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Gamergate

🕑 Added 2024-04-08 20:39:35 +0000 UTC

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Zach Van Stanley

I’m training to be a personal trainer, and they recommend using better techniques like hydrostatic weighing or calipers. BMI is terrible for lots of athletes.

Thayne Warner

Great episode. I'm the very proud dad of 3 gamer girls. Freaking out that girls play games is the most ridiculous self-defeating idiocy ever.

literally literally

I didn’t and was sad, so then I just listened to the episode again. Props to you for powers of delayed gratification!

AK

I was actually patient and waited a week to listen to this episode. 👍❤️🤘💋

William Evan Barnes

His channel is still fucking huge, it just has a lot more whining about feminism

Oxford Comma is Mandatory

You're saying the central claim of idiots was as legit as every other central claim of idiots. Par for the course.

Bowl of Piss Water

The wii fit made my avatar chubby. I was a distance runner. I was dense, and the straight up BMI thing had me as "overweight." That's when I decided BMI was bullshit.

Keishu Asada

I don't know the numbers, but is it true that Thunderf00t rose to prominence because of gamergate? I think he was a big channel before, and gamergate was when I stopped watching him. I remember being a big fan of his content. He had a lot of interesting and informative videos debunking creationism as well as just plain science experiments and demonstrations. Then he started making weirdly angry videos complaining about feminism in video games and he just sort of lost me. I assumed he bled viewers like me, but did his channel actually grow after that?

Jasamnajbolja

Brilliant!

outaspaceman

I know the suggestion is that this behaviour was spawned by the interwebs, but isn’t it just the ghosts of Hill & Thornley discoordinating the wagging of the dog.

Near Uncertainty

As a female gamer who existed during gamergate, i can't tell you the anxiety i felt when i saw this as the topic. But i think you guys handled it really well. It was a funny episode that called out the assholes and never made fun of the victims. A+