Popular YouTube comedian and lets-player, Steven Williams, better known to the internet as Boogie2988, claimed Friday that Gawker‘s gaming and technology vertical Kotaku had blacklisted him because he refused to publicly disavow consumer press ethics movement GamerGate. After Kotaku spoke out against game publishers last week for blacklisting the discredited Gawker property, Boogie pointed out the irony of Kotaku whinging about blacklists and blocking: Having been a recipient of a blacklisting by the folks at Kotaku, it's amusing to hear them complain about being blacklisted.
It hurts, eh? — Steven Williams (@Boogie2988) November 19, 2015 He then followed up the tweet with a 10-minute video explaining the situation on his YouTube channel, BoogiePlays. In the video, Boogie details the events that led to his apparent blacklisting, and explains that prior effectively blackmailing him, Kotaku not only wrote multiple articles either about or including him, but that he also had regular communication with the staff there too before being excluded. Boogie claims that all communication and reference to him was cut off after he declared a neutral position on GamerGate. Kotaku editor Stephen Totilo quickly claimed the allegations to be false, but Twitter users soon criticised Totilo’s defence. @Boogie2988 Untrue. We never blacklisted you. We don't blacklist people. And we