Ah, Anita Sarkeesian... Anita "Criticism is often subtle harassment" Sarkeesian Anita "I can't stand playing video games, but you should love my poorly researched videos on video games" Sarkeesian Anita "I somehow thought '500 Days of Summer' was a generic romcom even though the whole point of the movie is criticizing how unrealistic romcoms can be" Sarkeesian Anita "'Watch_Dogs' having a scene that shows the horrors of human trafficing is totally fanservice because I think male gamers get aroused by women being in pain" Sarkeesian Anita "You're a garbage human being for showing footage of me doing things I denied doing even though it happened in front of several people" Sarkeesian Anita "'Red Dead Redemption 2' letting you kills NPCs is bad because some of them are female, but it's not even worth mentioning the part where Arthur gets depaR" Sarkeesian Anita "I know that there's a lot of sexism in video games even though when Stephen Colbert asked me to name 3 games that are sexist, I couldn't even name 2" Sarkeesian Anita "It's wrong that 'DOOM' has so much violence, but it's okay when I write a fanfic about Spider-Man and me beating up Randy Pitchford" Sarkeesian (Note: Randy Pitchford is a scumbag. I won't defend him. I'm only calling out Anita's hypocrisy.) Anita "I claimed it was sexist for female body armor to have space for women's breasts and insulted real-life female veterans for pointing out that's a real-life thing" Sarkeesian Anita "I defended scumbags like Amber Heard and Alison Rapp, and demanded that everyone in prison should be released, but I'm an expert" Sarkeesian Anita "Despite all the times, I've been proven to not do my research, I don't have critics. I have harassers." Sarkeesian This is who Anita Sarkeesian is...Yes, the dislike of her is really justified.
Yes, it was 1000% justified She was the first, most obvious, most vitriolic grifter in this whole wave of DEI grifters. And we are STILL suffering from the massive damage she did to the industry.
She wasn't the most vitriolic, but she was the most damaging to the industry. The others were largely out to self-promote, Anita was pushing ideological poison into the games industry. Had she been more vitriolic she might not have been as effective.
If anything, she wasn't hated enough. It's only because she managed to thrive that the other grifter followed in her path. This whole thing should have been squash day 1.
Too much overexaggerattion. Governments and the media have always worked together since the golden age of Hollywood. It's just they had to hide their intentions for decades and started to see video games as another medium to subvert. What happened after 2014 and especially 2016 was when more governments becoming more fearful of more people becoming aware of corruption.
She was relevant to hate for a while, then Vidcon 2015 happened where she finally got exposed for the mean-girl I always assumed she really was when having to answer questions at a panel. That was a major turning point. Any Zoe Quinn murdered someone so she deserves WAY more hate, hence why she's scuttled back into the shadows whence she came.
Frankly they are hard to spot. If they glowed in the dark, one would not need electric lights during high-powered diners, speaking occasions and fundraisers.
Psychopaths are perhaps the biggest gap in learning whether it's education or personal growth. Any steps we have forward as a species is in rejecting their state of mind or way of life, along with other mental illnesses & the rest of the Dark Triad. They fail the human test, to genuinely be humans.
Gamergate? You mean "Ethics in Games Journalism"? Also knowns as the question "is it morally okay to suck off a reviewer for favourable ratings, five times?"
Ignorance is the only excuse because if you look into it even a little you'll see that every single thing that's happened subsequently has a tie to her and her toxic misandrist nonsense. She truly is patient zero.
To put more Context : they did not closed it , because no one called ... silly , Anita was GIVEN ESG money to make this ... it was used for Tax "deduction" ... free moneyz... then the call logs leaked, and a case was made to sue them for Harassment... so , she panicked ... and closed it ...
@@MephiticMiasmaHis trans brother took over his company and is now funding BABY GHOSTS who themselves are funding DEI Initiatives including Sweet Baby. You can see a longer explaination on LivAverageGamer
No man, you don't get it . Josh McIntosh was a Political Activist that liked to Mix Reality . Calling it Political Remix . Spinning Facts to get reality , like PR does . He has its takes on the Entertainment Industry to grift money . But none listen to him . Then he Hired a "ACTOR" Anita Sarkeesian , that at that time worked for Telemarketing struggling with money . Made her his Megaphone to speak his messages . And it worked , so well he CONVINCED HER to be his star in his new PROJECT "Feminist Frequency" . That would Flame bait with nonsense gamers to spark rage for money . She knew this . He did a fake photo Op on her, and used his friends in Kotaku to spin this "no-one" into a Brand Name . So Josh McIntosh became the "Ghost Writer" that Edited ,Wrote and Produced all of her videos . Anita Sarkeesian became the Face ,"The Actor" for money . He wanted to create a organization like GLAAD, to dictate how Women should look\talk\behave in Entertainment Media . Simple . Josh McIntosh was so happy about it, this grift worked and his money stream ... he even was with her as a couple... when she learned, she was his "Puppet"... only used to get moneyz , to make this Blackmail Gate Keeping Organization, she dumped him ... and ended his work relationship with him ... was then hired as a "Writer" to some publications , but since Josh McIntosh wrote all , the jig was up ... and now after 15 years of being a Tool that ruined Gaming, she closed the organization ... since Corpo no longer needed them , when they had ESG\DEI that gave them Tax bonuses
@@cierrawegner5226 To put more context : He understood that CELEBS can manipulate through media people ... example Swifties that will do all for Taylor ... but since people lived through Korona and saw what actors push ... they no longer use them as filters of the real world ... and now all Woke things flop
To drive this point further, some people noticed Anita was copying Macintosh's tweets and posting them on her account. Furthermore, Macintosh has his own social media where he continued to critique media through the exact same strange lens, and very few people watched him. Yet, filter the same critiques through a damsel in distress (Anita) and people listen. Funny how that works.
@@holdensachs8955 To put more context : Anita Twitter was run by Josh from the start ... this was mentioned in the first post , it was a test run if she would be perfect to be his Face , for his planned organization... it should also be added, that Zoe Quinn also was in on it ... with a female PR agent that liked to call herself a "Human Megaphone" that did also a Stellar job on "Mighty Number 9"
She's a "consultant" for DEI in Games, Movies and TV. She doesn't need youtube, as companies like Naughty Dog and Ubisoft are probably paying her millions of dollars for her opinions.
