having significant consequences, 90% of them eff off. Then they move on to Milo and his shared appearances with Spencer. They think it's fun to get a rise out of the overly sanctimonious by appropriating nazi symbolism. Then Charlottesville happens and they suddenly realize that they've joined an actual white supremacist movement. They leave in droves.
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Links For March 2023
March 10, 2023 · Original source
21: Related: Brianna Wu (one of the main people involved in Gamergate on the SJW side) seems to be taking the wokeness-peaking narrative seriously, writing:
Inline links: writing