Pearl - How Modern Women Fought (and Won) to Ruin Videogames For Men

00:00:00.000 I'm a homosexual so I do not care for the opinions of women 1.00

00:00:07.800 feminism has women believing that they are men so much so that women feel entitled 1.00

00:00:15.060 to invading any all-male spaces boy scouts frat houses look at nothing is safe and it's it's

00:00:23.580 because men invent something cool and the women are like I want to I want to be a part of that

00:00:29.300 cool thing and then women go in and at first the men are like okay that's fine come on in 0.97

00:00:37.260 but then then the women get in there and just start nagging they're like I don't like this I 1.00

00:00:46.000 don't like this and the men want them to be quiet so they just do it and that's how we ruin everything

00:00:52.040 so back in the day women had rotary clubs and men had men had lodge houses women and men

00:00:57.560 really didn't start hanging out together in groups until like the 70s these days those days are gone

00:01:04.940 women invade men's spaces and try to completely change the culture around a woman will get a 1.00

00:01:10.840 degree in engineering join a firm that is all men and then want all of the men to change their 0.91

00:01:16.320 behavior to accommodate her a woman will get a construction job and then all the men on on the 1.00

00:01:21.620 job site will have to change how they speak because there's one woman there when women don't 1.00

00:01:26.640 get what they want they complain they whine and they call everyone a misogynist one of the instances

00:01:32.020 of this was gamer gate for a long time videos have been the video games have been the last place where

00:01:38.960 young men and boys can be masculine they can log on to a game like call of duty or madden and talk trash

00:01:45.420 see who's the best on the leaderboard and they are able to take a break from their daily lives as men

00:01:50.220 live in a gynocentric society if i was a guy i would need a break too if i lived with some of the women 1.00

00:01:56.760 i've seen men put up with of course women can't stand it and we're just waiting for a way to bend 0.91

00:02:02.920 the video game space to their will and thanks to social media the barriers between culture and fandom

00:02:11.020 have shattered this can lead to a deeper connection with the content we consume but it comes with the

00:02:16.620 cost as the so serious

00:02:20.780 people away from their fan communities this online culture war has caught real people in the crossfire

00:02:29.720 what is fueling this misogynistic nerd rage why are they targeting marginalized creators with

00:02:35.820 organized harassment campaigns and what kind of damage have they done

00:02:40.520 so

00:02:47.060 so

00:02:49.060 gamer gate is just one symptom of a larger trend that's tearing online communities apart

00:02:56.180 and to understand gamer gate you need to understand how fan culture turned toxic

00:03:15.720 fandom like any group setting with a bunch of people is going to have a dark side it's human nature to sort of gang up on people and attack them

00:03:25.840 thank you yeah so here's the women nagging they go into the video games they're like please let me be a part of these cool video games and then they nag 1.00

00:03:34.480 to the internet and the breakout success of marvel's cinematic universe the overwhelmingly male world of nerd culture suddenly belonged to everyone

00:03:44.180 ii most fans embraced the new wave of women queer and otherwise marginalized members in their communities but a vocal minority chose to gatekeep their geekery instead

00:03:55.340 it goes without saying that women are integral to science fiction since the day 20 year old mary shelley invented the genre with frankenstein

00:04:02.180 Frankenstein. But 200 years later, thousands of angry fans have suddenly decided that they

00:04:07.260 didn't belong. Not even the biggest franchise of them all, Star Wars. The backlash began in 1999

00:04:14.140 with the release of episode one, The Phantom Menace. Fans wasted no time mocking their targets,

00:04:20.620 particularly Ahmed Best, the black actor who portrayed Jar Jar Binks. The actor endured

00:04:26.180 decades of derision from fans during the early days of the internet. The attacks on Ahmed were

00:04:30.860 so severe that it nearly drove him to take his own life. I was really just crumbling inside.

00:04:38.000 There's a sense of... So they want the benefit. Thank you, William, for the $1 super chat.

