One of the dumbest things #GamerGate ever did was take the "Literally Who?" approach to the anti-gamer Professional Victims that were going all around the media smearing gamers and pushing leftist talking points. Digging up dirt on Enemy figureheads and going out of your way to shit up their reputation is such a basic part of any propaganda war, and yet GG just unilaterally surrendered on that front as soon as Metokur left.
And obviously, the Literally Who approach achieved absolutely NONE of its supposed goals - fucking hell, Anita Sarkeesian and Zoe Quinn (aka Chelsea Van Valkenburg) got invited to the fucking UN while GGers were refusing to say a single bad word about them. If we had continued to "smear" Zoe Quinn, she probably wouldn't have been able to drive that one guy to suicide with false rape accusations later on.
Muh Moral High Ground grandstanding KILLS.
And obviously, the Literally Who approach achieved absolutely NONE of its supposed goals - fucking hell, Anita Sarkeesian and Zoe Quinn (aka Chelsea Van Valkenburg) got invited to the fucking UN while GGers were refusing to say a single bad word about them. If we had continued to "smear" Zoe Quinn, she probably wouldn't have been able to drive that one guy to suicide with false rape accusations later on.
Muh Moral High Ground grandstanding KILLS.
@ChristiJunior No, the dumbest thing they did was still label those characters as Literally Who 1, 2, etc. when discussing them.
Circumvented the goal of trying to shift focus to larger targets while still hampering efforts to attack the smaller ones.
Circumvented the goal of trying to shift focus to larger targets while still hampering efforts to attack the smaller ones.
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It's called fog of war, and it's not a midtake. It is a feature of the fucking universe we live in.
