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Fake #GamerGate Victims

Posted on | March 18, 2015 | 61 Comments

If Nicholas “Sarah” Nyberg (@srhbutts) is a feminist, I’m the King of Sweden. What is he/she? Living proof that bad causes attract bad people, and the “Social Justice Warrior” (SJW) crusade against #GamerGate is a very bad cause. As soon as I mention #GamerGate, I know many of my conservative friends will ask, “What is #GamerGate?”

Perhaps the best introduction is “Feminist Bullies Tearing the Video Game Industry Apart” by Milo Yiannopoulos of Breitbart.com. To distill a long and complex saga into a few words, a bunch of left-leaning blogger/activist types figured out that they could parlay journalism into a lucrative slice of the billion-dollar video game business. Hurling accusations of “misogyny” and “objectification” against popular games (and the gamers who loved those games), self-declared SJW’s tried to hustle their way to fame and fortune. Because I don’t play video games, and haven’t followed the  #GamerGate saga closely, all I know is that once some shady conflicts of interest were exposed, the suspicion of pay-for-play scams outraged gamers and all hell broke loose.

Anybody who knows anything about online gamers knows many of these dudes Don’t Play Well With Others. If you thought those dudes were going to display decorum and civility when they came under attack by a bunch of “social justice” types, you’ve got another think coming. All of that is necessary preamble to this Huffington Post headline:

I Set Out To Expose A Hate Movement In Gaming
— So They Set Out To Destroy My Life

Leaving aside Nicholas/Sarah’s claim that #GamerGate is a “hate movement,” instead we may ask, what did “they” do to “destroy” his/her life? Or perhaps, what did Nicholas/Sarah do that made him/her worth destroying? Mr./Ms. Nyberg begins his/her tale:

Gamergate’s campaign to terrorize me with my personal information started, strangely enough, with them sending me my own drawings. They managed to dig up silly Microsoft Paint pictures that were a lighthearted joke between friends almost a decade ago. It was a message: They had figured out who I was. I had been doxxed.
I had been openly critical of Gamergate for quite some time. There had been harassment from the beginning. My criticism was done, intentionally, pseudonymously.

Ah, yes, a familiar story.

The “clever” Internet user decides (a) they can use a pseudonym (“Sarah Butts”) to become a famous Online Superhero Against Evil, and (b) no one will ever figure out that Superman is actually Clark Kent.

Or that “The Gaped Crusader” is Neal Rauhauser.

Right? So if you are a man named Nicholas Edwin Nyberg who wants to be a woman named Sarah Nyberg, you have to ask yourself whether going to war with gamers as “Sarah Butts” is a smart move.

Especially when, as it turns out, you were already sort of an Internet legend, not in a good way. After Nicholas/Sarah tried to shut down funding for the group “8chan,” somebody in that group called attention to an account on another site and (“mysteriously”), Nicholas/Sarah began talking about that account on Twitter and then — poof! — information on the other account started getting deleted:

This simple act of damage control shattered Sarah’s anonymity; he’s one of those retards that uses the same username for every account that he makes, so his MySpace and Facebook were quickly found and an entire treasure trove of links was dumped on 8chan. Along with the links there were discussions from Sarah admitting to piracy, a Photobucket gallery featuring his muffin-top, and even a Hot or Not profile with a hilariously low rating.
Sarah is currently panic-deleting f–king everything, meanwhile others are coming out of the framework to dig info on srhbutt’s hilarious past at the expense of our contributors’ afternoon.

So say the crew at Encyclopedia Dramatica and, while I can’t vouch for the authenticity of everything they claim, it seems they have documented a few important facts. Nicholas/Sarah owns the site “Final Fantasy Shrine” (FFS), and had acquired a bad reputation there:

Another character was Sarah, an administrator who was allegedly a pedophile. (Don’t ask me whether “she” was really a girll; it was hard to tell.) I think Sarah had been expressing an unhealthy fixation on children from the very beginning, and I could only hope it was all some disgusting in-joke that had gone on for too long.

Oh, really? That was from 2007, and there was another item from 2006, where someone was complaining about an online chat for transsexuals in which they encountered “an admitted pedophile. Oh yes, a transsexual pedophile.” Another user responded by identifying this transsexual pedophile as “retrogradesnowcone.” And are you surprised to learn that Nicholas/Sarah’s Photobucket account name is “retrogradesnowcone”?

