#notyourshield

[tachyonblu]

"I’m going back to when Sargon went to that VidCon where Anita Sarkeesian was there. He sat quietly in the audience, and she called him out as someone making endless videos about her. He said, 'I just want a discussion,' and she was like, 'No way.' To me, that was part of the problem—it was all kind of one-sided," says Hogwarts Legacy lead designer Troy Leavitt.

Plus Troy shares his thoughts on NotYourShield and why GamerGate was censored.

[ming-sik]

the difference between representation and caricature isn't something that can be objectively quantified and some of my dearest "he's just like me for real" characters are absolutely horrific representation but i think people who argue that it's impossible for something to be a caricature if they relate to it are missing the point. and like this is something that's always happened, a while back #notyourshield was a thing where people would rail against critics of sexualized female characters or racial stereotypes because they personally related to them, and people commonly cast transmisogynistic caricatures as gnc rep on here.

the thing is that what actually matters in representation is almost always down to what the narrative says about the character. if a character has really visible scarring on most of their face and the narrative is neutral about this and assigns no moral weight to it, that's not caricaturing them, as opposed to a character with an identical appearance who is described in detail by a disgusted narrator in a story where no sympathetic character has any sort of scarring whatsoever. are there hard rules to this? no, what counts as a neutral description also varies, unfortunately art is not math so there is no substitute for using your brain to think about stuff, but "does the narrative use this marginalized trait to flesh out a character/serve a justified narrative purpose, or is it being used as shorthand for a moral evil/to objectify the character for the sake of the characters the audience is meant to find Normal in comparison" is more useful for analysis than "do i relate to this character".

repeating again, it's fine to like a character who's bad rep. i have subjected friends to projection headcanons for characters that would make your skin crawl. i personally call it the "if it's awesome" rule which i think everyone has, that if a character is awesome enough(or emotionally raw or sexy or whatever), even if they're bad rep, you still like them because they're awesome. that simply is not relevant to the discussion of "is it bad when a character creates a gay character and only uses them to be the butt of the joke" even if said character is super hot and the only character who would be fun to have at parties.

[boyblogging]

i'm a right wing MAGA conservative mullenpilled anti-SJW with a thousand island stare, top 1% poster in the gamergate #notyourshield campaign and key shitposter on ben kuchera's twitter page. originator of the "boxxy is the queen of /b/" threads and mastermind behind the andy sixx psyop

top host of internet bloodsports debates on my DLive frequently arguing with liberalist thinkers running 24 hour ops with tilly law before working my construction job collecting boulders with my kid and my joyous mascot poley the polar bear.

as part of my work for the CIA i was actually the one who operated on matt christman's skull in order to give him master race frankenstein radio implants and brain thoughts broadcasting and eyesight television news to prepare for the 2077 paradigm shift. he is currently hidden in a secret underground bunker drinking cheap lambrusco wine in the janiculum hills overlooking rome at sunset (a memory he loves) while we gather intel about random warehouse art shows across brooklyn.

sadydoyle? me. sarah lerner? me. you think jim watkins started Q? do you even KNOW who jim watkins is??? ME.

every time i send an employer someone's offensive tweets from 2009 i actually send the employee a lucrative job offer working as triple agent fake russian bots simultaneously praising the candidates in every election worldwide.

i have over 300 confirmed kills, am trained in gorilla warfare and im the top sniper in the entire US armed forces.

you know NOTHING

[realvivianjames]

To be clear, #gamergate was awful. I'm sure there were people who were trying to do good in it. Hell, I thought I was one of them. But a mob is still a mob and I very much regret participating in one. I should have left when Milo became a figurehead. I should have jumped ship when I roguestar DMed me misogynistic propaganda. I should have left when Carl Benjamin got big. I should have left when theralphretort started attacking my friends for disagreeing with him. I should have left before Trump took office. I should have left when I failed to convince people not to attack Zoe Quinn, Brianna Wu, Anita Sarkeesian, or any number of women who "offended" GG. I should have left when #notyourshield became the shield of any number of selfish opportunists who would stab them in the back. I should have left when Milo started attacking trans people. I should have left when Breitbart became a "journalist" ally. I should have left when Slate wrote a somewhat favorable article about GG, but said "[...] leave the women alone [...]". There's so many times I should have obviously left, but I didn't because I thought I could make it work.

