Secret Gamer Girl / SecretGamerGrrl / Googleshng / "Violet Hargrave" / Jacob Lawrence (Jake) Alley / Violet Cassandra Ocean - Delusional Zoe Quinn Stalker, Libelous Tweeter, Thirsty Gnome, Faux-Tranny Neckbeard Incel, Micropenis, "Known Troubled Person", Creator of "Massive vs the Masses", Self-Described "Noise Making Thing"; Lives in Niantic, CT

[Kosher Dill]

Let's give it up for the new record suicide bait, clocking in at 12 days and counting! This is now officially Jake's longest public Twitter absence since his crippling addiction began in 2014.

However... I'm feeling very abused and gaslit by Jake's abandonment of his biggest fans. It's like he doesn't care about us anymore or something. I think he should read this piece on "Silent Abandonment" by one Violet Hargrave (https://archive.li/sA5oZ / original at https://twitter.com/SecretGamerGrrl/status/988240190228647939)

If you don't mind indulging me in a rambling PSA thread, I'd like to talk for a moment about a pattern of behavior which I've observed to be one of the biggest contributing factors to the alarmingly high rate of suicide in the general trans population - Silent Abandonment. When a person comes first out as trans, they face a pretty wide range of reactions from people. Some people don't care. Some people offer support. Some people act like it's some personal betrayal, growing angry or falling into deep denial. Some people join radical hate groups. This then results in radical changes to social networks, family structures, and safety nets. To what degree varies from person to person based on the luck of the draw obviously. Someone with supportive parents is going to have less upheaval in their life than someone who'd, say, rather have a dead "son" than a living daughter for instance but even under the best of circumstances, there's going to be some damn sudden and unpredictable shifts in who a given newly out person can trust and who they need to fear, stacked on top of a ton of self-reflection and self-reinvention, likely chased with sudden workplace discrimination, and after clawing through the mountains of red tape and gatekeeping in the way, likely a cocktail of hormone supplements and/or suppressors reshaping their body and neurochemistry. So there's suddenly a need to do a lot of leaning on shoulders, and more than likely, those shoulders belong to a new set of people to our older emotional support networks. And then of course this sudden social upheaval is particularly prone to aftershocks. Someone who initially reacted badly to a loved one might regret it and try to atone. Someone whose initial reaction is to be a good supportive person might realize they aren't really prepared to commit to that. General drawing of battle lines might mess with people's other relationships. At the end of the day, what happens is you come out, and then spend the next couple years dealing with random shifts in who you can trust and who wants you dead, with no predictable pattern and nothing you can do about it, while also deeply concerned with how you're presenting yourself to the people around you on several levels. So again, pretty severe trust issues are going to come up under the best of circumstances. But here's the thing. Not knowing where you stand with someone while dealing with all of that is so much worse than being directly stabbed in the back. As a more relatable example have you ever had a pet go missing for a while? Or a child? Or heard about some tragedy close enough to a friend that you feel the need to check on them, and it takes you forever to find out. That stress and doubt and lack of closure will absolutely wreck you much worse than any definitive answer could, because even if it turns out the worst happened, you know it, it's a solid fact you can process and move on from. When you don't know though, you're constantly wondering, searching, trying to work it out, living through every possible answer in your head. Speaking personally, the most objectively awful reaction I ever had from someone for being trans was from someone who was initially supportive, and flipped not just to not being accepting, but to a point of outright encouraging nazis to hunt me down and kill me. Yet honestly, I'm so much more at peace with that than I am with basically any other relationship in my life. There is a clean break there. I know exactly where I stand. That is someone I can file away as a former friend, an existential threat, and someone who I should avoid ever interacting with. The friend who took a look at that playing out though, and decided that the best course of action was not to make waves, and try to stay friends with both of us? Most traumatic experience in my entire life. Neutrality isn't a real option when one of your friends puts a out a damn hit on another. You can only acknowledge that it happened, or deny that it happened. Either of which is "taking a side." Now, if you acknowledge it, you can still keep the peace by not PUBLICLY acknowledging it. "I'm sorry X wronged you, I believe you, and I have your back, but I can't afford to confront them, or speak out, because it'd destroy my own career/safety/marriage/whatever." That's an option, and one, I would like to be clear, I would be totally understanding of were anyone to have such a conversation with me. Instead though, what I deal with, and what I've gathered from talking to other trans people, the majority of us frequently deal with, is Silent Abandonment. Nobody wants to be a huge dick and side with an abusive person against an at-risk minority, but it's also asking a hell of a lot to really support people who tend to be complete emotional wrecks and/or have legitimately life-threateningly dangerous enemies with a particular love of attacking the support networks of their targets. So they try this perverse sort of compromise. Never actually support to the victim or publicly acknowledge abuse, but when the victim initiates a private conversation like, "you haven't said a word to me for a year, or so much as hit the fav button on a tweet when I wished you a happy birthday or asked if there was anything I could do to help with that emergency medical bill, we OK?" rather than admit the active avoidance, they'll come up with some sort of feelings-sparing excuse. "Sorry I've just been too busy to respond to anything," "my phone's been bugging out and not giving notifications," some other reassurance. But the behavior remains the same after. While this feels like a kindness, it is in fact perhaps the single most emotionally abusive thing you could possibly do to another person. It's gaslighting. You're making the person you've been ignoring doubt their own sanity by acting in a way that's impossible to misread, but then pretending you're still close friends. And again, this is something I, as a trans woman, routinely experience, and see others routinely experience. While already dealing with the absolute hell of constant self-doubt that is dysphoria, and the constant paranoia of worrying which friends secretly hold us in contempt because we're trans, or think we're completely delusional, and constantly under attack from strangers who have no problem expressing those thoughts out loud. If you've never experienced, you really cannot comprehend what this is like. Is it all in my head? Are we really still cool, and this friend just hasn't acknowledged I exist for a year due to random distractions? Did I do something to offend this friend that I need to atone for? What could it have been? Did they hear some rumor about me that damaged their trust in me? What do I do to fix this? Do I try to reach out more? Do I give them space? Should I ask someone else to ask what's going on who they aren't as likely to lie to? Do I just write them off? Do I have to do something to prove myself? And of course reeling from all that sort of doubt makes you come across as unstable and high maintenance to anyone you try to confide to about it, contributing to exactly the sort of stress and strain on a relationship that leads to this sort of Silent Abandonment to begin with, and it spreads. And if you notice a pattern of THAT happening in your life on the regular, you hit a point where you're in that same constant state of panic with ALL the people in your life, not just the ones actively screwing with your head with this passive aggressive gaslighting. And when you don't know who you can trust, or who you can talk to, and bigots have their boots on your neck, it starts looking damn tempting to put your head in that noose, because hey, it frees you from that personal hell of self-doubt, AND all those friends clearly conflicted about you have that weight lifted OR you can just be fucking honest with people. Tell them how you really feel, what you really believe, and how you're going to act. It might be hard. You might have to admit that you aren't really as kind a person as you like to think you are, but the alternative is ruinous pain. P.S. If you're one of the MANY people who has done this to me, and your ears are burning now- It's never too late. Just drop me a line to apologize, or don't explain and just explain why you don't want me in your life. Either way I won't hold it against you. I just need to know.

