• A Sharky Anthro@fedia.io
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    I’m still flabbergasted by this ridiculous outrage, like, it was crazy. Calling a bit of natural peach fuzz a beard, crazy work. These incels and weirdos really are twisted ass dudes.

    Humans are mammals, so we’re a bit hairy, that’s genuinely not out of the ordinary for a regular woman to have a bit of peach fuzz. What isn’t normal is making it seem abnormal, these chuds, they’re truly tragic in so many ways.

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      it’s ragebait.

      if you raged and took this seriously, they won.

      the point of posts like this is to make people flip out and get them to reply and push engagement.

      and it works. it worked on you.

      call them names all you want, you are giving them what they want.

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          The tag that I added to the above user’s handle gives me a good chuckle every time I see them in the wild. Helps balance the rank odiousnesses of many of their comments lol the irony of a troll like them calling something rage bait only adds to my glee.

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        I didn’t take this seriously, it’s just confusing that this caused people to actually lose their minds. There’s no rage to be felt about this as all I feel is absolutely confused this passes for something to feel outrage over. ROFL It’s just weird to me that they never saw a woman up close, and knew that peach fuzz is a thing women have on their faces. I did call them names, but, incel does seem fitting in this case. More than ever.

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          I think they’re saying that the OP’s OP’s OP was rage bait, i.e. the guy pretending not to know people have fine hair everywhere was just trolling.

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            i also think it’s funny how enraged people are you suggest it’s rage bait.

            because clearly this is some huge problem, instead of stupid internet flaming bullshit.

            but ragebait works. people love being angry over stupid bullshit and projecting their angst at imaginary chuds that likely don’t really exist.

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              No one is mad you’re calling it rage bait, though what you’re doing is rage baiting as well since if you were around the internet when that game released you know full well all the gamergate chuds lost their fucking minds. Fuckin dweebs are always so loud. Anyway yeah this was actual discourse for a month or two, not just assholes ragebaiting.

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                My interpretation of gamergate, which I was there watching it happen live, was very very different than the popular narrative about it.

                But hey, what do I know, I only lived through it. I didn’t read about it through a bunch of idiot mainstream journalists who only focused on the ‘evil men vs innocent women’ narrative to score the post clicks.

                A lot of the ‘harassment’ that the key female figures received, never had any evidence. I also knew Zoey Quin, I went out with her on a date in 2011. She was an absolute nutcase, probably had BPD or something. Her grasp on reality was very tenuous before gamergate, so I doubt anything she said about those event was remotely truthful. And I’m sure her boyfriend there was also equally mentally ill.

                But sure, tell me how I’m rage baiting or something. Despite me having personally known at least one of the people involved. And I also was friends with a person who was friends with Anita in SF, who also told me she was an absolute nutcase of a person. And my friend’s husband, who was also a figure in gamergate, though minor, was an another absolute psycho. She divorced him two years later because of his physical and mental abuse of her. He also went on and on about ‘harassment’ and ‘abuse’ when his shitty games got bad reviews. He, like Anita, Zoey, and all the rest, were trust fund babies who engaged in all sorts of abuse, manipulation, and lying about who they were and their finances. My friends husband had all his millions in offshore accounts, and would post to social media about how he was struggling to get idiots to give money for his ‘art’.

                Notice how now these figures all gave up on gaming, and go around being professional victims? Getting paid 1000s to talk about their ‘trauma’ and how horrible and awful gaming culture is? Yeah, that’s just more grift. It was never about games. It was abotu them creating a narrative by which they could con people into giving them money for playing a imaginary role.

                And lots of social media/influencer figures out there are like this. They make up fake drama that has no factual or evidential basis, never appears in court, and milk their fans for huge sums of money. It happens again and again, and people like you eat it up, because you love this notion that these are poor innocent helpless people being abused by these evil faceless masses of harassment. It’s manipulation through and through.

                but hey, what do i know, right, i’m clearly just another evil chud right? it can’t possibly be that gamergate was just a lot of shitheads being shitheads, and faking everything so they could score cash and fame from the ignorant public… people never ever do that, right? that’s not… a proven business model we’ve seen replicated again and again.

                and reporters ate it up, despite having no sourced evidence other than the hearsay of the participants. I remember another local figure who lived in my city, who reported all this harassment, opened a police report, and it was shut down because the police found no evidence and she would provide none of this so called harassment. And what she do? claim it was police ignorance/misogyny, and her fans ate it up and her donations piled up… and her game she was working on… all the sudden development stopped and she dissipated from the gaming/public scene entirely. weird how her ‘art’ she ‘struggled’ for no longer matter one she had a few 100K in donations, oh and she fired the two people working for her.

                and clearly I’m just lying and making this all up right? the level of detail is just my imagination, not my lived experience and memory that doesn’t mesh up with the ‘gamergate was bad mean people harassing innocent women’ narrative most folks seem to believe.

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                  Oh holy shit you’re literally a gamergater. Fuckin, and you just admit that to people? You’re literally the guy in the fuckin meme, holy shit.

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                    yeah, it was me all along. I did gamergate. the entire thing. and yeah I openly admit it to everyone, and they congratulate me on my genius. I am Zoey Quinn and her boyfriend, and all the journalists, reporters, and police sergeants invovled we’re all the same person.

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                  I don’t believe a single word of this comment, but especially that you went on a date with Zoey Quin.

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                There were very real tantrums about this. Look at the reaction to the new God of War.

                Pretending like incels don’t whine about the “integrity of their games” and “woke bullshit” is silly.

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                  I know. Just saying it’s not clear in this instance. It seems almost too ridiculous to be real, but it could be.

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                    Even if that particular post was for some reason not real, that was a very common complaint about Aloy’s design.