Gamergate
mostly-online harassment campaign originally targeting both reviewers and designers in the video game industry
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Summary
Gamergate is a social media campaign[1]. Gamergate draws 3,892 Wikipedia views per month (social_media_campaign category, ranking #1 of 3).[2]
Key Facts
- Gamergate is in the country of United States[3].
- Gamergate's instance of is recorded as social media campaign[4].
- Gamergate's instance of is recorded as hashtag[5].
- Gamergate's instance of is recorded as harassment[6].
- Gamergate's Commons category is recorded as Gamergate[7].
- 2014 marks the founding of Gamergate[8].
- Gamergate's mascot is recorded as Vivian James[9].
- Gamergate's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Gamergate (harassment campaign)[10].
- Gamergate's described at URL is recorded as https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/dec/01/gamergate-alt-right-hate-trump[11].
- Gamergate's motto text is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': "It's about ethics in games journalism"}[12].
- Gamergate's different from is recorded as Gamergate[13].
- Gamergate's hashtag is recorded as GamerGate[14].
- Gamergate's hashtag is recorded as GameJournosAreBad[15].
- Gamergate's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as gender gap on Dutch Wikipedia[16].
- Gamergate's perpetrator is recorded as 4chan[17].
- Gamergate's perpetrator is recorded as 8chan/kun[18].
- Gamergate's perpetrator is recorded as Reddit[19].
- Gamergate's victim is recorded as Zoë Quinn[20].
- Gamergate's victim is recorded as Anita Sarkeesian[21].
- Gamergate's victim is recorded as Brianna Wu[22].
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Founding
2014 marks the founding of Gamergate[8].
Why It Matters
Gamergate draws 3,892 Wikipedia views per month (social_media_campaign category, ranking #1 of 3).[2] Gamergate has Wikipedia articles in 21 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[23] Gamergate is known by 31 alternative names across languages and contexts.[24]