Also, a few random snippets for your consideration:

Jake says his current living situation is unsustainable, back in May 2019: https://archive.li/4aFur
At the time I think everyone wrote this off as bullshit, but now I wonder.

Everyone has always hated Jake: https://archive.li/bzUpb
His own birthday party ditching him is too good to be true, but I'm choosing to believe it anyway

Jake has a friend who spent a year in prison: https://archive.li/UtSPc
Any idea who this could be? They've got to have a thread here.

 

[Tragi-Chan]

Everyone has always hated Jake: https://archive.li/bzUpb
His own birthday party ditching him is too good to be true, but I'm choosing to believe it anyway

Everyone left the party and didn’t notice they’d done so? No, I agree, that is pretty unusual. If they just hated him, they wouldn’t have come in the first place. Although Jake has forgotten that he never had a brother, so maybe they were drawn together by collective amnesia.

Jake never considers how these tales of woe make him look. Maybe he has a bunch of asshole friends - I could believe that in the circles he frequents. But when several groups of unrelated people suddenly decide they can’t stand you, that’s really a reflection on you.

The only one of these stories I sort of believe is the funeral one, if only because some slob in sweatpants claiming to be the deceased’s cousin looks shady as hell.

 

[repentance]

The only one of these stories I sort of believe is the funeral one, if only because some slob in sweatpants claiming to be the deceased’s cousin looks shady as hell.

From memory he said it was a car for the children which wouldn't let him ride. Jake wasn't a child when Bobby died. Samantha and Aleksa were.

 

[Kosher Dill]

The only one of these stories I sort of believe is the funeral one

The wedding one is straight-up fact. Of course everyone tried to talk him out of coming, because they knew he'd show up in the goddamn coolie hat.

I also like the "hole in the alphabet" story. How do you fall "in between groups" when splitting up the alphabet?
"All right, everyone from Amy to Jack is Red Team and everyone from... *snicker* James to Zachary is Blue Team."

 

[Chan the Wizard]

Let's give it up for the new record suicide bait, clocking in at 12 days and counting! This is now officially Jake's longest public Twitter absence since his crippling addiction began in 2014.

However... I'm feeling very abused and gaslit by Jake's abandonment of his biggest fans. It's like he doesn't care about us anymore or something. I think he should read this piece on "Silent Abandonment" by one Violet Hargrave (https://archive.li/sA5oZ / original at https://twitter.com/SecretGamerGrrl/status/988240190228647939)



Also, a few random snippets for your consideration:

Jake says his current living situation is unsustainable, back in May 2019: https://archive.li/4aFur
At the time I think everyone wrote this off as bullshit, but now I wonder.

Everyone has always hated Jake: https://archive.li/bzUpb
His own birthday party ditching him is too good to be true, but I'm choosing to believe it anyway

Jake has a friend who spent a year in prison: https://archive.li/UtSPc
Any idea who this could be? They've got to have a thread here.

It’s Chelsea “it’s ma’am” Bradley.

 

[Jaimas]

OP Rewrite (03/15/2020)

Twitter: @Secretgamergrrl
Birthdate: June 9th, 1981
Former Hometown: Niantic, Connecticut
Current Hometown: New London, Connecticut

Jacob Lawrence Alley, also known as SecretGamerGrrl, Googleshng, Violet Hargrave, and more recently, Violet Cassandra Ocean, is a true scion amongst Lolcows - a unique specimen of such unparalleled failure that it makes any attempt to chronicle his idiocy seem almost superfluous.

From his shameless e-begging to his relentless suicide baiting, from his white knighting even bigger Lolcows to trying to his attempted extortion of his one-time allies, from his claims to be a smoking hot MILF that all the guys want to rape (while looking like the above and claiming Gender Dysphoria is not a real condition) to his claims that lesbians want to correctively rape him, from his love of guro to his demands that his one-time allies unblock him and let Jake slide into their DMs, Jake's malice and utter incompetence makes him an entertaining watch. He's one of those rare cows who's such an unmitigated asshole that he's genuinely a delight to watch fail. Jake has a parasitic personality that demands continual affirmative assent, financial support, and asspats, often in gigantic Tumblr/Twitter threads that the Farms has taken to calling "Googleshngs" in his honor.

But where to begin with this absolute mad lad that claims to be a mad lass? To answer that, let's journey back to Jake's early life and what we've identified about his life, prior to (and after) his discovery by us, so you can get your first taste of our dear Jakey.