00:04:44.340 So they want the benefit of being in, like, having these fun jobs, like actor, entertainer. This is a

00:04:50.600 great job. I enjoy this a lot. But they don't want the cost. They don't want the cost of,

00:04:59.340 the problems that it comes with. That's like me going on the internet and saying you can't make

00:05:07.640 fun of people. People make fun of me all the time. It just is what it is. But that's, that's the

00:05:13.820 challenge. What? Can I jump in here real fast about this whole Jar Jar Binks thing? Or were you 0.81

00:05:19.640 cooking? Go ahead. So guys, okay. So this, what she said there about nerd culture, guys, most women

00:05:32.220 will still get on you for playing video games. And you can't tell the average woman that you like 0.87

00:05:37.700 Star Trek or Star Wars or any of that. I'm sorry. There was a popularity to being a nerd when,

00:05:43.820 when the Big Bang Theory came out, but it's still not socially exactly. You still have to find a way

00:05:49.880 to play video games and be a nerd in the dark, especially when you're young, guys. You will pay

00:05:55.560 a serious price. The biggest problem with this Gamergate thing is that, well, Jar Jar Binks was like

00:06:02.380 literally the worst Star Wars character of all time. Have you seen any of the Star Wars movies, Pearl?

00:06:08.440 I'd rather watch paint dry. I'm sorry. Yeah, he was, he was one of the worst characters of all time. So

00:06:16.380 the hate that he got wasn't misogyny. It was because he was a terrible character. Go ahead.

00:06:22.180 Um, the attorney Andrew Branca show. Oh, Hey, nothing like a little V Jar Jar.

00:06:31.440 We got another one. One plus 49 equals 50. Andrew, how are you? I hope you're doing good.

00:06:40.740 Um, okay. Do you want me to keep playing the video? Yeah, go ahead. Okay.

00:06:45.600 Ownership by a very small group of people where they were the star of the show back in 1977 when

00:06:52.980 Star Wars first came out. You see both the, the minimization of the importance of that story.

00:06:59.280 I just, this looks exactly like you would think a woman complaining about this would look not hot 1.00

00:07:06.420 because they have to get attention from the hot guys somehow. Um, and hot women will just stick 1.00

00:07:14.820 out their boobs, but she can't do that, obviously. So she's going to have to complain, nag, whine. 1.00

00:07:21.780 For other people. And you also see like this, uh, endless harassing of the people that are telling

00:07:27.400 that story. No lessons were learned by the time of the star Wars sequel trilogy in 2015,

00:07:32.920 when the first trailers revealed that the main characters would be Ray, a capable young woman 0.82

00:07:38.140 and Finn, a black ex storm trooper. Most fans were excited about the potential brought by a cast of new

00:07:44.160 faces. I just can't imagine the men were excited at all, but the women were probably excited because

00:07:50.360 we love ruining things that men love. We love it. So yeah, the sad part about it is, is sci-fi

00:07:59.000 will never be a female genre. They've been trying to make Marvel. They've been trying to make comic 0.99

00:08:04.200 books and Marvel movies and sci-fi more friendly to women. Why would that be pro? Why would you think 1.00

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00:09:03.840 It's because women spend more money. That's why they want to get that female dollar, but it's at 1.00

00:09:10.820 the cost of men who have literally carried these franchises for years. You're going to alienate

00:09:18.300 your main audience to get the women dollar and women just aren't, women don't like action movies. 1.00

00:09:25.880 They don't like sci-fi. It's just not going to happen. It's sports and the WNBA. 70% of the

00:09:31.560 people that watch the WNBA right now are men, but they're trashing all over men. It's crazy.

00:09:37.680 Yeah. I think I'm going to start pandering to women. So, cause that just seems a lot easier too. 1.00

00:09:43.160 So, so I'll just start with, um, girl, you're so special. You're so awesome. You deserve the world.

00:09:51.540 He really didn't appreciate you. Did he? And if I can say one last thing about the,

00:09:58.740 they're talking about, um, the new star Wars movies. So they hired this lady and Kathleen

00:10:05.620 Kennedy to take over the Lucasfilm after George Lucas left, cause Disney bought it for like

00:10:10.080 umpteenth billion dollars. And she literally said, the force is female. Now guys, women are taking over 1.00

00:10:17.160 star Wars literally had shirts on saying the force is female. We're going to make, so they have this 0.91

00:10:22.640 character named Ray and there's a term called a Mary Sue Pearl. A Mary Sue is a woman who's, 0.98

00:10:29.220 who's perfect. She has no flaws. She doesn't have to learn anything. She never gets beat in a fight.

