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 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.
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"