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9/12/2014 4:47:47 PM
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Wait what the hell is going on? I've been living under this rock for a while so what the hell is happening?
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  • >Anita Sarkeesian claims to have had multiple death threats on the 26th or 28th of August from some male rapist. >She claims to have turned to the authorities to catch whoever is responsible >She lectures the Internet on how men are evil and such >Intuitive detective man does some digging and discovers that the police department she claimed to have turned to for help has no record of any complaints filed by Anita Sarkeesian >This strongly indicates she may have fabricated the entire thing to bring more attention to her Crusade >She is literally scum

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  • Edited by M37h3w3: 9/12/2014 5:12:00 PM
    Anita started a Kickstarter to showcase misogynist views in video games. When her first video aired, it utilized footage from other people, taken without their permission IIRC, and all in all, did not cost the money that Anita raised. She also raised the issues that should be addressed extremely poorly leading many to discredit her out of hand or be outright alienated. So far she has continued that trend. Her latest video has been criticized for using extremely minor game footage that a player has to actively go against the design of the game and out of their way to recreate as well as scenes taken out of context. With the release of her second video she claimed that she received death threats and had to flee her house. She also stated that she filed a police report and IIRC claimed the police wouldn't/couldn't do anything. The other tweets are challenging this by saying that her local PD has no record of her report. This seemingly shows that Anita faked the death threats for attention for her videos since they weren't getting the traction she wanted. All in all this is part of a larger systematic problem with gaming "journalist" websites seemingly being in bed with Anita (article about how Anita was driven out and no proper sourcing or fact checking,) how review sites are trading good reviews for sexual favors (Zoe Quinn, Depression Quest, Gamer Gate, Quinnspiracy) and how those previously mention gaming journalist websites and even others such as Reddit and 4chan tried to suppress the sex for stars scandal and tried to throw their readers under the bus by claiming the vocal minority of cretins represents the whole and how "gaming should leave gamers behind" when it eventually was leaked.

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  • ... What. The. Jesus? So let me get this straight Some chick tried to spread the word of feminism, made 2 videos with poor views and instead of buying the views (because I assume she used youtube for the vids or were they like documentaries or something) and then she faked a death threat and caused a smaller shitstorm inside a larger one that all started after some chick wanted to bang reviewers so her game could get better ratings and now people are complaining about sexism in video games based on something in the real world? Did i nail it? (Or did Quinn beat me to it?) [spoiler]get it?[/spoiler]

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  • Edited by M37h3w3: 9/12/2014 5:32:56 PM
    Wasn't to spread feminism but bring up the concept that there's too much misogynistic content in video games. And frankly, it could be argued as such. Anita's shitstorms had already raged and wore themselves out. Nobody was really giving two shits about her, her first vid, or her second vid. She posts, people raged and then quickly fell back into normal patterns. Then Zoe Quinn happened and that shitstorm is still raging. Apparently Anita had the same idea as Zoe to fake death threats against herself using fake accounts to boost the viewership and publicity for her fading story. Right now the Anita, Quinn, SJWs, and video game "journalists" are complaining about gamers being misogynist assholes (journalists are because they are in bed with Anita/Quinn. Anita/Quinn want to push their agenda of outrage seemingly because it inflates their egos: SJWs in a nutshell.) On the flipside, gamers and the internet are claiming that they are being thrown under the bus and using info like previously posted to show that their attacker's story is full of holes.

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  • Feminism happened

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  • Anita is a liar.

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