[theliterarywolf]

Seeing people talking about gamergate now is so weird, especially as someone who was "in the middle" of it back then. Honestly, it's a bit weird to see how people really just made it completely black and white. Fucking crazy.

God, I remember being there: /v/ the musical, the Vivian James fanart, the constant misrepresentation, #NotYourShield...

The fact that a large contingency of the internet learned absolutely NOTHING is pretty damn depressing, not going to lie.

[quasi-normalcy]

My favourite thing was when GamerGate was on and I had a post that was like "GameGaters are a bunch of colic little man-babies pitching a hissy fit over literal toys" and it got reblogged by a bunch of irate GamerGaters being like "We're not all men! Hashtag NotYourShield"

Not a thoughtful bunch to say the least.

[barbarian-theorist]

Dissertation notes

Steve Fuller article on the Alt-Left:https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2018/01/15/what-about-the-alt-left/

Steve Fuller video on post truth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odxXJgm-uos

https://innuendostudios.tumblr.com/post/183630744222/research-masterpost Innuendo Studios Research Masterpost

A News Article on how we went from Gamergate to Capitol Hill:https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/01/08/1015890/trump-twitter-facebook-abuse-harassment-conspiracy/

"How imageboards shaped GamerGate": https://boingboing.net/2014/12/31/how-imageboard-culture-shaped.html

Sarkeesian's Series: 1-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6p5AZp7r_Q&list=PLn4ob_5_ttEaA_vc8F3fjzE62esf9yP61

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqJUxqkcnKA&list=PLBBDFEC9F5893C4AF

Vox article:https://www.vox.com/culture/2020/1/20/20808875/gamergate-lessons-cultural-impact-changes-harassment-laws

Sargon of Akkad video:How DiGRA Caused the End of Gamers, #Gamergate and #NotYourShield - YouTube

A Guardian article on "Cultural Marxism"- 'Cultural Marxism': a uniting theory for rightwingers who love to play the victim | Jason Wilson | The Guardian

Yiannopoulos

The Secret mailing list: Exposed: The Secret Mailing List of the Gaming Journalism Elite (breitbart.com)

The UN article Exposed: The Secret Mailing List of the Gaming Journalism Elite (breitbart.com)

Paul Joseph Watson video on 21 year old Video on UN censorship https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nud8h9jjS94

Video on the Left and Islam https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3NDeyR_1-U New zealand incident https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXqyq8jD1Sw

Christchurch mosque manifesto: https://img-prod.ilfoglio.it/userUpload/The_Great_Replacementconvertito.pdf

Guardian article: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/jan/15/8kun-8chan-capitol-breach-violence-isp Independant article: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-election-2020/qanon-capitol-congress-riot-trump-b1784460.html

[tachyonblu]

"Here were all these people who were saying, look, you don’t speak for me and I’m a member of XYZ minority. You can’t use me as an excuse to ignore what we see as a very real problem, and they just got completely ignored or insulted," says Grim Jim on NotYourShield.

[blackan08]

AntiGamerGate bots

https://twitter.com/nickmon1112/status/1022227851263787009 Guess how many there were....quite alot actually

[kingofdersecest-2]

To add to the irony, People against Gamergate absolutely despised #NotYourShield because they couldnt do the normal thing of well, using minorites as shields like they do now.

The amount of times i saw people calling black people in support of Gamergate Uncle Toms or House N-words was fucking absurd.

But you know GG is the racist altright group.

[tachyonblu]

@silverwolfcc gives her definition of GamerGate, is NotYourShield and fought harassers with the GamerGate Harassment Patrol.