Ladies and gentlemen of the Internet jury, I am not here to make any accusations against Nicholas “Sarah” Nyberg. Rather, I’m merely presenting to you the case as I encountered it. You can read the whole thing at Encyclopedia Dramatica and evaluate the evidence yourself.

By the way, how do you feel about people who have sex with dogs? Because there’s a quote in that article — which I won’t duplicate here — from a chatlog in which Nicholas/Sarah (allegedly) talks about having sex with dogs in a way that suggests that he/she was doing more than just talking about it. While I don’t know if animal welfare agencies  would consider that chatlog to be “evidence,” I’ll permit you ladies and gentlemen of the Internet jury to form your own opinions.

Is Nicholas “Sarah” Nyberg a pedophile dogf–ker? That’s not for me to decide, but the point is, this information was out there on the Internet, but nobody had ever previously connected it to Nyberg until he/she attacked “8chan.” And now Nicholas/Sarah postures as a heroic victim:

The pages they wrote about me claim that I am a fraud, a felon, guilty of tax evasion, a sexual predator and dozens of other equally absurd lies . . .
This is damage is meant to be as close to permanent as possible; picture the most heinous lies anyone could tell about you, but done publicly, in a way that will never disappear. They will be seen by any job you interview for, any curious acquaintance, any date that decides to peek on Google. On top of this, it also outs me as trans and hosts pictures from before I transitioned; this is the kind of online abuse that could get trans women evicted, cause them to lose their jobs, be assaulted or even killed.
This is the first public piece of writing I have ever written under my name, but doing so was not done voluntarily. Because of the position Gamergate put me in, I have no choice but to take my name back; they have publicly outed me as trans, and littered the web with defamation. Their aim was to scare me into silence, but they have done just the opposite: They have both amplified my voice and made me more determined to be a part of fixing the culture in gaming that allows this to happen.

Dude, you attacked them. Your foolishness in believing that your Twitter handle guaranteed you ironclad anonymity does not mean that others are responsible for your error. If what they’ve written about you is just “absurd lies,” then prove them wrong. Were those dog-sex chats a forgery? Was it just a coincidence that somebody with the moniker “retrogradesnowcone” had a reputation as a transsexual pedophile in 2006? And if you don’t owe $40,000 in unpaid taxes, couldn’t that “absurd lie” easily be proven false? Anyway, my suspicion is that heroic social justice crusaders who try to hide their identities aren’t so much afraid of harassment as they are afraid of the truth, i.e., that they aren’t really heroic, they’re just deranged narcissists.

Maybe they’re tax-evading pedophile dogf–kers, too.

Allegedly, I hasten to add.

 

Comments

61 Responses to “Fake #GamerGate Victims”

  1. Michael Spangler
    March 18th, 2015 @ 9:57 pm

    Well, dogf-kers are gonna… I think the rest of that sentence goes with out saying.

    Social Justice Warrior Tactics 101

    Step 1 – Do disgusting immoral things to children and animals.

    Step 2 – After you’re caught play the victim card

    Step 3 – Rinse and repeat

  2. robertstacymccain
    March 18th, 2015 @ 10:23 pm

    Look, we don’t know for a fact that Nyberg ever did anything to any minor or any dog. In fact, there could be a perfectly innocent explanation for some of this stuff. The problem for Nyberg is that he/she didn’t act as if it were perfectly innocent when 8chan discovered this stuff. Instead, as the article says, there was a lot of “panic deleting” — an apparent attempt to erase the evidence — which makes it look like Nyberg had a sense of guilt. If you have done nothing wrong, why the deleting?

    Anyway, now several weeks after this stuff was exposed, we have Nyberg striking a pose of gallant martyrdom but not discussing anything in detail. Oh, she’s a victim of a “hate group” and they brought her family into it, blah blah blah, but what about the specifics of the allegations? Why did people in 2006-2007 regard “Sarah”/”retrogradesnowcone” as having an unusual interest in minors? Maybe it was just a misunderstood joke, but where’s the explanation of the misunderstanding? Not in that article at Huffington Post.