00:10:35.180 And Ray was the ultimate Mary Sue. She never lost a fight. She, she never tripped. There's what's

00:10:41.620 called the hero's journey. The hero's journey is like, you know, you, you have to get knocked

00:10:47.040 down to get back up and go through adversity. And Mary Sue's are characters who never have to go

00:10:51.920 through the hero's journey. And they're all mostly women. So that's why the guys were pissed off 1.00

00:10:57.320 about the new star Wars movies. Cause the main character was a woman and she was a Mary Sue.

00:11:02.260 But a vocal contingent went on the attack immediately decrying the forced diversity of the new

00:11:08.300 trilogy. Almost 40 years, we've taken one kind of person and made them the center of the world and

00:11:15.340 catered to their every single whim and not really represented other people. So as we're having,

00:11:21.120 you know, societal change where we're showing other kinds of people as the heroes,

00:11:26.160 there are a lot of people that generally, they feel like something has been stolen from them.

00:11:30.900 They directed. Yeah. Cause you guys did steal it from them.

00:11:36.000 You did. It's like, that's the female gaslighting. It never ends. You get upset 1.00

00:11:41.580 and they just gaslight you and say, you shouldn't be upset. It's like,

00:11:45.120 bitch. Their anger at Kelly Marie Tran, the first woman of color to hold a major honor. 0.99

00:11:51.200 Oh my gosh. Do Asian women even count as women of color? 1.00

00:11:57.100 They like have less color than white people. 0.98

00:11:59.700 If I can say something about this Kelly Marie Tran girl. So she, she was in the second Star Wars movie,

00:12:11.980 The Last Jedi, which is one of the worst movies ever made. It was intentionally divisive to the

00:12:17.580 fan base and her character. She, she played this character named Rose Tico, who was a complete DEI

00:12:24.820 and a diversity higher. There is no reason for her to be in the movie. Cause what, cause what happens 1.00

00:12:30.600 Pearl is they take existing characters. Then they bring them into the movie and they have these new

00:12:37.380 female characters and they try to prop up the female characters or the race swap characters, 0.98

00:12:42.480 like the black characters and stuff. But to do that, they do that at the expense of a existing

00:12:49.080 character or older character. And that's exactly what happened with this Asian girl. There was no 1.00

00:12:54.160 reason. It wasn't the actress is her character, which is awful. 0.97

00:12:59.940 I'm just upset. They called her a woman. I don't like it when Asian women get in on the women of 1.00

00:13:04.660 color thing. Like, I just think they feel left out. No, it's like, okay, the black women, that's a

00:13:11.920 woman of color, Latino women. I'll give you that. But Asian women, really? You guys think you get to be 1.00

00:13:17.920 in the women of color box? Yeah. A lot of Asians. Sorry, go ahead. I've, I've been in, um, I went to 1.00

00:13:26.800 Japan and most of the women there were lighter than me. There's some of them are so pale and you guys 1.00

00:13:35.540 get to be put in that DEI box. Like, come on. That's why it was funny during the, the cough cough

00:13:43.780 when, um, a lot of Asians were saying, this is the first time I've ever experienced racism. Oh,

00:13:51.240 because Asians run away from, they, they, they run away from that label of being a person of color,

00:14:00.260 but then run to it when it benefits them. I would too. I'll be a person of color. What do I need to

00:14:06.500 do? Let me stay on YouTube. Um, okay. Can we acknowledge those awful female sci-fi gooner books? 1.00

00:14:16.640 Um, saw a feminist fantasizing about getting it with Bigfoot. I haven't seen those. I'm not in the,

00:14:23.480 look at guys. I was telling Doug MPA today. I mean, my extent, like I've been to an anime convention,

00:14:30.120 but I don't know a lot of the like sci-fi. That's just not my thing. I'm learning about this today.

