I want to highlight this moment:
https://youtu.be/9gnv101gTBg?t=1285
Where Waj and David make the through line to GamerGate. If you are someone who has first hand experience/ knowledge/ was around on reddit when the gamergate thing was blowing up (read, not looking for second hand accounts) and followed it while it was happening, can you please reach out to me either here or via DM's?
I was around on "the bad place" when GamerGate was blowing up, but I was very confused by the whole thing, and considered it static at the time. It was so deeply embedded in jargon that I couldn't make heads or tails of any of it at the time. I considered it static, and in a world of infinite things to pay attention to, I just didn't give that one focus. However, since then I've seen multiple people (both here, on lemmy and elsewhere) make the argument that the modern alt-right movement finds its origins in gamergate; that there is a throughline from gamergate -> pizzagate -> Qanon -> our current moment, with maybe r/The_Donald forking off there at some point. What Waj is arguing here is that there is also a connection to Epstein/ Bannon at the origination of gamer gate, and David seems to agree.
There are archives of reddit going back almost 2 decades, and I'm wondering if there are traces of evidence in these data from that time period, and if they could be corroborated with data from the Epstein files.
So if you were there for it, if you remember these moments, would very much like to hear from you if you are interested in speaking.
