Gamergate was a 2014 campaign to “get politics [women and minorities] out of video games” and is thought to have helped create the ongoing “culture war” in the US as far right leaders learned to use the same rhetoric.
Ngl, I’m kinda feeling vindicated reading this post. I’d been saying for years to my friend (who doubted me on this) that gamergate started this whole division politics. Making the zeitgeist pendulum swing from one polarity to the other. It led to me-too/cancel culture, which then swung the pendulum towards trump 1.0 fake news and anti vax, then swung to BLM and Lgbqt movements then it finally swung to trump 2.0’s vengeance we’re seeing today.
All this bullshit started from game journalists. Jfc, I miss the uncomplicated days before 2014, when we could all just enjoy TF2 and collect hats without a care in the world of what anyone thought of anything. Hard to imagine our favorite innocent hobby got distorted to lay the groundwork for the divided mess we’re in. And its only going to get cataclysmically worse.
It wasn’t started by game journalists, it was started by the same deplorables who helped elect 45/47. Gamergate was just a successful trial run of that battlefront tactic. It’s all astoturf, smoke, and mirrors but it’s still the same class war.
If you actually look into it, the original accusation was completely made up.
Even if it had been true it would have been a storm in a teacup. An incredibly tiny indie developer had their lover write a positive article about their incredibly niche indy game. Who gives a shit?
Gamergate was a psyop to politicize young white males by making them believe their hobby was under attack by feminists. It was largely created by Steve Bannon through Breitbart News and its editor Milo Yiannopoulos.
The ongoing “culture war” is not an accident or an emergent fenomenon. Powerful figures have worked long and hard to bring about fascism.
Gamergate was a 2014 campaign to “get politics [women and minorities] out of video games” and is thought to have helped create the ongoing “culture war” in the US as far right leaders learned to use the same rhetoric.
Ngl, I’m kinda feeling vindicated reading this post. I’d been saying for years to my friend (who doubted me on this) that gamergate started this whole division politics. Making the zeitgeist pendulum swing from one polarity to the other. It led to me-too/cancel culture, which then swung the pendulum towards trump 1.0 fake news and anti vax, then swung to BLM and Lgbqt movements then it finally swung to trump 2.0’s vengeance we’re seeing today.
All this bullshit started from game journalists. Jfc, I miss the uncomplicated days before 2014, when we could all just enjoy TF2 and collect hats without a care in the world of what anyone thought of anything. Hard to imagine our favorite innocent hobby got distorted to lay the groundwork for the divided mess we’re in. And its only going to get cataclysmically worse.
I want to go back…
It wasn’t started by game journalists, it was started by the same deplorables who helped elect 45/47. Gamergate was just a successful trial run of that battlefront tactic. It’s all astoturf, smoke, and mirrors but it’s still the same class war.
If you actually look into it, the original accusation was completely made up.
Even if it had been true it would have been a storm in a teacup. An incredibly tiny indie developer had their lover write a positive article about their incredibly niche indy game. Who gives a shit?
Gamergate was a psyop to politicize young white males by making them believe their hobby was under attack by feminists. It was largely created by Steve Bannon through Breitbart News and its editor Milo Yiannopoulos.
The ongoing “culture war” is not an accident or an emergent fenomenon. Powerful figures have worked long and hard to bring about fascism.