Quinnspiracy

The Quinnspiracy (also known as the Zoë Quinn Scandal and "Five Guys Burgers and Fries" incident) refers to Zoë Quinn, an indie game developer known for their game, Depression Quest. Despite Depression Quest getting favorable reviews by game journalists and critics, gamers found the game to be incredibly boring, and when Quinn sought to get their game greenlit on Steam, she claimed their more negative critics were harassing them and were part of the chan board, Wizardchan. This eventually got the game put on Steam and caused many game journalists and the rest of the news media to come to their defense. Quinn also removed several threads in forums that negatively critiqued their game and their actions even seemingly caused 4Chan to fear them. Phil Fish, creator of Fez also came to their defense, calling their "attackers" cowards and said he was canceling projects and eventually left the game industry. Anita Sarkeesian would eventually request that Depression Quest be voted into Steam.

Eventually, Quinn's ex-boyfriend released a wordpress chronicling their behavior and how Quinn committed infidelity with several people. Though meant to be a warning about how unfaithful Quinn was, gamers noticed that one of the names was Nathan Grayson, a writer for the video game news websites Kotaku and Rock Paper Shotgun. Many articles about the scandal that provided evidence of Quinn's wrongdoings and the corruption in game journalism were removed from many websites and many threads discussing them were removed from for almost no reason whatsoever. Quinn's actions were even harmful to other women that were interested in becoming game developers and set them back because of this scandal.

This caused many gamers and consumers to revolt against this corruption and was coined #GamerGate by Adam Baldwin. GamerGate soon began calling out on the corruption of Quinn, Anita Sarkeesian, and other corrupt game developers and journalists. However, the corrupted game journalists, Anita Sarkeesian, and their supporters as well as social justice warriors, wound up twisting the image of GamerGate and lead many to believe that GamerGate was about oppressing women in the game industry.

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