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Jay Allen, occasional freelance writer, better known for his rambling idiocy. Gmail: amibfromtwitter@

West Fargo, ND
jayallen.contently.com
Joined August 2010

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    1. Jay Allen‏ @a_man_in_black 6 Oct 2015
      Replying to @a_man_in_black

      It was a failure of journalism to frame it as a "These women say they've been harassed", even.

      2 replies 8 retweets 21 likes
    2. Jay Allen‏ @a_man_in_black 6 Oct 2015
      Replying to @a_man_in_black

      #gamergate became a name for a sort of reactionary, consumerist hate in the belly of gamer culture.

      2 replies 8 retweets 16 likes
    3. Jay Allen‏ @a_man_in_black 6 Oct 2015
      Replying to @a_man_in_black

      I don't know if it's because Leigh Alexander's essay was that convincing, or if it was because #gamergate elevated it as some sort of cause.

      3 replies 6 retweets 13 likes
    4. Jay Allen‏ @a_man_in_black 6 Oct 2015
      Replying to @a_man_in_black

      It helped and it hurt.

      1 reply 4 retweets 8 likes
    5. Jay Allen‏ @a_man_in_black 6 Oct 2015
      Replying to @a_man_in_black

      It helped because it gave everyone a handle on the overlap between /v/ and /pol/, the rpgnet dregs, the ashes of Evil Avatar.

      1 reply 4 retweets 13 likes
    6. Jay Allen‏ @a_man_in_black 6 Oct 2015
      Replying to @a_man_in_black

      It hurt because it confused a trend - hateful, reactionary gamers - with a particular mob organized by but not wholly composed of same.

      1 reply 5 retweets 14 likes
    7. Jay Allen‏ @a_man_in_black 6 Oct 2015
      Replying to @a_man_in_black

      This is not to exonerate members of #gamergate who got into it for reasons other than reactionary hate.

      1 reply 3 retweets 9 likes
    8. Jay Allen‏ @a_man_in_black 6 Oct 2015
      Replying to @a_man_in_black

      But it took a long time for any sort of "hey you've been taken for a ride by opportunist bigots" to cohere.

      2 replies 5 retweets 15 likes
    9. Jay Allen‏ @a_man_in_black 6 Oct 2015
      Replying to @a_man_in_black

      And that came as much from within #gamergate as without.

      1 reply 3 retweets 13 likes
    10. Jay Allen‏ @a_man_in_black 6 Oct 2015
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      Jay Allen Retweeted Tom Hatfield

      (Worthwhile counterpoint in this thread here from @wordmercenary on game press pushback: https://twitter.com/WordMercenary/status/651378563774554112 … )

      Jay Allen added,

      Tom Hatfield @WordMercenary
      Replying to @a_man_in_black
      @a_man_in_black that's not true. People spoke out against GG publicly almost immediately. I don't understand why so many revise that history
      1 reply 0 retweets 10 likes
      Jay Allen‏ @a_man_in_black 6 Oct 2015

      Everyone calls 4chan the asshole of the internet. It is. But they did a better job of dealing with #gamergate than both Reddit and Twitter.

      6:05 AM - 6 Oct 2015
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        2. Jay Allen‏ @a_man_in_black 6 Oct 2015
          Replying to @a_man_in_black

          4chan was slow to come around but their board mods chased #gamergate threads first to marginal boards, then off the site entirely.

          6 replies 14 retweets 30 likes
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        1. Vaccinate Me, Daddy!‏ @DebonaireToast 6 Oct 2015
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          @a_man_in_black @CelticSteelNY now they seem to have a darker problem than serialized, weaponized harassment..

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        1. the beads haver‏ @NoraReed 8 Oct 2015
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          @a_man_in_black @srhbutts it's an asshole, but in this case at least it wiped

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        2. Eivind Dahl‏ @eivindedahl 8 Oct 2015
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          @a_man_in_black @srhbutts nice! What they do? I haven't been paying attention lately

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