Zoe Quinn

The bulk of my work is comedy and I wanted to use the gaming world as a vehicle to deliver comedy.

I still strongly feel that a lot of people who participated in Gamergate, who participated in this sort of thing, are doing so because they go into it with - they'll believe the version of events that fits their world view.

If Gamergate had happened to somebody else, years earlier, I probably would've been on the wrong side.

I still love gaming and the gaming community.

The No. 1 thing I've seen actually help with online abuse is when the person has a good community or a strong support network that's savvy and that can help them.

I'm an independent game developer - there's not exactly an offline version of that. This is where my community is; everybody I'm close to I know because of the Internet.

I have to wonder if some part of the difficulty in dealing with the repercussions of your actions on the Internet is just that we were not ever really built for being able to conceive of a global community of anything.

I know that if enough people shout a falsehood, people start to think it's true and a lot of people don't do independent verification of everything they hear.

It's so weird, like, it's not like Gamergate is the only bad thing to happen to me. I've been homeless before, I've had to come through other stuff. A profoundly abusive childhood, but at least that stuff feels like I got to move on from it, that stuff is in the past.

My family are so proud of me for standing up for marginalised people in nerd communities.

A friend of the family gave me a Game Boy when I was very little, and it was amazing.

I've been trying to reassert myself as a human and not just a current events story. I should not be the face of online harassment.