They just got better at hiding it, ironically because of Gamergate. Remember how openly smug they acted during gg? They thought labeling someone a "shitlord" and "neckbeard" was all they needed to unperson someone. Remember how activists like Big Red became laughing stocks?
When those labels became ineffective, they escalated: racist, sexist, transphobe, alt-right, nazi, fascist, etc. But the desired outcome remained the same. They want us gone. "No bad tactics, only bad targets".
They became better at obfuscating their intentions, they hide behing platitudes and slogans
In the year 2000 - 25 years ago - Christina Hoff Sommers released a book called "The War on Boys". It documents the destruction of our society by feminist cancer.
The left wanted to kill people like her, Erin Prizzy and others for years before Gamergate. #killallmmen was and is a thing.
It is an indictment on both left and right for being blind towards the rot that started decades and is still there brainwashing our kids producing murderous demons like Tyler Robinson.