Didn't see this coming, did ya? The NINE year retrospective!
"Sit by the river long enough and the bodies of your enemies will float by."
- Ancient Klingon Proverb
Well, 2023 was the year we sat on our butts, did nothing, enjoyed that post-GamerGate afterglow... and watched in awe as opponents we've fought for nearly a decade get bankrupted, fired, or shut themselves down forever!
And we didn't even DO anything!
Yeah, yeah, I know... "12 months late?"
After being permabanned on reddit (alts included), I saw no point in further retrospectives; the benefit of posting to KotakuInAction was our salty hate-watchers from all over reddit saw the truth.
But I was cleaning up my HDD and found my old '2023 Victories' txt file, and thought... "Oh, why not?"
Unfortunately, Scored allows only HALF the character count reddit does, so here's a quickie write-up of GamerGate's victories from good ol' 2023.
Enjoy!
CORPSES DOWN THE RIVER
GamerGhazi (reddit)
- Our beloved sister site and opposite number, personified by Vivian James' militant woke SJW cousin Lillian Woods, has officially shut down and is now locked.
[reddit]
[Album]
The Marvels (film)
- The lowest grossing MCU film in history, "black girl magic" couldn't save a film that did so poorly, Disney stopped reporting it's box office earnings while the director called the majority male audience (women stayed home) "virulent, violent, and racist."
[Kukuryuyo]
[KiA]
[KiA]
Avengers: The Kang Dynasty (film)
- Marvel character Kang the Conqueror was blackwashed, with entire films and TV shows building him up to be the big baddie of the 5th Avengers film. One guilty verdict later, and the entirety of MCU Phase 5 and billions of dollars went up in smoke.
[KiA]
[KiA]
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (film)
- Yet another beloved franchise receiving an unwanted sequel revealing the happy ending is retconned and the heroic white male actually got a Bad End™ and now succeeded by a #GirlBoss. Now listed on Wikipedia's list of Biggest Box-office Bombs.
[Video - Pitch Meeting]
[KiA]
[KiA]
[KiA]
Peter Pan & Wendy (film)
- Disney stays true to form by creating a dull, wonderless Neverland starring a Indian-British Peter Pan, Black TinkerBell, Lost
BoysKids, and to the surprise of no-one... received the lowest audience score of any live-action remake in Disney history.
[Video - Critical Drinker]
[KiA]
Arrowverse (TV)
- After CW announced it would focus on DEI, audiences vanished and once-popular TV shows got cancelled. And the man behind it all, Marc Guggenheim, painfully admitted in 2023 "I really wasted my time" on his decade spent creating Arrowverse.
[KiA]
[Link]
Queen Cleopatra (TV)
- Netflix disastrously overstepped with this blackwashed "historical documentary" about the Macedonian Greek queen. Egypt's government condemned Netflix for historical vandalism, and the show itself garnered a 2% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
[reddit]
[Link]
[Link]
[Album]
Willow (TV)
- Yet another Lucasfilm hero retconned into a sad failure (produced by Kathleen Kennedy), now starring a Mary Sue #girlboss who wants to marry her PoC warrior knight girlfriend. You'll be shocked to know... cancelled after one awful season.
[Video - VaraDark]
[KiA]
[KiA]
Lucasfilm (studio)
- Citing "challenges relating to talent and profitability", Lucasfilm Animation's Singapore branch shut down after nearly 20 years, and the $350 million dollar "immersive" Star Wars hotel closed since one customer a night just ain't enough to pay the bills.
[reddit]
[Link]
[Link]
Disney (entertainment)
- A disastrous 100th anniversary after a string of movie flops cost Disney over $1 billion, their stock price at a 9 year low, Disney+ lost 4m subscribers, the elimination of all DEI programs from Disneyworld's governing district, and 7,000 staffers laid off.
[Link]
[Link]
Anheuser-Busc (Bud Light)
- The first woman to hold the position, new marketing VP Alissa Heinerscheid's radical "inclusivity" rebrand resulted in a 25% loss in sales, $1.4 billion lost, her resignation, and Bud Light losing it's "best selling beer in America" spot held for over twenty years.
