"Silver Bullet"

I hadn't been keeping up with my usual webcomics for the past week or two, so I'd missed this one. Now I've seen it, and I felt like posting a link to it here, so there is that link. I agree fully with the summation in the last panel. Fuck GamerGate.

"Felicia Day Says She's Afraid of Gamergate, Immediately Gets Doxxed"

Fuck GamerGate.

Seriously, fuck GamerGate and everyone who still supports it. If you're someone who wants to support the ostensibly good issues brought up by GamerGate without supporting the assholes who do shit like this, then here's a thought: stop associating yourself with fucking GamerGate. Stop claiming to be part of GamerGate. Come up with a new name for yourselves if you have to (and don't let the assholes corrupt it as they have GamerGate), but stop championing GamerGate itself. GamerGate is nothing but an irredeemably toxic shithole of a buzzword now, and if you claim to support it, even if you honestly don't actually support the threateners and doxxers and misogynist asshats and whoever else, then it might be unfair to you, but you're still going to be associated with them. You're still going to be painted with that same brush. There's simply no getting around that now. There has been far too much bullshit spewed over far too short a time for GamerGate to ever be able to clean itself off and "go legit," so to speak. So, to reiterate, if you still claim to support GamerGate at this point and time, then sorry, but you're an irredeemably toxic shithole in the eyes of myself and many others, and there is nothing you can do to change that, except to stop supporting goddamn fucking GamerGate.

"A Summary Of The Gamergate Movement..."

Full title of the article, because it won't fit in the subject line of a LJ article: "A Summary Of The Gamergate Movement That We Will Immediately Change If Any Of Its Members Find Any Details Objectionable"

I found it somewhat amusing, anyway.

Disclaimer: Clickhole is associated with The Onion, which is, of course, a satire website. With that said, however, its characterization of GamerGate in the above article is still pretty accurate, at least as far as I'm concerned, anyway.

(EDIT) Oh, and while I'm on the subject of comedy websites cutting through the usual bullshit to get to the heart of matters, here is a Cracked.com article about GamerGate that I somehow missed when it was originally posted (one of several such, one of which was written by Zoe Quinn herself which I somehow also missed until now). (EDIT 2) Oh, and look at how many buttmad GamerGate-supporting manchildren there are in the comments under those Cracked articles, espousing how Cracked is supposedly "wrong" and that GamerGate isn't actually like that at all. *eyeroll* (/EDIT 2) (/EDIT)