All I remember about GamerGate is, it inspired Hotweels to create 8chan. Which I thought was kinda weird, and I thought whatever, I guess it's cool that it created this cool new website. I didn't give a single fuck about GamerGate because I thought game reviews and SJWs were retarded.
But now I guess I gotta know what went down, because it managed to fuck up the entire planet. So can someone give me an explanation of what happened? Obviously Googling it is gonna give me heavily biased information so.....
This is a very, very short version, but, essentially, GamerGate represented the first time that a bunch of social justice types showed up mob-handed in any cultural arena and were forced to leave not even empty handed but with something less than total domination.
This not being the script, the culture warriors of gaming called in their friends, and the conflict spread wider and wider, well beyond the sphere of gaming, until we're now at a stage where mainstream political discourse essentially consists of culture warriors detailing the demographics they despise while at the same time demanding fealty from those demographics.
Yeah this is the biggest part of it. It was the culmination of a lot of brewing issues. For the most part it as a split between people just wanting to enjoy games and get honest and straightforward news, and getting propaganda which they can use to boost their social standing.
Due to the tactics of archiving incessantly and coordinated advertiser campaigns we were able to push back against various things. And it turned out that nobody actually wanted to keep our readership by providing news that was more tailored to people who cared about games instead of progressive politics.
This rando made an elaborate power point and called it a video game. Her boyfriend made a post about her sleeping with Five Guys, one of which was a games urinalist. This got her free advertising in form of fluff pieces on gaming sites. The consumers called it out as unethical and accused the urinalists of conspiring to push bullshit, which prompted a disproportionate response of every gaming outlet simultaneously dropping articles declaring their own audience dead. And that's how we discovered a cabal of pedophile satanists rule the world.
Imagine you're a jew living in mid-century Germany and you subscribe to Cat Fancy. Your cat magazine begins to have a weird emphasis on the superiority of the German cat; eventually, they stop writing about cats entirely to focus on Germans and shit talk jews. It's a glimpse of the mechanisms of the total state.
You've probably been promoting transgenderism for cats, and utter degeneracy for Human Germans.
How did that tie in? The claim that media outlets were all lying and colluding went from "haha funny conspiritard" to "oh crap this is actually a thing" and it just escalated from there?
To "it's all the media"
To "and the academics"
To "and the capitalists‽"
...
To "Alex Jones is always right on a long enough timeline"
There are people who can give you a better answer than I can. But all I can say is: the world went mad in 2014.
I wonder if I died and went to hell, because things seemed so normal, and things seem so crazy now.
No, you're just aware now. This has been going on for decades, just not blatantly.
90's were the leaping point of where modern radfems came from, Married With Children was pointing out their lunacy before half this sub was out of diapers.
people who have never been told no in their lives were told no.
For decades, a new elite had been gradually acquiring positions of power and influence in every institution from government to education to large corporations including game developers and media outlets, all united around a social project aimed at subverting, demoralizing and destroying Western culture and the very idea individualism, meritocracy and social mobility. They coordinate their actions through corruption and influence peddling and the propagation of carefully-crafted narratives designed to manipulate you emotionally and wear down your resistance, all whilst isolating themselves from the social consequences of their destructive behavior.
Some gamers unwittingly kicked a hornet's nest when they identified a very small symptom of this disease and actually managed to do some damage, forcing the people who rule over you to take the mask off and reveal just how much they hate you.
I was away from gaming for a while, but I had someone in my online social circles (meaning: message board that I frequented at the time) post a "privilege" poll around that time.
I didn't know what "privilege" meant at that time, but it asked who had more privilege. An example being a blind person or one with eye sight. Naturally, I voted for the blind.
Don't know if it was 2013, 2014 or 2015, but the Internet became a complete shit hole after that. Post-Swartz Reddit is crap, this place is disappointing given cross-community pollination, new Voat isn't the same, etc.
I guess I'm better off just playing games. Luckily I have an infinite backlog of PC and console games. Heil emulation.
Post-Swartz Reddit was great, up to about 2015. At least after they found people to do his coding job when he abandoned reddit and took off to Thailand to do drugs. Of course, this was all after his own site failed and he scammed his way into founder status at reddit. What a grifter.
To cap it all off, he skated on paying his debt to society too, even though it was only 3 months...
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Plus, I was on reddit when that all went down, and it was a huge topic on a tiny (at the time) site. Chats and messages from all involved were being posted.
Later, some group came together to make that propaganda movie about him, and large numbers of internet users fell for it. Probably one of them reported my comment. Thanks, btw.
It wasn't me at any rate. You might be right about Swartz and I might be mixing up dates. I came into Reddit late, I just know it became bad shortly thereafter.
I think what actually happened is that this was the first presidential election where social media was widespread enough and been around long enough to manipulate on a new massive level by political interests with billions of dollars and understanding of human psychology.
The Clintons took one of the think tanks that gives orders to MI6 propagandists, gave it to European al-Qaeda, and had them run old Russian psyops from the Cold War until all Americans who resisted were kicked out of any institution the British controlled, then let them run their own Muslim psyops. Queen Elizabeth was a co-conspirator. Several of the mods banning us were on the direct payroll of Saudi Arabia and/or Qatar. The FBI is so corrupt that they did nothing about it. "Big Tech" had already been captured by the British years ago. Mark Malloch Brown is one of the leaders of the scam. He works with George Soros and Qatari state media. The crooks are paid off by Russia and the entire Organization of Islamic Conference which fund the same PR agencies that the US/UK use for their operations.
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