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It's a bunch of things thrown together in a carefully calculated scheme to cover up an organized harassment campaign targeting women in the videogames industry.
by ben0x539 12y ago
It's a bunch of things thrown together in a carefully calculated scheme to cover up an organized harassment campaign targeting women in the videogames industry. I appreciate that there's some decent people getting mixed up in a 4chan project with no ill intentions of their own, but that's not where the whole thing started.
- Dylan16807 12y agoFrom what I've seen it's a giant mess and not intentionally organized that way at all. And yeah it started off in the worst way possible, so 'giant mess' is an improvement but not very good.
- ben0x539 12y agoFrom the beginning it has been an astroturfing op "orchestrated" by some geniuses at 4chan. An irc channel central to the movement is named after a sexist catchphrase from the rant of the bitter ex-boyfriend of their first target. Logs from that channel have been publicly posted. There's no doubts about this.
- Erwin 12y agoLook at this post in the subreddit, that seems organized to me: https://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/2jb6q5/boycott_up_wednesday_10152014_kotaku_week_target/ https://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/2jb6q5/boyc... Contains: a promotional poster of "boycott of the day", a pastebin full of "sample letters to use", a list of email addresses and twitter names to contact and talkint points when attempting to make Blizzard stop advertising at Kotaku, a site which is apparently "anti-gamer-gate".