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I still don't know what gamergate was and I have no interest in learning. I feel like it would just be a complete waste of time. I think it had something to do with a bunch of nerds being angry a woman was taking games seriously as art and critiquing them as such?
that's a pretty accurate summary
Dan Olson’s video on GG is legit a great summary
every time you mention Dan Olson some reactionary chud comes out of the woodwork to say "umm you mean the guy that posted CP on 8kun?" oh shut the fuck up you lying sack of shit.
For real? I don’t think I’ve noticed that so far, though it wouldn’t surprise me. Dan’s been styling on chuds for a long time. I suspect his reading of fight club as a feminist critique of toxic masculinity left a core trauma for some of these bozos
during gamergate he wrote a piece on how there were literal CP boards on 8kun and the mods did nothing, and that pissed off chuds. so first they said his article itself constitutes spreading CP, his downloading of the images makes him a pedo, and then just straight up accused him of being the person that uploaded the CP in the first place to get 8kun shut down.
they're still really butt hurt about it. and let me just say i wish dan succeeded because 8kun was the breeding ground for Qanon.
Even dumber than that, it was kicked off by a jilted boyfriend who aired out their dirty laundry on Tumblr and the whole discourse centered around how women keep getting a pass for everything.
But yeah, life is too short and precious to spend any of it caring about gamergate.
That's as good an explanation as you're going to find about it. Far right operatives latched onto them and juiced it up which is why it wouldn't go away