Part the First: Home Life and Failure to Grow Up:

Spoiler: Part One

The bottom line though is that I don't hate being in the position I am. It's that cynical optimism I mentioned earlier. I admit my life sucks by a lot of people's standards, sure. Most people who delve into my personal life say they'd hate to be in my shoes, I even had one person tell me he'd probably kill himself if he were, but I generally don't let it get to me. Does it bother me that I have no means of supporting myself? That I have to live off the generosity of family members? That the only money I ever have comes in birthday cards or donations from people reading this page? That my cousin has to pay 90% of the cost of my upcoming trip to Japan to go sight-seeing with him? Heck yes! I don't dwell on it though. Instead I look at the bright side of my life as it is. I have enough free time to pursue all sorts of creative interests. My mother is so easy going and hospitable that I can live in her house without either of us bothering each other. Those people who take the time to listen to what I say generally find they like to hear my thoughts. Plus one of these days I could hit upon a means of making a ton of money from home, or the internet economy could rally itself making RPGamer profitable, and I'd be sitting pretty. It's just a question of riding out the indefinite lull.

Before we begin, we need to establish two interesting facts about Jake. The first is that he's an unreliable narrator on his own life, and lies constantly. The second is that while does lie constantly, Jake does not lie like other lolcows might. There is often a nugget of truth hidden away in every single lie he tells, and because of that, many facts that we now have about Jake exist because he inadvertently gave too much information at some point or another.



Jake grew up in Niantic, Connecticut, with one parent who was a stern disciplinarian (his father) and one who was not (his mother). Growing up, there is considerable evidence that Jake went out of his way to not learn anything about hard work or responsibility, and despite numerous attempts to steer Jake onto a better path by both parents, Jake refused. As such, Jake's only income has been a mixture of Patreon and state benefits. He absolutely sees no issue with leeching off his mom, as evidenced by the quote from the above, where he insisted his writing editorials on RPGamer for free counted as actual work. He's only held one job - a stocking/cleanup position at a grocery store, which he was fired from for leaving in the middle of a shift.

He has not held another since.



When his parents divorced, Jake was left with his mother, which was not to his benefit. Don't think that she was some kind of active participant in Jake being Jake, however: you can't really blame her, and you'll see why in about a paragraph. I sincerely doubt even the most capable parent could have really done much with Jake without throwing him into the deep end and hoping for the best.


Jake is a failed tabletop game developer. He attempted to market a game called The Massive Versus the Masses, but this didn't go well - Jake was late to market, and worse, he had no idea how to actually market the damned thing. Needless to say it failed (despite being a comparatively interesting idea), and the bulk of the copies of the game he had made currently are lining his attic, to the point where he was giving copies of his game out as birthday and wedding presents (the above image with him wearing the coolie hat came from his brother's wedding). Needless to say, his company, World Domination, LLC was an absolute failure. The only other games he made likewise did not do well and Jake blames them for stealing his ideas, despite the fact that he came to the table with them long after the games Jake accused of ripping him off came out.

Jake's steadfast refusal to learn personal responsibility or a work ethic did not endear him to his family members, and over time, his family members got wise to his shit and refused to give him money out of fear of encouraging him. They also do not allow their children around him out of fear that he'll convince them to become "trans" in the same way he is. One might think that he would be thankful to his mother for letting him live at her largesse, but appropriately enough, Jake has been an utter ingrate. He routinely whines about how transphobic she is, how she refuses to see him as the stunning and brave woman he clearly is, and how mean she is for demanding he get an actual job. In one of his old blog posts, Jake expressed confusion when a co-worker comitted suicide, not understanding why someone would kill themselves over imposing upon their own family. Jake's awful treatment of his own family is a major reason Kiwis love to watch him fail.

Part the Second: Discovery By the Farms

Spoiler: Part Two

Jake first came to prominence during the Autism Holy War, or as it was better known at the time, Gamergate. Jake was one of the most aggressive and vociferous attack dogs that Zoe Quinn had, frequently going out of his way to claim that all GG supporters, even the ones who were obviously minorities and/or women, were in fact rapists, white supremacists, and aspiring serial killers. He wrote a number of gigantic articles on how Gamergate was nothing but harassment of women, while at the same time, provably harassing women in the Crash Override Network log leaks. He was big on arguing that you'd better come out against that evil Gamergate, or else, especially around the time that GG was contacting advertisers. He also helped Dan Olson's infamous false-flag campaign to help try to demonetize 8chan, and actively did damage control every time one of Anti-GG's speds got caught getting into trouble again.

He appears numerous times in the Crash Override Network log leaks, wherein he argues that anyone who dares besmirch the good name of Saint Zoe of Quinn deserves to be burned to the ground. When Jake repeatedly white-knighted Sarah Nyberg, however, that's when numerous Kiwis started to realize we may be sitting on a gold mine of a lolcow, and good god, were we.

Initially, Jake had actually covered his trail pretty well, and gone out of his way to ensure that no one would find out his powerword. Unfortunately for Jake, his own greed led him to create a Patreon, whose email address was JakeAlley@gmail.com. From here, Jake's entire post history was found in a matter of days, including his posts on Talking Time, his failed board game launches, and most entertainingly, images of Jake at conventions, where he claims to be a woman and demands no one take photographs of the delicate flower that was Jake's pen-name: Violet Hargrave.


Jake tweets hundreds of times per day, so to say he's a productive Lolcow is an understatement.

Following Jake as Violet led to some of the most hilariously surreal content this side of the Gangstalking community, and his more outlandish claims are about on par with ADF claiming to have been almost killed in a Gamergate drive-by. Jake constantly portrays himself as being the target of both bigoted hate groups and over-enthusiastic potential romantic partners at the same time, in what is some of the most surreal nonsense ever recorded. Jake routinely whines about being followed by "tranny chasers," despite Jake's appearance, and also shows worries that pedophiles are interested in him. Jake also claims that he has fears that Lesbians will attempt to correctively rape him, and that those interested in transwomen who see him will be so blinded by lust that they will be helpless but to fap.

Jake claims he's had dogs sicked on him and that he was thrown down ravines as a child due to his professed gender, while at the same time denying that the trans panic defense was a thing. Jake, as Violet, claims to constantly be in danger of being raped and murdered, a claim he's made so many times that it's practically a meme in and of itself. Constantly. He also constantly threatens suicide for attention, and has a cat that has come to be known as Suicide Prevention Cat, the true hero of the Kiwi Farms.