00:14:38.080 Screen roll in the star Wars franchise. A lot of fans who kind of had racist and sexist

00:14:43.680 inclinations were able to band together and drive her off social media platforms. 0.74

00:14:50.320 From ghost bus. Oh, I remember this. Oh, it was so funny. I remember a Milo clip,

00:14:56.120 like making fun of her. And they're like, do you feel bad about saying that? And he's like, I don't

00:15:03.880 Leslie Jones to captain Marvel's Brie Larson. Fans are using social media to attack the actors

00:15:09.880 who dared to be women and beloved sci-fi franchises using tactics. They learned from the most devastating 1.00

00:15:15.720 online hate campaign in history. They want the benefit of being an entertainer, but not to be

00:15:20.680 criticized. It's like, what do you expect that don't go into entertainment, go be an accountant.

00:15:26.040 One last thing about this. So Pearl, the playbook was, oh, so first off you as a redhead, 1.00

00:15:36.600 if you follow this Lord, you'd be really pissed off because the last 10 years, they've literally 0.94

00:15:41.960 race swapped every single redheaded woman for a black woman. Oh my gosh. They did that in Ariel 1.00

00:15:48.360 and I was pissed. Yes. Yes. And if you're going to race swap me for a black girl, 1.00

00:15:54.680 like a redhead for a black girl, what make her beautiful, make her so beautiful that I understand

00:16:02.200 like Mary Jane, right. With like in Spider-Man, she was a beautiful woman and they, they race swapped 0.99

00:16:09.080 her for a mid black. Give me a, like, you guys don't have any hot black women. I know I see them all the 1.00

00:16:15.480 time, but I'm like, why are I like, if I'm going to be replaced, I better be replaced with someone

00:16:22.360 better than me. Do you know what I mean? Like somebody that's way better. Look, it's just

00:16:26.840 offensive. It's just, um, so the, the flash, the TV show, the first four seasons were good, but then,

00:16:36.200 uh, the, it went off a woke, a woke cliff and Iris West is the, the flash's girlfriend slash wife.

00:16:44.120 She's a redhead, uh, series, uh, Iris West actress. Let me know if you think that she is, 0.99

00:16:53.160 so her, her name is Candace Patton. Let me know if you think that she's attractive because she, 1.00

00:17:00.600 Iris West was a redhead and they swapped her out for, for this actress named Candace Patton. Do you 0.94

00:17:06.440 think that she's attractive? Candace Patton? Yeah. Okay. C-A-N-D-I-C-P-A-T-T-O-N. Um, she's, 1.00

00:17:16.840 she's like an upper med. Who, who did she replace? What's her name? So the, the character's name is

00:17:22.920 Iris West. Uh, she, she was the, the flash's, um, the flash's wife in the comics. Uh, another redhead 1.00

00:17:34.600 who got swapped out. But yeah, so the, the playbook is that they'll race swap a character or they'll,

00:17:44.760 or they'll make a character, a woman, and then they'll preemptively call anyone that doesn't like

00:17:50.200 the, uh, any, before anyone says anything, they say, if you don't like this, you're, you're racist

00:17:57.960 or you're a misogynist. Like they literally tell the actresses to say on the, on the press tour for

00:18:04.120 the movie or the show, well, um, you know, I'm just waiting for all the misogynists to say something

00:18:09.480 about there being a female character. So what are you talking about? What no one said anything,

00:18:15.880 but you're already calling the men who watched the show, the, they call them istaphobes, some kind of

00:18:22.040 racist or some kind of phobe. And it's just been the playbook for the last 10 years. Halle Bailey

00:18:29.320 should have been in the little mermaid as flounder. Yeah. She's cute, but Ariel was beautiful. Like her

00:18:37.400 comic version. I'm like, why did you, why is she replaced with this mid woman? She's just offensive. I 1.00

00:18:45.080 mean, if you're going to replace, if you're going to replace a redhead with a black girl, 1.00

00:18:49.080 I just expect the black girl to be beautiful. I expect like, um, Russell Wilson's wife in her 1.00

00:18:55.480 prime. I would put her as beautiful back in the day. Not anymore. You know, she's old, but she's 0.98

00:19:01.320 still quite attractive. Let me play the rest of this gear for e-sports 60% of teenagers play video games.

