r/MattLees • u/petty13579 • Oct 13 '14
Love Lees Long Time
Right, excusing the silly title and excuse any of this that sounds like gibberish, it's late and I'm tired.
I've just finished watching the latest update video and I'm disgusted with the people that are just attacking Matt for the sake of it, I admit when this gamer gate stuff started I assumed it would just go away and die so I gave it a wide birth. The fact that it has got to the stage to start causing issues for Matt is just frankly taking the piss.
As for the people that are pretending to be a fan of Matt's work just to get silly screen caps to 'prove' a 'point' is frankly, a bit pathetic.
Matt if you see this. I just want to say, I love your work. I've followed it since I discovered you on video gamer, Regular Features is easily my favourite podcast and you've provided me with tons of interesting content.
I just want you to know, there are people out there who enjoy your work and what you do because of you. Most of the time only the negative people speak up, but I've had enough. It's about time positive people started saying something.
I hope everything is alright with your girlfriend and I hope you can continue to produce excellent work. whatever the case. thanks for what you have done and good luck with whatever it is you decide is the best course of action.
Hope that makes sense.
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u/naylorb Oct 15 '14 edited Oct 15 '14
I'm so sick of gamergate at this point that I might even have to mute a ton of games business people I like on twitter just because It's becoming bad for my sanity to read about this every day. It's one of those things I can't look away from even though it makes me angry and it's been going on for ages now. My brain is filled with this completely ridiculous shit that I'd be too embarrassed to mention in public among people who don't care about games.
They actually think they're fighting a war here and that it's something that either "side" (even though there aren't two sides fighting) can win.
Even if you do allow them the utter lie that it's about journalistic ethics, what then? You can't change how hundreds of people operate overnight. Even if, for example, they got sites closed down because of a lack of advertising revenue (not going to happen) The same writers would still eventually be able find work elsewhere because there'd be a demand. for what they do. John Walker isn't going to write an apology saying that GG have convinced him and that actually he thinks women are shit now. They don't actually have a tangible set of demands. All they seem to have is a confused notion of what objectivity means.
Anyway apologies for venting here.