GamerGate had several "hub" boards on 8ch, with the /burgers/ board eventually being renamed to /gg/. This however, turned out to be a honeypot for the GNAA and got co-opted, temporarily derailing the movement. Eventually, everyone moved to a new board (I want to say /gamergate/?) and things were fine for a couple months, before the board owner, an ESL called Niko, gave the login details to troll operatives representing the AyyTeam, who got that shut down as well.
This caused a rift in the community, with two competing boards: /ggrevolt/, who wanted to follow what Seattle4Truth had discovered and was generally more /pol/-aligned and aggressive towards those who ideologically opposed us, and /gamergatehq/, ran by Cole Lamberson, who instead wanted to focus on "muh pr" and allying us with femishits and fag journos to make GamerGate look good, seemingly unaware of how futile that turned out to be.
A power struggle ensued, and sadly /gghq/ won. The remaining GG movement dissolved from the thousands, to the hundreds, to mere 10s at its worst moment. It took until Trump before the online right regrouped and became stronger than it ever was.
Every year that passes and deepfreeze is still non-functional, my memories grow increasingly fuzzier. Apologies if I got a couple things wrong. But this motherfucker was far worse for our movement than any hack journo or femicunt ever was.
4Chan was compromised on day one. Any action there was just a distraction to keep the glowies and their wannabes from getting any purchase of value.
Nothing - nothing, was ever done on 4Chan or Reddit beyond presenting a veneer for public record. WankStainBane and his crew on KiA were just another illustration of how enfeebled any attempts at leadership were.
A decade of fakery can't be maintained by 'players' like acidman. The tides will continue to roll and the beach will be taken. Maybe when those on 'The Left' start noticing that their sympathies have been getting played by sociopaths who only have self-interests as their motivations we can get back to working on a resolution to this colossal fuck-up trying to pass itself off as progress.
I literally only became part of this "movement" because of how quickly and noticeably this compromising was. I was just a drifting /b/tard shitposting and suddenly these massive threads were popping up and then getting banned, and certain words followed them. And not in a "clear rule breaker" (like CP) or the roody poo word filter fun, but a clear clamp down.
I know most guys in my similar boat went on to the other chans, but I stumbled on KIA trying to find answers. And it was obvious after a few months that the place was rushing as fast as it could into irrelevance to try and maintain its "respectability" by being good little Leftie goys.
I was in it outside of 4chan. But. The censorship ON 4chan was probably the best evidence of who the good guys were, and whether or not the accusations that everyone claimed were baseless were actually right on the money.
4xhan was supposed to be "the place" where only time or warrants could get something removed. That was probably naive, but when it didn't happen that way...
Its funny. But most of my distrust of institutions in general probably comes from thay moment.
TL;DR
GamerGate had several "hub" boards on 8ch, with the /burgers/ board eventually being renamed to /gg/. This however, turned out to be a honeypot for the GNAA and got co-opted, temporarily derailing the movement. Eventually, everyone moved to a new board (I want to say /gamergate/?) and things were fine for a couple months, before the board owner, an ESL called Niko, gave the login details to troll operatives representing the AyyTeam, who got that shut down as well.
This caused a rift in the community, with two competing boards: /ggrevolt/, who wanted to follow what Seattle4Truth had discovered and was generally more /pol/-aligned and aggressive towards those who ideologically opposed us, and /gamergatehq/, ran by Cole Lamberson, who instead wanted to focus on "muh pr" and allying us with femishits and fag journos to make GamerGate look good, seemingly unaware of how futile that turned out to be.
A power struggle ensued, and sadly /gghq/ won. The remaining GG movement dissolved from the thousands, to the hundreds, to mere 10s at its worst moment. It took until Trump before the online right regrouped and became stronger than it ever was.
Every year that passes and deepfreeze is still non-functional, my memories grow increasingly fuzzier. Apologies if I got a couple things wrong. But this motherfucker was far worse for our movement than any hack journo or femicunt ever was.
4Chan was compromised on day one. Any action there was just a distraction to keep the glowies and their wannabes from getting any purchase of value.
Nothing - nothing, was ever done on 4Chan or Reddit beyond presenting a veneer for public record. WankStainBane and his crew on KiA were just another illustration of how enfeebled any attempts at leadership were.
A decade of fakery can't be maintained by 'players' like acidman. The tides will continue to roll and the beach will be taken. Maybe when those on 'The Left' start noticing that their sympathies have been getting played by sociopaths who only have self-interests as their motivations we can get back to working on a resolution to this colossal fuck-up trying to pass itself off as progress.
I literally only became part of this "movement" because of how quickly and noticeably this compromising was. I was just a drifting /b/tard shitposting and suddenly these massive threads were popping up and then getting banned, and certain words followed them. And not in a "clear rule breaker" (like CP) or the roody poo word filter fun, but a clear clamp down.
I know most guys in my similar boat went on to the other chans, but I stumbled on KIA trying to find answers. And it was obvious after a few months that the place was rushing as fast as it could into irrelevance to try and maintain its "respectability" by being good little Leftie goys.
I was in it outside of 4chan. But. The censorship ON 4chan was probably the best evidence of who the good guys were, and whether or not the accusations that everyone claimed were baseless were actually right on the money.
4xhan was supposed to be "the place" where only time or warrants could get something removed. That was probably naive, but when it didn't happen that way...
Its funny. But most of my distrust of institutions in general probably comes from thay moment.