{"id":"gamergate","name":"Gamergate","summary":"Gamergate is a 2014 online harassment campaign and hashtag movement that grew from allegations about indie developer Zoe Quinn and reframed itself as a fight over ethics in video game journalism. The controversy drove women out of the industry with death threats and shaped years of internet culture war debates.","tags":["gamergate","gamergate meme","zoe quinn","gamergate hashtag","gamejournopros","adam baldwin","brianna wu","anita sarkeesian","kotaku ethics"],"howToUse":[],"imageCount":5,"nsfw":false,"images":[{"url":"https://fcdtoybbbn2ccxbp.public.blob.vercel-storage.com/images/gamergate/gamergate-kotaku-patreon-policy-tweet.webp","caption":"Early Twitter reactions to Kotaku's policy on staff donations to developers' Patreons, an incident that fed into the broader GamerGate debate over games journalism ethics.","width":680,"height":660,"nsfw":false},{"url":"https://fcdtoybbbn2ccxbp.public.blob.vercel-storage.com/images/gamergate/gamergate-samantha-allen-twitter-debate.webp","caption":"A heated Twitter exchange highlighting the gender-focused debates that became central to the GamerGate controversy.","width":470,"height":459,"nsfw":false},{"url":"https://fcdtoybbbn2ccxbp.public.blob.vercel-storage.com/images/gamergate/gamergate-gamers-are-dead-articles-collage.webp","caption":"The infamous 'Gamers Are Dead' articles published across gaming media on August 28, 2014, which many GamerGate participants cited as evidence of collusion in games journalism.","width":680,"height":708,"nsfw":false},{"url":"https://fcdtoybbbn2ccxbp.public.blob.vercel-storage.com/images/gamergate/gamergate-burgersandfries-irc-log.webp","caption":"A portion of the leaked #burgersandfries IRC channel logs that Zoe Quinn released in September 2014, which she claimed showed coordinated GamerGate planning.","width":680,"height":525,"nsfw":false},{"url":"https://fcdtoybbbn2ccxbp.public.blob.vercel-storage.com/images/gamergate/gamergate-escapist-4chan-quinn-response.webp","caption":"The Escapist's September 2014 report on 4chan's and Zoe Quinn's responses to the leaked #burgersandfries chat logs.","width":680,"height":645,"nsfw":false}],"historyUrl":"https://fcdtoybbbn2ccxbp.public.blob.vercel-storage.com/images/gamergate/history.md","related":["i-support-the-current-thing","dr-ally-louks-olfactory-ethics-the-politics-of-smell-in-modern-and-contemporary-prose-phd-study","internet-bloodsports","race-swapping","regressive-left","social-justice-warrior","triggered-feminist--2","which-way-western-man","your-body-my-choice","thetriggering","bud-light-dylan-mulvaney","dei-purple"],"popularityRank":3695,"license":"Meme images and history: templates, screenshots, photos and fan edits, many of copyrighted material or real people. Explicit and offensive memes and images are included and flagged nsfw. Check you have the right to use an image before publishing."}