The crazier shit Jake believes just builds from here, such as his belief that there's no differences between men and women biologically. More recently, adopting tactics from Rebecca Gerber, he has begun claiming he's of Native American and Romani descent.

Part the Third: Expulsion from Crash Override Network

Spoiler: Part Three

One of Jake's biggest hallmarks is his ejection from Crash Override Network, despite being one of Zoe Quinn's most ardent supporters. Jake was always a true believer, but CON was a complicated beast, and Jake owed his loyalty more to his alleged gender identity activism than to anything CON itself was doing, and his thirst for Zoe Quinn was rather well documented. Unfortunately, a balding obese gnome that pretends he's a beautiful woman isn't getting anywhere near that puss, and considering that Zoe let Nathan Grayson tap that ass, that speaks volumes.

All of this came to a head when Candace Owens created a website known as Social Autopsy - a site that never went past its formative stage. It was intended to establish a database allowing harassed people to dox their harassers. Because of the massive problems this site could create if it were to go online as intended, it caught substantial blastback, including from CON and Free Speech advocates alike.

CON wound up contacting Jesse Singal to try to pump the developer of Social Autopsy for information about the project - a decision that Jake took serious issue with. You see, Jesse had the wherewithal to call out the trans activist crowd for pushing their identity shit on young children, and as such, Randi Harper was, in Jake's eyes, being rather.... Transphobic. Fittingly, Jake went out of his way to dodge the report from Singal and instead immediately claimed Candace Owens was a GG supporter, getting rebuked by Randi in the process.

Candace Owens shut down Social Autopsy soonafter, but when she did, someone snatched up the account and immediately used it to attack Randi Harper for supporting Jesse Singal and ergo profiting from his evil transphobia. The account also attempted to dox both Randi and her family members. While no one was aware of it yet, the person who had stolen the account was none other than Nora Reed, and how she got the information that Randi had contacted Jesse Singal was from none other than Jake.

Suspecting that the ongoing behavior of the account might have been a false-flag attempt, /r/KotakuInAction looked into it, and Randi revealed she had no involvement in it, arguing, correctly, that the real culprit wouldn't be that hard to find - she was right, and Nora got exposed soonafter. In his infinite wisdom, Jake then tried to run interference on Nora's behalf - after Nora had spent several days actively doxing, threatening, and posting the personal information of Randi's family members. Suffice to say, Randi went nuclear, and the consequences would never be the same:

Dot replies. How fun. Actually, I pointed out precisely what the account said. no more, no less. fuck off w/your dogpiles.

And this was because my family was *already* getting harassed because the account was thought to be me. My disabled father.

I asked the account to stop. It didn't. You can read the medium if you want more details. But I won't take your abuse. Thx.

I will take abuse from no demographic. I am not your punching bag or anyone else's. I was expected to shoulder it.

I did everything I could to make it stop. and then I came forward and POINTED AT WHAT THE TWEETS WERE SAYING.

I'm tired of her shit, I'm tired of your shit, and I'm not going to take it anymore. I'm tired of being beat up on by you.

My. Family. Will. Not. Suffer. For. Your. Actions. That is all. And now you're blocked, have a nice life.

She banned him from CON thereafter, along with his associates.

Many of Jake's most entertaining and surreal behavior came in response to this, in particular the comparisons people make between Jake and the Incel community, because what he did in the aftermath of this is textbook entitlement behavior. He immediately led off by writing his expulsion off as merely "a misunderstanding," and demanding that Zoe Quinn (who he clearly wanted to bang) apologize to him. When this didn't work, he first tried pleading, then guilt-tripping, then suicide baiting, and when all these finally failed, Jake put up his own "Zoe Post" in which he claimed that CON had used him and everyone else (while whitewashing his own actions). Appropriately enough, while an expose on Zoe could have done actual damage given what Jake was privy to, he chose to half-ass and blunt it in an effort to thwart Gamergate, and in so doing, made it so that it was so full of generalizations that no one could take it seriously.

Fittingly despite putting up this scathing indictment of Zoe Quinn, Jake has continued to try to get back in her good graces since. When Quinn wouldn't respond to his thirstposting, he shit out additional tweets bemoaning his loneliness. He clearly directs much of his anger at Randi Harper for kicking him out, going so far as to claim he was suicidal because of her.

Part the Fourth: Violet Hargrave, Investigative Journalist

Spoiler: Part Four

Before we get into my favorite part of Jake, we have to get into the most boring part. Under his Twitter handle of SecretGamerGrrl, Jake in fact claims to be one Violet Hargrave, a pen-name he uses to put out articles for various sites.

My favorite example of Jake's literary word-vomit is this work he did for Queer Privacy, an essay compilation done by trans activists - both a few legitimate ones, and the likes of ya boi Jake Alley here. At once the work is both ridiculous and surreal, especially considering that, at the time he wrote this, he was easily the loudest voice in Crash Override Network for ending anonymity online, and likewise the largest advocate of deplatforming basically anyone who offended his personal morality.

The piece described Violet Hargrave as "spending the last three years combating internet-based bigotry and abuse, working with numerous non-profits, activists, sociologists, and non-profit organizations, in addition to her own extensive investigations into the organization and recruitment efforts of numerous hate groups. She always writes under a pseudonym."

In truth, it's a laughable clusterfuck of complete bullshit that perfectly encapsulates Jake as a whole. Arguing unironically that a few assholes being mean on Twitter is the same as being SWATed, complaining about shit Jake and his associates provably did to other people, arguing that mere disagreement with one of his friends should be grounds for immediate banning, and perhaps most entertainingly, claiming that the Sarah Nyberg logs were fake, despite them being real by Nyberg's own admission. and his endless proclamation that he's totally not Jake Alley you guys.









.....Jake wonders why he can't get paid for this.

Part Two (of three) shortly.

