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It's highly doubtful, and unfortunately the current political climate may only embolden such riffraff - but one always likes to hope for two distinct possibilities: - that they wake up and actually change, atoning for their past - or that they never succeed being so evil, hateful and disgusting

YES.

I remember back in 2015 explaining to my Kasich-voting boss what Gamergate was, and I hate that it's only become more relevant

I always point to Mass Effect 3 as a watershed moment, where the shittiest people got confirmation that if they harass people enough, they get what they want.

Elon, you're a fucking bad gamer. Just admit it, you feckless rube.

Always nice to find someone able to explain a thing exactly how yoy need it said.

Part of the reluctance to engage was because GG arguably helped pioneer the widespread bad-faith debating of the modern right. Die-hard cryptofascists would constantly quibble over details, often without more argument than "nuh-uh".

The modern day equivalent of Hitler getting rejected from art school.

I got harassed off twitter a few years back for implying the connection. I was right, though.

EXACTLY. I'VE BEEN SAYING THIS FOR YEARS AND WAS CALLED PARANOID.

Okay but it's still mad that it's come full circle.

It’s their Achilles’ Heel that they want to both cheat and be admired for it

I recently watched the Innuendo Studios full talk about Gamer Gate and its significance in the rise of alt-right influence. It was really good

a word i find myself using more and more is "incurious"

It’s strange too, like someone’s telling them “don’t listen to this” and then they think that’s rebelling when it’s just having someone else do the thinking for them.

True so means it run revealing a government funding "news" outlets against said gamergate. Think about how it furthered your agenda. That denied having or doing and how pursued it to cause Gamergate and the long, deep, animosity this lead to. Both prepared the Siege Perilous. hoes mad not seat it

It's still a mistake to take Gamergate at face value being about video games or even the community. It was an event that showed a template for outrage manufacture that could also take fringe ideas into the mainstream. It didn't *have* to begin with gaming.

hate it when fake gamers like this 50 year old south african man pretend they don’t suck ass at it

reactionary apocalypse

It feels weird to see "Depresion Quest" indirectly caused depression to many because gamer man babies. As for me I played the day I started with my meds. It helped me so much.

So is Video Game Government Elon !

Bannon explicitly explained the strategy a long time ago.

yeah the gg -> alt-right pipeline has been brazenly obvious literally since 2014

It is hard to deny that GG was effective. But I think the important takeaway is that it was just one vector of a multi vector attack.

I remember when this happened. At the time I was still shedding my southern US conservative upbringing. So many people I followed on YouTube turned out to be total pieces of crap. It was a very important lesson and helped me see, over time, GG for what is was.

Then we've seen similar with Feminism being subverted by Terfism. Twitter throguh pol raids. Nerd culture through gamergate, etc.

eternal posting is of course a leftist problem but the bigger problem is there is no longer any mechanism in place to stop online fascism from spreading/being explicitly encouraged, because the social media is owned by the fascists/fascist-bootlickers

Didn't think it was a criticism, thanks for pointing otu that it was the same person.

Thank you so so much ! (god the NYT search engine is garbage. It doesn't bring it up even when inputting the exact title) It is frightening that a piece from 2019 could already establish the connection between Gamergate's ideology and methods to the rise of the Alt right and the Trump election.