00:19:08.760 They're playing on average three and a half hours per day.

00:19:11.800 E-sports is real. It's a billion dollar industry. 200 million people are watching

00:19:15.400 other people play video games. Video games are big business. And just like with comics

00:19:20.200 and sci-fi, it's not just for guys anymore. They're damn. And the men are like, no. 0.99

00:19:27.880 Damsels in distress. I'm saving the princess. Am I supposed to let the princess die? Is that what you

00:19:33.160 want? That's kind of harsh. That's kind of hostile. Well, maybe the princess shouldn't be a damsel 1.00

00:19:37.400 and she could save herself. If you look at the original Nintendo- Yeah, but like we can't save

00:19:42.040 her. That's the- No entertainment system. There are shockingly- See, that's what they do. They go

00:19:47.160 into a male industry and they nag. It's like just- A few number of games where you can even play as a 1.00

00:19:53.880 woman. Mario! Help! We kind of have this stereotype- I did like Super Smash Bros. Actually,

00:20:01.800 I did play that one. About games being for teenage boys. It's just not true today. Women make up 46% 1.00

00:20:10.840 of people who play video games. Check the trailer. Pause that. Check the trailer for the new Predator,

00:20:16.520 Pearl. Yeah, go ahead. That stat is completely off. They say that 46% of women- No, 46% of video 0.98

00:20:24.920 games with players are women. And if that's not true, that's only if you factor in mobile games 1.00

00:20:30.040 on your cell phone. Console gamers and PC gamers are 85% men. Yeah. And they've been trying to get this-

00:20:39.160 all dominated. Sorry, what? Got it. They've been trying to have this push look like 50% of the

00:20:46.680 audience needs to be appeased with this woke garbage and it's BS. It's completely killing the video game 0.98

00:20:52.760 industry. The industry- PSA, Anita Sarkistan had a wedding-themed birthday party. Wow. Women and LGBTQ 1.00

00:21:04.360 Plus developers are fighting to make the industry more inclusive. Tensions in the gaming community

00:21:10.040 boiled until they exploded in August of 2014. What happened during Gamergate is you saw a lot of

00:21:17.640 factions of different types of game consumers band together, sometimes in really toxic and abusive

00:21:23.880 ways against people that were perceived as destroying the gaming culture. Because of that, you had a lot of

00:21:31.080 people who staunchly believed in the Gamergate movement, as it was called, coming together to

00:21:36.040 harass and attack. So from the beginning, Gamergate supporters have claimed that this is about

00:21:40.920 journalistic ethics and about supposed corruption in the gaming industry. But it has originated as

00:21:46.600 and it's continued to be about sort of undermining women in the gaming industry. This was the spark that 1.00

00:21:51.720 ignited a coordinated movement to attack marginalized developers, activists, and journalists in the gaming

00:21:57.240 industry under the dubious guise of ethics in games journalism. Gamergate organized on the same

00:22:03.800 underground message boards that would later lead to the QAnon cult. They sent their fans to-

00:22:08.360 All right, so it's just, I'm done with this video. This is enough women nagging for me. 1.00

00:22:13.000 They all look like this too. Oh my goodness. All right, let's see what else we got here.

00:22:20.840 Gamergate was an online harassment campaign in 2014 and 15 that targeted women in the video game 0.89

00:22:30.840 industry. Their attacks were attributed largely to white male right-wing gamers who railed against

00:22:35.960 the rise and influence of women and feminism in the industry. Gamergate served as a recruiting

00:22:41.080 tool for their growing alt-right movement. They're saying it started Pizzagate.

