More PAX drama: Someone gets booted off a game demo station, and reddit does its thing

4  2018-09-02 by FantasticYesterday

At conventions, you wait in long lines to try a game you'd probably buy eventually anyway and get free junk you'll never use, so the MAIN THREAD initially resonated with PAX attendees griping about media groups causing line delays (this particular booth has like 3 screens with a 2+ hour wait). Some genius even crossposted to r/gaming, and they'll upvote literally anything. But it's also reddit/gamers, so naturally both get more attention and upvotes from thirsty nerds because "girl" is in the title.

"Where's my drama" you ask?

The CEO from the "press company" (it's a Youtube channel with like 5k subscribers lol) shows up in the thread to do damage control and give their side of the story, namely "there was no girl" and "it's not our fault". So who's either lying or mistaken about the person's gender? Who knows, but KiAtards smell something to be outraged about, took it as a direct threat against them and cry Ess-Jay-Double-yoo before the original thread got locked.

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I’m always amazed how few people know about Gamergate. It’s not only the key to understanding so many violent harassment campaigns going on today, it’s lots of the same people angry about the same stuff using the same playbook.

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  1. This Post - archive.org, megalodon.jp*, removeddit.com, archive.is

  2. MAIN THREAD - archive.org, megalodon.jp*, archive.is

  3. crossposted - archive.org, megalodon.jp*, archive.is

  4. r/gaming - archive.org, megalodon.jp*, archive.is*

  5. shows up in the thread - archive.org, megalodon.jp*, archive.is

  6. KiAtards smell something to be outr... - archive.org, megalodon.jp*, archive.is

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Looks the Gamers made someone rise up

You didn't really explain the drama at all.

So some girl lost her spot in line and... something? People got upset, and then the CEO came up and said there was no girl, and then...?

Well clearly people thought it was drama in the other thread on this same topic lol