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Gamergate began with an August 2014 blog entry called "The Zoe Post" by Quinn's ex-boyfriend, which falsely insinuated that Quinn had received a favorable review because of Quinn's sexual relationship with a games journalist. [13] The blog post was spread to 4chan, where many users had previously disparaged Quinn's work.
Zoë Tiberius Quinn [2] was born in 1987 and was reared in a small town near the Adirondack Mountains in New York. [3] Growing up, Quinn's favorite video game was Commander Keen, an MS-DOS game featuring an eight-year-old protagonist who builds a spaceship with items found around his house and then travels the galaxy defending the Earth.
Crash Override was founded by game developers Zoë Quinn and Alex Lifschitz, [6] and was staffed exclusively by victims of online abuse whose identities were kept anonymous outside the group. [7] Quinn and Lifschitz were subjected to online abuse during the Gamergate harassment campaign, with both receiving death threats and being doxxed. [8 ...
Crash Override: How Gamergate (Nearly) Destroyed My Life, and How We Can Win the Fight Against Online Hate is a memoir by indie video game developer Zoë Quinn about their experiences as the target of Gamergate and in countering online abuse.
Opponents of Quinn claimed that Grayson had given Depression Quest a positive review as a result of this relationship. Investigations proved this to be false: Grayson had at no point reviewed Depression Quest. These false accusations against Quinn sparked what would later be known as the Gamergate harassment campaign.
Along with Anita Sarkeesian and Zoë Quinn, Wu was one of the targets of Gamergate harassment. [42] [45] [47] [48] In February 2015, she said, "by attacking me so viciously, they're helping give me the visibility to usher in the very game industry they're terrified about." [49] Wu started a legal defense fund for women targeted by Gamergate. As ...
GamerGate is generally acknowledged to have begun, or at least reached critical mass, when Eron Gjoni posted a 9,425-word blog post containing serious allegations regarding his former girlfriend, independent game developer Zoë Quinn.
CS Monitor: Gamergate came about more than three months ago after a computer programmer named Eron Gjoni posted a 3,000 word screed, complete with details of private conversations, that chronicled the break-up of his relationship with Zoe Quinn, a then-relatively obscure independent game developer and feminist. Not notable until after the zoepost.