The verdict of Johnny Depp’s all-out public trial against Amber Heard, in which a Virginia court ruled that Depp was the hardest hit, has left-wing journalists on Twitter’s tail, some of whom have referred to a millennium-old history of feminism criticism. for answers.
Depp filed a defamation lawsuit against Heard in 2018. Washington Post An article in which the actress accuses her ex-husband of various crimes, including, anonymously, domestic violence. As during the trial, the article published at the height of the #MeToo movement was written by the ACLU.
Actor Amber Heard (AP Photo/Steve Helber, Pool)
Johnny Depp (Photo by Cliff Owen/Consolidated News Pictures/Getty Images)
A Virginia court ruled in Depp’s favor and awarded the actor $10 million in damages and $5 million in fines. It also decided in Heard’s favor in one of the two defamation cases, awarding him $2 million in damages.
Once the decision was made, left-wing social media journalists who strongly supported Heard quickly lined up a host of familiar bogeymen blaming the decision and the rhetoric surrounding it: misogyny, disinformation, the far right, the “game door”.
Linked by liberal journalists to everything from January 6 to the election of Donald Trump, Gamergate was a consumer movement in 2014 fed up with low professional standards and the intense ideological bias of tech and video games preoccupied with feminist sentiments. narratives of the years before the movement.
This may be the first mass protest against what is now called The Awakening and the media-based culture of cancellation (introduced by Gamergate nemesis Gawker Media in 2014). Perhaps that is why the consumption movement, which has existed for nearly a decade, still traumatizes liberal journalists.
@Lyde15 uses Twitter He collected more than half a dozen samples of journalists trying to link the movement to the Depp-Heard decision and the controversy surrounding it..
.@ajaromano it perfectly expresses what has caused me so much madness and panic about this event. This has been over two years. It’s like Gamergate teaming up with Skynet to create the worst possible backlash against MeToo. https://t.co/p1uD4r6bGs
– Emily Crockett (@emilycrockett) June 1, 2022
“It’s like a Gamergate-Skynet merger to provoke the worst possible backlash against MeToo,” wrote Emily Crockett, a former Vox writer.
I should have paid more attention to Gamergate.
We now live in a player hetocracy.
– Adam Davidson (@adamdavidson) June 2, 2022
“We now live in a player hetocracy,” the former said. New Yorker NPR writer and reporter Adam Davidson.
Depp’s case has become a new player door.
– Jeff Sparrow (@Jeff_Sparrow) June 1, 2022
“Depp’s case has been the gateway to new players,” magazine columnist Jeff Sparrow said. Concealer.
Depp v. Heard is clearly the gateway to new players: disinformation, misogynistic hatred, and counter-resentment. #Me too Used to pull people to the far right. If he hasn’t been too cowardly handshake about how difficult the situation is, that’s obvious.
– Moira Donegan (@MoiraDonegan) 26 May 2022
capture, including Guardian Columnist Moira Donegan declared the lawsuit a “new player gateway” with “false information, misogynistic hatred and anger against #MeToo.”
Unfortunately, anyone paying attention to Gamergate has seen them all before. This is taken straight from the internet trolls textbook. They perfect the art form. https://t.co/xr3qaLGB3V
– Mark Gottlieb (@MarkGottlieb) June 2, 2022
“Anyone who pays attention to Gamergate has seen it all before,” said Australian journalist Mark Gottlieb, who is careful to use the letter “G”.
Gamergate, but worse https://t.co/eIcyBtK3dc
– Bradford William Davis (@BWDBWDBWD) June 2, 2022
“Gamergate, but worse,” lamented Business Insider writer Bradford William Davis, responding to a gif Johnny Depp posted on the official House Judiciary Republics account.
I know “Everything starts with gamergate, gamergate” sounds like twitterbrain, but “I think you can now buy yourself a gamergate” seems depressingly true.
– Josh Raby (@JoshRaby) June 1, 2022
“You can now buy your own gamergate,” wrote writer Josh Raby, who seems intent on reassuring his followers that Depp’s social media support comes from a bot farm, not the organic activity of millions of fans. film star.
Like the GamerGate X1000. This is similar to how GamerGate handled “Release the Snyder Cut” on January 6, 2021.
– Danielle Binks (@danielle_binks) June 2, 2022
“It looks like the GamerGate X1000. This is similar to how GamerGate handled Release the Snyder Cut on January 6, 2021,” said lead author Danielle Binks, in a whirlwind.
this challenge is more for millennials https://t.co/0JISYSGx2D
– Ryan Cooper (@ryanlcooper) June 1, 2022
“This test is an important gateway for millennial women,” wrote Ryan Cooper, the magazine’s editor-in-chief. path, looks like it was mixed up by the generation included in the original gamergate.
Gamergate has been a test ball for the national right radicalization we’ve seen since 2016. Both actors, same rhetoric, same unscrupulous pseudo-intellectualism, just on a bigger stage. https://t.co/EhGEbLuaed
– Will Greenwald no Densetsu (@AggroWill) June 2, 2022
“Gamergate is a test ball for the nationwide right-wing radicalization we’ve seen since 2016,” he said. computer magazine editor Will Greenwald confirmed the movement’s status as the source story for Marvel’s liberal-created boogeyman villains.
Everything in American politics is gamergate or pizzagate,
– Asavin Suebseng (@swin24) June 2, 2022
“Everything in American politics is a player or a pizza door,” said senior political correspondent Asavin Suebseng. rolling rock and a journalism lecturer at the University of Cincinnati.
Allum Bohari is senior technical correspondent for Breitbart News. He is the author of #DELETED: Big Tech’s War to Delete the Trump Movement and Steal the Election. follow him Twitter @LibertarianBlue.
Source: Breitbart
