{"id":26994,"date":"2014-09-16T21:55:18","date_gmt":"2014-09-16T21:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/5-things-i-learned-as-the-internets-most-hated\/"},"modified":"2014-09-16T21:55:18","modified_gmt":"2014-09-16T21:55:18","slug":"5-things-i-learned-as-the-internets-most-hated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/5-things-i-learned-as-the-internets-most-hated\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Things I Learned as the Internet&#8217;s Most Hated Person | Cracked.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/www.cracked.com\/blog\/5-things-i-learned-as-internets-most-hated-person\/'>5 Things I Learned as the Internet&#8217;s Most Hated Person | Cracked.com<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"link_description\">\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/wilwheaton.tumblr.com\/post\/97667588139\/5-things-i-learned-as-the-internets-most-hated-person\">wilwheaton<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Editor\u2019s Note: A few weeks ago our message board and general inbox were bombarded with demands we address something called the \u201cGamerGate Scandal\u201d, posts written with the urgency and rage one would associate with, say, discovering that Chipotle burritos are made entirely from the meat of human babies. It\u2019s apparently a big deal in some circles, so we followed the links and read the piles of data presented, and had to stop and take a deep breath just to grasp it all. \u201cGentlemen,\u201d we said amid the stunned silence, \u201cdo you realize that if what they\u2019re saying is true, then this is still the most pointless fucking bullshit anyone has ever forced us to read?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cscandal\u201d turned out to be an excuse for an Internet harassment campaign against a random indie game developer who, like many such targets, was a female and a feminist.<\/p>\n<p>It was all sparked by a single forum post from a jilted ex-boyfriend, but the ensuing outrage was so fierce and relentless that the story made it all the way to The New Yorker. This kind of spontaneous shitstorm is depressingly common these days, so we reached out to Zoe Quinn to see what it\u2019s like to be the Internet\u2019s Most Hated Person (well, for a couple of weeks, anyway). Here\u2019s what she told us.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>5 Things I Learned as the Internet&#8217;s Most Hated Person | Cracked.com wilwheaton: Editor\u2019s Note: A few weeks ago our message board and general inbox were bombarded with demands we address something called the \u201cGamerGate Scandal\u201d, posts written with the urgency and rage one would associate with, say, discovering that Chipotle burritos are made entirely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-71o","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}