My interpretation of gamergate, which I was there watching it happen live, was very very different than the popular narrative about it.

But hey, what do I know, I only lived through it. I didn't read about it through a bunch of idiot mainstream journalists who only focused on the 'evil men vs innocent women' narrative to score the post clicks.

A lot of the 'harassment' that the key female figures received, never had any evidence. I also knew Zoey Quin, I went out with her on a date in 2011. She was an absolute nutcase, probably had BPD or something. Her grasp on reality was very tenuous before gamergate, so I doubt anything she said about those event was remotely truthful. And I'm sure her boyfriend there was also equally mentally ill.

But sure, tell me how I'm rage baiting or something. Despite me having personally known at least one of the people involved. And I also was friends with a person who was friends with Anita in SF, who also told me she was an absolute nutcase of a person. And my friend's husband, who was also a figure in gamergate, though minor, was an another absolute psycho. She divorced him two years later because of his physical and mental abuse of her. He also went on and on about 'harassment' and 'abuse' when his shitty games got bad reviews. He, like Anita, Zoey, and all the rest, were trust fund babies who engaged in all sorts of abuse, manipulation, and lying about who they were and their finances. My friends husband had all his millions in offshore accounts, and would post to social media about how he was struggling to get idiots to give money for his 'art'.

Notice how now these figures all gave up on gaming, and go around being professional victims? Getting paid 1000s to talk about their 'trauma' and how horrible and awful gaming culture is? Yeah, that's just more grift. It was never about games. It was abotu them creating a narrative by which they could con people into giving them money for playing a imaginary role.

And lots of social media/influencer figures out there are like this. They make up fake drama that has no factual or evidential basis, never appears in court, and milk their fans for huge sums of money. It happens again and again, and people like you eat it up, because you love this notion that these are poor innocent helpless people being abused by these evil faceless masses of harassment. It's manipulation through and through.

but hey, what do i know, right, i'm clearly just another evil chud right? it can't possibly be that gamergate was just a lot of shitheads being shitheads, and faking everything so they could score cash and fame from the ignorant public... people never ever do that, right? that's not... a proven business model we've seen replicated again and again.

and reporters ate it up, despite having no sourced evidence other than the hearsay of the participants. I remember another local figure who lived in my city, who reported all this harassment, opened a police report, and it was shut down because the police found no evidence and she would provide none of this so called harassment. And what she do? claim it was police ignorance/misogyny, and her fans ate it up and her donations piled up... and her game she was working on... all the sudden development stopped and she dissipated from the gaming/public scene entirely. weird how her 'art' she 'struggled' for no longer matter one she had a few 100K in donations, oh and she fired the two people working for her.

and clearly I'm just lying and making this all up right? the level of detail is just my imagination, not my lived experience and memory that doesn't mesh up with the 'gamergate was bad mean people harassing innocent women' narrative most folks seem to believe.