I understand what happened and it’s important and newsworthy. Why can’t I go a single day on the internet without hearing about it?
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simplifying what u/TheOutlaw said, gamergate was a boogeyman that the activists in journalism never got over. It still haunts them to this day.
I wasn't involved at the time, so I can't take any credit, but It was also the first time gamers actually pushed back in anything resembling a meaningful way against the absolute trash that gaming journalism had been (and largely continues to be) for nearly 4 decades.