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Pseudo-Intellectual with Lauren Chen

Ep 80 | Zoe Quinn's #MeToo Story Crumbling? Professional Victim At It AGAIN!

Pseudo-Intellectual with Lauren Chen

Lauren Chen

News Commentary, Society & Culture, News

4.31.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2019

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Zoe Quinn, the infamous game developer, is best known from the GamerGate controversy. But she’s back in the news after posting a #MeToo statement online alleging abuse at the hands of her ex-boyfriend, Alec Holowka. The accusations resulted in Holowka’s firing, and days later news broke of his death from suicide, but now findings from the Post Millennial are calling into question the accuracy of her post. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Hey guys, welcome back to the show.

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Today we're going to be talking about the most recent developments in the troubling tale of

0:13.3

Zoe Quinn and if you're not familiar with who Miss Quinn is don't worry we're going

0:17.8

to be going over some backstory. Before we get into that though I do just want to

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So again, that's Blaze TV.com slash Lauren with the code Lauren.

1:08.5

Now essentially the Zoe Quinn updates are that

1:15.0

ex-boyfriend's, that ex-boyfriend got fired from his job and died by suicide

1:18.0

all within the span of a few days.

1:21.0

And despite that controversy, DC Comics just announced that they are still

1:24.8

moving forward with Quinn as a writer for one of their new comics. Obviously that's a lot to talk about and

1:30.4

we're going to go into all of those details in just a second but first I feel like we need to go over who exactly Zoe Quinn is for anyone who hasn't heard of Zoe Quinn before

1:39.9

basically she was the catalyst of what has come to be known as Gamergate.

1:44.5

And I realize for a lot of you this recap is going to be old news.

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