"It was a hashtag event collecting a lot of angry gamers who were also being censored on other places, so they collectively went to Twitter because it was like one of the last few places that wasn't censoring them. It was a little harder to wrangle them up, and they were able to compare notes on the censorship and issues that they had problems with. It was mislabeled constantly as sexist harassers of women and people in the gaming space because it criticized journalists, and journalists get to write their own biographies of their enemies." -CC

[90jeduardo-blog1]

Muslim mums protest outside school for 'promoting homosexuality' to their kids - Birmingham Live https://buff.ly/2Rfsep6⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ #SocialJustice #socialjusticewarrior #sjw #sjwshit #lol #viral #lmao #whathappened #shit #fun #funny #nonsenseontheleft #tendency #NPCs #NPC #left #leftvsright #notyourshield #muslim #problematic #muslims #mum #mums #muslimsmums #education #sexualeducation #integralsexualeducation #muslimsbeingmuslims #whathappenedhere #whathappened https://www.instagram.com/p/Bttca8OnDz7/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=fgl3thlb03yx

[nomuru2d]

From over half a year ago, a surprisingly comprehensive post hitting upon the history and origins of both GamerGate and the Vivian James character, which somehow seems to have gone entirely unnoticed.

Until now.

[satiricaljusticewarrior]

Update for Jan 14-20

Satire about Raffi Freedman-Gurspan

From Buzzfeed

President Obama wasn’t tight with gay Republicans. The most recent White House LGBT liaison, Raffi Freedman-Gurspan, told BuzzFeed News this month she never got in touch with conservative groups like American Unity Fund or Log Cabin Republicans — even though her job was being the president’s main contact for LGBT groups.

As she explained it, the conservative gay groups never contacted her, and she never reached out to them.

“I obviously work for a Democratic administration,” she said in an interview during her last week on the job. “There are obviously appropriate conversations and inappropriate ones, sometimes based on what’s going on.” But she didn’t regret keeping a distance, she added. “I was never in a position where I needed them, to be honest … I’m not in political strategy, and if I had been, it might have been a different story.”

http://archive.is/G898q#selection-3483.0-3497.422

So, yeah.

If you know how collectivists work, the only shock for you should be how blatant that statement was. In Raffi’s mind, she doesn’t work in administration of United States, she works in Democratic administration over United States.

If you are gay, but you are not supporting the collectivists “caring” about “all” gays, you are not needed.

If you are woman, but if you aren’t feminist, or you are a contrarian feminist, you shouldn’t be listened about men/women relationship.

And if you are MRA woman, then we will kick you out and lie about you and let you deal on your own with some shady company for over 2 years.

http://www.feedthebadger.com/projects/get-the-badgers-to-trial/

Celebrity woman not following the party line? Hah!

http://gamer2002.tumblr.com/post/155846388566/w-h-e-n-w-e-d-o-i-t-h-e

Celebrity woman not involving herself in following the party line strongly enough? Hah!

http://gamer2002.tumblr.com/post/155805530386/publicly-attacking-women-is-fine-if-they-dont

And if you are Black, but support Trump, you are “mediocre negro”.

http://www.dailywire.com/news/12484/racism-cnns-marc-lamont-hill-calls-open-trump-ben-shapiro

Either you are our shield or you are some trash.

Note: I’ll try to return to regular updates. My Super Secret Project is following its schedule, so I should be able to organize some time for this webcomic.

[blackan08]

Turns out CNBC is in Collusion with EA #GamerGate get on this shit

[yourtoradorasextendedwarranty]

Gamer Gate, BLM, and Modern Discourse

Ok so just by the title alone you must be thinking to yourself, “Oh this will be a train wreck”, and while you are probably right, let me say what  I have to. 

So the year is 2014 and Neo Feminism is basically at it’s peak. Things are getting more and more political by the month and the new trend is that all men are misogynist, rapist monsters who oppress women at every turn. 2015 Comes around and que GamerGate. A movement that didn’t really have a name when it started. And I’m sure you’ve heard the schtick, A number of gamers found out there there was a lot of insider trading in between game creators and games journalists One specific one who was actually a part of the Neo Feminist movement whom got caught sleeping with one of the people writing reviews at these companies. This revelation actually led other people and including people from 4chan, to start looking into more insider trading so to speak, that they had not seen up until then. Well they looked and they found it. Turns out that for a number of years, games journalists had been being “lobbied” to game publishers and game creators. Going so far as to sometimes threaten to not send advance copies to the outlets. 

