source ====== https://archive.today/Ler4O method ====== # Unix Bourne shell script: wget https://archive.today/Ler4O -O irclog sed -n "s/.*>\\t\\(.*\\)/\1/p" < irclog > irclog-filtered for re in zoe anita 'wom[ae]n' 'feminis[tm]' 'josh|boggs' kotaku nathan do printf "$re: " grep -Eic "$re" irclog-filtered done # end script explanation of method ===================== We fetch the IRC log that's in some HTML page. All lines that are a user talking look like "DATE MESSAGE" where there is a tab between and MESSAGE. The < and > surrounding NICK are encoded as < and > in the HTML. We go through the file with sed, finding lines matching the regexp '.*>\t' (any text, followed by the sequence ">", and a tab character), remove exactly that portion of the line, printing out the rest. Thus we get a file consisting purely of the users' messages in the channel. We run a series of case-insensitive regexps on the file, printing out the number of matching lines (not the number of matches) for each regexp. result ====== zoe: 4322 wom[ae]n: 1315 anita: 1213 feminis[tm]: 990 kotaku: 757 josh|boggs: 318 nathan: 96 wom[ae]n + anita + feminis[tm]: 3518 josh|boggs + kotaku + nathan: 1171 interpretation ============== (Zoe's actions have actually been disproven to be related to gaming journalism corruption, hence she could be considered part of the top group as well; I'm being generous by excluding her and putting her in her own group.) Attention on Zoe blows everything else out of proportion. Despite her actions largely being problems between her and people she made relationships with, the channel is primarily concerned with her, with the pretense of this having anything to do with corruption in gaming journalism, despite that having been proven wrong. Leaving aside that a person's private life is not the business of the public or the Internet, It's not like the channel is even claiming to be punishing her for the alleged horrible things she did to her ex-partner; they simply love being aggressive against her. Assuming the horrible things her ex-partner wrote are true, one needs to ask whether the right course of action is to harass her whole friend circle, or to suggest her therapy; again leaving aside the fact that a decent person does not meddle with the private life of a stranger. Talk about gaming journalism corruption (josh, kotaku, nathan), is shadowed by talk about (anti-)feminism/misogyny (women, anita, feminism). I hope I don't need to present proof that it's mostly about misogyny and anti-feminism and not positive talk about feminism. (By the way Anita is Anita Sarkeesian.) Talk about Kotaku, Joshua Boggs, and Nathan, who could be considered the gaming journalism corruption figures here, are the smallest focus in comparison to the other topics. Nathan is also notorious for being one of those Zoe allegedly cheated on her partner with, and the original article by Zoe's ex-partner did not show him in a particularly good light, yet no attention is given to him in the channel. Just in case someone claims the channel to be concerned with infidelity! conclusion ========== The "GamerGate" phenomenon is primarily rooted in misogyny, not concerns over ethics in video game journalism.