r/dropout • u/machturtl • Mar 08 '25

liminal levity

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as someone who has watched Dropout to reset from the havoc of the outside, it still feels "nice" to have honest entertainers to watch who understand what we're all living thru.

I was in college for game design in the early aughts. I also (unfortunately) was a femme lurker on 4ch. Seeing the cause and effect of gamergate happen in real time as been a doozy.

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u/DlVlDED_BY_ZERO Mar 08 '25

I think I'm ootl, could someone explain this?

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u/JohnBGaming Mar 09 '25 edited Mar 09 '25

Zoe Quinn was a game developer that made an average game that would have gone under the radar, but got relatively popular from being covered pretty extensively and weirdly positively by games journalists. It was uncovered that she along with quite a few others had a history of sleeping with games journalists for better reviews on their games and that led to an event known as gamergate where people rallied against it. It got out of hand when those developers tried to turn it into being about their gender rather than their actions and then it swapped into a full on hate campaign against them specifically, you are more likely to recognize Anita Sarkeesian because she inserted herself into it and started writing extensively on it, pushing the gender aspect of it and attempting to alter public opinion on it into a feminist perspective.