Now, like it or not this was the foundation of GamerGate. Others might tell you that’s not the case but fact of the matter is that’s what it was. However there was a tiny issue. One of the primary targets of the disdain, and probably the grenade pin to the whole incident, happened to be a Neo Feminist. Other people saw opportunity in this and decided to turn the now named movement into, “A racist, homophobic, misogynist hate group targeting women and minorities to get them out of games as a whole”. Which was never the case at all. However, a small incident I failed to mention until now was that 2014 and even before is important. Red PIll. This term had some pretty interesting be it eventually nasty implications that changed drastically in 2017-2018. But for now what’s important is what this term meant at the time. RedPilled back in 2013-2016 basically referred to a man or woman that had been woken up to the realization that men tend to be disposable and feel like they are worth nothing in the long term unless they have money or power. In it’s infancy, the idea behand it was actually pretty good. Teach men and boys that they need to find their own self worth, teach them that other men are not monsters by proxy of being men, and teach them brotherhood. What did it turn into in the long term? MGTOW. Now let me make one thing clear. Not every single person that was a MGTOW was a POS misogynist. However, there were a decent number of them. One of who went by the name RedPillPhilosophy. A person who’s content I watched for some time. Right up until I started seeing his content go more after women in general than neo feminist ideology. It was at that time I started to notice a trend among a number of Red Pill youtubers. That being that they also started to go more after women than ideology. And if we are being honest it was pretty off-putting. As such I stopped watching their content and ended up what became known as Anti-Sjw’s. The reason this is all important is because These Red Pill youtubers at the time, many were also interested in gaming or influenced people who liked to game. But rather than getting out when I did, they stayed in, got indoctrinated and started honestly hating women. 

This is the fist big divide in everything. GamerGate was never an organization. It was a movement for proper ethics in gaming journalism as well as more transparency over all. Cut to late 2015 early 2016 and you have several voices in the GG movement spewing actual hate. Granted, these were not the most prominent voices nor where they even a small minority. They were a borderline non existent minority. One that grew the more people separated themselves from GG at risk of being canceled or made an enemy of the media. Which funny enough ended up giving rise to #NotYourShield. A group of women and minorities who had had enough of the media, games journalist, and others using them as a mouth piece or or a shield in which to bash gaming as a whole or to bash or berate gamers and their hobbies. Three prominent figures came out of all of this. The eventual heads of Feminist Frequency. Or as I like to call them, con artists that used simps and white knights to make a lot of money. 

NOW, sometime in 2015 the Mainstream Media started covering GG and in a REALLY negative light too. Using to words of con artists like Anita Sarkeesian and others to spread the LIE of GG being about hate of women. If was NEVER about that. Contrary to what lots of Woke SJW morons like to claim. It got worse though because when the media covered it, I believe they did it because they themselves were likely guilty of the same thing games journalists were. Just in a different way. And likely they felt like if GG were to make any headway at all, people might start pointing the finger at them leading to what probably would have been known as MediaGate. A push to prove ethics in modern news journalism. Given the current state of the media I'm sure we would have found a lot of unethical practices and conflicting interests. Now on to BLM. BLM was started as both a movement and an organization under Obama, based on a lie propped up by the media. The lie of hands up don’t shoot. Now the leaders of the organization are open and proud Marxists whom profit off of lies and harm. Hell look into their current and prior leadership and you will find that they are basically Al Sharpton. People whom make millions talking and doing absolutely nothing for anyone but themselves. Heck one of the co-owners of the org actually bought 4 homes. The reason BLM worked and GG didn’t is pretty simple. The media has power. More over they have an insane amount of influence as well. CNN can tell a flat out lie. That lie is then picked up by an actor or media personality whom then uses Social Media to talk about the story that was a lie. Often with just pictures of headlines. Then when CNN is forced to correct the lies, they do it at the very bottom of the story in small text, with no update listed on the story itself. However, by this time half the world knows the lie and is talking about it like it’s fact. These people then hear the real story from everyone else and calls them conspiracy theorists, nazi’s or racists. Why? Because the media is not held to account for any lies they put out. And it’s why BLM worked and GG didn’t. BLM worked off of a lie, and a gross exaggeration, where as GG was founded on facts we could prove, but the media apparatus would not take it lying down. Hell missinfo on GG actually has led to the longest living lie in media. That lie has spawned bad TV shows, Episodes, Movies, and even books. 

