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Gawker's Million Dollar Price Tag
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| I thought we should all take a moment to reflect on how this little hashtag broke the internet. | |
| Aside from generating over 7 million tweets from thousands of people all around the world. | |
| Of the Gamergate movement. | |
| Reportedly, there are several tiers to Gamergate. | |
| He's anti-Gamergate? | |
| He's pro-Gamergate? | |
| Maybe he just doesn't know what it is, doesn't give a fuck, you know what I'm saying? | |
| And it even got its own Law & Order SVU episode. | |
| And you better believe that it's so bad, it's good. | |
| Go home, gamer girl. | |
| These guys, they just can't stand women in gaming. | |
| People often ask me, what does Gamergate accomplish? | |
| So many times that I decided to make this video summing it all up because, well, there's a lot. | |
| Even though no news outlet will ever admit it, GG has forever changed the discussion of online journalism. | |
| But as I always say, actions speak louder than words. | |
| Let's list off some of these accomplishments, or as I like to call them, inconvenient facts the news will never talk about. | |
| First off, Kotaku and Polygon both updated their public ethics policy to enforce Patreon disclosure. | |
| This means if a writer is financially supporting someone they cover, they have to disclose that in their article. | |
| Eurogamer, IGN, GamerRanks, and PC Gamer also updated their ethics policy as a direct response to feedback from Gamergate. | |
| People in Gamergate actually contacted the FTC, yeah, the Federal Trade Commission, to address and enforce their affiliate disclosure policy. | |
| Native advertising is basically saying to corporations that want to advertise, we will camouflage your ads to make them look like news stories. | |
| That's essentially it. | |
| That's essentially it. | |
| Because of this, sites like The Verge and Kotaku now need to add disclosure to articles that are really giant fucking advertisements in disguise. | |
| And yes, according to the response from the FTC, Gamergate is directly responsible for this. | |
| You're welcome. | |
| On top of encouraging ethical disclosure, people have also been boycotting the advertisers of corrupt sites like Gawker and The Verge. | |
| Once people found their sponsor page and started sending emails, advertisers started dropping like flies. | |
| Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Olympus, Nissan, Kellogg's, EA, GM, Dyson, Colgate, Adobe, Discover, and many others all announced they're no longer advertising with Gawker. | |
| It has also cost Gawker Media at least a million dollars, by their own admission. | |
| It apparently got so bad that Gawker had to hide their sponsor page. | |
| I think that speaks for itself. | |
| So getting sites to update their ethics policy and getting advertisers to pull from corrupt sites is great and all, but what about the journalists themselves? | |
| There's GamerGate.me, which hosts the wiki, allowing you to read all the details about journalists' involvement with GG. | |
| There's also DeepFreeze.it, which is essentially a giant database that ranks journalists based on their unethical actions. | |
| You can even read about how Ben Cucera tried to get someone fired from their job for disagreeing with him on Twitter. | |
| Also, Deep Freeze's logo is freaking awesome. | |
| Just look at that thing, that cool square. | |
| People are quick to say Gamergate has become a media watchdog group, and for the most part it has. | |
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Please Don't Send Death Threats
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| But don't forget how many charities and fundraisers people have also supported. | |
| UNICEF, American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, the Center for National Bullying Prevention, and of course, the Fine Young Capitalists. | |
| They made a fundraiser to help women make video games. | |
| This is the same fundraiser that a certain indie dev bragged about sabotaging on Twitter because it was in direct competition with their own game jam. | |
| If you're wondering why I'm not saying their name, it's because I'm told even saying this person's name is considered harassment. | |
| But long story short, the basement dwelling misogyners of Gamergate raised money to help women make video games. | |
| I can't make this up. | |
| But of course, you'll never hear about any of this in the news. | |
| Now, if you're one of those people watching that thinks all of Gamergate is toxic and everyone who uses the hashtag should be executed, that's perfectly fine. | |
| You're allowed to think that. | |
| Just please, please don't send death threats to Gamergate supporters. | |
| Please don't dox them and try to get them fired from their jobs. | |
| Please don't send them knives and syringes. | |
| Please don't vandalize public property. | |
| And please, don't send bomb threats that force hundreds of people to evacuate a meetup in Washington, D.C. Please, don't do any of those things. | |
| Oh my god, JC, a bomb! | |
| A bomb! | |
| It's remote controlled! | |
| Hold on! | |
| Get out of there! | |
| But what's interesting is if you do choose to harass Gamergate supporters, no news outlet will report on it. | |
| Seriously, sites like The Guardian and BuzzFeed make money off of lying about Gamergate, so they definitely won't be writing articles about the horrible things you're doing. | |
| But then I'm sure you'll say, Leo, I don't even read garbage like BuzzFeed. | |
| I heard Gamergate is bad from sites like Reddit. | |
| Well, funny thing about that, based on a leaked chat log from moderators of our gaming, it seems they've been shadow banning anyone that paints Gamergate in a positive light. | |
| They also talk about making fake accounts to post racist stuff, and they even brag about doxing users. | |
| Yeah, in case you can't tell, Reddit is fucking awful. | |
| Stop visiting it. | |
| Like, now. | |
| Here's something else to think about. | |
| In the regular expression the Reddit mods use to censor Gamergate, they included terms like corruption. | |
| You know, food for thought. | |
| But yeah, seriously, stop visiting Reddit. | |
| If you know anyone who does, tell them to stop. | |
| There are way better alternatives out there. | |
| So it's been a crazy 11-month ride, but there are no breaks on this train. | |
| None at all. | |
| It won't end because Gamergate is more than just a hashtag now. | |
| To be against Gamergate is to be against the voice of consumers. | |
| And even though Gigi will never get the recognition it deserves, actions speak louder than words. | |
| Let's keep exposing corruption and conflicts of interest. | |
| And just as WikiLeaks said, let's go to the top. | |
| Because if you find anything, you'll know where to post it. | |
| When you're mine up, lighting up the beauty to be high. | |