GamerGate - and it's continuing aftermath.

[Skykid]

I don't have the stomach for it, right now. But I am sad that Milo got banned, from Twitter. He was one of the more entertaining things, on there.

Go easy on that comma key.

[Squire Grooktook]

Thank you so much Skykid for broaching a topic that has driven me mad for what has felt like ages.

[evil_ash_xero]

I don't have the stomach for it, right now. But I am sad that Milo got banned, from Twitter. He was one of the more entertaining things, on there.

Go easy on that comma key.

It's a hair trigger.

Now you're gonna have me editing my posts!

[Durandal]

I know Best Korea isn't the place where the SHMUPs come from, but maybe one of you knows more about this:
https://www.reddit.com/r/manga/comments ... mpact=true

Non-Koreans are probably not aware, but the past 3 days on Korean internet were a complete shitshow.

Note that I'm summarizing quite a bit.

The incident started with a voice actor for a Korean Online game called Closers posting a T-shirt she bought.

The shirt only says "Girls don't need a prince" which, by itself, doesn't seem like a problem.

The problem lay with the creators of the T shirt, a website called Megalia.

Megalia is a feminazi website that is pretty much universally hated on the Korean internets. Their purpose on the website actually said at one point "promoting misandry and female supremacy."

Examples of incidents they caused include spread of child pornography they produced with a little boy, celebrating the Korean War because so many men died, kindergarten teacher admitting that she was a pedophile (actively saying that she wants to fuck the little kids), filming the men's changing rooms/restrooms, poisoning their male bosses, sharing pics of mutilated penises, falsely accusing a webtoon author as a rapist, harassing many male authors in the industry etc. etc. etc. There's pretty much someone getting arrested weekly. (And yes. In Korea, you could sue someone online for the things they said and done online, even if it's anonymous)

The said T shirt was created to fund legal costs for people who have been sued for their crimes on the website. Biggest one being covering the legal costs for the woman who falsely accused that one author of being a rapist.

Anyways, when the said voice actor posted a pic on her twitter, people asked if she knew who made that T shirt. She said she knew, and told people that Megalia stood for female rights and promotes feminism (which is not true).

This caused fans of the game to rise and complain to Nexon, which resulted in the said voice actor's clips being deleted and her contract not being renewed. (not fired. she did what she was hired for. Nexon just removed all her voice clips and decided to take damage)

Cue the shit show.

Many Manwhakas, webtoon artists, game devs, illustrators, singers, light novel writers, voice actors, scholars, and even politicians started joining in the scene, saying that the voice actor was fired just because of that T shirt and it goes against equivalent rights and so on.

And people were trying to explain to bunch of these people that The T shirt itself is not the problem, but it's the organization that created it, and the money that it's going to be used for that's the problem.
But they're not listening.

Instead, bunch of these idiots believe that they're on the right side, calling the opposers misogynists and banning bunch of people from their websites and twitters.

Some even started calling their readers and fans just slaves that bring them money, and they don't stand on equal ground to even discuss any of these issues. This became the final straw for most people.

Add people who don't even know what the hell is going on, joining in just because they saw the words "feminism" and "misogyny," adding fuel to the fire. These people created echo chambers for the said authors and they simply refuse to listen, and instead calling everyone else retarded neanderthals who don't even deserve to read their webtoons.

Many of these authors calling their fans their slaves, dogs, pigs, whatever (Korean curse words don't translate that well) turned out to be artists working for Lezhin Comics. (where all the NSFW stuff comes from).

Lezhin comics was basically seen as what we'd view Steam as over in the West. While most contents are paid content, it guaranteed authors with set salaries + incentives based on people buying their books and chapters, rather than what most other websites were doing - getting paid only by popularity, views, and ad revenues.

Basically, it was considered the savior of the graphic novel industry that was burned down 30 years ago (literally. It's a long story)

Now, people are getting sick of these guys, hundreds of people requested Lezhin for refunds (causing huge damage) and in case the refund could not be honored, buying contents of the authors that suffered from Megalia previously (and that one author who got his first pay the day before the shitshow started. Sympathy is strong)

The Aftermath? (well, it's still ongoing)

Lezhin's upper brass is panicking like hell because they recently got 50 Million dollar investment, this shit show is happening, people are deleting their accounts and requesting refunds, etc. The investors are beginning to make their move.