  3. Adobe_Walls
    March 18th, 2015 @ 10:41 pm

    It should’a gotten it’s own server.

  4. ChandlersGhost
    March 18th, 2015 @ 11:14 pm

    I’m ambivalent about GamerGate.

    I first saw the entryism in 2008, when feminists at UCSB started to write about social justice issues in video games, having run out of novels and movies to critique. Initially, the gamers wanted this. They accepted these people into their ranks. What now, after the parasite has found a host?

  5. Finrod Felagund
    March 18th, 2015 @ 11:49 pm

    Fake victims also hurt real victims by making people suspicious of all victims, including those victimized by the fake victims.

  6. Daniel Freeman
    March 19th, 2015 @ 12:04 am

    Never pick a fight with someone who buys ink by the barrel obsessively restarts the game until he wins.

  7. Adobe_Walls
    March 19th, 2015 @ 12:07 am

    So they learn faster and react much faster than most Americans.

  8. Adobe_Walls
    March 19th, 2015 @ 12:12 am

    Way too many ”victims”. #GamerGaters aren’t victims, they’re fighting back.

  9. Fail Burton
    March 19th, 2015 @ 12:19 am

    What people like Sarkeesian and Brianna Wu don’t get is the difference between saying a black rapper has vulgar lyrics and saying look what vulgarity black people have introduced to American pop music. Naturally the pushback from the former will amount to nothing to compared to defaming 40 million black Americans. Or you could compare it to critiquing Hollywood film violence by defaming all Jews working in Hollywood.

    When you light up 100 million white men you’d better believe you’re going to create mass anger and that among those millions are going to be a few people nuts enough to leave threatening messages on the internet. And that’s what feminists do – they say “look what straight white men have done to video gaming.” When you obsessively do that in terms of a demonizing ideology that targets a sex or ethnic group, that’s an analogy to anti-Semitic blood libels. No where is it clearer that equal rights feminism has been hijacked by resentful, uncultured and jealous people, many of them with severe isolating mental health issues.

    Which is more of a hate movement: white male gamers as an innocent demographic or intersectional gender feminism?

    If you get bored, on another topic, read this remarkably racist anti-white article at School Library Journal of all places. It is being retweeted by Neil Gaiman and is written by a woman who begins, “I can’t breathe. I am a Black feminist writer committed to social justice.” It’s about an author who doesn’t get the attention she feels she deserves and lays it at the feet of “white supremacy in the children’s literature community.” The article is a disgrace and typical of the racist paranoia I’d expect from a white supremacist web site.

    http://www.slj.com/2015/03/diversity/black-authors-and-self-publishing/

  10. jakee308
    March 19th, 2015 @ 12:21 am

    I come here not to praise Sarah but to bury her.

  11. jakee308
    March 19th, 2015 @ 12:22 am

    I hear someone in Chappaqua has some Disk Space available.

  12. jakee308
    March 19th, 2015 @ 12:28 am

    Where a lot of feminists have made a mistake is that they and their sisters and their straight cousins have been pushing men out of their “safe” places. Places where they could get away from women for awhile, not out of hate or fear just out of a need for a change.

    And silence. Blessed silence. Well, noise that men make is okay.

    But over the years every place a man turns to for a place to fart and smoke stinky cigars and drink out of the milk carton have been taken away. Because inclusiveness and hostile workplace.

    Games were a last refuge. You can play a game and the only things you have to interact with are pixels and other players. Then along came gamersgate. (actually the prelude where it was such a horrible crime that not enough women were involved in the gaming industry)

    Enough ladies. We love you, couldn’t do without you but we need some space. BACK OFF!

  13. Mr. Saturn
    March 19th, 2015 @ 2:07 am

    I can’t believe ED would insult poor Tina (Bob’s Burgers) like that. Girl might be severely awkward but she doesn’t deserve to be compared to that sicko.

  14. Steve Skubinna
    March 19th, 2015 @ 3:18 am

    And then it rubs the lotion on the server.

  15. Steve Skubinna
    March 19th, 2015 @ 3:24 am

    The gamers didn’t realize the toxic intent of the SJWs. After all, who wants to be against justice?