00:22:45.800 Disney Star Wars gave us a number eight Asian actress for 30 seconds,

00:22:54.360 got rid of her because she was prettier than the strong independent Rey, left us with Kelkie Marie at a number three. 0.67

00:23:03.320 The Gamergate campaign was sparked by the release of, okay, the industry got greedy, sorry,

00:23:08.280 I'm reading the super chats, and decided to diversify. Storied franchises like Star Wars and video game industry,

00:23:14.920 they missed off of the true fans and the gamers, and now we're all suffering. It's a dumb move. Okay. 0.97

00:23:21.400 The game received acclaim from video game critics and praise from mental health professionals, but it

00:23:27.480 also spurred a backlash from a vocal minority in the online gaming community because its subject was

00:23:32.760 depression. Although interactive fiction was among the older and most established genres in the first in

00:23:38.840 the history of video games, the text-driven interior monologue style of Quinn's game was disparaged as

00:23:45.800 boring. In short, Depression Quest was no Call of Duty. In August of 2014, Depression Quest debuted to a

00:23:52.520 much larger audience when it was released on Steam, one of the world's largest PC gaming distribution

00:24:00.200 platforms. Days later, a boyfriend, a former boyfriend of Quinn's, wrote a long post on the Penny Arcade

00:24:05.640 and something awful forums that accused her of deceptive and manipulative behavior during their 0.99

00:24:09.960 relationship. Although both sites removed the post, the content was copied by users on the anonymous

00:24:16.200 4chan. 4chan posts crafted narrative that accused Quinn of having a physical relationship with a

00:24:22.520 journalist in order to obtain a positive, ah, what the hell, a positive review of her game and advance

00:24:30.600 her career. Although the accusations were proved false, Quinn became the focus of a sexual harassment 0.98

00:24:36.840 campaign. Yeah, I bet she did it. She glucked for it. It's just, so she had, she had a video game that

00:24:43.720 got a positive review. And she- The thing about it, Pearl, was that it was barely even a game. It was like

00:24:51.480 a bunch of, it had a menu and a bunch of text. And you could make choices in the text and it was about

00:24:58.520 depression. It was barely a game. But then all the media were like, it's so groundbreaking. And it's

00:25:03.880 so great. And the guys were like, are you guys serious? Like, this is no effort. You're literally

00:25:10.280 giving this praise because, because it's a woman talking about her mental health. That's where the

00:25:16.600 backlash came from. And all of a sudden they got all these positive reviews and people were trying

00:25:21.000 to figure out how they got these positive reviews. And the rumor came out that she banged this prominent 1.00

00:25:26.360 male reviewer to get a good view, a good review. Whenever you wonder if someone comes out of

00:25:32.520 nowhere, that's a woman. It's just usually they banged. The plant. Yeah. No, usually they banged 1.00

00:25:37.560 somebody. Okay. The online campaign was initially called Quinspiracy before the hashtag Gamergate was

00:25:44.040 coined by conservative actor. Oh, Adam Baldwin. Oh, I thought I was going to say, okay. Adam Baldwin on

00:25:50.280 Twitter on August 27th, 2014, my right wing columnist Milo Yiannopoulos popular popularized the hashtag on

00:25:58.600 the Breitbart news site. And he became one of the most visible faces of both Gamergate and the broader

00:26:03.960 anti-feminist movement. Steve Bannon's Breitbart would do much to spread the awareness of Gamergate

00:26:10.440 and Bannon and Yiannopoulos would use that platform to draw Gamergate supporters into a larger alt-right

00:26:16.600 movement. Gamergate widened its focus to target other prominent women in the gaming community,

00:26:24.280 including Jen Fran, who wrote about gaming for the Guardian and other publications. Anita

00:26:30.760 Cerescan, a feminist blogger, a feminist blogger and critic of the portrayal of women in video games. 1.00

00:26:40.680 Oh, and Brianna Wu, an independent video game developer and blogger. Okay. I get the idea.

00:26:46.600 Um, damn women goes online complaining. Let me read this part. 1.00

00:26:56.200 So people don't seem to believe me when I say I have to listen to a lot of weird

00:27:00.280 while playing games because I'm a girl. Sometimes it's funny and other times it's disgusting. So

00:27:05.320 here's a series called, Oh my God, a girl and all of the other ridiculous that I have to listen to. 0.91

00:27:09.480 I just don't, I don't understand.

00:27:21.800 Why do you go into a male industry? If you don't want to be, have men say that, 1.00

00:27:27.320 you know, it's just like, why are you here?

