I see GamerGate is in the news because it’s coming up to the tenth anniversary. Ten years ago, I was in the middle of a nervous breakdown caused by transphobic harassment from TERfs organised on social media. They were using the same tactics that, months later, would be the hallmark of GamerGate.
And yet the surviving narrative is that this sort of organised, “culture war” harassment originated with GG.
It didn’t. They did it to trans women, and probably others, first, and we raised the alarm, and nobody thought it mattered enough to do anything.
And then they came for the rest of you.
They keep doing this. We keep raising the alarm. We keep being ignored.
Maybe one day people will learn.
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in reply to Sarah Brown • • •at that time i also experienced a total psychological breakdown in which GG was a big factor. I wasn't in the crossfire but friends of friends were. I remember late night scrolling, watching the patterns, the concerted psyop-like sense of it. The only logical response was to go mad.
After (belatedly, not prior to GG) noticing the identity with astro-terfing, I remember looking at the patterns around Low Traffic Neighborhoods looking the same. All from one set of roots
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in reply to marlies :tblverified: • •@marlies :tblverified: Yeah. I can.
These days, my advice to any trans person wanting to get involved in party politics is “run the fuck away”.
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No doubt sage advice in most cases. Kinda cool we have Rep @BriannaTitone in CO though
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in reply to Sarah Brown • • •I wasn't very online then, so GG missed me entirely. I had to learn about it after the fact. And it was actually really hard to learn about it for a while? One person likened it to cliques at a highschool lunch table which sounds insane, but for a while that was the only video around. Wasn't until I watched Innuendo Studios's videos on it that I actually got some concrete understanding of the events.
I think some of that contributes to this happening over and over again.
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in reply to Jesse Cohn • •@Jesse Cohn I wrote about it a bit on LJ at the time. I think it's probably gone now. There's a 6 month gap in my memory from the nervous breakdown it caused, so documenting it wasn't high on my list of priorities.
I've since managed to get a modicum of revenge on some of the people involved. Not willing to go into further details.
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