There's this new censorship law which wished to censor webtoons. People were against it, but many people are actively and supporting it now, saying these idiots we used to be fans of deserve it.
the fans/readers are feeling VERY betrayed at the fact that the authors were viewing them as gophers bringing them fame and money. Nothing else, nothing more.

Many are making blacklists and boycotting. (which is already seeing some effect, as some illustrators and devs are already getting fired)

It took 30 years to change the image of industry from immature loons taking money from children and poisoning their minds, to actual artists with visions and messages.

Well that 30 years just burned down to the ground.

TLDR: People of industry caught in feminazi scheme. Refuses to acknowledge their mistake. Truly believes that their money will go for feminist movement and female equality. (Or do they?) Instead, the money will go to misandric criminals to cover their legal costs. Fans try to correct them. Authors, illustrators, etc. instead form an echo chamber. Starts calling their fans slaves whose only job is to bring them money. Fans fucking pissed. Boycotting ensues. Businessmen panicking. Authors still have no idea what they did wrong. Few hardcore fans are sucking their asses.

UPDATE: hahahahaha I need to add this. Someone called Disney and reported one of the artists selling NSFW doujinshi of disney and marvel characters. She also made her own figurines and stuff. bye~~~
Jesus fuck, some people captured all of this fiasco and sent to huge Christian organization, PTA, and the censorship dept.

Some authors changed their twitter profile picture into their actual faces, and changed the handle to their real name. This allows them to file a lawsuit to people talking shit about them.
Author of Denma pretty much confirmed that she's part of the site. Fans despairing.

For the Sake of Sita confirmed. Fuck. I love her stuff. Fuck. (http://gall.dcinside.com/board/view/?id ... no=1009382)

Someone claiming to be in high position in a big company said that they updated the manual on how to take care of Ilbe (the male equivalent to Megal that was problem some time ago) to include Megalian.
Evidence Megalian is covering the legal cost for the pedophile kindergarten teacher: (http://imgur.com/CeTBfOe)

aaaaaay Toptoon's 동창모임 has been removed. First thing you see when you go on the website is their official statement (http://toptoon.com/weekly). People who paid for it are getting full refunds. Lezhin's getting more shit because they're not taking action.

Some lawsuits were filed by fans. It went through.

UPDATE 2: Fuck. Now it ignited the politics scene. Basically the opposing party to the current ruling party backstabbed a crap ton of supporters and now there's bunch of people quitting the party.

More fuel added to the fire due to some women trying to pretend to be men to undermine the opposing side, asking others to pretend to be men and start some shit. http://imgur.com/KbCkDTD

The author of DICE posted stuff supporting Megalia. The title actually said "I don't know much about this but..." Promptly deleted his post. People are attacking him now. Already had a lot of haters because of Pink Lady incident.

Update 3: mmk, seeing more major authors apologizing. For some reason it's coming up all at once, so people are assuming that it's just for their face before it gets worse. Yeah, apology is not getting accepted.

Update 4: Fuck. One of the assistants of Tower of God turned out to be part of this. He talked shit about the readers parents (talking shit about your parents is a huge taboo zone in Korea, and will get you a lawsuit for sure)

update 5: According to SIU, the assistant stepped down from her position. But the assistant claims that she was fired unfairly because of misogyny http://imgur.com/agkWKb5
Well, they declared themselves feminazis. Don't talk shit about me anymore http://imgur.com/4kxNqn8

Writer for Space China Dress tweets and hashtags I'm "megalian" http://imgur.com/E1QcDuR. The writer already had fair share of haters. When some people complained about it being a little too sexual, he pinned it all on the artist and the series was axed due to the conflict between him and the artist.

...well, over 10000 people outed as being megalian on twitter with the hashtag...

Update 6: GUESS WHO'S HERE GUYS! https://www.reddit.com/r/manga/comments ... ty/d5pjl80

[Blinge]

I'd like to thank Durandal for giving me cancer in the above post.