00:27:28.840 Fortify the room. You need to keep the hostage secure.

00:27:37.560 What the fuck was that? 1.00

00:27:39.320 Shut the fuck up. 1.00

00:27:40.200 Do me a favor, leave this lobby. Shouldn't even be on here. 1.00

00:27:42.840 Oh really?

00:27:44.360 Yeah, really? Why are you still here?

00:27:46.440 And I'm going to fucking die. 1.00

00:27:47.560 Oh my God, go fuck yourself. 1.00

00:27:53.480 Can you do me a favor and uh, give me a poppy bagel? 1.00

00:27:55.640 What's extra cream, please?

00:27:57.880 And that's not like us.

00:27:59.160 If you teen kill me twice, I don't think so. 0.98

00:28:02.760 I'm a homosexual, so I do not care for the opinions of women. 1.00

00:28:05.720 Oh, that's a woman, I thought it was 12 year old. 1.00

00:28:10.360 Oh, that was so funny. 1.00

00:28:14.920 What do you need your bitch ass to whip? 1.00

00:28:16.840 Like right by the garage door. 1.00

00:28:18.200 Is that a grill?

00:28:19.960 No, I don't know what a grill is. 1.00

00:28:22.520 You're not some fucking George Foreman, you dumb bitch. 1.00

00:28:26.040 GG, girl. 1.00

00:28:29.400 GG.

00:28:31.560 GG, girl.

00:28:32.760 The girl, everybody freak out.

00:28:36.680 Oh my God, it's a girl.

00:28:37.640 Oh my God.

00:28:38.120 Oh my God.

00:28:40.520 You shouldn't be playing this game.

00:28:41.720 This game is a girl. 0.94

00:28:43.000 It's a boy game.

00:28:44.680 Oh, you're a girl game. 1.00

00:28:47.400 I love kids.

00:28:49.080 All right.

00:28:55.080 My man.

00:28:56.280 You're welcome.

00:28:57.720 My girl.

00:28:58.360 Is that a girl?

00:29:00.840 The girl gamer?

00:29:01.880 Oh my God, the girls play this game. 1.00

00:29:04.680 Oh shit. 1.00

00:29:06.360 Well, take off that voice. 1.00

00:29:08.120 No, can you add me, please?

00:29:10.600 Uh, no.

00:29:11.960 Vaughn, what gender do you associate?

00:29:13.560 I guess.

00:29:16.120 What?

00:29:16.600 A duty player.

00:29:17.720 Try and guess the percentage of caught

00:29:20.040 of duty players that are women.

00:29:21.400 It's gotta be low.

00:29:23.560 One percent.

00:29:25.960 It's they say six percent, but I guarantee 0.99

00:29:28.600 it's lower than that.

00:29:29.480 I guarantee it.

00:29:30.680 There are probably women that logged on 1.00

00:29:33.480 or who knows why they logged in,

00:29:35.160 but I guarantee you it's probably two percent of active players or women. 0.98

00:29:39.160 And so you can go for days or weeks without running into a girl.

00:29:43.560 And then she's in there and like, oh my God, a girl.

00:29:46.200 And she's going to get offended.

00:29:47.560 Come on now.

00:29:48.280 Are you serious?

00:29:49.080 Yes.

00:29:49.480 Zoe Quinn.

00:29:50.440 Who's Zoe Quinn bullied a male developer into self-deleting? 1.00

00:29:55.320 Yeah, she was the focal point of the whole game regate thing.

00:30:00.840 She's the one that popped the whole thing off.

00:30:02.840 So who did she bully into killing himself?

00:30:06.040 I have no idea.

00:30:06.760 I have no idea.

00:30:07.640 Oh, you know?

00:30:08.200 I didn't hear about that part.

00:30:09.160 Okay.

00:30:09.480 Oh, okay.

00:30:10.520 They just sort of sent you.

00:30:11.560 You know, it's kind of sad.

00:30:12.600 I think you're the first female I've met in this game besides me.

00:30:17.560 I've met a few.

00:30:18.520 Most won't talk because there's a lot of harassment that goes on in this community.

