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This is even dumber than the five guys burgers and fries shit that kicked off the OG gamergate.
I’ve never heard that part of OG gamergate. What’s that?
This KYM article goes into what the gamers were shrieking about.
If you have time to waste, you can also watch this long ass archived video by Internet Aristocrat (later known as Mr. Metokur) fanning some of the early flames.
Some guy said his ex, an extremely small-time indie dev, slept with five people at games journalism sites in exchange for positive reviews. IIRC he posted it on 4chan, which is the most normal social media to do this on.
This was used as proof that the wamen were destroying vibeo game.
I know what gamer gate is, but what does this have to do with five guys?
Literally just that she allegedly slept with five men, and 4chan tried (and arguably succeeded?) at making the phrase a meme.
Oh lmfao I’m dumb. I thought five guys the burger chain was involved somehow.
References to five guys burgers and fries was how channers got around censors cracking down on gamergate discussions. The censorship was enough to cause many of the gamergate channers to migrate to the even more vile 8chan.
...and if I recall all the people and companies involved were basically irrelevant and it would've been hard to argue any meaningful benefit derived from the supposed sexual favors.
More or less. The game she was supposedly getting good reviews for was free anyway. It was always a weird thing to care about when you consider that "video games journalism" was largely just outsourced advertising.
it didnt even get a review, it was just included in a list of 100 short indie games that people might be interested in playing iirc