    Where it went off script was their response when the agenda was revealed. These may be marginalized geeks with poor social skills in real life, but on their own turf they are hypercompetitive and very intelligent and This Will Not Stand.

    Idiot SJWs had no idea what they were stirring up. And to be fair, they ran roughshod over lots of other areas populated by people with better social skills. That might have been the key – this was the one arena many of these gamers had where they could really belong. From their perspective, their backs were already against the wall. No dates with cheerleaders for them anyway and they knew it

    The SJWs probably have gun culture, and maybe outlaw biker gangs on their “Don’t even try” list. A bunch of pasty gaming geeks didn’t seem much challenge at all.

  16. Steve Skubinna
    March 19th, 2015 @ 3:24 am

    You don’t get good at video games without learning to think fast and respond to threats instantly.

  17. Steve Skubinna
    March 19th, 2015 @ 3:25 am

    Stupid gamers refuse to be victims. What the hell is wrong with them? Don’t they understand that being a victim is the highest rung of American life?

  18. Steve Skubinna
    March 19th, 2015 @ 3:37 am

    It didn’t help much that these many of these gamers have poor social skills to begin with, plus many of them realize the gaming community is the last place they can fit in and be accepted on a equal footing.

    So they were already cornered when they SJWs showed up and started acting like Lucy Van Pelt.

  19. Eidolon
    March 19th, 2015 @ 4:25 am

    They made the same mistake that most people make; they thought that there was such a thing as “good feminism,” or “reasonable feminism.” They didn’t know until later (and most people still don’t realize) that all feminism is crazy and evil, as it comes from a crazy and evil root ideology. Even if many of the people are neither crazy nor evil, they still advance an evil and crazy agenda by any support for feminism.

  20. Eidolon
    March 19th, 2015 @ 4:31 am

    In the one case where “safe space” might actually be useful (for straight white men), all the people who obsess about “safe spaces” are dead set against it. All spaces must be colonized by women so women can claim credit for everything men accomplish.

    The main reason feminists wanted women in the military (though of course it’s not mandatory for them) is so everyone always has to say “the brave men and women of our military” — as though women had contributed in any significant way to military victory (as soldiers; nurses and other support are rightly appreciated, but not considered in the same category as soldiers).

  21. The original Mr. X
    March 19th, 2015 @ 5:41 am

    I suspect that’s why so many on the left hate Israel as well. Rejecting the victimhood hierarchy overturns the entire leftist worldview; it’s like the modern equivalent of those mediaeval heresies which saw sworn oaths and titles of nobility as inventions of the Devil.

  22. The original Mr. X
    March 19th, 2015 @ 5:45 am

    “Separate genders are a constructed fiction.”
    So how does Gaiman explain the fact that pretty much all of the higher primates have clear differences between male and female behaviour? Did humans evolve out of having such differences, and if so, when and why? Or are chimps all just being brainwashed by an ape patriarchy (aperiarchy?) into displaying sex-differentiated behaviour?

  23. Michael Spangler
    March 19th, 2015 @ 5:55 am

    Agreed. I was just sensationalizing for humor’s sake. As you said, it’s all alleged at this point.

  24. Fail Burton
    March 19th, 2015 @ 6:05 am

    It wouldn’t surprise me if ISIS uses these TED talks to inspire their suicide bombers.

  25. texlovera
    March 19th, 2015 @ 6:39 am

    The kicking of this “dude’s” ass was very, very richly deserved.

  26. Steve Skubinna
    March 19th, 2015 @ 7:00 am

    That’s probably a major reason. I think another is that the Arabs have learned the po-mo language of grievance and cast Israel in the role of Western aggressor, and unwanted colonial enclave.

    So for the left, that’s two reasons to hate da Joooooos.

  27. Steve Skubinna
    March 19th, 2015 @ 7:03 am

    That’s why so many socialists think they are good people, refusing to see the continuum they occupy on the way to Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot.

  28. Steve Skubinna
    March 19th, 2015 @ 7:05 am

    Good point, just claimed to sexually molest a dog, ha ha. Or even funnier, implied or suggested sexually molesting a dog. For laughs.

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  30. Finrod Felagund
    March 19th, 2015 @ 8:46 am

    When they’re deliberately fuzzy and evasive on the details, they’re probably lying.

