CandaceOwens… I’m always confused by people who say things like “Don’t you see yourself in George Floyd”. No. Why? Do all White people see themselves in Ted Bundy? Do all Chinese people see themselves in Mao Zedong? If you expect me to relate to people based on skin tone, you’re an idiot...
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It still blows my mind that a fat SJW of rich parents (whose name isn't important) that got famous for blowing games journalists changed Candace from being a nobody to a nationally known right wing superstar.
Some stories really DO have happy endings.
Wait Candace got her start with Gamergate?
She originally had an idea for a reporting database for "toxic" behavior. She got redpilled on that idea really quickly during the events of GamerGate, when it became apparent that people like Anita Sarkeesian were just the Al Sharpon-esque hucksters of the digital world.
In the process she became redpilled about everything.
Not.... really, and not by her choice. Candace, like a lot of people, got thrown in to GG by a fat SJW of rich parents (who, again, is otherwise unimportant) back when Candace was seeking funding to work on a website called "Social Autopsy", a site that was supposed to be dedicated to calling out people who were saying mean things on the internet. Good intentions, bad implementation (too easy to fake required documentation, for one), and a bad idea all around.
Oh, AND it was too similar in concept to a grift that a fat SJW was trying to run at the time, and when Candace didn't capitulate to the fat SJW Candace suddenly started getting a bunch of threatening and hate-filled phone calls.
There's a couple of old threads from back when KiA was great. I'll link archives for them here.
A quick rundown of the situation is here from Ask_Me_who: http://archive.is/Ms08k
A later, longer recount of the situation is here in the OP: http://archive.is/8D7hF
The latter is a better read if you have the time, since it came a couple of years later (maybe) and has much better citations.
Mark Kern (aka Grummz) has a short tweet with some good replies here: https://archive.is/0CAVT
Candace tells the story in her own words on Joe Rogan #1125 (go find it yourself).
It was funny watching Jack Dorsey apologize to her after twitter smeared her. https://twitter.com/jack/status/989936132841328640
Also, friendly reminder that Current_Year isn't the first time that Candace has called out BLM for being shady. Seems she got in trouble with Youtube back in 2017. https://archive.is/40nzw
I'd also recommend reading the comment that some handsome and talented guy stickied on that last link, as it links to a very good write-up by LunarArchivist, who is pretty good at keeping documents.
As I said year(s) ago after Social Autopsy got abandoned: "I don't think she's dumb, I think she was just a bit naive to think that something like that wouldn't be abused. She got better, though."
Zoe Quinn.
She looks exactly like you'd imagine her to look like.
She made a shitty choose-your-own-adventure game and then blew a bunch game "journalists" for favorable reviews.
That was bad enough, but when people called them out they went full SJW cancel culture on gamers. Understand that this was one of the first instances of this, and certainly the most public. Gaming subreddits full out banning mention of it, gaming sites both denying the allegations and gaslighting gamers as the villains.
It created the enormous reactionary movement of the New Right, which is how we all ended up here.
Zoe (allegedly)slept with people who reviewed her games/work and also used influence to eliminate her competition. Which all of her buds in the industry covered up for.
Thats the grossly simplified version. The full affair you can find on youtube.
The "core events" spawned "autists dig up dirt on games journalists", and there was a lot of dirt/doxxing/rampant flailing everywhere.
Gamers, of course, racist sexist homophobes for pointing out the lying racist sexist homophobes.
The "Games Journalist" side figured out how to get SSL certificates pulled, and otherwise weaponize 'Cancel Culture" in a zillion ways.
I’m not even convinced that’s a woman...
https://www.bostonmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/04/game-of-fear.jpg
NSFL warning, please.
Yes. Literally Who.
It's really not that important. She's just a clout chaser.
One of the greatest real life arcs of our generation srs