People forget EA regularly hires her. Even if she is a spinster that needs to have a birthday "Wedding" party, she still has massive influence in the industry.
It amazes me that these companies still use these people as if what they say should have any sway whatsoever. Again anyone thinking that "nature is healing" and that the industry is learning needs to stop thinking that immediately. The only way we get these people out is when the industry comes down. And from the look/sound of it it's coming down pretty soon.
Yes. She blatantly and verifiably lied to get to her position. I don'tcare if someone genuinely just believes jn a different world view; but a blatant con woman who makes things up for grifting money deserves no sympathy.
People who are able to lie like that and destroy everything in their wake used to be rightly called evil and left at that, moral relativism and the midwittery need to overcomplicate such simple axioms is destroying society.
And of course the damage done is both insurmountable and probably unfixable. I don't think the industry will ever truly recover. And the well has truly been poisoned what was the amount of parasites and activists still in the industry. Not to mention the pushing of things still to this day that are angering and pissing off the entire fandom.
Zoey is definitely a worse human being but we CAN thank her for exposing an entire corrupt industry. Now like 9/10 of the old outlets exposed for being part of the grift no longer exist or are shells of their former selves. I think Kotaku is the only outlet that still operates at any sort of capacity and it's because they lean on a modern day Anita Sarkeesian which means she doesn't have longevity as people just lose interest in her.
Yep, a lot of the reason why the industry is such a festering pile of crap right now is directly tied to things she had a hand in. I still hear she's a part of the grifting consultancy companies to this day. Once a grifter, always a grifter.
@@TheCynicalAutist That's the thing so many people still want to act like there's just scars oh no it's much worse than that. These people absolutely poisoned the well. In the industry itself is not recovering nor is it learning. They are still doubling down and still hiring activist parasites instead of actual people with talent. I am convinced that grummz was exactly correct. Only when the industry collapses or mostly collapses will we get the parasites out and will the process of healing actually begin. Only through massive failure can we hope to actually retake and fix what has happened here.
@@nobodyshome6792 This is really what it all boils down to. At the end of the day she's just a professional grifter. One of the reasons that I dislike activism is that it is infested with people like her. They just parasitise the 'cause' they claim to be fighting for in order to extort money. The 'work' these people do always turns out to be the most low effort or 'busy' stuff imaginable. Speaking engagements (just spew propaganda for half an hour), consultancy work (tell the developers they're sexist or racist for a few hours) and put out a few critique videos that you've duped gullible idiots into paying for. Meanwhile media organisation will happily run a constant defence for you because you have the 'right' politics.
You can tell there was consultancy involved considering the sudden front and center of certain characters who whether there in the game or not before certainly were given far more visibility all of a sudden.
Yes. She sent a fake threat to get out of a speaking event. It was _filled_ with vocabulary that only she and her ghost writer used. She then gave herself away with a story about how she supposedly found out about the threat that was impossible.
"I have no idea what she's doing lately." If you did not even 2 minutes worth of research Vee, you'd know that she still operates several video game consulting firms similar to SweetBabyInc that she extorts tons of money from developers as well as still does collage speaking tours at $15k-$20k a pop.
When that money & that support is then used as the basis to tank an entire industry & Poison the hearts & minds of millions of people from doing a goddamn good job in understanding her actual damage to discourse, I have to give a hard disagree.
@@TOUGHEYES I completely agree but I will say I long ago gave any pity for pretty much anyone working in these industries at this point. Gaming is so infiltrated that no one within these companies could possibly be ignorant to what is actually happening. That simply isn't possible. I mean sure cults are very good and indoctrination but there's just a certain level of obvious basic logic that you simply can't ignore no matter how deeply you've been drinking the Kool-Aid. The saddest people I feel like are the ones that still feel like there is a chance to turn things around. I really don't think AAA is ever coming back I think it's damaged beyond repair and that there is no reason whatsoever to trust any of the people in charge let alone the people actually making the games. I don't for a moment let Anita off the hook for anything she is done but I will say the industry itself is just simply too far gone.
Unfortunately, her stunts also dragged in a lot of others who got pushed to go in for the promised videos in the series. One of my mothers friends recently retired from working for a school districts libraries/resources, and got pushed into putting money in for the set for her original promised "educational videos" by higher ups to the point of being ordered...not sure if they got anything, but Anita went off into other projects before even finishing that
She was the right person, in the right place, at the right time with the cultural zeitgeist in a certain place that allowed all of this to happen. Sadly she should have just been ignored and she would have gone away and disappeared. People gave her just what she needed attention.
She made a living Larping as a _bullied gamer girl_ when she explicitly stated on a leaked video that she didn't know and had an interest in games outside of using them as a tool for grifting: She constantly used footage out of context, the most infamous one being she stating that the Hitman series rewarded the player for killing women in the most brutal way possible when killing civilians in those games results in a penalty and the footage clearly shows the game's UI deducting points. Furthermore most of the footage she used was taken from various playthroughs, she was so lazy/incompetent she didn't even had others play the games she _"reviewed"_ and the cherry on top is that she never finished her _Women vs Tropes_ series (which was crowdfunded) she barely made it halfway and called it quits the second her grift stopped being profitable.
The answer is a resounding YES. I actually listened to a couple episodes of her podcast, and it was some of the most ugly, mean spirited and nasty things I've ever heard. Her and her ideology is just... Evil. And I don't use that word lightly.
The first time I was introduced to FemFreq was on Moviebob's old Blogger blog, "The Game Overthinker" where he emphatically endorsed the "TvW" series- and basically EVERYONE in his comments called it out as a nothing-special wiki reading at best, and something Moviebob was only endorsing as an attempt to score. Moviebob's comments on Blogger weren't the heavily-moderated hugbox they are today, instead it was a truly inclusive place where you could have whatever opinion you wanted. The quality of Moviebob's videos took a NOSEDIVE once he became a mega-simp (which he got virtually no benefit out of and in fact tanked his popularity wanting to pull a Kathleen Kennedy and replace his audience for a smaller, but hopefully more obedient new one) and he became a legendarily toxic psychopath on Xwitter. Fun fact: the women of FemFreq have, in fact, gotten into and streamed video games more recently, long after it was far too little, too late and everyone stopped caring about them.
