I'm old enough to remember the original Gamergate. In fact, I was part of it — not that I knew it at the time. Back in the early 2010s, there was nothing political about video games.
As a Zoomer in my mid-20s
The article is pretty generic but at least it's pro-Gamergate
The author claims to have been inside Mt. Doom the first time, but his Twitter suggests he's currently 24.
Which is technically possible, but unlikely that he actually contemporarily understood what was happening at 14.
That's not the chronology that I got on my first read of the article.
Going back to read it again
I'm old enough to remember the original Gamergate. In fact, I was part of it — not that I knew it at the time.
Of course, this was just the latest front in a long-running culture war that had been raging in Hollywood and academia for years. But nobody was there to tell me that. I was in high school, and all I knew was that there were a bunch of annoying people calling me sexist, racist, and every slur in the book just because I wanted my entertainment to be left alone.
Oddly enough, I find myself looking back in melancholy rather than rage at the rampant abuse. What was it all for? I suppose I am a bit burnt out, having fought this fight for years.
I don't detect any reformed leftist arc.
If he was not an active participant in OG Gamergate, he was at least GG-sympathetic in the short years thereafter.
Author's Twitter
The article is pretty generic but at least it's pro-Gamergate
The author claims to have been inside Mt. Doom the first time, but his Twitter suggests he's currently 24.
Which is technically possible, but unlikely that he actually contemporarily understood what was happening at 14.
I was 14 when we invaded Iraq, was pretty easy to follow the fake "Al qaeda"-"WMD's"-"We got rid of a dictator, go us" thread.
That's why he admitted in the article - he saw it but he didn't understand it, but now that he's older he sees why these games are so fucking bad.
That's not the chronology that I got on my first read of the article.
Going back to read it again
I don't detect any reformed leftist arc.
If he was not an active participant in OG Gamergate, he was at least GG-sympathetic in the short years thereafter.