when i first heard of gamergate, it was basically the farthest anyone had ever taken gaming media collusion with developers, for a sort of pay-to-play media coverage. there were back and forth accusations about game developers accusing gaming journalists of ransoming reviews/coverage for sex (like harvey weinstein), while journalists alleged developers engaged in bribes of sex for good reviews/coverage. while there was some really weak evidence (e.g. various people paying into others' patreons), there was also some smoking gun evidence catching people red handed, especially text messages and DMs going public proving it.

realizing they couldn't win any sort of argument in court or public opinion based on facts, and that the more they brought out, the more they'd just hurt their own cabal, they all got together to manufacture a new narrative... they accused practically everyone who wasn't an inner circle developer or journalist of sexism/racism/homophobia/transphobia. this was the peak intro of this narrative, where instead of defending their own misdeeds, they just verbally assaulted anyone who was against them.

media piled on, then celebrities, all smoke-screening the real problem, accusing anyone who criticized the left of sexism/racism/homophobia/transphobia. media/celebrities called for cancellation of the "gamer" identity, predominately white/asian teenage males.

anyone who shared any info about what actually happened was instantly mislabeled as a misogynist.

as time went on, tons of accusations of sex-bribes and sex-ransoms were not just proven true... many of the journalists/developers were outed as literal rapists/pedos and domestic abusers, and fucking nothing happened to most of them.

to this day, the wikipedia page doesn't mention any of the evil shit any of these people did... just that anonymous assholes on the internet are apparently misogynists.