 

[Jaimas]

OP Rewrite, Part Deux

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Part the Fifth: SecretGamerGrrl, Serial Harasser

Spoiler: Part Five

If there is anything Jake is known for, beyond his constant activism on behalf of his fellow cows and declaration that he's a vulnerable innocent flower of a transwoman in imminent danger of rape, it's his willingness to conduct protracted campaigns of online harassment, weeks, months, and frequently years after the person he is doing it on behalf of has forgotten (or has blocked him over) the incident in question, and in at least one case, long after the target of his ire has ceased to exist. It's this behavior that led to him being kicked out of Crash Override Network, and in turn led his numerous connections to gradually cut him off, one after another.

The cause of these incidents is always the same: Jake takes issue with someone for either going against him ideologically, daring to besmirch milady, or defying his raison d'etre. Never has one of the individuals Jake goes after ever done anything of note to Jake himself; he solely does this on the behalf of his buddies.

Jake's MO is always the same in these cases. After determining the subject is an acceptible target (and often pre-emptively blocking them), Jake attacks from behind a wall, declaring that the subject of his ire is guilty of whatever , Jake slanders them openly in an effort to build up clout with his fellow slacktivists. He goes out of his way to portray them as threats to the marginalized and call for their deplatforming, but Jake differs from other slacktivists in that he has no volume control or sense of proportion. He continues to escalate over time, especially as his claims get less and less visibility in an effort to keep the pressure on.

This eventually goes into the realm of utter comedy, as what starts with Jake making simple claims gradually blossoms into him absolutely losing his shit and accusing them of crap that they couldn't possibly be guilty of and more than likely would constitute grounds for a libel suit in some locales. Eventually there comes a point where Jake gets so insane that it's impossible for him to even begin to justify his claims, and at this point, he very bravely runs away, blocking everyone who calls him out on his shit and denying any culpability for his own actions.

Below I will cover a few of his more notable campaigns, as well as the start dates therof:



Frederick "Hotwheels" Brennan and 8chan
Campaign Started: September 2014

Since Jake was an ally of Zoe Quinn and company, he was also a natural enemy of both Hotwheels and 8chan, a site which specifically began due to 4chan's corruption during the scandals that led up to GG. While many could credibly argue that Hotwheels himself is a lolcow at this point, most people would also argue that Hotwheels' actual bad behavior circumvents the need to vilify him further with falsehoods, but that's exactly what Jake does.

Despite GG ending in 2015, Brennan leaving 8chan in 2016, and 8chan for most intents and purposes ending in 2018, and indeed, Everyone Jake antagonizes on behalf of wanting Jake to do a flip, Jake maintains his solitary crusade, shrieking that Cloudflare needs to shut the site down and that 8chan must be stopped immediately. Jake continues to call Brennan a Neo-Nazi and pedophile, in accordance with the article he helped Dan Olson put up back in 2014 that was intended to distract from the fact that Sarah Nyberg, a CON staffer, had been outed as a pedo.



Mike Cernovich
Campaign Started: September 2014

Another lolcow, Cernovich was was staunchly pro-GamerGate at the outset of the controversy. He wore out his welcome quite quickly with the hashtag consumer movement's supporters, as his massive ego and propensity for conducting publicity stunts quickly painted him out to be in it for the spectacle as opposed to actually caring about the hashtag itself, with many of the hashtag's supporters calling him out for his behavior.

He quickly became a known quantity amongst chronicleers for his absurd antics. As Cernovich was something of an agent provcateur, he drew targeted fire almost immediately for being willing to call CON out for its shit. Even funnier, attempts by fellow Lolcow Margaret Pless to shut Cernovich up only resulted in him getting mainstream media attention when Pless SWATed him at his home.

Jake's reason for hating Cernovich is far simpler, though: Cernovich was Eron Gjoni's lawyer and had the wherewithal to fight Saint Zoe of Quinn in the public arena. Even by Jake's standards, his offensives against Cernovich are fucking ridiculous, claiming that he's a rapist, a pedophile, a neo-nazi, and he defended 8chan, which makes him double chocolate space Hitler.



Brad Wardell
Campaign Started: September 2014

One of the more surreal items on this list, Wardell was part of the scandal that would ultimately lead to Gamergate, as he was falsely accused of sexual harassment, got the charges dismissed with prejudice, and the gaming press spent months pre-emptively declaring him guilty prior to this before refusing to redact what they now knew was outright bullshit.

Needless to say, when GG happened, Wardell was a natural ally of the hashtag, and naturally, this meant Jake decided he needed to be destroyed, claiming that supporting Stardock (Wardell's company) in any fashion means you hate women. He has gone on to quote Quinn in the CON Log Leaks verbatim, declaring that Stardock didn't own the Star Control IP, even though they clearly did, deriding Wardell as a "patent troll," and claimed that Brad Wardell inflicted "Trauma" upon him, declaring Wardell "the most evil human being on the planet."



Ian Miles Cheong
Campaign Started: May 2015

Ian Miles Chungus is an easy person to hate, given his history, but Jake in particular has a hate boner for the guy that goes above and beyond. Jake and he were initially on good terms, but when Anti-GG's egregious treatment of TotalBiscuit caused IMC to reflect on what he'd become, he decided to turn his back on Crash Override Network. In Jake's eyes there's no greater sin than Apostasy, and Jake threw everything at badmouthing Ian Miles Chungus at every opportunity.

Jake, of course, master of projection that he is, claimed IMC was "obsessed" with him, and to this day, refuses to let things go. Ironically, Jake's own Zoe Post would have done far more damage had he acknowledged the points made by Chungus and other critics of Quinn's clique. Because Jake refused to outright condemn his own side's ill behavior (because Jake doesn't think he did anything wrong), his magnum opus did basically no damage to Quinn or Harper; he couldn't commit to it, lest he admit GGers had a point.



Randi Harper
Campaign Started: May 2016

Randi first ran afoul of Jake when she cast him out of the cool kids' club for being the complete piece of shit he is. As a result, she is, beyond a shadow of a doubt, the person Jake directs the most hatred towards. Since Jake has no problems referring to the likes of /r/KotakuInAction as a "neo-nazi forum," it should come as no surprise that the sheer level of outright rage on display from the bearded woman is a level above and beyond the usual lunacy he exhibits. Jake complains about her and how she literally murdered vulnerable transpeople roughly twice a month.