[Video - Daily Updates News]
[Video clip]
Volition (gaming studio)
- Famous for it's beloved Saints Row series, their embrace of wokeness and re-imagining of Saints Row from offensive macho mayhem to smug millennial hipsters was so catastrophic it killed the entire studio, now shut down after 30 years.
[Link]
[KiA]
Mimimi Games (gaming studio)
- Shut down after 12 years with 38 staff laid off, how did things go so bad so fast? Was it replacing the redhead pirate babe with a Black woman with dreads? Or hiring this new consulting firm Sweet Baby Inc? Hmmm... odd name. Worth looking into...
[KiA]
[KiA]
The Escapist (gaming news)
- KotakuInAction-hating EiC Nick Calandra got fired, prompting an exodus of all staff, including Zero Punctuation's Yahtzee. Now the website is barely updated, and it's YouTube channel down from nearly half a million views to about 8K per video.
[KiA]
[reddit]
[reddit]
VICE (media)
- After realizing their "rockstar" staff and bosses had made Vice unsafe for female staffers, their corporate solution was to go 1,000% woke. Well, guess who officially filed for bankruptcy and laid off hundreds of staff? Get Woke, Go Broke.
[KiA]
[Link]
[Album]
CNN (news)
- 2023 saw the worst ratings in CNN's history, their iconic Atlanta HQ closing after 35 years, a second CEO resigned, and a CNN producer finally sentenced to 19yrs for purchasing, trafficking, and "training" a 9yr old girl as his sex slave.
[Link]
[Link]
[Link]
[Link]
Deadspin (news)
- Still refusing to "stick to sports", the entire world turned on Deadspin when they accused a child of wearing blackface. Turns out his face was painted Black AND Red (the team colors), and his headdress was a gift from his tribal elder grandparents.
[reddit]
[KiA]
Buzzfeed News (news)
- Somewhere out there, LtCorbis (Soph) is raising a toast of blackberry juice as one of the most social justice infested trash "news" rags shuts down for good. 180 woke journalists laid off, share price plunges, and wailing and thrashing ensued online.
[KiA]
[KiA]
[Link]
[Album]
Gawker (news)
- In what must be the most drawn-out, excruciating, and hilarious death in news media history, Gawker has been shut down yet again. The new owners laid off all staff, and the naming rights sold to some dude in Singapore.
[Link]
[KiA]
Jezebel (news)
- Crippled by Gawker's bankruptcy, this women's rag finally shut down in 2023... only to be pity-purchased by PASTE Magazine's male owner. Oh, the irony of a gaggle of feminists writing anti-patriarchy blogposts owned and paid for by a man!
[Video - TimCast]
[KiA]
[reddit]
[Album]
Patricia Hernandez (Kotaku)
- Known only for her review of a female masturbation game and how it was "exclusionary" for assuming girls had vaginas, Patricia returned to Kotaku to become it's EiC. "This time, nobody can stop me"... aside from her bosses, who fired her.
[Link]
[Link]
[KiA]
[Album]
Luke Plunkett (Kotaku)
- One of the original "Gamers are Dead" authors, Luke spent years posting woke trash at Kotaku until departing in 2023. Or was he pushed for implying he'd kill Japanese game devs WWII-style if they refused to give Kotaku preview copies? Who can say?
[KiA]
[Album]
Nathan Grayson (Kotaku)
- Infamous for bedding Zoe Quinn and launching GamerGate in 2014, Nate left Kotaku to co-found Launcher, the gaming branch at The Washington Post... who shut it down in 2023. Now Nathan posts to a workers' collective blog. Please tip generously!
[KiA]
[Album]
Patrick Klepek (Kotaku)
- Pat was so proud to leave Kotaku and found Waypoint, an anti-capitalist branch of VICE kept afloat by generous comrades. To no-one's surprise, Patrick announced in 2023 "with equal parts fury and sadness" that Waypoint was shutting down.
[KiA]
[Link]
[Link]
[Album]
Tara Strong (voice actor)
- Considered the Margot Robbie of voice acting, Tara contracted TDS in 2018 and got her immigrant uber driver fired because he supported Trump. Karma hits hard, as a leftist mob got her fired from Boxtown for supporting Israel vs. Hamas.