Really, I don't think a T-shirt purchase by a VA from a korean MMO is enough to make this relevant to gamergate.
Then again, that's most of the examples in this thread.

[Durandal]

I'd like to thank Durandal for giving me cancer in the above post.

Really, I don't think a T-shirt purchase by a VA from a korean MMO is enough to make this relevant to gamergate.
Then again, that's most of the examples in this thread.

I posted it because it seemed fairly similar to our situation of a shitstorm spiraling out of control after the plebs get decried as misogynists for daring to do something else but shut up and spend money, except this time around it's bigger because of how concentrated the Korean part of the internet is.

[Sly Cherry Chunks]

It's almost play-by-play how gamergate unfolded. You know, there was a similar controversy a while back with the My Little Pony comics that I was gracious enough to not share here when it happened. An artist put in a visual shout-out to a well known anti-male SJW from Tumblr called Dragondicks. I don't want to aggravate Blinge's ass-cancer so I'll leave it there.

[Blinge]

Haha, it's easily aggravated.

Highlighting how the Korean situation mirrored the one here is fair enough, I wasn't aware of the "shut up and buy" sentiment as my response to tumblr-tier drama is usually to avoid it.

Is it even possible for this stuff to be covered without obvious slant and generally obnoxious writing?

[Durandal]

obvious slant

Asian-hating racist.

[Blinge]

One trip to urbandictionary later: Damn man, that's a new one to me.

I meant bias, obviously
I'll um.. I'll just see myself out.

[Durandal]

Kotaku and NPR articles on this issue are as informative as you'd expect: essentially misogynist gamers get VA 'fired' for buying shirt that supports feminists. But as always, there is more to it.

One koreanon on pills claims Megalia has turned Best Korea completely mad: https://my.mixtape.moe/ryykud.png

However, even GamerGhazi is afraid!
OP contains some censored NSFW images concerning Megalia: https://www.reddit.com/r/GamerGhazi/com ... le_tshirt/

If a confirmation from both sides isn't enough to at least the confirm the rumors somewhat, I don't know what is. The full extent of Megalia's influence and horrors lies up for debate, but something certainly smells, and it's not the wall of used tampons. GamerGate looks peanuts compared to this.

[BIL]

FUCKING GAMERGATE



STOP DELAYING GENIUS WOMAN IN TECH BRIANNA WU'S REVOLUTION 60 FOR STEAM

At this rate, poor foundering JMACC will be reduced to spreading his little white boipussy on cam before I get to enjoy my female-friendly "MMBN for your dog / Dragon's Lair for your late grandma" extravaganza. You sick fucks. 3:

(per noted evolutionary psychologist, racecar driver and astronaut John W. Flynt PhD, men are not really human beings, you see - they're more like rabid chimps who want to dive in and indiscriminately tear things apart. only the wimmenz do things like circumspection and consideration. THAT IS WHY ME AND CHRISTINE WESTON CHANDLER NEED REV60, YOU GOD DAMN JERK MALES!)

...gibe money pls? 3:

[Teufel_in_Blau]

Gawker has opened up a new website for cucks.

I wish I was joking: http://thecuck.gawker.com/welcome-to-ga ... 1785101113

[EmperorIng]

At what point does one leave the realm of parody and enter into the realm of hyper-parody?

[Sly Cherry Chunks]

At what point does one leave the realm of parody and enter into the realm of hyper-parody?

Stage 5: Acceptance. I like how the logo is a black cock.

[atheistgod1999]

^ Now you know why you're a cuck!

[BIL]

Hey bros I've thought up a totally sweet new death threat to use the next time I'm trollin' women on twitter, I wanted to run it by you to test

I am not MANSPLAIN, you have just been CUNTFUSINGLY reprogrammed (reference to CYBER-LIP for SNK NEOGEO)

I think it's pretty realistic I'm going to add it to my death threat file along with the usual stuff about digging up+raping your dead dog and challenging it to a street race

By the way fellow gamers, REVOLUTION 60 FOR STEAM will be out by the end of the month! It sure is a strange coincidence that Brianna's latest deadline is right around the same given by that disgruntled Kickstarter backer but frankly I am more interested in supporting this... Revolutionary new game!

