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As firmly as I am on the left, watching GG happen in real time and seeing plainly the manipulation and lying the Literally Whos orchestrated definitely made me want to distance myself from both sides. None of that is in the Wikipedia article.

Yeah, GG was completely hijacked by misogyny and alt-right politics and absolutely fuck Milo and the other proto-Trumpist cunts that paved the way for that but the common narrative that it began as just evil gamers attacking innocent women for daring to exist is a blatant lie. Funny how the article mentions the sockpuppets but seems very certain that everyone doing that were definitely on the GG side, not the antis harassing themselves to have more ammo. People were caught doing this multiple times but it's all been conveniently buried. There was a massive culture of fear built around being even slightly critical of anyone on the anti side so nobody without a significant established online presence dared to speak up. The article doesn't mention the amount of death treats and harassment people who did speak got from the antis either. Because again, nobody dared to even acknowledge it, lest they be considered to be on the wrong side. The natural consequence of that was that it was a whole lot of anonymous people flinging shit at each other, and the only safe option was to either be quiet, or be a vocal victim of GG. Like you say, many young men who were involved in it then found themselves warmly welcomed by actual neo-nazi shitheads that had been lurking on 4chan for many many years and of course, manipulating GG for their own ends as well.

Nobody is immune to propaganda.

edit: and these days I don't trust anyone whose online presence revolves around any kind of controversy. It's all just cash flow.