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Wait Im out of the loop, what are the in-between correlations?
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.