Crash Override: How Gamergate (Nearly) Destroyed My Life, and How We Can Win the Fight Against Online Hate

Zoe Quinn

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fru-n-quiz15 декабря 2025 г.
Chuck and I had been working on a game together. I was a longtime fan of his work and had asked him to participate, one internet mascot to another, thinking the artistic style of his covers and my propensity for making weird, heartfelt comedy games were a perfect fit.
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fru-n-quiz15 декабря 2025 г.
Enter Chuck Tingle.* He’s a niche self-published author of such erotica classics as <…> Slammed in the Butthole by My Concept of Linear Time. He had been nominated for the highest award possible in science fiction, the Hugo, as a joke by the same batch of people who hate me.
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Chuck never breaks character, even in private, so when he asked me to potentially accept the award on his behalf to infuriate the people who had nominated him and hate me, I immediately accepted. Weeks of shenanigans and pranks on the hateful nerds who were hoist by their own petards followed.
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fru-n-quiz15 декабря 2025 г.
Part of me will always doubt whether they really like my work or just pity me, but I have accepted that I have no control over that.
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fru-n-quiz15 декабря 2025 г.
After a two-year forced hiatus, would anyone still care about my weird comedy game shenanigans,
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fru-n-quiz15 декабря 2025 г.
Breathing life into tiny digital worlds still breathed life back into me the way it always had.
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fru-n-quiz15 декабря 2025 г.
For a long time, I’d freeze up any time I booted up the old programs I would use to make my games, and I could never articulate why. I thought I’d lost the spark, that too much had happened, and that I could never get back to doing what I loved.
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fru-n-quiz15 декабря 2025 г.
Online abuse seemingly became more normalized, and tech partners got less responsive. I had to send more and more “I tried, they looked, they didn’t care” emails. I traveled all over the world to speak with powerful people, most of whom saw me as a victim rather than an organizer or artist or programmer,* and watched almost all of them break their promises to me.
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I watched the one company that offered to pay me for my time ghost on me after I talked to them.
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fru-n-quiz15 декабря 2025 г.
It was clear that I wasn’t cut out for this long-term, but I felt like if I moved on, I’d be letting many people down.
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fru-n-quiz15 декабря 2025 г.
Having to so rigidly control what I said, how I looked, and whom I talked to made me feel like my voice was shrinking.
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fru-n-quiz15 декабря 2025 г.
I kept telling myself I had to be effective and play the game
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