December, The Harsh Winter

There is something to remember for any siege; winter is always the hardest. While the enemy hides in shelter, with food and warmth, the sieging forces are out in the cold. GamerGate is no different. As the holidays descend upon us many of us have exams to study for and write, as well as families to spend time with and visit.

We need to stay strong during this time. Undoubtedly GamerGate is going to lose steam as we take time for our loved ones and studies, and lets be real here, those are important. But also remember that we need to keep our numbers up. During this time shills and Antis will try to demoralize us, try to stomp down on us.

There is another reason why we need to stay strong. GamerGate potentially has reinforcements from the industry coming. As the holidays, and the final quarter, draw to a close the risk of coming out as pro-GamerGate lessens. We need to have our numbers strong enough so developers will think the risk will be worth it, that they will still have a suitable market after the dust settles.

We also need to realize that contracts have been signed. Advertisers are locked into holiday contracts and to break them would be a huge black mark on them. When the holidays end, they’ll be able to cut ties with companies like Kotaku, Gamasutra and Polygon. We need to keep our numbers up for that reason too.

GamerGate had the most pull with advertisers and devs when we were at a solid 80k to 100k tweets per day. It showed our strength, it showed that there were a lot of us. We need to reclaim that.

I have 2,200 followers. I know poppypicklesticks has around 7,000. Plebcomics had something like 16,000 in her hayday. KotakuInAction has 22,000 subscribers and the /Gamergate/ board on 8chan has around 2,000 active users at any time of the day. The Change.org petition to stop Anita has almost 50k signatures.

We have the power to pull ourselves back up. I know, people are burned out, people are unhappy, people come and go, people are afraid of being doxxed and harassed. I get it, I really do. But if we are to win this war, we need to have GamerGate make another resurgence.

Everyone’s voice is important. Everyone’s. Simply tweeting 5 times a day would make a massive difference. Retweeting too. If every subscriber of KotakuInAction tweeted 5 times, we’d be back to 100k tweets per day. If all of Tumblr’s Pro-GamerGate crowd and followers tweeted 5 times a day, I’d imagine we’d muster at least 40k additional tweets.

I know, some people don’t like Twitter or think its about e-drama or are afraid that if they make an account they’ll be doxxed. But Twitter is very much the public face of the revolt and we need that to be strong to garner support from devs and advertisers, as well as make Anti-GG shit their collective pants. Remember, when they’re stressed they make mistakes.

If you don’t like e-drama or shit, ignore it and keep posting. If you’re afraid of being doxxed, hide your identity. If you don’t like Twitter, it is only 5 tweets per day.

What you can do:

Use an email that is not tied to your real name, email, location, etc Use it to make a Twitter account. Make 5 tweets in the hastag per day, even simple stuff like “I support #GamerGate” or “Hatred derserves to be on Steam #GamerGate” or “I’m looking forward to the new #GamerGate Album”. Follow who you like, retweet their stuff. Make an account on Reddit. Subscribe to the KotakuInAction subreddit. Participate there if you so want. Stay strong, be smart, don’t burn out.

I know. It’s hard, we’ve been at this for 4 months almost. We’ve fought a good fight. But we need to be strong for this. We’re fighting for video games, our hobby, and we can’t bow out now.

I believe in GamerGate. I believe in all of you. Do your part. Stand with me, spread this to every corner of the internet. We’re strong. Reach 100k per day again. Keep it there.

We can do this.