The worst thing about all of this is that GamerGate didn't show us the worst kind of stupid. GamerGate was taken up as the norm. The insane, aggressive, gas-lighting, and hysterical attacks on the general audience went from being a poorly managed & amateurish attempt at a media blitz, to the standard operating procedure of all mainstream media, the Democratic party, and international organizations.
It's like the establishment forgot how to run a normal media blitz. They've adopted only the worst tactics.
The worst thing about all of this is that GamerGate didn't show us the worst kind of stupid. GamerGate was taken up as the norm. The insane, aggressive, gas-lighting, and hysterical attacks on the general audience went from being a poorly managed & amateurish attempt at a media blitz, to the standard operating procedure of all mainstream media, the Democratic party, and international organizations.
It's like the establishment forgot how to run a normal media blitz. They've adopted only the worst tactics.
They realized how easy it is to manipulate consensus, along with how many people will mindlessly go along with the consensus and reacted accordingly.
Yeah, why put in the effort to make the lies believable. The people don’t seem to care how shit the lie, the only care about the source.