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Nick Wingfield of The New York Times referred to the threat as "the most noxious example of a weeks long campaign to discredit or intimidate outspoken critics of the male-dominated gaming industry and its culture". [10] The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) investigated the threat to attack Sarkeesian and other Gamergate-related threats. [89]
A death threat is a threat, often made anonymously, by one person or a group of people to kill another person or group of people. These threats are often designed to intimidate victims in order to manipulate their behaviour, in which case a death threat could be a form of coercion. For example, a death threat could be used to dissuade a public ...
The backlash began in the mid-2010s, following a surge of feminist activism. During this time, women took to the streets in protest at sexual violence and the widespread use of hidden cameras that ...
After the Utah State University death threats, Rolling Stone called her "pop culture's most valuable critic," saying that "the backlash has only made her point for her: Gaming has a problem". [108] In December 2014, The Verge named her as one of "the 50 most important people at the intersection of technology, art, science, and culture". [109]
Feminist gaming culture critic Anita Sarkeesian says she was forced to cancel a planned talk Wednesday at Utah State University after receiving anonymous death threats. Sarkeesian announced the ...
The original video has had more than 15 million views as of May 2023, [11] although mirrored copies of the video had received tens of millions of additional views shortly after her death; additionally, a YouTube video by React has a video of teens reacting to Todd's video which has garnered 44.7 million views as of May 2023, [12] and various ...
The Jessi Slaughter cyberbullying case was an American criminal case that revolved around an 11-year-old named Jessica Leonhardt (known online as "Jessi Slaughter" and "Kerligirl13"), whose profanity-laden videos went viral on Instagram and YouTube in 2010.
President Biden’s speech denouncing Donald Trump and what he described as “extreme MAGA ideology" has sparked online calls for violence, including death threats against the president ...