Looking back through GG history (as well as I can, since it seems Deepfreeze is never going to get fixed...), it's curious how long we tried to affirm a moral high ground when it was clear the lying press were content to paint whatever picture they wanted. Didn't matter how many women, coloreds, or colored women of color tweeted "#NotYourShield", GamerGate was only ever about "angry white male rage". Honey Badgers and Sad Puppies fell on deaf ears and only made the press hate us more for pointing out their hypocrisy. We teamed up with "good fags" and "good feminists" like Milo and CHS and the only thing it ever achieved was excommunicate them from their in-groups before they eventually dumped us further down the line.
It also didn't help that the GG movement was being strangled for years thanks to control of the 8chan board by Acid Man following Niko's capitulation to the Ayy Team. Cole Lamberson's obsession with "muh pr" tanked the entire movement and stalled genuine discoveries such as Seattle4Truth uncovering the money trail between the Literal Whos and big organizations like Microsoft, even if he went totally insane in the end and committed matricide.
What happened over the next decade was virtually an entire generation becoming politically active in a way that hasn't happened since the Vietnam War. Two US elections won, Pizzagate exposed to the world, trannies banned from sports, populism movements sprouting up all over the world, and it was all because we only ever wanted to play video games and be left in peace.
So I ask you - if we had our 2025 mindset back in 2014, would you have skipped the #NotYourShield part of our movement entirely and just got straight to shutting out troons, fags and general SJWs? If not, why?
Here's the problem.
If you don't team up with people with disparate goals, you don't get enough people to get what you want done.
GG wouldn't have started if the "good fags" or "good feminists" weren't joined up with the rest of us. I don't like it either - but the only way you can push shit is if you convert/convince a bunch of people of your side. We'd unfortunately would be outnumbered, so perhaps we would stay cohesive as a movement, but wouldn't have had much of an impact because there would be way fewer people than us.
A lot of us got into it not realizing who the bigger enemies were. I know for a bunch of you it's the Jews, for all of us it's the far left idpol faggots, but the fact there was a part of the movement that JUST wanted to narrowly focus on "ethics in games journalism" when they failed to realize you will get no ethical journalism if they're ideologically motivated is why it failed. Now the disease that is infecting games journalism has spread everywhere. ALL journalism is as poisoned and politically dismissive as games journalism is.