Gamer gate started out as literally gamers being pissed about fraudulent game reviews before it got overrun by right wing assholes
I guess it was similar to occupy Wall Street that got overrun by leftist extremists that started adding so much other crap on top of the basic message that was intended that nothing happened except rich coked up banket laughing at them from a balcony
But yeah, gamergate was not organized with that intent, the actual initial intent was to get honest game reviews
Maybe they seized on one dude being pissed at his ex and making some accusations as a catalyst, and I’m certain well meaning folks got caught up in something they weren’t fully aware of, but that’s sort of the point with this kind of op. No one approaches you online and says “do you want to attack feminist game developers and entertainment journalists as the opening salvo in a culture war that will install fascism in the west?”
Even if it was co-opted, it was co-opted very early on and that doesn’t change what it was for most of its miserable time as part of the public consciousness or the damage it did.
I was there
Gamer gate started out as literally gamers being pissed about fraudulent game reviews before it got overrun by right wing assholes
I guess it was similar to occupy Wall Street that got overrun by leftist extremists that started adding so much other crap on top of the basic message that was intended that nothing happened except rich coked up banket laughing at them from a balcony
But yeah, gamergate was not organized with that intent, the actual initial intent was to get honest game reviews
So was I.
Maybe they seized on one dude being pissed at his ex and making some accusations as a catalyst, and I’m certain well meaning folks got caught up in something they weren’t fully aware of, but that’s sort of the point with this kind of op. No one approaches you online and says “do you want to attack feminist game developers and entertainment journalists as the opening salvo in a culture war that will install fascism in the west?”
Even if it was co-opted, it was co-opted very early on and that doesn’t change what it was for most of its miserable time as part of the public consciousness or the damage it did.