From someone who is just watching GamerGate from afar, the claims of actual crimes (especially the magnitude) coming from either side seems really far fetched. I did searches of "Anita Sarkeesian Fraud" and "Sarah Nyberg pedophilia" and all I find are articles that are either clearly pro-GG or anti-GG. I would love to be able to decouple ideology and personal actions, but all the sources of "information" just seem to be set in two very different realities where the pasts of ideological opponents are fair game.
I suppose this frustration with only having the voices of extremists being heard furthers your point. No barrage of citations is going to convince a ideologically committed Anti-GG SJW that some of their spokespeople participate more to satisfy some martyr complex. On the same token, no barrage of citations is going to convince an ideologically committed Pro-GG that some of their spokespeople are more or less reactionaries mindlessly lashing out at those who appear to be a threat to gamer culture.
I would like to see the citations in the hope that I can find out what the heck is actually happening without some extremist slant distorting or whitewashing facts.
You, however, I will cheerfully provide citations for:
1. Anita Sarkeesian kickstarted Tropes vs. Women substantially higher than her initial bid for it, and likely will never finish it.
It has been over
two and a half years.
The series is less than half-complete.
Ignoring for a moment that
Tropes Vs. Women was billed as a documentary series and not an overglorified set of of teleseminars, ignoring that she's nowhere near close to her kickstarted goal (which from a legal standpoint, she
must complete in order for Kickstarter to not attempt to seek redress for the backers). It's analyzing her actual videos, however, that problems start to arise.
Of these videos,
Anita Sarkeesian openly stole content from other Youtubers, using it without permission. It's especially noticable because
many of the stolen screen-grabs and clips have
the same life totals, scores, or positioning. In other words, it's become blatantly apparent that she has not played any of the games she claims to have done so, especially for ones like the
Hitman example from her own video series where the game undermines her point. She also used artwork snagged from various artists for it, leading to lengthy attempts by the original content creators to get credit for the content that FemFreq stole for use of it. Most of her "research" done is stolen from TVTropes and Wikipedia.
In other words, there is no evidence for where the $150K Sarkeesian got for this little video series (which is now approaching 3 years late) went, considering how completely slipshod the actual production values of Tropes vs Women are. Many, if not all of the points she makes, especially about there being a connection between violence and sexism and video games have been disproven by multiple scientific studies which have been extensively peer reviewed.
2. Anita Sarkeesian has provably been involved with fraud.
Mike Cernovich, Eron Gjoni's original Lawyer, is practically a lolcow in and of himself, but he does raise salient points about the law, and nowhere is this as apparent as FemFreq's attempt to milk threats for cash. For the uninitiated, Anita (and the rest of FemFreq, but Anita mostly since she's their mouthpiece) has been recieving death threats, or so she claims. Many of these have been either false-flaggers or the likes of Celebrinando journalist Mateus Sousa,
whose bullshit was so obvious that even Kotaku covered it.
One small problem, though:
Anita's been fundraising off these threats.
You may not be aware, but
this is against the law in the United States. In fact, the law's been pretty up-front about cracking down on this shit. In
NY, for example, a woman was sent to jail for over eight months for fundraising in this fashion. Sarkeesian’s innocence for such fraud would rest upon the death threats she received being genuine, but unfortunately, we know that
Sarkeesian never contacted the authorities about the threats she claimed to have recieved. Milo Yiannopolis committed a similar investigation,
which came to identical results that furthermore indicated she never called the police. Which means that posts like this, in which she claimed to have done so, are false:
The
mainstream press
has been openly complicit with allowing Anita to do this, so don't expect anything to happen to her anytime soon. You
will notice, however, that Femfreq has stopped making posts like these.
3. Laurelai Bailey is a Rapist
A lengthy post from one of her victims details this horror in excrutiating detail.
This information is
already along the lines of what Encyclopedia Dramatica has recorded about her for years. Even Sophia Banks, a notorious Anti-GG SJW widely regarded as a trangendered Geordie Tait, has legitimized the veracity of claims against Laurelai. She's a
deeply disturbing individual with a litany of similar accusations under her belt.
4. Sarah "Dogfucker" Nyberg, Aka SarahButts, is a Pedophile
Before I get into this, some quotes:
Sarah Nyberg dijo:
"why is it okay for, say, a 14 year old to consent to sex with a 14 year old, but if the other individual's 20, it's instantly abuse? I don't get that, and never have. the potential for abuse grows, sure, but it isn't inherently abusive.)"
"having sex with a child doesn't create a pedophile. what you're thinking of is a child molestor, but even then it isn't that simple."
"definitely agree that most people aren't ready at 12. but most people not being ready is NOT a valid reason to outlaw sex at said age."
Sarah Butts has admitted to being a pedophile on her own website, FFShrine.
She's allegedly posted CP on the same, but I'm sure as
fuck not going to link that.
ED has a lot more info on her. It's hard to stomach, but it covers a lot more than just Pedophilia. Nyberg is fucking
unpleasant. She and her significant other also fuck their dog. Extensive chat-logs show this. It's like the whole Nick Bate thing all over again.