The man told jurors he spent hours listening to far-right podcasts before breaking into the Pelosi home and attacking the then-Speaker’s husband with a hammer.
The man told jurors he spent hours listening to far-right podcasts before breaking into the Pelosi home and attacking the then-Speaker’s husband with a hammer.
The dumbest possible thing to be radicalized by.
Right? Gamergate is something I’ve never understood at all. Like… People try to summarize the whole thing for me and after two sentences I just blank out entirely because it’s all so weird, convoluted and dumb.
A gigantic “he-said-she-said” that somehow devolved into tons of harassment, death threats, violence and “calling someone’s boss so they’d get fired because they weren’t nice enough online” or something…
Your 1-sentence answer to understanding Gamergate has less to do with any of the people involved or a timeline of events. Gamergate, more than anything else, was an opportunity. A springboard to indoctrinate people into far right politics by playing to people’s fear of the Other, mistrust in media, and stoking anger at a perceived scandal.
If it never happened, if it wasn’t video games, it would just as well be something else. It would be music or sports or anything that people are passionate about. Right wingers were running out of steam with the Tea Party, and Gamergate was in the right place at the right time.
EDIT: Some contemporary discussion on GG actually, prophetically, supports this:
https://www.reddit.com/r/GamerGhazi/comments/2k0bpi/why_gamergate_is_a_rightwing_movement/
https://www.reddit.com/r/AgainstGamerGate/comments/2km45o/a_few_days_ago_i_said_that_gamergate_was_a_right/
https://www.reddit.com/r/QAnonCasualties/comments/l3fq6t/the_tea_party_and_gamergate_were_things_i_was/
Ian Miles Cheong got his start with Gamergate. That sholud tell you everything you need to know about what it was.
Sounds like it’s all you need to hear, not all there is to know. Plenty of extremists use legitimate movements or concerns to prey upon those desperate individuals who are seeking redress.
Game journos got real chummy with indie devs and everybody was fucking everybody. All objectivity was lost and it was full of corruption. Look up the gamejournopros group.
Everything you said was wrong, wow.
Everything I said was true. Just because you think it’s wrong doesn’t mean it is. Maybe do a little research outside your bubble.
My brother in Christ, I was there watching it happen. I saw the sad, misogynistic weirdos who used it as an excuse to harass women or as a way to gain a platform (ie, Ian Miles Cheong, Miles Yiannoppoulos). So miss me with that. Hell, Cheong and I used to follow each other on Twitter before his heel turn during GG. So yeah. Miss me with that.
Some people had different ideas about it but the vast majority that I saw were all about corruption in games journalism. Sure a lot of trolls got their start there too but it doesn’t mean that was the point.
The vast majority of the movement was misogynistic, but even the parts that were legitimately focused on corruption were focused on the AAA devs “paying” for preferential reviews of their garbage. That A. hasn’t stopped and B. had nothing to do with indie developers.
Yes, those are the people who used it to gain clout. That doesn’t mean that’s not how it started, though. There was a loss of objectivity in game journalism due to personal relationships, then a bunch of mysoginistic shitbags took the bag and ran as far as they could so they could gain a podium to spout their hatred.
It’s never just one thing.