I've never seen an image that both filled me with rage and also I feel like was the fakest most staged thing I've ever seen than a picture of Anita and a huge pile of video games. It's bad enough that she's a professional victim grifter and has destroyed so much using what little power she was given. But the fact she's also a massive poser is what makes her the most insufferable. It's one thing to take something I love and use it to destroy the very industry that created it. But to pretend to be such deeply knowledged person on the subject when it was so far from it it was laughable is what I find the absolute worst. Like people that claim to be these great theologians and can at best spout some random quotes of scripture is basically what she is. Just a grifter, nothing more.
@@JohnDoe-wq5eu As someone who cares about the well-being of women, nobody has done more damage to them and set them back than Turd Wave Feminists. DeadwingDork did a recent reaction stream to TvW videos. Mind you, Dork is a Canadian Green Party voter (since I've last heard) and was initially inclined to give it the benefit of the doubt. He thought the first season was listenable but flawed, then by the time he got to the second season and beyond, it devolved into a living example of the worst straw feminist stereotype imaginable and just became "everything is bad no sexy" and got frustrated about how they would never answer the question of WHY so many games were "adolescent boy power fantasies", just getting upset about the fact that they existed at all. It got to the point where Dork agreed with journalists that "maybe there's a reason people don't want female presidents" even if he came to the same conclusion because of different reasons. Back then, the proliferation of social media made it a lot easier to see the actually horrible treatment of women around the world. EVERY SINGLE white man who was labeled a "misogynist" agreed that the treatment of women around most of the world (from countries feminists want to import rapey men from strangely enough) and it just made the radfems' fashionable, privileged victimhood all the more puzzling. If young girls are having acid thrown in their faces in the CURRENT YEAR, it makes even less sense why we're supposed to care about ADULT WOMEN, who claim to be a stronger and more independenter caliber of women on top of that, wetting their panties over something as trivial as mean words on the internet that they can easily ignore (and were later found out to be their own alt-accounts, which they occasionally forgot to switch). But no, forget about women who only got the right to drive last weekend, a rich woman in a first-world country is being harassed. SOMEBODY SAVE HER FROM THE TYRRANNY OF OTHER PEOPLE'S OPINIONS! By the radfems' own rules, it should be okay to criticize them. It's just punching up. You see, they have power, privilege, and money, and everyone else doesn't! They're the perfect acceptable target! Yet they don't see it this way. Nu-male defenders of them will still think- I mean BELIEVE that they're the linchpin of defending corporations and activists who already have the government wrapped around their fingers. Are you kidding me? And now nobody cares and they're remembered as the wrong side of history, about to go bankrupt and experience what ACTUAL oppression feels like.
The dislike of her is 100% justified. Not only did she change the landscape of gaming for the worst. She also grifted so much money and when that money ran dry she scuttled out from her dark dank hole and begged and demanded more. Furthermore she ignored people raising legitimate counterpoints against her, such as her stupid takes on women in gaming. or that there where no non violent games where you can do things like building, farming, and so on. And to top it off she was one of the cofounders of the "first gamergate" where she defended Zoe where Zoe had been proven to have slept with journalists to get her games passed with high marks.
"Complicated" what bs. It was pretty straightforward. I recommend "LivAverageGamer's" recent series on it. Going into extreme depth on all the different cogs. The TLDR. Anita was a figurehead for a much larger shift that was taking place in the gaming industry. There were many things going on in the background, Anita was just a public persona vs. the roach journalist doing what they do in the shadows. But no, Anita at no point was justified or dealt a bad hand.
I think that's the most important takeaway she herself is not personally responsible for everything but she was very much a figurehead of a movement that helped to spearhead what has created the situation the gaming industry is currently in. And you see it mirrored in things like Disney/ Marvel/ Star wars and they're definitely were other cogs as you said involved like game urinalists and shifting business policies like all the ESG/DEI stuff. It always comes back to money and that's what people need to remember. They may wrap it around some facade of a social movement of some kind but it will always come back to money. Grifting is always grifting.
Even if the proposal is that she was an industry plant, she still was the enthusiastic messenger. The hate was completely justified. As for “what is she doing now?” Last I heard she’s directly consulting with video game developers. So she’s not just faded into irrelevance. She’s behind the scenes now attacking our medium directly.
That's the thing no matter what people want to pretend that her message was or what agenda she claimed she was pushing what she did and what she said has completely ruined and destroyed an industry and forced a bunch of parasites and activists not to mention changes that continue to destroy the legacy of great games/studios/companies. Not a single thing she did or said did anything positive for anyone besides herself and her horrible parasitic buddies. Yeah I feel no sympathy for her whatsoever, in fact I think I actually feel negative sympathy if that's even possible. She is such an absolutely unrepentant grifter that has helped spearhead and push horrible things into an industry and hobby I used to truly love. And I will never ever be able to forgive people like her but especially her.
It is of course perfectly justifiable, and indeed eminently reasonable, to hate your ideological enemies. I don't need 90 minutes of exploration of this matter.
No matter how hard he tried to be even handed she still comes off like the most entitled, professional victim/grifter I've ever seen. Even if she personally isn't responsible for everything she helped put into motion everything we're dealing with right now. Sure she was signal boosted and astroturfed like crazy by the extremely biased media but she was allowed to do this because society at that exact moment what is the exact opportunity to do what she did. She saw an opportunity and she took it.
josh McIntosh is a regular donor to dark journalist I may not like his politics but he has continued to donate to DJ despite DJ becoming increasingly backing of the Dolan, especially given Bobby Kennedy's joining forces with the Dolan. so respect to josh for that.
Gamers... Never Forget... Anita Sarkeesian is the Spearhead of Gamer Gate... Gamer Gate is the Point in Time Where The Whole World Condemned and Beat Up Gamers...
