Apparently, a parallel to GamerGate is happening in Japan.

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TheWPCTraveler said:

ktay95 said:
You know what, I have no idea what GamerGate is and I have no idea what that article was trying to say.

Well, someone gave us a readable version:

>I know jack shit about Japan or 2channel but I'll give it a shot.

Otaku seems to be a broad, encompassing term, like 'gamer', so let's just set that aside for now.

From what I can gather, 2channel was being misrepresented by Matome-blog, its posts being taken out of context and blown out of proportion, not unlike a LW cherrypicking a post from 8chan.

Matome-blog appears to be using its influence to pursue an agenda, perhaps advertising themselves to act like they speak for all otakus. The author's term for this shady/corrupt journalism is 'yellow journalism'.

There was a resistance against this yellow journalism, and they were named by their enemies as "Kenmo", meaning people hating profit, a name which they proudly adopted.

One of the practices the Kenmo are against is called "sutema", meaning a company that pretends to be consumers and advertises a product.

A change in management of 2channel spawned another struggle. The old manager, Hiroyuki, was replaced by a new one, known as JIM. Hiroyuki was then found out to have connections to many companies, selling information logged on 2channel to the highest bidder. Once Hiroyuki was no longer manager, he made a fake 2channel website, 2ch.sc, designed to replicate information on the real website, 2ch.net, so he could continue selling it.

The Kenmo were fucking pissed.

But wait, there's more! It appears Hiroyuki wanted to remain in charge, so he tried to have 2ch.net hacked and destroyed so that the people who use that site would have to go to his 2ch.sc

Thanks to Jim, someone named Codemonkey, and the rest of the Kenmo, 2ch.net was able to survive.

But their struggle seems to be far from over, even now, the yellow journalism persists and there are those who would want to sell the Kenmo's information for their own personal gain.

If any Kenmo do stop by here at 8chan, we should treat them well. They've seen some shit.

These sound like FAR more legitimate grievances than anything the Western Gamergate has crusaded against.