Why Are You So Angry? Part 4: An Autopsy on GamerGate

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part 1:    • Why Are You So Angry? Part 1: A Short Hist...  
part 2:    • Why Are You So Angry? Part 2: Angry Jack  
part 3:    • Why Are You So Angry? Part 3: Perception i...  
part 5:    • Why Are You So Angry? Part 5: "The Good Guy"  
part 6:    • Why Are You So Angry? Part 6: Talking to A...  

Bibliography:

Perhaps the most comprehensive account of GamerGate’s origins w/ Eron Gjoni: http://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/ar...

Brianna Wu leaves home: http://kotaku.com/another-woman-in-ga...

Anita Sarkeesian leaves home: http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/mo...

Felicia Day doxxed: http://www.theguardian.com/technology...

SWATting: http://www.theguardian.com/technology...

4chan & IRC screencaps: https://storify.com/strictmachine/gam...

More IRC selections: http://wehuntedthemammoth.com/2014/09...

More GG origins on 4chan: https://archive.is/m2fmN

More on GG and its allies: http://jonstonechannel2.tumblr.com/po...

Gator post admitting the IRC was created to destroy Quinn:   / a-narrative-of-gamergate-and-examination-o...  

Details on Operation Lollipop: http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/22310...

GamerGate’s Operation Vox Populi: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1F...

Anti-progressive allies, e.g. weev: https://olaasm.wordpress.com/2014/10/...

GG's inability to tell two Asian men apart: https://storify.com/turnoffthenews/ga...

Popular Science on how angry commenters skew opinion: http://www.popsci.com/science/article...

GamerGate supporter Milo Yiannopoulos on the “social justice narrative” in Bioware games: http://www.breitbart.com/london/2014/...

Angry Joe on having to shut down GamerGate threads on his forum: https://archive.is/I976H

8chan hosting child pornography: http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/...

Hacking and doxxing on 8chan’s baphomet: https://storify.com/a_man_in_black/ba...

Brianna Wu having a GamerGater storm out of a panel:   / 581284765485105152  

Making research unusable, and how a hate campaign works: http://jezebel.com/gamergate-trolls-a...

GamerGate and the “gamers are dead” articles (source of much of their criticism of Leigh Alexander): https://pixietalksgamergate.wordpress...

How "moderate" GamerGaters amplified harassment: https://storify.com/a_man_in_black/ga...

GamerGate losing support after the Colbert Report:   / 541577428334702592  

GamerGate reacting with military language to Sarkeesian's appearance on The Colbert Report: http://wehuntedthemammoth.com/2014/10...

GamerGaters moving on to Sad Puppies: http://www.dailydot.com/geek/hugo-awa...

The harassment hasn’t ended: http://ohdeargodbees.tumblr.com/post/...

GamerGate’s origins on /pol/:   / gamergate-and-the-new-misogyny  

pol and white supremacy:   / king_of_pol_going_full_holocaust_denial_on_ia  

Hashtag traffic overwhelmingly more fixated on Leigh Alexander than any other journalist: http://www.newsweek.com/gamergate-abo...

Mattie Brice quits games journalism: http://www.themarysue.com/gamergate-h...

Tauriq Moosa leaves twitter: http://www.inquisitr.com/2207377/game...

GamerGate’s refusal to do any kind of moderating: https://storify.com/vivian_games/a-we...

Journalists failing to comment: http://www.ravishly.com/2014/10/15/ga...