# Anita Sarkeesian

> She made YouTube videos about sexist tropes in video games and became the center of one of the internet's ugliest harassment campaigns - turning a Kickstarter into a flashpoint for arguments about who gets to play, who gets to critique, and what happens when you say the industry could do better.

*American blogger (born 1983)*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/anita-sarkeesian

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Journalist
- **Category:** Journalists
- **Country:** Canada
- **Born:** 1983-08-15
- **Status:** living
- **Gender:** female

## Bio

Anita Sarkeesian founded Feminist Frequency to analyze how women appear in popular culture, then narrowed the lens to video games. In 2012 she launched a Kickstarter to fund Tropes vs. Women in Video Games - a series examining recurring patterns in how female characters are written and rendered. The project triggered an immediate harassment campaign: threats, coordinated attacks, the full machinery of online rage. The backlash had the opposite effect: media attention surged, the funding goal was crushed, and Sarkeesian became the face of a broader conversation about misogyny in gaming culture. She took the story to TEDxWomen, XOXO, The Colbert Report, and eventually the United Nations, framing it as a test case for what happens when criticism meets an industry unused to hearing it.

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 76.4 / 100
- **Momentum:** 2.7 / 100  (trend: STABLE)
- **Historical depth:** 24.9 / 100
- **Attention shift:** 9.0 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 90.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 90.0 / 100
- **Country rank:** #119
- **Category rank:** #22
- **Total followers across platforms:** 208,000

## Platforms
- **X**: https://x.com/anitasarkeesian (@anitasarkeesian)
- **FACEBOOK**: https://www.facebook.com/anitasarkeesian (@anitasarkeesian)
- **WEBSITE**: https://www.anitasarkeesian.com/
- **INSTAGRAM**: https://www.instagram.com/anitasarkeesian/ (@anitasarkeesian)
- **IMDB**: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2100390/ (@nm2100390)
- **YOUTUBE**: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7Edgk9RxP7Fm7vjQ1d-cDA (@@feministfrequency, 208,000 followers)

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