That's why I had to look up GamerGate a couple pages ago, they're spoken of like some kind of 1910-20s style socalist subversive cells lurking under every bed sheet on GAF. I remembered it as yet another "movement" where there's a spark of a serious idea but then all the activists tie all their BS together. MRAs, anger at traitorous 8/10 game journalists, gamers feeling left behind by the mainstreaming of it, etc.
But it's really just more like a mess of internet jerks. Like normal. People on GAF was doing this same kind of shit like five and ten years ago.
We just didn't have everyone putting themselves out there on twitter/youtube/facebook to the extent we do now. You couldn't just pull up a random low level Nintendo employee's thesis on child porn, their somewhat questionable twitter feed, instagram pictures, etc. and then
directly give them shit about it.
Gaming's had these kind of social discussions before, over whether it was ADDICTIVE, the violence era of the 1990s and revived slightly after 9/11, even hubbub about microtransactions/DLC treatment has that component to it. And survived Mortal Kombat hysteria and Hot Coffee hysteria.
The real problem is that this wave is just so...boring. Social studies warriors are supposedly running rampart across the landscape tearing down what it means to be a gamer by having more...choices? in character creators? and yet the era has also produced the pinnacle of human achievement and true gaming and only thing any real gamer would ever touch with Dark Souls
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