You really can't undersell just how significant other part was in all this and how from the sound of it she still helps to be a part of it behind the scenes even now. She was 100% the face of the movement that has completely ruined an industry and forced out the vast majority of the fans that once held this hobby up. Much like so many other things that are called "male-dominated" but for some reason they think they can just push women into it or create a new non-existent fan base for they find out more everyday this is not true. When the industry implodes the only have their selves to blame and these gifters of course.
it is still funny when i saw her birthday party with weeding theme, she married herself, the sad moment when a women accept she is going to die as a cat lady, only sad for her, for us was really funny
Honestly, that was beautiful, somebody literally marrying themselves is the cherry on top of a person that realizes no one will ever truly love them for who they are because who and what they are is garbage. A perfect example of someone with an ego so big that only they themselves can tolerate them.
I remember the first time I saw one of her videos. Coincidentally, I'd played the game she was talking about the week prior. It was the one about a Hitman game where you're supposedly rewarded for killing strippers... and in the video you can literally see the message pop up on the screen that you've failed to complete the mission without killing innocent bystanders. That's what made me click on Sargon's response to her video. I'd seen some of his videos before, my brother would set his channel playing while we'd chat and we'd occasionally focus on the screen for a bit... but that video was when I subscribed for myself.
It's important to look at where things were at the time and it does explain a lot of why she was allowed to take a foothold. It wasn't an accident and of course the media had a big hand in propping her up. When you look at stuff like me too and the 2016 election and of course GG you could see how someone like her could grift her way into success. The worst of it is always how she helped consultants and parasites infiltrate the industry and ruin it. We are still suffering from the effects of what she did and the thing she helped do.
"It doesn't matter, they would've chosen someone else." Ok but they didn't, and we don't get to experience those other timelines. She was it. "Everything is sexist, everything is racist, everything is homophobic and you have to point it all out." SHE said those things and she meant it.
When I first saw Anita Sarkeesian's videos ten years ago, I didn't understand what I was looking at. I had no idea what DEI was, I had no idea of the culture war that we were about to be put through, I had no clue that what I was watching was total BS. More innocent times.
Something funny about these actual grifters like Anita and recently Keffals. She was astroturfed to high heaven. All she needed to do was pick up a game, any game and play it on stream. But she couldn't even to the bare minimum. The bar was low and she couldn't even do that.
She is without a doubt what I would call patient zero. Her involvement and platforming is without a doubt what allowed everything to happen that's happened.
Yes, the dislike of her was justified she opened the flood gates to these bs DEI practices we are all suffering for in gaming today with her blatant ideological grifting
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Ah, Anita Sarkeesian...
Anita "Criticism is often subtle harassment" Sarkeesian
Anita "I can't stand playing video games, but you should love my poorly researched videos on video games" Sarkeesian
Anita "I somehow thought '500 Days of Summer' was a generic romcom even though the whole point of the movie is criticizing how unrealistic romcoms can be" Sarkeesian
Anita "'Watch_Dogs' having a scene that shows the horrors of human trafficing is totally fanservice because I think male gamers get aroused by women being in pain" Sarkeesian
Anita "You're a garbage human being for showing footage of me doing things I denied doing even though it happened in front of several people" Sarkeesian
Anita "'Red Dead Redemption 2' letting you kills NPCs is bad because some of them are female, but it's not even worth mentioning the part where Arthur gets depaR" Sarkeesian
Anita "I know that there's a lot of sexism in video games even though when Stephen Colbert asked me to name 3 games that are sexist, I couldn't even name 2" Sarkeesian
Anita "It's wrong that 'DOOM' has so much violence, but it's okay when I write a fanfic about Spider-Man and me beating up Randy Pitchford" Sarkeesian
(Note: Randy Pitchford is a scumbag. I won't defend him. I'm only calling out Anita's hypocrisy.)
Anita "I claimed it was sexist for female body armor to have space for women's breasts and insulted real-life female veterans for pointing out that's a real-life thing" Sarkeesian
Anita "I defended scumbags like Amber Heard and Alison Rapp, and demanded that everyone in prison should be released, but I'm an expert" Sarkeesian
Anita "Despite all the times, I've been proven to not do my research, I don't have critics. I have harassers." Sarkeesian
This is who Anita Sarkeesian is...Yes, the dislike of her is really justified.
Yes, it was 1000% justified She was the first, most obvious, most vitriolic grifter in this whole wave of DEI grifters. And we are STILL suffering from the massive damage she did to the industry.
She wasn't the most vitriolic, but she was the most damaging to the industry. The others were largely out to self-promote, Anita was pushing ideological poison into the games industry. Had she been more vitriolic she might not have been as effective.
If anything, she wasn't hated enough. It's only because she managed to thrive that the other grifter followed in her path. This whole thing should have been squash day 1.
@@tinyknott No. She was 100% pure vitriol, she was just more subtle and insidious with it than the other "mask off" twats.
Worst part is Art tried to paint her as a misunderstood good person who didn't deserve how people saw her. It was infuriating.
AAAAH, my magic disappearing comments strike again!
She was the starting point of the widespread woke grift within videogames
Patient zero of the woke mind virus. Every single thing we're dealing with now has some tie or another to her or one of her other grifter buddies.
she helped destroy the industry as we used to know it
Yeah, Patient zero.
@@Kris.GYes she’s definitely responsible for Fallout 76 and Diablo: Immortal.
@@LinkMarioSamus what are you talking about?
She's the worst thing to happen to gaming.
To the human race.
The bubo is not the virus.
Too much overexaggerattion. Governments and the media have always worked together since the golden age of Hollywood. It's just they had to hide their intentions for decades and started to see video games as another medium to subvert. What happened after 2014 and especially 2016 was when more governments becoming more fearful of more people becoming aware of corruption.
One of the worst things.
no , Josh McIntosh is ... he was the cancer to gaming ... Anita was desperate for money , she was only the Actor ... and we all know what actors are
Yes. Next question.
You stole my comment, lol.
@@hewhobattles8869 Sorry
She was relevant to hate for a while, then Vidcon 2015 happened where she finally got exposed for the mean-girl I always assumed she really was when having to answer questions at a panel. That was a major turning point.
Any Zoe Quinn murdered someone so she deserves WAY more hate, hence why she's scuttled back into the shadows whence she came.
what... is your favorite colour?
I am shocked that most people don't recognize an opportunistic psychopath the moment they start speaking.
Frankly they are hard to spot. If they glowed in the dark, one would not need electric lights during high-powered diners, speaking occasions and fundraisers.
It doesn’t help that they find a crowd who wants to hear the lies they’re willing to tell.
