Rumors of Johnathan McIntosh and Anita Sarkeesian being romantically involved have been going around since 2013, and there's been
surprising amounts of evidence to support that theory, especially given that they knew one another for years and McIntosh basically ran her Twitter account for a while. Around 15 months ago, there was reports that Anita had dumped him, and it was purportedly because McIntosh had gone completely off the rails with that whole "openly racist" thing a few times, earning himself a reputation as an idiot and crank that wasn't worth engaging with, and at this point Anita sort of had him drummed from it. His profiles
indicate this as well, linking to his blog platform and not to any affiliated site - meaning that Anita basically
took his creation and ran.
Problem: All evidence indicates that McIntosh was the one who was good with handling all the background stuff - the finances, the information-gathering, and so on. Once she dumped McIntosh, there is a distinctive quality drop in both her research and her overall production values, and without McIntosh's ability to grease the wheels, Sarkeesian was
desperate to get more money to replace him. That would be the reason behind that massive crowdfunding campaign she had that ultimately was funded primarily by her high-profile friends. Johnathan McIntosh can't even really complain without facing further blastback from the monster he himself
created.
Their influence has been waning for a while, is what I'm getting at here. And if you add my usual control group....
wow
There's a reason for this. Losing the year-and-a-half-long advertisement for Autism awareness that was Gamergate cost those in its opposition enormous amounts of capital, both in terms of credibility and influence. The spergs
in Gamergate had nothing to lose by going for the jugular, and so they did, and in so doing, Feminist Frequency wound up inevitably tarnishing its own reputation, over and over as the Internet Autism Machine makes like it always does and chronicles
every fucking thing.
And so, like all the losers of the last great Internet War, they wound up falling from relevance.
If you look at
Feminist Frequency now, it's basically identical to every other form of Neoprogressive games coverage out there with absolutely nothing to distinguish it from every goddamned example of press coverage from the same gaggle of unpleasant fucks except the celebridom of the head of it. Same arguments, same talking points, same inability to update more than eight times in the span of a year, and nothing to set it apart from the others. None of her site's posts in the last year have had any comments, not even committal shouts of support.
Feminist Frequency's Twitter hasn't covered games at all since E3.
