Dub of anime "Prison School" mentions Gamergate. Timeline of events follows here.
43 2015-09-24 by Cleverly_Clearly
In episode 7 of the FUNimation sub of the anime Kangogu Gakuen, or "Prison School", a female character says "You keep talking to me like we're on equal terms, but I'm a 2nd-year. You have to address a superior more politely". In the recently released FUNimation dub, the character says "Do you have a stick up your ass? Or are you one of those dumb-ass Gamergate creepshows?". Perhaps the drama spawned from this related to the target audience of the show itself; the show, which is about five boys at a formerly all-girls school, is a sex comedy with heavily sexualized female characters and significant BDSM undertones. This doesn't seem like something, say, Bob Chipman would be watching. Nevertheless, it's there.
The reference is discovered. Kotaku In Action responds here. They get to work figuring out who wrote the reference in in the first place. At first, it's assumed to be Jaime Marchi, seeing as she follows several anti-Gamergate figures on twitter. However, this is found not to be the case, as:
Tyson Rinehart takes credit for the line. He sticks around to argue for a bit.
/r/anime hosts two different threads on the topic, some comments are removed before both threads are removed by /u/FAN_ROTOM_IS_SCARY. I've heard rumors that one of the other /r/anime mods went on /r/punchablefaces to brag about the deletions, but either it didn't happen or the mod in question deleted his comment/post.
Tyson Rineheart doubles down, saying "I'm glad my script pissed you off.". KotakuInAction thread here and here.
When something unusual happens, then KotakuInAction often reposts it a good four or five times. So here's some more threads on it.
The episode also included a Happy Days reference.
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