The declaration that Randi Harper is literal Nazi is one of his most common claims on Twitter, and Jake doesn't seem to quite realize that he comes across as completely unhinged by going after her like this. Worse, he's punching well above his weight with Harper; she has genuine connections in multiple industries, so when Jake makes an outrageous claim he declares has all available information in his Tumblr, only for the article he linked to provide no proof other than a declaration that Nora Reed did nothing wrong, it quickly gets people to realize that Jake is a complete fucking mental-case and just leads more and more people to cut him off.

More recently, he's begun claiming that she is responsible for his thread on the Farms, and has claimed that seeing Randi Harper's name gives him PTSD. Zoe Quinn playing Overwatch with Randi Harper was sufficient enough to act as the impetus for his Zoepost, as evidenced by the image above.


Marcus "Notch" Persson
Campaign Started: May 2016

Notch, when dealing with Lolcows, is always a treat, because he gives zero fucks and respects no authority.

Interestingly, Jake initially didn't have any problems whatsoever with Notch, even coming to his defense when the initial screeching that Notch didn't deserve his success due to being a self-made rich white man began. He even tried to look the other way when Notch voiced support for GG, which Jake normally considers a hell-worthy trespass. Unfortunately, all of that changed overnight when Notch dared to call milady a cunt.

Within six months, Jake was referring to Notch as a transphobe, calling Minecraft a Neo-Nazi recruitment tool, and accusing Notch of running a Child Porn site.



Maria "Skepticat" Maclachlan
Campaign Started: September 2017

The most surreal of all of Jake's ongoing campaigns of harassment, Maria Maclachlan, alias Skepticat, is an elderly feminist in the UK critical of transgender ideology, and how increasingly it's been used by men to encroach on women's spaces. As she's old enough to have seen a lot, she's written extensively about her experiences, and how she gradually went from being genuinely sympathetic to their cause to finding Trans activists utterly insufferable. In 2017, she was violently assaulted by a trans activist for filming an ongoing protest. Video evidence shows that activist in question, very obviously male, towers over the sextagenarian Maclachlan, and yet fails to intimidate her.

Despite the fact that over a dozen individual people have uploaded footage that unquestionably shows Tanis Wolf - the activist in question - was the aggressor, and even though the police report indeed backs that position up, Jake insists that Maclachlan was the one who physically assaulted Wolf. Jake's coverage of Maclachlan would, like most of Jake's ongoing one-man crusades, involve him going increasingly insane over time, insisting that the elderly feminist was a danger to transgendered people everywhere, that she was somehow indicative of Trump voters (despite being a UK citizen), and eventually going so far as to call her an attempted murderer.

Part the Sixth: SecretGamerGrrl, Racist Abuser

Spoiler: Part Six

All right. In the above, you have multiple cases of Jake getting complete tunnel vision when he locks onto what he sees as an acceptable target, and you've had the fun of watching Jake get bodied by punching well above his weight and destroying any online clout he had in the process. When Randi banned him, Jake subsequently drove away his one-time supporters through his incessant bitching. Jake wound up a rootless vagabond, falling in briefly with the Norasphere until inevitably, even Nora got sick of him and stopped responding to his endless pity-baiting.

Eventually, Jake wound up falling in with one of the only people even remotely associated with Crash Override Network who could tolerate his presence - Rebecca Hernandez-Gerber. Jake was first drawn to her because she was anti-Gamergate, had loose ties to Crash Override, and because she was relatively high-profile. Presumably, Jake saw this as the only way he would ever get back into the cool kids' club. Unfortunately, Gerber's unique brand of crazy and Jake's tendency to never let go once he locked on would prove disastrous.

On October 3rd, 2018, Rebecca Gerber was extensively quoted by Kotaku in a hit-piece against Riot Games. Gerber would go on to claim that the official Game Developers' Conference had turned down "victims" of Riot Games who supposedly had submitted a panel about Riot, and further claimed that current Riot employees were doing diversity panels at GDC. Unfortunately, Rebecca was lying, and would quickly get caught as such, promptly deleting much of her claims and then going on to blame her nameless "source" for giving her bad information. She further went on to accuse this non-existent source of "backstabbing her" and "dragging her name through the mud." Moreover, in response to the lies being pushed by Rebecca, two former Riot "victims" made statements that they did, indeed, submit a panel that was declined for this year's GDC, but both women also made clear that their submitted panel had nothing to do with Riot, meaning Rebecca twisted them to suit her ends. After this, she claimed to have received a "credible threat," and was going to Facebook for a while. Suffice to say, Rebecca quickly drew widespread criticism for being such a liar.

On October 6th, 2018, Jake began aggressively stumping on Rebecca's behalf, claiming that he (and Rebecca) had been on the receiving end of "some increasingly serious threats from sources that seem positioned to actually make good on them," which is especially unusual because Jake continues to contend that his identity is not known to the general public. In the same screed on Twitter, Jake also complains repeatedly about "whisper campaigns" directed at him and Gerber. Rebecca's alleged temporary leaving of Twitter for Facebook seems to have been intended to give Jake's Patreon support a signal boost.

However, unfortunately for Jake, his attempts to protect Rebecca would soon come to naught, as waging a "whisper campaign" is exactly what he had subjected a certain Riot Games employee to for years - the head of Riot's Diversity and Inclusion department, Soha-El-Sabaawi. And in defending Rebecca the way he did, that all was about to come spilling out.

You see, as luck should have it, some time ago, back during CON's heyday, Zoe Quinn had it out with El-Sabaawi over "altgames being punk," and subsequently claimed that people like the staff of Riot Games were gatekeeping the industry. El-Sabaawi responded (along with many of her associates) by bringing up that Zoe Quinn and her enablers (especially the likes of Israel Galvez) were just as guilty of harassment and attacks against women and people of color as the people they claim to oppose, and how their GG opposition had made them, essentially, impossible to criticize without facing backlash from their supporters - in essence, worse than the movement they claim to oppose.

Since any criticism of Saint Zoe of Quinn is a hell-worthy trespass in Jake's eyes, he immediately lept to the attack at the time.

