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In terms of the terminally online, yes, GamerGate was absolutely a critical point of radicalization of young males and the metastasis of far-right fascist thought. In the greater culture it was a blip, but it swayed a lot of guys who were previously either politically inactive or broadly liberal to pivot into misogyny and anti-woke conspiracy.
This isn't particularly difficult to research -- if you want primary sources it is, but there are a ton of video essays and other media exploring this exact phenomenon. For a perspective published as it was actively developing, I recommend this video by Folding Ideas.
Appreciate that link. Thanks for that as a starting point.
I don't consider this an easy thing to research; the word gamergate itself becomes a verb/ adjective in the dialectic around the conversation very quickly. I've gone so far as to pull the entirety of the reddit archive from 2005-2022, which includes subs like r/kotakuinaction, r/antigamergate. There is a whole language and vocabulary these communities glommed on to, which for an outsider, is practically incomprehensible. I mean even this video you've posted (which I'm listening to as I respond) is already drifting into the phenomenology of logic and epistemology. Six minutes and they haven't even mentioned gamergate, and as soon as they do, there is this assumption I know what actually happened.
I would hardly call the topic of researching gamergate as easy. For example, very soon in the conversation we come into terms like "pro-gamergate" and "anti-gamergate"..
I mean...