Psychopaths are perhaps the biggest gap in learning whether it's education or personal growth. Any steps we have forward as a species is in rejecting their state of mind or way of life, along with other mental illnesses & the rest of the Dark Triad.
They fail the human test, to genuinely be humans.
Most people are too dumb to notice patterns.
Well, remember Nick Rekieta used to be loved by almost everyone…
Gamegate really highlighted how easy it is to gaslight something into history.
As long as it's in Wikipedia, it existed
@@SterileNeutrino
Speaking of which it also shows to just how big a biased piece of crap Wikipedia as well.
Gamergate? You mean "Ethics in Games Journalism"? Also knowns as the question "is it morally okay to suck off a reviewer for favourable ratings, five times?"
indeed , such a terrible state the interent has degraded into thanks to the sjws and their cultural marxist overlords....
Yes. She was toxic to the industry, buried any criticism even constructive and was horrible.
Ignorance is the only excuse because if you look into it even a little you'll see that every single thing that's happened subsequently has a tie to her and her toxic misandrist nonsense. She truly is patient zero.
Grifters don't take criticism. It'd ruin the grift.
She didn't bury any criticism, her grift depended on using it to elevate herself.
Fun fact: Anita and her friends funded an anti-harassment hotline for gaming. It was shut down in less than a year because NO ONE called.
I thought it was because they were caught harassing others, with the chat logs leaking and everything.
It also got women harassed, but it was progressive Male feminist harassment so it was fine.
@@ChrisR2020 Would not be surprised
To put more Context : they did not closed it , because no one called ... silly , Anita was GIVEN ESG money to make this ... it was used for Tax "deduction" ... free moneyz... then the call logs leaked, and a case was made to sue them for Harassment... so , she panicked ... and closed it ...
Was that Bullyhunters?
Yeah. Next question.
Short answer? Yes.
Long answer? Not enough disliked.
Short answer: Yes.
Long answer: Yes. Yes it is.
Fun fact, she funneled all the cash to herself and paid her employees scraps. If even that.
Like a true comrade.
That got exposed as well.
That cracked me up. These women asking her for help while she posting about chilling In Paris and eating high end food
TLDR: if you thought you hated her enough, you were wrong.
She forced her way into a men's space, and then demanded the entire industry change for her views. Yes the disliked was 100% Justified
it was absolutely justified, she is malicious
*Reads title* Yes, next question.
Edit: And don't forget about the trigger to Gamergate: Zoey Quinn.
And don't forget Zoe quin is a murderer
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@@blahyak2709 Didn't Alec's money go to help fund SBI?
May she never be redeemed. I had what she did happen to me including the apology and barely survived. RIP Alec H.
@@MephiticMiasmaHis trans brother took over his company and is now funding BABY GHOSTS who themselves are funding DEI Initiatives including Sweet Baby.
You can see a longer explaination on LivAverageGamer
she’s one of the worst, she coordinated sock puppet emails to fake some hate speech against her
Yes. Grifting, scamming and lying are and should be disliked.
She was the Boogieman that Birth the DEI Game Crash where Many Companies go Bankrupt, because they Collaborated with these Agencies.
No man, you don't get it . Josh McIntosh was a Political Activist that liked to Mix Reality . Calling it Political Remix . Spinning Facts to get reality , like PR does . He has its takes on the Entertainment Industry to grift money . But none listen to him . Then he Hired a "ACTOR" Anita Sarkeesian , that at that time worked for Telemarketing struggling with money . Made her his Megaphone to speak his messages . And it worked , so well he CONVINCED HER to be his star in his new PROJECT "Feminist Frequency" . That would Flame bait with nonsense gamers to spark rage for money . She knew this . He did a fake photo Op on her, and used his friends in Kotaku to spin this "no-one" into a Brand Name . So Josh McIntosh became the "Ghost Writer" that Edited ,Wrote and Produced all of her videos . Anita Sarkeesian became the Face ,"The Actor" for money . He wanted to create a organization like GLAAD, to dictate how Women should look\talk\behave in Entertainment Media . Simple .
Josh McIntosh was so happy about it, this grift worked and his money stream ... he even was with her as a couple... when she learned, she was his "Puppet"... only used to get moneyz , to make this Blackmail Gate Keeping Organization, she dumped him ... and ended his work relationship with him ... was then hired as a "Writer" to some publications , but since Josh McIntosh wrote all , the jig was up ... and now after 15 years of being a Tool that ruined Gaming, she closed the organization ... since Corpo no longer needed them , when they had ESG\DEI that gave them Tax bonuses
Josh McIntosh understood that the public opinion can be manipulated through media, for political power and profit.
@@cierrawegner5226 To put more context : He understood that CELEBS can manipulate through media people ... example Swifties that will do all for Taylor ... but since people lived through Korona and saw what actors push ... they no longer use them as filters of the real world ... and now all Woke things flop
To drive this point further, some people noticed Anita was copying Macintosh's tweets and posting them on her account. Furthermore, Macintosh has his own social media where he continued to critique media through the exact same strange lens, and very few people watched him. Yet, filter the same critiques through a damsel in distress (Anita) and people listen. Funny how that works.
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@@holdensachs8955 To put more context : Anita Twitter was run by Josh from the start ... this was mentioned in the first post , it was a test run if she would be perfect to be his Face , for his planned organization... it should also be added, that Zoe Quinn also was in on it ... with a female PR agent that liked to call herself a "Human Megaphone" that did also a Stellar job on "Mighty Number 9"
She's a "consultant" for DEI in Games, Movies and TV.
She doesn't need youtube, as companies like Naughty Dog and Ubisoft are probably paying her millions of dollars for her opinions.
People forget EA regularly hires her. Even if she is a spinster that needs to have a birthday "Wedding" party, she still has massive influence in the industry.
It amazes me that these companies still use these people as if what they say should have any sway whatsoever. Again anyone thinking that "nature is healing" and that the industry is learning needs to stop thinking that immediately. The only way we get these people out is when the industry comes down.
And from the look/sound of it it's coming down pretty soon.
Yes and then some. We are still seeing and dealing with the affects of Anita's sophistry.
Absolutely. Considering everything she and her friends straight up did or contributed to, I'd say she isn't hated nearly as much as she deserves.
