Poll of the Day > Is it just me, or did Anita Sarkeesian stop being relevant?

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I feel like she went the way of Jack Thompson. Nobody talks about either of them anymore. Lol
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Outside of potd and 4chan I feel like she was only culturally relevant for maybe two weeks or so
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She was never really relevant - just the outlet, the sump pump of the Gamergate fallout. But she is still making videos.
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She did her last Tropes vs Women in Gaming video a while ago, and that was that.

EDIT: So I guess the answer is yes, she literally stopped being relevant (to gaming) by not talking about it anymore.
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Mead posted...

Outside of potd and 4chan I feel like she was only culturally relevant for maybe two weeks or so

Well, she was invited to speak to congress and televised talk shows to speak about how non politically correct video games are evil while nobody asks her to back up anything she's saying with facts since she makes up a large majority of what she's saying.
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The gaming neckbeards have moved away form hating her to hating other things right now.

I'm sure everyone will flip out when she says women should wear things that actually help their job or whatever else people misinterpret.

TigerTycoon posted...

Mead posted...

Outside of potd and 4chan I feel like she was only culturally relevant for maybe two weeks or so

Well, she was invited to speak to congress and televised talk shoes to speak about how non politically correct video games are evil while nobody asks her to back up anything she's saying with facts since she makes up a large majority of what she's saying.

and did anyone actually give a fuck aside from outraged gamers?
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shadowsword87 posted...

The gaming neckbeards have moved away form hating her to hating other things right now.

I'm sure everyone will flip out when she says women should wear things that actually help their job or whatever else people misinterpret.

Are you even aware of why people dislike Anita Sarkeesian though?

Even if you agree with her message, it's delivered though lies.
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TigerTycoon posted...

Are you even aware of why people dislike Anita Sarkeesian though?

Because they lack the foresight to recognize someone successfully capitalizing on outrage from a group that keeps on taking the bait
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Anita, who was never a gamer in the first place, said that she was done with discussing gaming and, in the process, admitted to not really being a gamer. She's likely already made a fortune through SJW-profiteering so it's not like she needs the money now.

Mead posted...

TigerTycoon posted...

Mead posted...

Outside of potd and 4chan I feel like she was only culturally relevant for maybe two weeks or so

Well, she was invited to speak to congress and televised talk shoes to speak about how non politically correct video games are evil while nobody asks her to back up anything she's saying with facts since she makes up a large majority of what she's saying.

and did anyone actually give a fuck aside from outraged gamers?

...clearly, if she got on shows and made it into political hearings.
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Mead posted...

TigerTycoon posted...

Mead posted...

Outside of potd and 4chan I feel like she was only culturally relevant for maybe two weeks or so

Well, she was invited to speak to congress and televised talk shoes to speak about how non politically correct video games are evil while nobody asks her to back up anything she's saying with facts since she makes up a large majority of what she's saying.

and did anyone actually give a fuck aside from outraged gamers?

The problem wasn't really what gamers thought, but for a while, a lot of misinformed gaming publishers thought people like Anita Sarkeesian, and her followers who don't even play video games (and thus could not tell that she was lying most of the time), and sites like Kotaku and Polygon, and the main stream media in general, who hire non gamers who are more concerned about pushing a political agenda than actual video games, represented the opinions of a majority of their consumer base because the large platform on which these non gamers are given to speak compared to the people who actually played video games.

But as movies like Ghostbusters 2016 show, as much as the media pushes the righteousness of political correctness and try to portray their opinions as the majority, they are simply not the opinions of the average consumer who only care if the product is entertaining, and are not more entertained when media is politically correct.

The reason most gamers have stopped caring about people like Anita Sarkeesian is most gaming publishers have realized this too.
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She's still doing videos, but she's a pretty generic feminist when she's not complaining about video games.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qq_ZcziBIro

She used to be relevant?
Did I miss this during a bathroom break?
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She was a nobody until gamers acted exactly like the monsters they are collectively and made her a pariah

She wasn't relevant, the outrage was.

There were also a couple of old people that bought into it like the curveball she was, expecting young people to actually like her.

She got on talk show or two and got into Twitter's management.
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the last I heard of her was the "garbage human" incident, so I assume she's been keeping a low profile since then.
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She stopped doing videos about videogames so people stopped caring.
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aHappySacka posted...

She stopped doing videos about videogames so people stopped caring.

When did people care?
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SusanGreenEyes posted...

aHappySacka posted...

She stopped doing videos about videogames so people stopped caring.

When did people care?

Not sure if you're just trolling or are clueless.
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aHappySacka posted...

SusanGreenEyes posted...

aHappySacka posted...

She stopped doing videos about videogames so people stopped caring.

When did people care?

Not sure if you're just trolling or are clueless.

I think she's making a facetious point, intentionally. Not trolling or clueless.
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My point is that there was some media noise, but it seemed to fizzle out pretty quickly.
Gamers seemed to view her as a fly to swat away more than anything else. I don't feel that she had a lasting or profound effect on the gaming industry, in terms of developers taking her thoughts into account when creating games.
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It was like any other troll. They aren't relevant and you don't value their opinion, but they wont shut up and go away so you're stuck being annoyed until the fad of being stuck and annoyed settles and dies down.

She was mainly relevant because of people complaining about her.

she got a decent chunk of money for her videos(and hell, perhaps even herself) because of the complainers.