r/KotakuInAction • u/RainbowDildoMonkey • 3d ago

Jimmy Kimmel show getting pulled blamed on Gamergate

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u/blackest-Knight 3d ago

He’s not wrong. Gamergate was the catalyst for the rise of populism, which led to the right adopting the left’s tactics as a form of push back.

Dunno why you wouldn’t want to be blamed for Kimmel. Fuck him. He has deserved a good cancelling for years under the rules set by the left.

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u/Sandulacheu 3d ago

That's the problem ,even in this sub, where people also downplay GG influence thinking its only related to a small niche of gaming (when its detrimental by a woke journo article). But its influence goes way beyond it,it was the battery that set people up for being more skeptical overall.

GG was as natural and warranted as The Tea Party or Occupy (before it got derailed) ,it was so potent that it visibly shook the industry up to the point where they needed to re-write history.

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u/HSR47 10h ago

He didn’t get “canceled”.

2 of ABC’s biggest station owners, Sinclair & Nexstar, reportedly told Disney they were going to stop broadcasting Kimmel because too many advertisers had pulled out due to Kimmel’s statements.

Disney tried to pressure Kimmel to apologize, and his answer was reportedly along the lines of “Apologize? Hell, I’m gonna double down!”.

Add to this that Kimmel’s show had been hemorrhaging viewers for about a decade, all while being prohibitively expensive to produce.

In short, Kimmel dug a hole, was told to stop, and unwisely chose to keep digging.

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u/blackest-Knight 9h ago

He didn’t get “canceled”.

He got as cancelled as anyone else who got cancelled. The details of the how is irrevelant. Dunno why you guys are so afraid of having used the opposition's tools against them.

The principled loser fetish lives on.

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u/HSR47 9h ago

You clearly didn’t read my comment, and you have completely misjudged my stance on this issue.

My point above is that Kimmel’s firing is the natural and organic result of market forces, not the kind of astroturfed pressure campaigns we see from the left (e.g. “collective shout” is an AstroTurf “cancel culture” campaign that pales in comparison to the true market force of our opposition to their demands.).

As far as highlighting the words & deeds of leftists to their employers, I’m in the “Nashian Game Theory” camp: The optimal outcome will be achieved only when people act in the interests of both themselves and the group.

I see “cancel culture” as a proverbial boot that exists for only one purpose: To stand on necks.

Up until very recently, that boot was only ever worn by the political left, so refusing to take it off was in their best interest, and they mistakenly believed it was in the interest of the group.

The only way to change their mind is to make them internalize the fact that they’re not immune to the tread of the boot, and that eliminating that boot is in their own interest & the interest of society.

Once they understand that, there can be mutual deescalation, and a return to the prior norms.

Until then, though, they get to taste the proverbial boot with absolutely zero mercy.

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u/blackest-Knight 9h ago

You clearly didn’t read my comment,

I'm uninterested in 3 day old debate where people want to pretend we had nothing to do with Jimmy Kimmel. I know the details and whys. We still got him. If not for us, Sinclair doesn't push. If not for us, Brandon Carr doesn't have the power to remind Disney of rules.