I don't think GG ever ended the first time around, it just massively leveled up. GG became MAGA, at least for me. Of course, I was GG before GG was a thing, since I am Gen X who is also a firearms enthusiast, and therefore remember the Clinton years of scandals, and the three plus decades of media lies about firearms.
GamerGate never ended, because the Social Justice Warriors never stopped. For some reason, the tactics were replicated by every institutional structure of the political Left; as if they had won something.
GamerGate didn't end. Everything became GamerGate.
The term itself doesn't even refer to the scandal that caused it, but the media's conduct from that scandal.
I don't think GG ever ended the first time around, it just massively leveled up. GG became MAGA, at least for me. Of course, I was GG before GG was a thing, since I am Gen X who is also a firearms enthusiast, and therefore remember the Clinton years of scandals, and the three plus decades of media lies about firearms.
GamerGate never ended, because the Social Justice Warriors never stopped. For some reason, the tactics were replicated by every institutional structure of the political Left; as if they had won something.
GamerGate didn't end. Everything became GamerGate.
The term itself doesn't even refer to the scandal that caused it, but the media's conduct from that scandal.