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Oppressed GamerGater

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Oppressed GamerGater is an image macro featuring a screaming child in front of a blue and teal color wheel background. The overlaid text is orginally intended to mock gamergate community then turned into mocking the viewpoints and stances of the “anti-Gamergate” side of the controversy.

Origin

The advice animal character was born during the GamerGate controversy. On October 9, 2014, Twitter user Spacekatgal[4] posted image macro series Oppressed GamerGater to criticize the GamerGate community. Including the image series of a child from one of the PowerPoint template[3]. In counter, on the imageboard site 8chan, users started to create new image macros related to Oppressed GamerGater page on Meme Generator with messages that disagrees with the contra-gamergate community[1]. Many 8chan users also engaged in a high amount of Baneposting during the meme hijacking. Over 1,000 memes were created in a short time.

Notable Examples

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External References

[1]Archive.Today – Oppressed GamerGater

[2]Memegenerator.net – Oppressed GamerGater Meme

[3]TemplatesForPowerpoint.com – Powerpoint Autism Symptoms

[4]Spacekatgal – Related Tweet

[5]Spacekatgal – Related Tweet


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