07-19-2020, 11:30 PM
(07-19-2020, 08:18 PM)Crazyjdawg Wrote: If you want to see how toxic the gaming community is, look up gamer gate. The mere existence of women in gaming sent the entire community into a months long tail spin.
I'm not familiar with Owens' origination from the gaming community but it wouldn't surprise me if a good portion of her followers were from that community.
I enjoy playing video games and I think their means of telling a story is both enjoyable and distinct from all other media but the online gaming communities are crazy problematic.
She started something called Social Autopsy that was intended to combat bullying among gamers through doxxing and tracking online activity. People got really upset with her (both libs and conservatives). Apparently she was doxxed herself in retaliation for SA. She blamed the doxxing on liberals (coincidentally ones involved in Gamergate).
Her blaming of the doxxing on libs garnered support from the righteous trash of the alt right, such as Milo and Cernovich. Apparently the support from the MAGA verse caused her to become a full-on Trump supporting Republican. This is odd, considering she was a Bernie supporter as recently as 2015 and ran a company that put out content questioning Trump's penis size. Apparently political beliefs don't trump popularity for a lot of people.