Yes. She blatantly and verifiably lied to get to her position. I don'tcare if someone genuinely just believes jn a different world view; but a blatant con woman who makes things up for grifting money deserves no sympathy.
And when the federal government does an investigation and finds nothing worth pursuing you know she was lying her ass off.
People who are able to lie like that and destroy everything in their wake used to be rightly called evil and left at that, moral relativism and the midwittery need to overcomplicate such simple axioms is destroying society.
The only one worse than her is Zoey Quinn.
They tried to destroy an entire hobby because they wanted control, and nearly succeeded.
And of course the damage done is both insurmountable and probably unfixable.
I don't think the industry will ever truly recover. And the well has truly been poisoned what was the amount of parasites and activists still in the industry. Not to mention the pushing of things still to this day that are angering and pissing off the entire fandom.
Quinn is even better since she has an actual body count. RIP Alec Holowka.
Zoey is definitely a worse human being but we CAN thank her for exposing an entire corrupt industry. Now like 9/10 of the old outlets exposed for being part of the grift no longer exist or are shells of their former selves. I think Kotaku is the only outlet that still operates at any sort of capacity and it's because they lean on a modern day Anita Sarkeesian which means she doesn't have longevity as people just lose interest in her.
Anita was earlier bigger and more aware of what she was doing than Greeta.
She's a con artist with an ego, but she knew she created a system she could not be guilty in.
@@MaverickhunterXZero Everybody has an ego, but those people have no "self"
Definitely not bigger. The way globalists pushed Greta, every normie in the world can identify her.
Well, Greta is now a pro-Hamas simping sock puppet. Did people REALLY think she came up with her positions on her own?
Yes, I don't have to watch but the answer is yes. So much of what she championed has moved forward.
Yep, a lot of the reason why the industry is such a festering pile of crap right now is directly tied to things she had a hand in. I still hear she's a part of the grifting consultancy companies to this day. Once a grifter, always a grifter.
yes, when she was active.
Her impact on the industry has been long lasting and destructive, regardless if she's still in the public sphere or not.
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That's the thing so many people still want to act like there's just scars oh no it's much worse than that.
These people absolutely poisoned the well.
In the industry itself is not recovering nor is it learning.
They are still doubling down and still hiring activist parasites instead of actual people with talent.
I am convinced that grummz was exactly correct.
Only when the industry collapses or mostly collapses will we get the parasites out and will the process of healing actually begin. Only through massive failure can we hope to actually retake and fix what has happened here.
She still is. Considering that she is supposedly employed at multiple "consulting firms".
@@nobodyshome6792 This is really what it all boils down to. At the end of the day she's just a professional grifter. One of the reasons that I dislike activism is that it is infested with people like her. They just parasitise the 'cause' they claim to be fighting for in order to extort money. The 'work' these people do always turns out to be the most low effort or 'busy' stuff imaginable. Speaking engagements (just spew propaganda for half an hour), consultancy work (tell the developers they're sexist or racist for a few hours) and put out a few critique videos that you've duped gullible idiots into paying for. Meanwhile media organisation will happily run a constant defence for you because you have the 'right' politics.
Anita's being doing DEI consultancy behind the scenes. She ruined Dishonored 2 for example
Just mentioning Silverstring media.
You can tell there was consultancy involved considering the sudden front and center of certain characters who whether there in the game or not before certainly were given far more visibility all of a sudden.
Yes.
She sent a fake threat to get out of a speaking event.
It was _filled_ with vocabulary that only she and her ghost writer used.
She then gave herself away with a story about how she supposedly found out about the threat that was impossible.
That she didn't do the research just means the hate is even more justified.
Yes and so it hating Esg and Dei
"I have no idea what she's doing lately."
If you did not even 2 minutes worth of research Vee, you'd know that she still operates several video game consulting firms similar to SweetBabyInc that she extorts tons of money from developers as well as still does collage speaking tours at $15k-$20k a pop.
Once a grifter, always a grifter
They say do what you know and this is all she knows.
Research? That's work. Ha
This is the best argument for ending humanity in a rain of nuclear hellfire that I have ever seen.
The answer is so self-evident, I’m not going to dignify it with an answer.
She was a super grifter. I don't hate her because she drains the idiots of their money.
But she opened her eyes to not trust gaming journalism companies that's the only bright side and only stick to indie gaming.
When that money & that support is then used as the basis to tank an entire industry & Poison the hearts & minds of millions of people from doing a goddamn good job in understanding her actual damage to discourse, I have to give a hard disagree.
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I completely agree but I will say I long ago gave any pity for pretty much anyone working in these industries at this point. Gaming is so infiltrated that no one within these companies could possibly be ignorant to what is actually happening. That simply isn't possible.
I mean sure cults are very good and indoctrination but there's just a certain level of obvious basic logic that you simply can't ignore no matter how deeply you've been drinking the Kool-Aid.
The saddest people I feel like are the ones that still feel like there is a chance to turn things around. I really don't think AAA is ever coming back I think it's damaged beyond repair and that there is no reason whatsoever to trust any of the people in charge let alone the people actually making the games. I don't for a moment let Anita off the hook for anything she is done but I will say the industry itself is just simply too far gone.
Unfortunately, her stunts also dragged in a lot of others who got pushed to go in for the promised videos in the series.
One of my mothers friends recently retired from working for a school districts libraries/resources, and got pushed into putting money in for the set for her original promised "educational videos" by higher ups to the point of being ordered...not sure if they got anything, but Anita went off into other projects before even finishing that
Gamergate was a small part of massive government thing which was greenlit in 2014 and the focus was Ukraine.
Justifiable? Historically and factually, yes. That's a self-explanatory answer.
long answer: yes, short answer: yes
Yes
Definitely
Absolutely
She was as fake as a three dollar bill with the picture of uncle Ruckus.
Remember: She married herself. Don't forget about that.
I had managed to forget. WHY DID YOU HAVE TO REMIND ME!?
Good god, she's such a miserable woman
She was just the first, the activists in the universities planted the seeds of victim culture and like a used car salesman she used it
She was the right person, in the right place, at the right time with the cultural zeitgeist in a certain place that allowed all of this to happen.
Sadly she should have just been ignored and she would have gone away and disappeared. People gave her just what she needed attention.
