#GamerGate Trivia - Part 1: Of the three Literally Whos, Brianna Wu was the first to use hashtag (August 30, 2014). Zoe Quinn mentioned it a day later but didn't use the actual hashtag until September 2, 2014. Anita Sarkeesian was late to the party at September 26, 2014.
#GamerGate Trivia - Part 2: Based on Twitter timestamps and info from 4chan's /pol/ of all places, we know that the "Kevin Dobson" death/rape threats were sent to Anita Sarkeesian at around 8:00 P.M. on August 26, 2014, over 22 hours BEFORE @AdamBaldwin "created" the hashtag. :P
#GamerGate Trivia - Part 3: After 9 years of quietly sitting on Vimeo, the original video of Anita Sarkeesian from July 2010 where she publicly admitted she wasn't a gamer and knew nothing about video games were suddenly deleted last year. How unfortunate...that I have copies. :P
#GamerGate Trivia - Part 4: For the " #GamerGate drove Zoe Quinn from her home" crowd, some food for thought: She was already planning a trip to Europe as early as February 2014 and was still calmly doing so two weeks after the whole mess started.
#GamerGate Trivia - Part 5: The CBC's John Bowman, who first reported on #GamerGate, had a Twitter meltdown so bad after feminists failed to send a man to jail for mean tweets that a superior of his said "a reasonable person would question his impartiality on harassment stories".
#GamerGate Trivia - Part 6: Ashley Lynch, who insists that 8chan/ #GamerGate swatted her, was at least partially the victim of incompetence. After /baphomet/ doxxed her, the anti-GG account Cernowatch annonced her doxxing on Twitter...AND THEN LYNCH DID THE EXACT SAME THING. >_<
#GamerGate Trivia - Part 7: When notoriously anti-GG CBC radio host Stephen Quinn had the temerity to suggest that #GamerGate was founded under the PRETENSE of "ethics in video game journalism" near Anita Sarkeesian, her response was to make an indignant Chewbacca noise. ^_^;
#GamerGate Trivia - Part 8: Sarah Nyberg once claimed that "most of the people in the /baphomet/ Steam group [Filthy Satanists] were also in #GamerGate Steam groups". But she only named one pro-GG Steam group and there was exactly one person who was a member of both. Weak. :P
#GamerGate Trivia - Part 9: Notorious /baphomet/ regular Eclipso a.k.a. SwatAnon, who was responsible for swatting Grace Lynn/Devi Ever/Pixelgoth, allegedly claimed responsibility for phoning in the bomb threat that disrupted SJW AirPlay. There's your "playing both sides", media.
#GamerGate Trivia - Part 10: The CBC once claimed that a young woman was attacked by #GamerGate just for tweeting support for Zoe Quinn when what actually happened was that she had a meltdown when someone sent her one of Quinn's nude pics and verbally abused GGers for 45 minutes.
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