Redditors discuss Lia Thomas getting booed at the NCAA Women's Championship

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[–]LtGreenCo 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

I've seen plenty of these comment graveyards before. Earliest one I remember is like ten years ago back in the Gamergate days, for awhile any thread in any subreddit that even casually mentioned the Zoe Quinn/games media collusion was fully nuked and locked. Threads asking why the other threads were nuked were themselves nuked. No explanation from any mod or admin.

Honestly I think that incident was what sparked the whole Gamergate movement, kinda a Streisand effect. Had they just left it alone it would not have got as much attention.

[–]Alienhunter糞大名 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I'm still not sure what exactly "gamer gate" was. Like I've read the synopsis about it and know what the controversy was but it's like, nobody I knew who gamed gave a fuck about it or knew what it was. We were all just like, Zoe Quinn? Who's that? She's an activist making activist type indie games? Lol ok nobody wants to play suicide quest or whatever it was she made. Because you know, we want to play games that are fun.

I remember people asking me at the height of it what I thought about it and basically I was like "I have no idea what it is". Seems like it was just a bunch of journalists jerking each other off to create a story. Nobody gave a fuck what game journalists thought anyway, yeah we're going to read the articles of the guy that was sent to the industry game show so we can get a list of the new shit coming out but literally nobody gives a fuck about any game journalists opinions and even less so with the internet.

[–]ClassroomPast6178 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Gamergate was what made me fully aware of just how much control of the narrative both the establishment media and the media’s chosen side have. The coordination between journalists was something I hadn’t picked up on before as well.

I think it was the dress rehearsal for the trans shit. The media are still refusing to report negatively on the trans issue, despite there being vast amounts of evidence including all the stuff we post about here.

[–]LyingSpirit472 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Honestly, I'd go the exact opposite way of it being dress rehearsal- Gamergate successfully having the media turn "hey, wait a minute, there's a very big conflict of interest in the coverage of this video game and we feel it's only fair that this conflict of interest get reported!" got spun by the media the people were fighting against as "...so, you hate women. Got it", and it WORKED, was the first moment most men who weren't the prom king got an undisputable spotlight shined on how profoundly unfair life has become for someone who has "privilege" in this world that was impossible to handwave away as "it's for equality" or "equality will seem like oppression to the people in power"...and it just kept getting worse and worse since then.

The trans shit, on the other hand, is a lot of those loser men who've been broken down by how unfair society is towards them finally giving up and going "if you can't beat them, join them", and thus using the same rules that these people fought to say "So as long as I'm a white male I'm going to be the lowest class of citizen? Well, MAYBE I don't want to be a man anymore! Now I'm a trans woman, and that means I outrank you, so you have to give me my way now! Line up to suck my non-presenting girldick now..."