[KiA]
[KiA]
SungWon Cho (voice actor)
- Jumping on the anti-Apu train, SungWon demanded studios cast animated voice roles "authentically". Well, the studios listened; guess who's now only offered generic Asian character roles, and crying about living in the world he helped build?
[Link]
[KiA]
Feminist Frequency (youtube)
- After a long and sad drop into obscurity and barely scraping 500 views, Anita has shut down FF and walked away... just in time to celebrate a wedding-themed 40th birthday, with herself dressed up as the (unmarried forever alone) bride.
[KiA]
[KiA]
[KiA]
[Album]
BLOODBATH
- Reddit laid off 90 employees, and got devalued by Fidelity by 41%.
- Bungie laid off 100 people, including the co-heads of Pride@Bungie, Women@Bungie, and more DEI staff.
- Twitch laid off over 400 employees due to revenue growth "failing expectations".
- Intel suffers "historic collapse" erasing $10 billion of market value, while laying off hundreds (with thousands more planned).
- Hasbro laid off 1,100 employees two weeks before Christmas, including many from WotC.
- Twitter (renamed X) saw Elon Musk fire over 6,000 woke leftists (80% of it's workforce).
- Meta laid off 11,000 employees, launches Threads only to lose 80% of it's active users a month later.
- Google laid off 12,000 employees, the biggest downsizing in it's history.
BLESSED BY THE BLOOD GOD
- Richard Dreyfuss (Down and Out in Beverly Hills) told PBS that the Academy Awards' new DEI quotas made him "want to vomit".
[Album]
[KiA]
- Evangeline Lilly (Ant-Man and The Wasp) denounced Hollywood's penchant for applauding masculinity in women and villainizing it in men.
[reddit]
[Link]
- Gal Gadot (Wonder Woman) blasts Hollywood for genderswapping women into male action roles: "Men and women are different. They’re built differently."
[KiA]
[Link]
- Hogwart's Legacy (video game) weathered a woke leftist boycott, becoming the most watched game of all time on Twitch, and made over $1 billion in sales.
[KiA]
- Half of Americans believe that news organizations deliberately mislead them.
[Link]
Another hilarious year!
Again, sorry for the quickie write-up; no new image albums or painstakingly-researched videos... and 12 months late.
But yeah, reddit's admins even flagged my account so I can't even edit my old posts (can't fix broken links!) and they ban new accounts on sight using algorithms that identify you based on your IP, writing style, and times and places where you post.
I just didn't see any point in posting my retrospectives here; I'm just preaching to the choir.
But hey; it's the only way to make 'em sing, amirite?
And since 2024's almost over, brace yourselves for what no-one saw coming... GamerGate 2!
Howdy, weltallic here.
KiA users may know me for my yearly GamerGate Retrospectives and Vivian James media archive.
My account was permanently suspended by reddit admins a few days ago (May 2023), so I'm posting my Imgur albums here for everyone, in case you want to link them yourself. If you're interested in more details about my suspension, check out my comment below this post.
Anyway, I went back to reddit and added certain KiA-safe Imgur albums into my GamerGate 2022 Victories postscript, but I'm including them ALL here since the .win network is not subject to reddit's rules, so I can post the ones I wasn't allowed to, meaning those featuring trans content and Cuties.
Enjoy:
Gaming & Pop-Culture:
Big Tech:
News & Politics:
- CNBC
- MSNBC
GamerGate:
A Heartfelt Apology from Lizzyf620
False Flags, Fake Tweets, Alt Accounts & LIES!
FTC using KotakuInAction as Evidence
GamerGate Parties are BEST parties
Honey Badger Brigade (Calgary Expo)
Films
Television
Masters of the Universe: Revelation
Comic Books
Spider-Woman vs Spider-man (pose)
What If... Miles Morales Became Thor?
Video Games
Carmen SanDiego (OG female video game villain
Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus
Misc:
Anita Sarkeessian vs. Buffy Reboot
Decency - Virtual Morality Police
"Comic books are exagerated! Real women don't look like that!"
Reddit Mod Busted for Framing Novelist
Woke entertainment making "history"
Anti-GG Journalists/Devs/Pundits
Robert Marmolejo / UnseenPerfidy
Stephen Colbert vs. Star Wars Kid
Socio-Politics