A Storify he wrote back around the time the conflict began surfaced, in which he essentially bills this Riot employee, apropos of nothing, as pure evil, because Soha dared to point out the obvious about Crash Override Network. This, in turn, led to another Storify he wrote, in which he again attacked Soha. He would later elaborate on Twitter that he started going after her for daring to insult Israel Galvez and Dina Abou Karam. Soonafter, a final Storify article Jake wrote was found, attacking Soha directly and by name, at the same time he was denying he had any knowledge of who she was.



Needless to say, this coming out during Jake's attempt to stump on her behalf did not go well. Worse, Rebecca was still in self-imposed lockdown, so no one was coming to his rescue. At first, Jake denied everything, despite there being overwhelming evidence of his personal campaign of terror against El-Sabaawi. The worst was yet to come, however, as Jake was discovered to have been hurling what could only be described as racist abuse towards El-Sabaawi - referring to her as the "Alt-Games Rakshasa," and declaring that she was someone more dangerous than Gamergate, simply because she had the temerity to call his associates out on their shit. There are so many cases of Jake calling her this term that it borders on parodic. Naturally, Jake claimed to have no knowledge of ever doing so, despite the archive links.

At this point his few remaining allies in the trans activist community, such as Katherine Cross abandoned him, and Jake could only whine about how he did nothing wrong.

I'll be working on the next section when time allows. Work just dropped like five hours of work minimum in my lap at the last second so it might be a bit. If nothing else, I got you started on this adventure into lolcowdom and set a decent foundation to build on.

I will do my best to wrap it up when time allows.

 

[Kosher Dill]

Hometown: Niantic, Connecticut

Not anymore. Better edit that out before it becomes the new "fat guy in Texas". (And for that matter, can we get the original fat guy in Texas scrubbed?)

 

[Jaimas]

Not anymore. Better edit that out before it becomes the new "fat guy in Texas". (And for that matter, can we get the original fat guy in Texas scrubbed?)

We're workin' on it.

 

[AnOminous]

Everyone has always hated Jake: https://archive.li/bzUpb
His own birthday party ditching him is too good to be true, but I'm choosing to believe it anyway

I love his series of increasingly wild tales about the extreme efforts people will go to to avoid having to interact with him. And he doesn't catch on that if even half this bullshit is true, it's something he's doing?

 

[Kosher Dill]

I'd love to know what his D&D party splits were about.
"Onward to the catacombs, we still have time to stop the necromancer from raising his undead army!"
"Uhmmm, actually? Lady Bustina wants to go questing for the girdle of masculinity/femininity now."

 

[AnOminous]

I'd love to know what his D&D party splits were about.
"Onward to the catacombs, we still have time to stop the necromancer from raising his undead army!"
"Uhmmm, actually? Lady Bustina wants to go questing for the girdle of masculinity/femininity now."

Okay, you can do that over here. Yeah, through that door, down those stairs. Yes, it's supposed to be dark down there.

 

[Next Task]

Very good write up. Couple of notes: I think the coolie hat wedding was his cousin's, but he's upgraded the cousins he grew up with to being his brothers because one died, and it's more effective to try for sympathy when a sibling dies rather than a cousin.

Also, I don't think he's talked about his Very Real Romani and/or Native American heritage for at least a few years now, and I don't think he got the idea from Basic Becky.

These are just my recollections, but those are the only factual mistakes I caught. I sympathise in advance for future googleshngs you have to wade through to show, for example, just how fucked Jake's understanding of biology is.

 

[Kosher Dill]

Doing a bit of spot-checking and these links don't seem to go to the right places:

Soha dared to point out the obvious about Crash Override Network.

how mean she is for demanding he get an actual job

As for content:

Jake grew up in Niantic, Connecticut, with one parent who was a stern disciplinarian (his father) and one who was not (his mother).

I don't think we even know that Papa Alley was a disciplinarian. All we know about him is Jake's feverish, ogrish caricature of a man who tried to "man up" his faggy son.

Jake routinely whines about being followed by "tranny chasers," despite Jake's appearance

I assume this was referring to online where no one would know his appearance. But maybe add in about how Glinner is supposedly his chaser.

CON wound up contacting Jesse Singal to try to pump the developer of Social Autopsy for information about the project - a decision that Jake took serious issue with. You see, Jesse had the wherewithal to call out the trans activist crowd for pushing their identity shit on young children, and as such, Randi Harper was, in Jake's eyes, being rather.... Transphobic.

Randi's introduced midway through a sentence here without explaining who she is or how she's connected to CON.

Part the Fourth: Violet Hargrave, Investigative Journalist

This might even work better just as a complete bibliography with links and brief descriptions. Should be fairly short - he's written what, three published articles?

Part the Fifth: SecretGamerGrrl, Serial Harasser

I'm not sure we need to cover all his "campaigns" in detail - while he never seems to forget any of his Gamergate rogue's gallery they're not really a big part of his current identity either. Even Randi is really only important because she committed the original sin of adding him to a blocklist. Glinner might be worth a mention since Jake's been actively warring against him in the recent past.
A good link to add might be Jake's own description of the shape of the vast alt-right conspiracy:
https://archive.li/w9rJx

In general I think the main question the OP should be answering is less "Who is this guy and what has he done?", and more "Why do people like talking about this guy so much?" For most people these days I think the appeal isn't anything specific about the dramas Jake inserts himself into. It's watching his thermonuclear neediness and entitlement driving away well-intentioned acquaintances, the sheer lather he works himself into as he sees Nazis lurking around every corner, the constant tension between his haystack of lies and the needle of truth he compulsively hides in it, and his farcical interactions with the dread beast known as "IRL".

Also, I think no introduction of Jake would be complete without mentioning the Geek Social Fallacies, which he incarnates.

 

[Water-T]

I assume this was referring to online where no one would know his appearance. But maybe add in about how Glinner is supposedly his chaser.

Definitely make sure to have the part where Jake first claimed to "have receipts" of Glinner's animal for lust for Jake, with screenshots that showed nothing other than Glinner making boring small talk with Jake, which lead to Jake suddenly backpedalling and pretending to be puzzled as to where all these rumours of Glimmer wanting his curvy body came from.

