Trolls, #gamergate style.

Trolls, trolls everywhere! And they are getting fed plenty right now.

The way I see it a troll is someone who takes the opposite stance to pretty much anyone just to get the reaction they desire, usually it's just for a rise but I see a new troll kind of trollhas arisen. It's dangerous, insidious and has sharp pointy teeth (said in a montey python voice)!

Ladies and gentlemen, I refer to the professional troll.

Lately in the game journalism world (and by lately I mean for some years now) has been full of these trolls and they have manipulated our passion to make themselves buckets of money. Lately this has all been brought to the forefront by the #gamergate movement and I feel that instead of labeling those under suspicion as journalists or SJW'S it's more important to call them what they are, manipulative money hungry cave trolls.

Let me explain this a little better, when a person spends a lot of money it is more than a financial investment it is lo an investment of time and effort (since most people work for money) and as such people get very defensive and passionate about said investments.

What did the profit trolls do when they realized this? They created click bait articles about consoles and specs and which is better to make money off the advertisers willing to fork over money to websites with a lot of traffic. They created this hotpot know as the console wars, let us stew in it to boiling point and then laughed all the way to the bank!

Then others got wise to this ploy and decided there were more markets than just the gamers to get money from in this way but they needed to use gamers as a launching pad first...

Que the SJW'S! Feminism is defined as a movement to bring equality to the sexes, it first started out as a women's movement because women were the most discriminated against group as far as rights and social standing went but since women are now considered equal to men the stance shifted to maintaining this balance between both.

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This means that modern feminists, according to feminist theory should approach any topic with the idea that they are trying to bring equality to both men and to women. In regard to media such as gaming and television men and women have the same rights and social perception in regard to being able to consume this media. So no feminist problem there yet.

Next we move on to how women are overly sexualized and misrepresented in said media and I agree that is a bad thing but it can also be stated that men are also over sexualized and misrepresented in media (just look at dad's on tv shows... always idiots it's insulting and men in games, always physically perfect and over masculine). Both of these are insulting to many but since both genders are both represented poorly in the same way, according to feminist theory it is not a feminist issue.

Why do I bring this up? I'm glad you asked!

It's because not everyone has a good understanding of what feminism really is. Many people think it's all about getting justice for the downtrodden females and smiting evil mysaginists and they feel pretty passionate about it to.

Knowing that the profit trolls decided to point out why faux feminists would have a problem with media such as games and made their own click bait articles and YouTube videos to make their money and get their fame and it worked until gamers became offended that their passion was being attacked and so they jumped to the defense.

And so #gamergate was born!!! Fellow gamers we have been trolled and I urge everyone to help get the trolls out of video game journalism... trolling for fun is one thing, but trolling for profit? That's a special kind of dirty.