[Sly Cherry Chunks]

CUNTFUSINGLY

(c)2016 Notch. Minecraft is what it is but this was his gift to the world.

[louisg]

Dang, what happened to this thread? It was going well for so long

[BIL]

^ Cyber VAWG can only be vanquished for so long...

Spoiler

edit: Oh wow, now this is entertainment

THE GREAT GAMERGATE MOMBOT DOXING STING-A-LING-LING

TLDR: internet war criminal MOMBOT pretends to have had identity exposed. valiant warriors of justice pounce upon the false intel and dox that bitch like a motherfucker using verboten gg techniques. NOW THEY WONDER WHO THE REAL MONSTERS ARE :O



Also, AJ Daulerio's anus is currently hotter than the surface of the sun. If harnessed, the thermal energy could keep a village warm all winter. :O Now that is what I like to see - friction!

[Skykid]

Also, AJ Daulerio's anus is currently hotter than the surface of the sun. If harnessed, the thermal energy could keep a village warm all winter. :O Now that is what I like to see - friction!

Lol, that guy has indeed been properly thoroughly gawkered right up the jacksie.

[Zen]

This Gawker thing is feeling more like a guilty pleasure, since Peter Theil's, Sun Tzu tier (legal?) finessing. Way past "two wrongs don't make a right", at this stage.
But God Damn! its nice to see these parasites squirm.

[Skykid]

They're just business peoples in the end. Exploitation and sensationalism in the name of free enterprise and greed isn't exactly a new thing; most committed capitalist ventures do the same thing to far more damaging (and veiled) excesses than Gawker's feather ruffling and former-pro wrestler-embarrassing antics.

But since it's nice to watch any of them burn, Gawker will do for current entertainment. They deserve it for Kotaku, tbh.

[Durandal]

https://archive.is/P7gYL
Gawker Media has been bought by Mexican media group Univision for 135 million USD, whose chairman is Haim Saban, AKA Power Rangers guy, AKA second biggest donator to Hillary Clinton

[evil_ash_xero]

This brought joy to my blackened heart.

http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/08/1 ... gamergate/

[Skykid]

This brought joy to my blackened heart.

http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/08/1 ... gamergate/

Beautiful.

But reported by Charlie Nash? Has he taken some time out from street fighting?

[evil_ash_xero]

We're number 1!

http://archive.is/0Ike3


Other than that bit of nonsense, there's some other bits of nonsense in this article. Saying Milo is the leader of the Alt Right, when he doesn't even agree with them on many things, and teases them.
And the New Atheists...yes, very much known for their misogyny.

[BIL]

Mentioning that charlatan Wu without so much as a nod towards the commander? That list can get fucked, yo. Even that Sci Fi episode (double bill with guy who pissed all over himself or smth) got that right. Nobody gave a shit about that no-talent dickless freak until Headshot Jace rolled up in the Battle Prius.

Scarin that bitch in he own crib

Spoiler

#fuckobeme #racewarnow #mydadisafuckingbitchfaggot

Speaking of... REVOLUTION 60 ON THE 30th LADS! Hey wait a sec... WU'S DOIN A RUNNER, REV UP THE RACE WAR VAN



"MAKING GAMES" BAAAHAHAHAHAHA "BACKGROUND IN ENGINEERING" BUWAAAHAHAHAHAHAAA

A truly shameless yet thoroughly documented parasite. I love it. This be like a new season of Alan Partridge, FO FREE. This is primetime schadenfreude. Will Rev60 see the light of day?! Or end up in the mulcher at the recycling plant?!

[Squire Grooktook]

>It thinks making games should be fun/joyful

More like 5% joy, 50% hair pulling frustration/stress, and 45% despair.

And that's if you're not on a deadline!

[BIL]

Sadly, Ms. Wu's recent career has been 110% Toyota Death Racing on the icy Boston roads, battling the commander and his goons in a wintry hellscape! It's a miracle Rev60 was even finished!

The commander... an adversary to make even hardened Islams quake...

Spoiler

It's no surprise Ms. Wu was terrified. If only all women in tech could be so strong as to see off the commander and finish their games. Game. Port of game. Released two years behind schedule. Hopefully released?

Spoiler

STOP MANSPLAINING