  31. Jeanette Victoria
    March 19th, 2015 @ 9:23 am

    As usual the real predator is posturing as the poor victim, whinges that he is victim of vigilantism. So very typical. Years ago I one of a group of people who exposed Karen “Curio” Jones was, aka Diana Napolis; who went on to stalk Steven Speilberg and making death threats against Jennifer Love-Hewitt. I did the same with the fraud and fake “rev” Jim Sutter. Sutter caused a lot of problems with his smear and defamation blog “chasing evil” for many people in the conservative blogosphere. He called me the stalker (revealing the truth is always harassment to these evil people), never mind his lies shut down many anti-jihad sites and cause monetary damages. And many of you here know my work exposing the Hunt family lies. And they are still harassing me across the web claiming it is them who are the “real” victims. Yet the real stalkers claim it is me who the stalker. There is no hate like the rage of a progressive caught in the web of their own lies!

  32. Frankie
    March 19th, 2015 @ 10:00 am

    “If you have done nothing wrong, why the deleting?”

    Maybe our good friend Bill Schmalfeldt could answer that question?

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  34. Squid Hunt
    March 19th, 2015 @ 11:16 am

    There is so much awesomeness in this event.

  35. Stephen J.
    March 19th, 2015 @ 11:22 am

    “If what they’ve written about you is just “absurd lies,” then prove them wrong.”

    Proving a negative is a lot harder to do than to say. How could I prove to you *I* wasn’t a caninophile?

  36. Daniel Freeman
    March 19th, 2015 @ 1:10 pm

    I have a new goal in life! To continue not having my own entry on Encyclopedia Dramatica. (A drama-free life is its own reward, but now it apparently pays dividends.)

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  38. Mike Caputo
    March 19th, 2015 @ 2:39 pm

    Wow, talk about hitting the nail on the head.

  39. Jeanette Victoria
    March 19th, 2015 @ 3:03 pm

    when someone write such paten ididocy one has to wonder just how sane they are…the problem is we have a whole generation of people who beleive insane things as TRUE!

  40. Jeanette Victoria
    March 19th, 2015 @ 3:04 pm

    Fighting back makes one a evil hateful cyber-stalker

  41. The original Mr. X
    March 19th, 2015 @ 3:14 pm

    They totally do. I was once seriously told by a friend of mine that the only reason men are bigger than women is that men — sorry, “people who are identified as male” — are encouraged to play more sports at a young age, and hence grow up to be bigger.
    Really, when we’re at a stage where even physical differences in size are seen as a result of patriarchial conditioning, what hope is there for civilisation?

  42. Daniel Freeman
    March 19th, 2015 @ 3:39 pm

    Well. That reminded me of anti-scientific Lysenkoism, so I did a little search and found that it’s Soviet Marxist. Intriguingly, some have linked it to global warming theory.

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  44. Matthew T. Mason
    March 19th, 2015 @ 6:14 pm

    This is what happens when you make the wrong people mad.

  45. Robert What?
    March 19th, 2015 @ 6:40 pm

    As James Cagney said (I forget the movie): “It’s getting to be that you can dish it out but you cant take it no more.”

  46. richard mcenroe
    March 19th, 2015 @ 6:55 pm

    Open wide and say “woof”…

  47. The original Mr. X
    March 19th, 2015 @ 7:26 pm

    Yeah, there’s a tendency among a lot of people to use “feminism” as meaning simply “not being a misogynistic jerk”. Which is a pity, because it allows the radfems to get away with a whole load of crap that they wouldn’t otherwise be able to. After all, who could possibly object to a group of not-misogynistic-jerk journalists writing about your hobby?

  48. Wombat_socho
    March 19th, 2015 @ 8:25 pm

    Also, building up a tolerance for grinding – accepting that you’re going to lose (a LOT) before you break through and crush the final boss. The SJWs are suffering from a fatal flaw in their target selection.

  49. Wombat_socho
    March 19th, 2015 @ 8:26 pm

    At this point, just about every gamer out there with a pair of balls, and quite a few without.

  50. Wombat_socho
    March 19th, 2015 @ 8:27 pm

    #livedierepeat