The ONLY good thing Tumblr did was be containment. It's a shame we didn't go full SCP and have a nuke ready for when containment was breached...
I'll be honest, I don't know whether or not them spreading after the porn ban was good or bad in the long term. It's annoying as fuck dealing with them EVERYWHERE but although they were contained they were in a bubble and feedback loop that made them more cult like as time progressed, at least when they hit the normies they were seen more and more as the freaks they were.
The worst Gamergate did was make one group that was apolitical heavily anti establishment more than they already were.
It wasn't just containment, though - as Tumblr became more extreme it became easier to identify the crazy - "you don't want to act like a tumblrina, do you?"
I think the value of this is under-appreciated, because with that as a reference point it was easier to convince more sensible places to guard against their lunacy, rather than leaving the doors wide open to it.
The ONLY good thing Tumblr did was be containment. It's a shame we didn't go full SCP and have a nuke ready for when containment was breached...
I'll be honest, I don't know whether or not them spreading after the porn ban was good or bad in the long term. It's annoying as fuck dealing with them EVERYWHERE but although they were contained they were in a bubble and feedback loop that made them more cult like as time progressed, at least when they hit the normies they were seen more and more as the freaks they were.
The worst Gamergate did was make one group that was apolitical heavily anti establishment more than they already were.
It wasn't just containment, though - as Tumblr became more extreme it became easier to identify the crazy - "you don't want to act like a tumblrina, do you?"
I think the value of this is under-appreciated, because with that as a reference point it was easier to convince more sensible places to guard against their lunacy, rather than leaving the doors wide open to it.