00:30:23.560 Yeah.

00:30:23.880 Oh, boo hoo. 1.00

00:30:26.120 Yeah.

00:30:26.360 That's part of being in a male feel.

00:30:28.200 Like I remember I used to sell plumbing parts to, I don't know why.

00:30:34.040 I think I could just get in the door in a lot of places.

00:30:36.600 That was why they had me do it because I was like 22 at the time.

00:30:40.440 But I would go to these like plumbing places and it was all plumbers at the schools.

00:30:46.760 And I just remember listening to how they would talk to each other. 0.99

00:30:49.640 And I'm like, damn, they are harsh. 0.98

00:30:52.280 Fortunately, are you a real grill? 0.99

00:30:54.920 Is this a grill?

00:30:55.720 I should have.

00:30:57.880 Drone has located the bomb. 1.00

00:30:59.320 That's fucking dope. 1.00

00:31:00.040 It's a grill. 1.00

00:31:00.840 Hell yeah.

00:31:01.800 It's a grill.

00:31:02.600 I support you.

00:31:03.560 I support grills.

00:31:07.240 Wow.

00:31:07.640 Nice.

00:31:08.840 Why grill?

00:31:09.400 Why?

00:31:09.720 Why you do this? 1.00

00:31:10.840 Oh, shit. 1.00

00:31:13.000 Grill. 1.00

00:31:13.560 No, you're blind.

00:31:15.080 She has a name.

00:31:20.200 A dude in Halo 3 threatened to grate me with a screwdriver.

00:31:25.400 People wouldn't survive in our era.

00:31:27.560 Online is wild regardless of gender.

00:31:29.720 Get in the bomb.

00:31:30.440 Protect me.

00:31:31.320 I swear to God.

00:31:33.160 How mad would you be?

00:31:34.280 Let me get your MySpace.

00:31:35.880 Can I get you on MySpace?

00:31:37.000 I know you still use MySpace. 1.00

00:31:39.160 Hey, Ella, can you use your ass? 1.00

00:31:40.600 I'm just probably into that. 1.00

00:31:42.360 Ella, what does it smell like fresh-shaped spots?

00:31:46.360 Okay.

00:31:46.840 Typical of women. 1.00

00:31:47.880 No response.

00:31:51.160 You don't need armor. 0.97

00:31:51.960 Just use your boobies. 1.00

00:31:52.760 They don't know- 1.00

00:31:53.960 Shut up! 1.00

00:31:56.680 Hey, we're respecting you out here. 1.00

00:31:58.200 We could be shit-talking you. 0.99

00:31:59.640 The whamming died. 1.00

00:32:02.600 Yo, grill.

00:32:03.080 Can I get your Snapchat? 1.00

00:32:04.600 Shut your mouth. 1.00

00:32:05.640 Can I get it? 1.00

00:32:07.080 Let's get it.

00:32:08.200 My age isn't found here in this.

00:32:10.360 You can have my Minecraft account on the turn if you want, please.

00:32:13.720 You're a nice grill.

00:32:14.520 I don't ever communicate with grills.

00:32:16.120 Please, can I have your Snapchat?

00:32:18.040 I'll give you gushers. 0.87

00:32:19.080 I'll give you my gushers. 0.98

00:32:20.360 Please.

00:32:20.760 I'll give you my gushers and fruit roll up in return for your Snapchat.

00:32:23.640 It seems like a fair deal. 0.96

00:32:24.760 I think I'm trying to call her fat. 0.75

00:32:26.120 She's not fat.

00:32:26.680 She's thick. 1.00

00:32:27.640 Can I- can I have your Snapchat?

00:32:30.280 The man is trying.

00:32:32.040 Oh my god, I swear. 0.99

00:32:33.480 I fucking love you. 0.99

00:32:34.680 Please let me have your Snapchat. 1.00

00:32:35.960 Grill, can I have your Snapchat?

00:32:37.320 Wait, what's her real name?

00:32:38.280 This is Amanda.

Pearl - August 14, 2025

How Modern Women Fought (and Won) to Ruin Videogames For Men

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