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To be honest, after I saw the fallout from GG, the online harassment seems like a much bigger problem than a bunch of corrupt game journalists.
by k__ 5y ago
To be honest, after I saw the fallout from GG, the online harassment seems like a much bigger problem than a bunch of corrupt game journalists.
- TheAceOfHearts 5y agoSure, but it's not a competition. My understanding is that GG began due to undisclosed conflicts of interest among some journalists and game developers. This was later used to justify a crusade to abuse people on social media. Although I think you're correct that the ethics in journalism issue was used as a smokescreen by bad faith actors.
- pseudalopex 5y agoSome gamers started harassing a developer because they didn't like her game. It intensified after her ex boyfriend accused her of cheating on him with a journalist and several other people. Some gamers imagined she had sex with that journalist and others for positive reviews. The ex boyfriend said even he didn't mean to accuse her of that.[1] And those gamers connected the conflict of interest allegations to social issues right away. Gamergate's name was inspired by a video that said journalism's decline began with writing about things like sexual harassment and representation.[2] [1] https://www.pcmag.com/news/everything-you-never-wanted-to-know-about-gamergate https://www.pcmag.com/news/everything-you-never-wanted-to-kn... [2] 2:26 in https://archive.org/details/InternetAristocratQuinnspiracyTheory https://archive.org/details/InternetAristocratQuinnspiracyTh...
- belorn 5y agoI agree. The game developers who celebrated on twitter when John Peter Bain died to cancer was one of the worst behavior I have seen in the gaming industry. The death threats to john and his family before that was also in rather bad taste.