An ideology that rejects beauty in fiction desserves criticism.
Their entire ideology needs to go. It's toxic top to bottom.
She's a grifter. Couldn't even make the videos she promised her supporters to make.
She made a living Larping as a _bullied gamer girl_ when she explicitly stated on a leaked video that she didn't know and had an interest in games outside of using them as a tool for grifting: She constantly used footage out of context, the most infamous one being she stating that the Hitman series rewarded the player for killing women in the most brutal way possible when killing civilians in those games results in a penalty and the footage clearly shows the game's UI deducting points.
Furthermore most of the footage she used was taken from various playthroughs, she was so lazy/incompetent she didn't even had others play the games she _"reviewed"_ and the cherry on top is that she never finished her _Women vs Tropes_ series (which was crowdfunded) she barely made it halfway and called it quits the second her grift stopped being profitable.
The answer is a resounding YES. I actually listened to a couple episodes of her podcast, and it was some of the most ugly, mean spirited and nasty things I've ever heard. Her and her ideology is just... Evil. And I don't use that word lightly.
Yes, next question.
Short answer, yes but not enough
Yes, it is.
this question was settled a while ago.
She offered nothing positive to the community and only dragged it down. She very much deserved the hate.
The first time I was introduced to FemFreq was on Moviebob's old Blogger blog, "The Game Overthinker" where he emphatically endorsed the "TvW" series- and basically EVERYONE in his comments called it out as a nothing-special wiki reading at best, and something Moviebob was only endorsing as an attempt to score. Moviebob's comments on Blogger weren't the heavily-moderated hugbox they are today, instead it was a truly inclusive place where you could have whatever opinion you wanted. The quality of Moviebob's videos took a NOSEDIVE once he became a mega-simp (which he got virtually no benefit out of and in fact tanked his popularity wanting to pull a Kathleen Kennedy and replace his audience for a smaller, but hopefully more obedient new one) and he became a legendarily toxic psychopath on Xwitter.
Fun fact: the women of FemFreq have, in fact, gotten into and streamed video games more recently, long after it was far too little, too late and everyone stopped caring about them.
I've never seen an image that both filled me with rage and also I feel like was the fakest most staged thing I've ever seen than a picture of Anita and a huge pile of video games. It's bad enough that she's a professional victim grifter and has destroyed so much using what little power she was given. But the fact she's also a massive poser is what makes her the most insufferable. It's one thing to take something I love and use it to destroy the very industry that created it. But to pretend to be such deeply knowledged person on the subject when it was so far from it it was laughable is what I find the absolute worst. Like people that claim to be these great theologians and can at best spout some random quotes of scripture is basically what she is. Just a grifter, nothing more.
@@JohnDoe-wq5eu As someone who cares about the well-being of women, nobody has done more damage to them and set them back than Turd Wave Feminists.
DeadwingDork did a recent reaction stream to TvW videos. Mind you, Dork is a Canadian Green Party voter (since I've last heard) and was initially inclined to give it the benefit of the doubt. He thought the first season was listenable but flawed, then by the time he got to the second season and beyond, it devolved into a living example of the worst straw feminist stereotype imaginable and just became "everything is bad no sexy" and got frustrated about how they would never answer the question of WHY so many games were "adolescent boy power fantasies", just getting upset about the fact that they existed at all. It got to the point where Dork agreed with journalists that "maybe there's a reason people don't want female presidents" even if he came to the same conclusion because of different reasons.
Back then, the proliferation of social media made it a lot easier to see the actually horrible treatment of women around the world. EVERY SINGLE white man who was labeled a "misogynist" agreed that the treatment of women around most of the world (from countries feminists want to import rapey men from strangely enough) and it just made the radfems' fashionable, privileged victimhood all the more puzzling. If young girls are having acid thrown in their faces in the CURRENT YEAR, it makes even less sense why we're supposed to care about ADULT WOMEN, who claim to be a stronger and more independenter caliber of women on top of that, wetting their panties over something as trivial as mean words on the internet that they can easily ignore (and were later found out to be their own alt-accounts, which they occasionally forgot to switch). But no, forget about women who only got the right to drive last weekend, a rich woman in a first-world country is being harassed. SOMEBODY SAVE HER FROM THE TYRRANNY OF OTHER PEOPLE'S OPINIONS!
By the radfems' own rules, it should be okay to criticize them. It's just punching up. You see, they have power, privilege, and money, and everyone else doesn't! They're the perfect acceptable target! Yet they don't see it this way. Nu-male defenders of them will still think- I mean BELIEVE that they're the linchpin of defending corporations and activists who already have the government wrapped around their fingers. Are you kidding me? And now nobody cares and they're remembered as the wrong side of history, about to go bankrupt and experience what ACTUAL oppression feels like.
Short Answer? Yes.
Long Answer? Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees.
Yes
Yes, video is over.
Don't say she pretty because she not.
She did marry herself a couple of months ago.
The dislike of her is 100% justified.
Not only did she change the landscape of gaming for the worst. She also grifted so much money and when that money ran dry she scuttled out from her dark dank hole and begged and demanded more.
Furthermore she ignored people raising legitimate counterpoints against her, such as her stupid takes on women in gaming. or that there where no non violent games where you can do things like building, farming, and so on. And to top it off she was one of the cofounders of the "first gamergate" where she defended Zoe where Zoe had been proven to have slept with journalists to get her games passed with high marks.
"Complicated" what bs.
It was pretty straightforward.
I recommend "LivAverageGamer's" recent series on it. Going into extreme depth on all the different cogs.
The TLDR. Anita was a figurehead for a much larger shift that was taking place in the gaming industry.
There were many things going on in the background, Anita was just a public persona vs. the roach journalist doing what they do in the shadows.
But no, Anita at no point was justified or dealt a bad hand.
I think that's the most important takeaway she herself is not personally responsible for everything but she was very much a figurehead of a movement that helped to spearhead what has created the situation the gaming industry is currently in.
And you see it mirrored in things like Disney/ Marvel/ Star wars and they're definitely were other cogs as you said involved like game urinalists and shifting business policies like all the ESG/DEI stuff.
It always comes back to money and that's what people need to remember. They may wrap it around some facade of a social movement of some kind but it will always come back to money. Grifting is always grifting.
