Quinn's Depression Quest

Depression Quest released in the spring of 2013, created by video game developer Zoe Quinn to serve as an interactive game about clinical depression and its struggles. The game was a hit and received positive reviews from the online gaming world soon after. However, the game garnered backlash from several online users whom believed that Quinn’s game had gained positive reviews unfairly. After rumors began surfacing online about the legitimacy of her reviews, Quinn was harassed for several months after the game released. The harassment was severe enough for her to change her phone number as well as other personal information. More than a year later, in 2014, Quinn still endured harassments cases, and in the fall of that same year an event stirred an even larger harassment campaign for Quinn and those who would come in her defense. Eron Gjoni, a fellow developer and Quinn's former boyfriend wrote what would become the infamous "Zoe Post.” This was an over 9,000-word online blog entry, which exposed chat logs, emails, and text messages describing Quinn and Gjoni’s relationship in the favor of himself as well as claiming that her positive reviews came only from her intimate relationship with several journalists. In his post, Gjoni claimed Quinn had

It was only till the damage was so severe, when Gjoni returned to the post to update it with the truth that Grayson never reviewed Quinn's games, before or after release. Unfortunately, even though the claims were proven to be false, Quinn and their family were subjected to an extended and misogynistic online harassment campaign. At first, users who were in support of Quinn’s attacks named their campaign the "Quinnspiracy", and it was not until later the campaign changed to the current name of “Gamergate” via a Twitter