 

[lecher]

Excellent writeup.

his love of guro

I don't think we have proof that Jake loves guro. He said that he "is someone who often seeks out and enjoys extreme-gore media".
Now this is a minor point overall but these bits of Jakefuscation are precisely what he uses to deflect accountability (before he resorts to outright lying, that is).

I'm not sure we need to cover all his "campaigns" in detail - while he never seems to forget any of his Gamergate rogue's gallery they're not really a big part of his current identity either. Even Randi is really only important because she committed the original sin of adding him to a blocklist. Glinner might be worth a mention since Jake's been actively warring against him in the recent past.

I think details on Jake's beefs are invaluable since A) they explain why people shun Jake, B) they highlight Jake's hypocrisy, C) they aren't documented anywhere else.

 

[Kosher Dill]

I don't think we have proof that Jake loves guro. He said that he "is someone who often seeks out and enjoys extreme-gore media".

He's on the record as being a fan of Junji Ito, but this could also just be referring to his love of cheesy '80s (American) horror movies.

I think details on Jake's beefs are invaluable since A) they explain why people shun Jake, B) they highlight Jake's hypocrisy, C) they aren't documented anywhere else.

Sure, but I guess this gets back to the question of "What should the OP be for?" For a neophyte it's probably enough to explain that he invariably turns his "nazi-hunting" tactics on the wrong person, gets unfriended, and is forced to drop down to the next lower rung of bottom-feeders to repopulate his social circle.

 

[Jaimas]

Doing a bit of spot-checking and these links don't seem to go to the right places:

I'll do further spot-checking later. I had to recoup a lot of them from the now-defunct wiki.

I don't think we even know that Papa Alley was a disciplinarian. All we know about him is Jake's feverish, ogrish caricature of a man who tried to "man up" his faggy son.

I didn't have time to go digging through 1200+ pages of thread looking for the links, and I did bring up that Jake is an unreliable narrator of his own life, but he's complained about how strict his dad was on multiple occasions, and his mom, self-evidently, was much more permissive. This is on top of alleged shit like the strip club story.

I assume this was referring to online where no one would know his appearance. But maybe add in about how Glinner is supposedly his chaser.

Jake wasn't always referring to Glinner. I'll add him but you can ask anyone who's followed Jakey long enough, he's claimed to be worried about Chasers since day one.

Also if you can find the corrective rape quote for me that would be awesome.

Randi's introduced midway through a sentence here without explaining who she is or how she's connected to CON.

Fair point and I'll edit that when time allows.

This might even work better just as a complete bibliography with links and brief descriptions. Should be fairly short - he's written what, three published articles?

Could be, I still have another one of them squirreled away. I just chose this one because it was the easiest to find and funniest and if you've read one Jake intellectual word-vomit you've read 'em all.

I'm not sure we need to cover all his "campaigns" in detail - while he never seems to forget any of his Gamergate rogue's gallery they're not really a big part of his current identity either. Even Randi is really only important because she committed the original sin of adding him to a blocklist. Glinner might be worth a mention since Jake's been actively warring against him in the recent past.
A good link to add might be Jake's own description of the shape of the vast alt-right conspiracy:
https://archive.li/w9rJx

I included that for one reason and one reason only: To establish patterns of behavior and to point out that once you piss him off, he does not back off and just keeps throwing the libel, in increasingly ridiculous patterns, years after it no longer has any relevance. It's literally his hallmark of lolcowdom and easily his most recognizable feature. He complains about every single person on that list, and more, with clockwork regularity, and knowing this is key to understanding that Jakey never lets anything go.

In general I think the main question the OP should be answering is less "Who is this guy and what has he done?", and more "Why do people like talking about this guy so much?" For most people these days I think the appeal isn't anything specific about the dramas Jake inserts himself into. It's watching his thermonuclear neediness and entitlement driving away well-intentioned acquaintances, the sheer lather he works himself into as he sees Nazis lurking around every corner, the constant tension between his haystack of lies and the needle of truth he compulsively hides in it, and his farcical interactions with the dread beast known as "IRL".

Also, I think no introduction of Jake would be complete without mentioning the Geek Social Fallacies, which he incarnates.

Agreed on both counts. Sadly, I'm really strapped for time right now.

I don't think we have proof that Jake loves guro. He said that he "is someone who often seeks out and enjoys extreme-gore media".
Now this is a minor point overall but these bits of Jakefuscation are precisely what he uses to deflect accountability (before he resorts to outright lying, that is).

I don't have it in front of me right now, and can't search for it because he deleted it (and I've archived SGG thousands of times so getting his individual tweets is a nightmare), but he's made twitter posts in which he indicated he was more than a little familiar with the Ryona tag ona certain hentai site.

I did find an echo of it, though. You may say that this is circumstantial evidence, but considering that Jake shows more than a little projection, I've chosen to draw my own conclusions.

 

[Kosher Dill]

but he's complained about how strict his dad was on multiple occasions

I can't find anything at all on the subject, just about every mention of his father is either about the alleged physical abuse, his obsession with manliness, or generalized sneering hate.

But I did find this snippet which mentions his father beating Jake nearly to death indirectly Too bad Jake didn't inherit that telekinesis.
https://archive.li/qwcOX
He also claims he liked to run around pretending to be Ms. Pacman and Jem

Also if you can find the corrective rape quote for me that would be awesome.

Your wish is my command:
https://archive.li/R210B

 

[Jaimas]

I honestly think the biggest issue with an OP Rewrite, at least the way I've been trying to do it (aside from the fact that I'm a wordy motherfucker, at least) is that Jake belongs to a rare category of cow that's had not only a long and glorious cow history of providing amusement to us, but he's pretty much been a delight to cover from beginning to end. With over 5 years worth of coverage, I kind of went full wiki mode, and I don't think that's the right way to handle it.

I'll do a more compact and straightforward re-write with these in mind.

Thanks again for all your help, and I hope to get it all up soon.