Even if the proposal is that she was an industry plant, she still was the enthusiastic messenger. The hate was completely justified. As for “what is she doing now?” Last I heard she’s directly consulting with video game developers. So she’s not just faded into irrelevance. She’s behind the scenes now attacking our medium directly.
That's the thing no matter what people want to pretend that her message was or what agenda she claimed she was pushing what she did and what she said has completely ruined and destroyed an industry and forced a bunch of parasites and activists not to mention changes that continue to destroy the legacy of great games/studios/companies.
Not a single thing she did or said did anything positive for anyone besides herself and her horrible parasitic buddies.
Yeah I feel no sympathy for her whatsoever, in fact I think I actually feel negative sympathy if that's even possible. She is such an absolutely unrepentant grifter that has helped spearhead and push horrible things into an industry and hobby I used to truly love. And I will never ever be able to forgive people like her but especially her.
Of course
Yes, absolutely
It is of course perfectly justifiable, and indeed eminently reasonable, to hate your ideological enemies. I don't need 90 minutes of exploration of this matter.
No matter how hard he tried to be even handed she still comes off like the most entitled, professional victim/grifter I've ever seen.
Even if she personally isn't responsible for everything she helped put into motion everything we're dealing with right now. Sure she was signal boosted and astroturfed like crazy by the extremely biased media but she was allowed to do this because society at that exact moment what is the exact opportunity to do what she did. She saw an opportunity and she took it.
Yep.
Dislike is not a hard enough word for the sentiment that grifter provokes.
Yes.
She was platformed and sponsored.
Every form of activism don’t deserve any sympathy
josh McIntosh is a regular donor to dark journalist
I may not like his politics but he has continued to donate to DJ despite DJ becoming increasingly backing of the Dolan, especially given Bobby Kennedy's joining forces with the Dolan.
so respect to josh for that.
Because of her, we have consultation groups. She proved the grift made money.
Without a doubt. She should not have been ignored.
Anita is a professional scammer but she's really bad at what she does.
I was there 2 thousand years ago. Don't forget that this woman was invited to the UN.
Anita caused all of this diversity in gaming bullsht. Shes not hated enough.
Gamers...
Never Forget...
Anita Sarkeesian is the Spearhead of Gamer Gate...
Gamer Gate is the Point in Time Where The Whole World Condemned and Beat Up Gamers...
I forgot so can someone remind me, why did she and Alec Holowka's killer go to the UN? They held some sort of speech there, correct?
Yes she stole a bunch of money
She popularized these trends. Ngl she needs capital punishment
You really can't undersell just how significant other part was in all this and how from the sound of it she still helps to be a part of it behind the scenes even now. She was 100% the face of the movement that has completely ruined an industry and forced out the vast majority of the fans that once held this hobby up. Much like so many other things that are called "male-dominated" but for some reason they think they can just push women into it or create a new non-existent fan base for they find out more everyday this is not true.
When the industry implodes the only have their selves to blame and these gifters of course.
I thought she didn't exist anymore
Yes.
Thanks for the video.
she could be chased by feral beasts and screaming for help and her own family would just smile and wave on by.
it is still funny when i saw her birthday party with weeding theme, she married herself, the sad moment when a women accept she is going to die as a cat lady, only sad for her, for us was really funny
Honestly, that was beautiful, somebody literally marrying themselves is the cherry on top of a person that realizes no one will ever truly love them for who they are because who and what they are is garbage.
A perfect example of someone with an ego so big that only they themselves can tolerate them.
Yes, if anything we don't hate her enough
Yes. Absolutely. It was justified.
Yes. Next question
she should be sentenced to 30 years of playing megaman for dos
I remember the first time I saw one of her videos.
Coincidentally, I'd played the game she was talking about the week prior.
It was the one about a Hitman game where you're supposedly rewarded for killing strippers... and in the video you can literally see the message pop up on the screen that you've failed to complete the mission without killing innocent bystanders.
That's what made me click on Sargon's response to her video.
I'd seen some of his videos before, my brother would set his channel playing while we'd chat and we'd occasionally focus on the screen for a bit... but that video was when I subscribed for myself.
She's definitely one of the original 4 horseman of the wokening. So she's certainly not free from all blame.
It was only the symptom of what decades of feminism and feel good schooling allowed to happen.
It's important to look at where things were at the time and it does explain a lot of why she was allowed to take a foothold. It wasn't an accident and of course the media had a big hand in propping her up.
When you look at stuff like me too and the 2016 election and of course GG you could see how someone like her could grift her way into success.
The worst of it is always how she helped consultants and parasites infiltrate the industry and ruin it. We are still suffering from the effects of what she did and the thing she helped do.
Dislike no Disdain and disgust yes.
It's literally because of her why the woke trend in gaming started, I hope that fact isn't forgotten.
Short answer: Yes.
Long answer: YEEEEEEES.
She is patient zero for all of these grievance grifters that have infested culture.
Absolutely
"It doesn't matter, they would've chosen someone else."
Ok but they didn't, and we don't get to experience those other timelines. She was it. "Everything is sexist, everything is racist, everything is homophobic and you have to point it all out." SHE said those things and she meant it.
When I first saw Anita Sarkeesian's videos ten years ago, I didn't understand what I was looking at. I had no idea what DEI was, I had no idea of the culture war that we were about to be put through, I had no clue that what I was watching was total BS. More innocent times.
She interfered in the development of Shadow Warrior 3.
It's compounding. From the people she accuses to the people she financially targets.
Something funny about these actual grifters like Anita and recently Keffals.
She was astroturfed to high heaven. All she needed to do was pick up a game, any game and play it on stream. But she couldn't even to the bare minimum. The bar was low and she couldn't even do that.
Anita caused the infection of wokeness in the gaming industry to spread far and wide.
She is without a doubt what I would call patient zero.
Her involvement and platforming is without a doubt what allowed everything to happen that's happened.
Yeah
Yes, the dislike of her was justified she opened the flood gates to these bs DEI practices we are all suffering for in gaming today with her blatant ideological grifting
I'll take 'No Shit Sherlock' for $500 please Alec
However much you dislike her and her ideological buddies, it's not enough. You think it is, but it isn't.