Long story short. BLM the organization, has profited off any and all perceived slights against Black Americans, while giving none of it to those actually affected. Meanwhile a movement that was wanting ethics in our news media (even if it was only the gaming side of things) was slandered, smeared, and made a mockery of to normies whom knew nothing about what was going on. The way it effects modern discourse is pretty simple too. It’s why the media is now allowed to lie with zero recourse, while pretending to be bastions of fact. And propagating lies of white supremacy and racism being worse now than during slavery. Which to any sane person is just a disgusting lie. But really though it’s fine. Because every time you think that 50% or more of the US is racist, the media gets more and more of your attention and more and more of your money. Money that goes to people like Chris Cuomo whom was making 6 Million a YEAR. A man whom in order to protect his brother stalked and tried to dig up dirt on women to bully them into NOT talking about how is brother sexually assaulted them. That is what you are paying for. Also paying for people to be lied to more and more that spreads more racial division every day by lying about stats. Like how if you were to ask a modern activist how many black men die at the hands of cops a day they’d say, “Probably thousands” Which isn’t just false it’s a gross overestimation. Our of 4MILLION interactions a year with cops black men and women are FAR less likely to be shot and killed than almost any other group. ESPECIALLY unarmed. Hell after the very first BLM cops would be negligent to shot a rapist or murderer in the act purely because of their skin color. I’m sorry but that’s an issue. 

So to end this let me make one thing very clear. The power and influence that media has over people has gotten worse and worse over time, and has led to the biggest political and racial divide we’ve seen since the 60′s. And no amount of self hate or racial worship is going to fix it. We need to look at this objectively and realize who’s at fault for this. And you won’t be shocked. It’s the Uni Party. Most specifically Neo Liberals. Why? Because the bigger the racial divide in this country the more likely they are to get into power and stay in power. Right up until they do NOTHING about the “problems” they often cause themselves and blame on the right. Even when they have 90% of control of a city or even a state. Or for more context look at this video. 

https://youtu.be/hNDgcjVGHIw

Yeah. Team Blue? They are playing you. And most of the media is subserviently to them, or activists whom have been brainwashed by them growing up, and now think anything to the right of Mao is far right. And I can tell you why they think that. They’ve been told for years and SHOWN only very specific things for years. And have basically operated as propaganda arms of the government. So every HICK from some southern state is propped up as “This is ALL southern right leaning people. And worse, you all believe it. But that belief is the exact same as people whom view all people from the middle east as terrorists. Fact many of you fall into the traps of your own design. 

Like take for example vaccinations. The initial argument was, “Take it so that people whom can’t take it can be safe”. Now it’s, “Fuck the people whom can’t take it, why can’t they? So what if they get hurt or die, it’s perfectly safe and literally there are NO RISKS AT ALL!”. Which isn’t just false, but you are no longer on the football field. There is no “Moving the goal post”. You’ve torn it down. And you know what’s funny about it all. The mandates are disproportionately affecting minorities in a negative way. Why? Well because in order to get a vaccine card or even a vaccine you need an ID. And here i thought requiring ID for anything was racist? But i guess anything to shit on the middle and the right. Even lie about your own supposed support of minorities. This all started with the neo feminism movement. But what you are seeing now is the end result of what happens when good movements face the guillotine and movements based on lies get propped up and pushed to the forefront.