Timeline of Gamergate

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Gamergate is what happened when the reactionary rejects of 4chan teamed up to attack women who make and write about video games with a molecule-thin veneer of being a consumer movement for "free speech" and "ethics in video game journalism". These are their stories.

Contents

August 2014

September 2014

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October 2014

November 2014

December 2014

January 2015

February 2015

March 2015

April 2015

  • April 1: Zoe Quinn and Alex Lifschitz meet with Representative Katherine Clark to discuss Gamergate. Gamergaters attack all three by bombarding Rep. Clark with messages on Twitter and beginning an 8chan thread to discuss how the free and not asking for donations Crash Override Network is a scam.
  • April 2:
    • David Draiman comments on his recent feud with comedian Trevor Noah,[wp] who has recently been tapped to replace Jon Stewart as host of The Daily Show. Draiman found several of Noah's old tweets anti-Semitic in nature, and in his Twitter discussions sought out support from his Gamergate followers to take a stand against anti-Semitism. Instead, he was assaulted by anti-Semitism and blocked and reported by his count more than 250 followers for their anti-Semitic statements.
    • The "IMO: Crash Network Override" article on Techraptor is discovered by Izzy Galvez, Zoe Quinn, and Alex Lifschitz. Observers contact the official TechRaptor Twitter account whose operator denies culpability and uses their "Hebrew" heritage as a shield, while also admitting they cannot read the text in question. Another observer discovers that it the image is the first result in Google for "thirty pieces of silver", the price Judas Iscariot was paid to betray Jesus as written in the Gospel of Matthew.
    • Randi Harper is subject to a swatting attempt.
  • April 4: The Hugo Awards[wp] nominees are announced and a group of politically conservative sci-fi writers come out on top, revealed to be the result of gaming the vote by pushing Brad R. Torgersen and Larry Correia's "Sad Puppies" slate for the third year in a row and Gamergate supporter Theodore Beale's (Vox Day) "Rabid Puppies" slate (which actually gets more votes); Gamergate supporter "Daddy Warpig" actively recruits people in Gamergate to "humble SJW in Sci-Fi, too". The following week, George R. R. Martin[wp] opines that "the Sad Puppies [and Beale] have broken the Hugo Awards" beyond redemption; he also writes how he fears the groups "are beyond the pale, raging and ranting about SJWs and cliques and secret conspiracies."
  • April 6: For some reason /r/KotakuInAction decides Reddit's interim CEO Ellen Pao[wp] has to do with their goals of "ethics in video game journalism" after all of the news concerning her pro-diversity hiring practices and her loss in her lawsuit against former employer Kleiner Perkins[wp] goes around. For this reason, they decide to organize a boycott of buying Reddit Gold memberships for themselves or others. The original post and several subsequent posts by the proposer are gilded in response. Later, /r/EllenPaoInAction is formed by this set.
  • April 12: Anita Sarkeesian went to a board game parlor in Columbus, Ohio, and later discovered Ben, a collaborator of TheAmazingAtheist and operator of their Drunken Peasants Twitter account, took her photograph without her permission and posted it. Gamergate comes out to support Ben, for obvious reasons.
  • April 14: Running With Scissors' Postal 2[wp] receives downloadable content 12 years after its initial release. Milo Yiannopoulos has been included, with his blessing as an Easter Egg that turns all NPCs into him, and he can of course be killed.
  • April 15: Zoe Quinn speaks at a congressional briefing on cyberstalking. The panel decides to start the #StopWebH8 hashtag to begin discussion on the dangers of cyberstalking and harassment over the Internet. Gamergate supporters disrupt it in their usual ways.
  • April 17: On the second day of the Calgary Comic & Entertainment Expo, attendees discover a booth run by the "Honey Badger Brigade" having a banner with Gamergate propaganda on it as well as posters of Vivian James. In addition, there were reports that the group had disrupted a panel with feminist topics the night before. After the booth is removed and its representatives asked to leave and not participate in future events, The Mary Sue uncovers the truth behind the "Honey Badger Brigade". The group is actually Honey Badger Radio, the official feMRA podcast for A Voice For Men, made up of AVfM contributors Karen Straughan, Alison Tieman, Hannah Wallen, Mike Stephenson, and Sage Gerard. They crowdfunded their way into the convention for the sole purpose of disrupting it, even using Tieman's webcomic as a front for their true intentions. An attendee gave The Mary Sue a report of the group's disruption of the Women Into Comics panel on the night of the 16th. So, because of the Honey Badgers' intentional disruption, harassment of attendees, and the fact they lied in order to even get a booth in the first place, all violations of the contract they signed with Calgary Expo, they run to Gamergate and the MRAs crying of censorship and misogyny (as they're feMRAs of all things) and #ExpoGate is born, once again showing that Gamergate will stand up for unethical behavior so long as it benefits them. As of writing, they are selling overpriced Honey Badger T-shirts and are crowdfunding an alleged legal fund to sue Calgary Expo.
  • April 21: The documentary GameLoading: Rise of the Indies is released on Steam. Gamergate goes after it when they learn Zoe Quinn was interviewed for it.
  • April 24: Brianna Wu speaks at RavenCon in Richmond, Virginia, and TheRalphRetort states his intention to attend and "interview" her. RavenCon announces they will step up security in response to his essential threat. He shows up anyway at her panel to raise shit and be kicked out. Wu and event security fulfill his wish. Gamergate does things in response, as usual.
  • April 25: Denver Comic Con states the Gamergate logo falls under its "no hateful symbols" rule when asked on Twitter. Gators get angry.

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