Gamergate girls

[GradnerLives]

Originally Posted by KagatobLuvsAnimu [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

supposed to be the consumers' watchdogs in an $87billion industry.

lol.

All those eye-opening, gritty IGN exposes and gut wrenching stories of journalistic heroism flying off the Kotaku copy desks of 2012.

What happened to this once sacred bastion of all encompassing integrity?




You know they write about what you - as gamers - talk about, so when you talk about it more, they think it's worth it for them to write about it. Modern media in general is about clicks. If you can get 8 million people to guess what colour a dress is, you're hired. Who cares about integrity, just make it go viral and watch the ad rev roll in.

The correct reaction to avoid this whole thing would have been to shrug like the rest of us, but instead you choose to have yourself click trolled ad infinium along with the army of autists you choose to keep company with.

Pray for Kagatob, guys. Dis nightrider got the hard bergers.

[Big_Japan]

Originally Posted by GradnerLives [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

lol.

All those eye-opening, gritty IGN exposes and gut wrenching stories of journalistic heroism flying off the Kotaku copy desks of 2012.

What happened to this once sacred bastion of all encompassing integrity?




You know they write about what you - as gamers - talk about, so when you talk about it more, they think it's worth it for them to write about it. Modern media in general is about clicks. If you can get 8 million people to guess what colour a dress is, you're hired. Who cares about integrity, just make it go viral and watch the ad rev roll in.

The correct reaction to avoid this whole thing would have been to shrug like the rest of us, but instead you choose to have yourself click trolled ad infinium along with the army of autists you choose to keep company with.

Pray for Kagatob, guys. Dis nightrider got the hard bergers.

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[paulgiamatti]

You can't make something go viral. Whether or not something becomes viral/memetic is not up to its creator or the progenitor of whatever news story or the taker of whatever weird picture of a dress. What news agencies do, however, in the immediate wake of the meme can and certainly does generate a great deal of ad revenue, and that's exactly what capitalistic journalism has become.

And this is why Gamergate is especially egregious - not just for being a deplorable, sopping garbage sack of cumstained, socially degenerated halfwits who literally think harassing, threatening to kill and rape women, and generally just being intellectually stunted malicious little shits falls under the purview of journalistic integrity. Not just for that, but because there actually are real issues in journalism right now, and they don't stem from the fucking video game industry or from Anita Sarkeesian/Feminist Frequency.

This is just a boring distraction. I'd be all for a distraction if it actually raised some interesting points about something, but this is just an absolute waste of time and I have nothing but contempt for anyone who continues the Gamergate conversation. Women are being doxxed and harassed and threatened with violence and murder - the conversation is over. I won't listen to another word of that tune, and anyone in their right mind should know better as well.

[KagatobLuvsAnimu]

Originally Posted by GradnerLives [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

The correct reaction to avoid this whole thing...

...would of been to hand Ben Kuchera's head to the people on a platter. To reform the ethics policy on Kotaku and the Gawker/Vox affiliate sites.

Its been 6 months, its still going. The detractors are in full damage control mode, psychopaths like Flynt are running around shooting himself and (you by proxy for not disowning him) in the foot.

Originally Posted by paulgiamatti [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

*copy/paste from gamerghazi*

Ghazi go home.

[paulgiamatti]

Performing a few simple Google searches including sentences I've written in quotation marks is a very easy way to find out if I've copied and pasted anything.

When someone who regularly calls other people faggots and whores and cunts and ******s blatantly dismisses women and transgendered people based on nothing more than their gender and physical appearance, and then has the nerve to call for ethical reform in journalism, I'm going to immediately assume they have absolutely no idea what a healthy ethos should even entail.

[radda]

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[skipdog]

wtf is wrong with kago's brain to post this stuff.

boggles my mind.

[Cymeon]

didnt read thread. enjoyed some boobs in the beginning and then it went to shit.

[Ezalor]

all i got from op was that gamergate is about a bunch of whiny nerds doing the bidding of a jilted ex-boyfriend while protecting their right to look at video game boobies forever

'but uh.. its about corruption in vidya games jernalism!"

[Neno]

video game news has been gay since the Game Players dream team parted ways like 18 years ago.

GAZUGA, believe the hype.
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