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==Gamergate and Zoe== | ==Gamergate and Zoe== | ||
Wizchan is notable among cultural critics for being a central drama hotspot of [[gamergate]], a controversy surrounding a woman named Zoe allegedly cheating on her bf and sleeping with multiple game industry people, including her boss, to get her game greenlit, promoted, and well reviewed. | Wizchan is notable among cultural critics for being a central drama hotspot of [[gamergate]], a controversy surrounding a woman named Zoe allegedly cheating on her bf and sleeping with multiple game industry people, including her boss, to get her game greenlit, promoted, and well reviewed. | ||
One of the starting events of gamergate involved a thread on wizchan where users posted about Zoe Quinn's game Depression Quest. In the thread many users described how the depression portrayed was nothing compare to theirs as well, insulting the game, and comments that women can't experience depression like men do. Quinn posted a screenshot of the short thread claiming wizardchan users had been doxxing and calling her phone while masturbating. One of the screenshotted posts included a photo with the filename "my_picture.jpg" leading to users claiming it was a false flag, as well as the admin hotwheels claiming the posters IP address had never posted before. There were threads on the doxxing website kiwifarms mocking and attacking the wizardchan thread days before Quinn tweeted about it. Quinn had previously tweeted how she participated in the doxxing subforum "helldump" on somethingawful.com. Quinn made a tweet thanking an anonymous person for informing her that the thread existed. | |||
The amount of conflicting information as well as later evidence of Zoe Quinn's lying cast in to doubt the claims of wizardchan users being behind any abuse of Quinn, if it ever happened. These events started the conflict on larger chans which had the same criticism of the game and a claim it was only on steam greenlight because Quinn was female. Games journalists starting covering the wizardchan thread as evidence of harassment and abuse of female developers. These events expanded to the gamergate claim around Quinns sexual relationships relevance to the reviewers and supporters of her game in the gaming industry. | |||
Gamers made the story of [[gamergate]] to be about the gaming industry being corrupt and the entire industry bending at will to things as minor as a [[borderline personality disorder|borderline woman]] offering sex. The media made it about gamers not wanting strong female video game protagonists, as if Zoe's game, "Depression Quest", would have been an asset to humanity. | |||
Although, some gamergaters did see themselves as [[masculinism|reasserting masculinity back into gaming]]. | Although, some gamergaters did see themselves as [[masculinism|reasserting masculinity back into gaming]]. | ||