Who is Gamergate? Analysis of 316K tweets

This is excellent. Now please do the same for KotakuInAction and YouTube comments so I don’t have to. Speaking of which…

A few days ago I analyzed the top 25 posts on KotakuInAction. A total of 1670 comments from the following posts: 1) The GamerGate Extra Life Charity Stream is live!, 2) Turns out it’s usual for Nathan Grayson to cover his friends’ work, including 5 mentions of his friend Robin Arnott’s game and coverage of GaymerX while going out with its president. No disclaimer in any of those articles, 3) Guys, we HAVEN’T won yet, 4) A certain Anti-Gamergate subreddit asks the following stupid question: “Has GG actually unearthed anything remotely corrupt/unethical in game journalism?”. Actually yes, it has, and it really highlights the disconnect anti-gamergaters have with reality, 5) Jim Norton likely knows very little about video games but still…, 6) Mike Cernovich pities his doxxer and offers her an easy and honorable way to avoid a lawsuit and criminal action: Apologize (first link). She responds by insulting him (second link, after the “?”), 7) Two info graphic pictures: Chris Kluwe and Taylor Wofford (Newsweek), 8) Shamelessly biased and agend-driven Wikipedia editors shutting down any discussion of GG and publicly showing their support for the anti-GG side, 9) Based Mom BTFO of Gawker and SJW’s on Columbia Journalism Reviews Website Comments, 10) Dear anti-#GamerGate: Want a dialogue? Admit that most of us oppose harassment and that GG was never a harassment campaign, 11) GNAA Trolls Admit GamerGate Sabotage, 12) Can we give Boogie’s Curator on Steam a big push? OVER 9000 NEEDED!, 13) Newsweek Reporter against GG advocates bullying, 14) Hello there. I’m an autistic person, and I’d like to discuss autism spectrum disorders and their (mis-)representation in MSM (also, fuck ‘Autism Speaks’), 15) @CaineJW: An actual statistical analysis of Gamergate. Excellent rebuttal against the recent Newsweek piece, 16) Jontron: " After some emails from concerned people, I’ll say whatever ‘good’ the people in gamergate are standing for, I stand for as well.", 17) A professor of statistics and specialist on qualitative/quantitative analysis on Newsweek’s statistics of #GamerGate, 18) More proof that the gaming press still wants to slander us: Jason Schreier links to the dishonest Newsweek article, tells people that care about ethics to leave GamerGate, 19) Lies, Damn lies, and #GamerGate: how the media manipulates statistics and draws bullshit conclusions, 20) Seems like TotalBiscuit is up to something… and it seems promising!, 21) Google+ Chief Architect comes out anti-gg. Seems unable to search for the #gamergate harassment patrol, 22) Jontron responds to gamergate criticism, 23) PewDiePie beats out LW2 in Golden Joystick Awards for Personality of the Year (ironically, the award was sponsored by Kotaku UK), 24) Just got a call from HTC…, This is NOT good, and 25) The Booming Victimhood Industry - A relevant look at how easy it is to monetize playing the victim. [Look at those titles. You wouldn’t see that much long-windedness if Faulkner fucked Proust.]

The LWs (excluding Alexander) get 109 mentions.
Feminism and social justice get 94 mentions.
Quinn gets 58 mentions.
Grayson gets 56 mentions.
The Hernandez-Anthropy allegations get 39 mentions.
Day gets 36 mentions.
Sarkeesian gets 26 mentions.
Wu gets 25 mentions.
The Sagal-Pinsof controversy gets 7 mentions.
Shadow of Mordor gets 2 mentions.
The gamejournopros mailing list gets 2 mentions.
DMCA abuse gets 1 mentions.
Australian games journalism gets 0 mentions.
The IGF/Indiecade allegations get 0 mentions.

I also analyzed Boogie2988’s videos related to this topic. I was able to get 28% of the comments (10738 of 38170). The breakdown is Opinion on Zoe Quinn and the Quinnspiracy: 1124 of 3411, Are “Gamers” a dying breed? Is Gaming DYING?: 1115 of 4640, We Game - Sims 4, New 3ds, "End the Hate’: 802 of 1164, I am NOT A bigot. Are You?: 1188 of 10,804, Rambling About: Retropalooza, Destiny, Gamergate, Health: 1065 of 2309, Rambling: Destiny First Thoughts, Gamergate, Gamestop and MORE! :): 509 of 2662, Dear Gamers: A Call For Kindness and Common Sense: 1199 of 2453, Let’s Talk About Online Harassment: 1178 of 3361, The Truth about Youtube Brand Deals: 1082 of 1626, and Help me #EndTheHate: 1476 of 5740.

Feminism and social justice get 499 mentions.
The LWs (excluding Alexander) get 474 mentions.
Day gets 469 mentions.
Quinn gets 363 mentions.
Sarkeesian gets 106 mentions.
The Sagal-Pinsof controversy gets 103 mentions.
The Hernandez-Anthropy allegations get 76 mentions.
Australian games journalism gets 36 mentions.
Grayson gets 30 mentions.
Shadow of Mordor gets 26 mentions.
Wu gets 5 mentions.
DMCA abuse gets 3 mentions.
The IGF/Indiecade allegations get 0 mentions.
The gamejournopros mailing list gets 0 mentions.

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