Leigh Alexander
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881 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 6 Jul
Leigh Alexander’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Most people associate the beginning of Gamergate with an online post made by a bitter ex-boyfriend.
He claimed his video game maker ex, named Zoe Quinn, cheated on him with a journalist, who then gave Zoe's game a positive review.
Never mind that the accusation was completely untrue.
This post started off an eruption about how the whole gaming industry was supposedly rigged to promote the work of women and minorities and deprioritize the needs of white men.
A coordinated online mob formed, full of what I'd describe as alpha nerds.
They didn't actually care about games journalism.
They were looking for an excuse to express their misogyny.
I was a freelance journalist at this point, covering the video games industry.
I wrote an article in defense of Zoe, really in defense of all women and marginalized people carving out their rightful space in the gaming world.
And in response, the mob turned on me too.
Thousands of messages started pouring into my employer or to anywhere that had invited me to speak, telling them to fire me, demanding advertisers pull their funding.
Even more threatening and abusive messages made their way to my social media and my email accounts.
One comment on an Instagram post I made, it was just like a picture of me in my neighborhood, said, she doesn't even live that far from me.
I could find out where she lives and put a screwdriver in her eye.
All of this was designed to discredit me in public and scare me in private.
In the end, I basically felt finished with game industry journalism.
It wasn't worth it to me anymore.
But despite the toxicity, Natasha doesn't want to walk away.
She refuses to give up her ambitions as a streamer, even with a target on her back.
Vicious is escalating his campaign of harassment against Natasha and her friends.
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