#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.

[gamergate-news]

[anti-marxistcult]

women, minorities, any person are not your shields and not your pawns

[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.