Dickwolves

Dickwolves was my awakening. These guys were at arguably the height of their popularity and they were effectively the voices of my generation. Their real crime wasn't the initial incident, their real crime was the followup where they laughed in the face of their accusers, rightly calling out that the outrage was bullshit. THAT defiance was why they had to be crushed. If they could be browbeaten and dog-piled into submission over saying something slightly politically incorrect then what chance did a nobody like me have if the eye of sauron fixed its baleful gaze upon me?

Then anita grifted her way into the scene, then gamergate blew up and made everyone pick sides.

But the stormclouds were on the horizon long before that, just the optimism, divided government, and booming tech economy of the web 1.0 90s kept us from seeing them.