Zoe Quinn Quotes

I think what a lot of women in the game industry saw with Gamergate is they saw if they came forward, help was not going to come.

I get apologies from Gamergaters pretty regularly saying: 'I didn't think you were a real person.'

For all of the incredible messages I've received about how my visibility is helping people, those people who I follow on social media still receive daily death threats and the most derogatory, inhumane vitriol.

Gamergate has grown into a hate group that threatens the stability of the $60 billion a year game industry.

I have countless fake accounts on social media sending me hate and it's hard to discern how many people are actually involved.

Anyone can go to 8chan, a website entirely for Gamergaters. You can read what they post about me and other women. It's not just casual sexism, it's angry, violent sexism.

Most members of Gamergate, the alt-right movement best known for harassing women in the game industry, operate under a veil of anonymity.

Since Gamergate, many women I know are reluctant to speak publicly on gender issues, because they fear - rightly - that they will be targeted and harassed.

Gamergate is a criminal operation to harass women.

There are few people I can talk to about the worst parts of what happened during Gamergate.

If you don't know what Gamergate is, my God, do I envy you.

If you're fortunate enough not to know, Gamergate is the misogynist hate group of the video game world.

The Internet has become a tool to pick on people and ruin someone's life. I don't think parents realize what's going on. Just because you're not at school doesn't mean kids aren't harassing you on the computer.

GamerGate is really a sexist temper tantrum. That's kind of a silly, funny way of putting it, but it's kind of what it feels like, right? They're going after and targeting women who are trying to make changes in the industry. They're attacking anyone who supports women.

In the days when I used to tweet, I would encounter comments wishing death upon me. There were people who claimed they were sticking pins in my effigy because they couldn't stand me. There's some seriously disturbed people out there.

My fans are all pretty cool, you know; I've never really seen anybody fighting on Twitter, no death threats, no harsh language, no gay slurs, nothing like that.

The Internet's like one big bathroom wall with a lot of people who anonymously can say really mean things. It's fine, I believe in freedom of speech and I think people should think what they want, but I don't care to hear it.

Cyber bullies can hide behind a mask of anonymity online, and do not need direct physical access to their victims to do unimaginable harm.

Categorically to say that all content you don't like receiving is harassment would be such a broad brush it wouldn't leave us much content.

I get massive invective, massive abuse, via email, phone messages, and Twitter. From people way, way to the right of center - scary, abusive kind of stuff. Really freaks out my assistant and my wife. Hate-filled.

Trolls online are constantly giving you sexist comments.

Prosecuting Gamergate is not about justice for me or the women of Giant Spacekat. It's about introducing consequences into the equation for men that treat harassing women like a game.

Every time I speak up about anything to do with women or ethnic minorities, hundreds of messages pour in to attempt to silence or frighten me.

Gamergate was the proto-alt right.

The first week of Gamergate, I didn't sleep or eat at all.