Trusted, Automoderated users
5,366
edits
Wizchan: Difference between revisions
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
→Gamergate and Zoe
| Line 15: | Line 15: | ||
Wizardchan had a rule that no one can post on it if one is not a [[virgin]], which implies a non-virgin cannot hold any power within it. Therefore, after Copypaste lost his virginity, he gave in 2013 the adminship of the site to his co-admin, Glaive; Copypaste then asked Glaive to ban him, which Glaive reluctantly did. This was revealed throught the leak of an IRC conversation<ref>https://pastebin.com/Gna61cZx</ref> which one could access on an URL on 8chan,<ref>Something like https://8ch.net/reddit.txt, but I cannot remember the word used instead of "reddit".</ref> the website of which Copypaste was the admin and creator at the time. | Wizardchan had a rule that no one can post on it if one is not a [[virgin]], which implies a non-virgin cannot hold any power within it. Therefore, after Copypaste lost his virginity, he gave in 2013 the adminship of the site to his co-admin, Glaive; Copypaste then asked Glaive to ban him, which Glaive reluctantly did. This was revealed throught the leak of an IRC conversation<ref>https://pastebin.com/Gna61cZx</ref> which one could access on an URL on 8chan,<ref>Something like https://8ch.net/reddit.txt, but I cannot remember the word used instead of "reddit".</ref> the website of which Copypaste was the admin and creator at the time. | ||
===Gamergate and Zoe=== | ===Gamergate and Zoe Quinn=== | ||
Wizardchan is notable among cultural critics for being a central drama hotspot of Gamergate, a controversy surrounding a woman named {{Wikipedia|Zoe Quinn}} allegedly [[Infidelity|cheating]] on her | Wizardchan is notable among cultural critics for being a central drama hotspot of Gamergate, a controversy surrounding a woman named {{Wikipedia|Zoe Quinn}} allegedly [[Infidelity|cheating]] on her boyfriend and sleeping with multiple game industry people, including her boss, to get her game Greenlit on Steam, promoted, and well reviewed. | ||
One of the starting events of | One of the starting events of Gamergate involved a thread on wizchan where users posted about Zoe Quinn's game Depression Quest when it was released in 2013. 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. The attitudes at the time showed how Wizardchan used to be more incel-friendly (perhaps even primarily incel) because there were comments about how women had an easier time finding sex. It was not like neo-Wizardchan of the late 2010s where the board purity-spiraled into LARPing about being purely [[asexual]] [[volcels]]. | ||
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 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. | 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 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. | ||