I suppose it's a sign of the times that a -gate joke immediately makes people think of an irrelevant ongoing event instead of actual history. Fucking Fukuyama.
Yes, exactly, this is the point for anyone not sure.
It's not a watergate reference, or the set-up would have related to a hidden tape or something, not "Five Guys". Also, "watergate" was not about ruining a career, it was about impeaching a president, so the reference there would have been different, too.
The term "Five Guys" and "Gate" has now turned into a joke, a meme in modern context that was used to harass every women in the game industry. These words didn't stay in the past they now mean something else in the Internet age. GG is real and now has a terrible place in game's history.
Ask a non american about watergate, and they would told you about Deepthorat, the 2 Washington Post journalist,... but not the 5 guys who were arrested.
Hell, I watched All the President's Men and never made the connection.
Ask a dude about GamerGate and they'll know that the "Five Guys" thing is basically what started it all.
This is a company that makes translations based on memes, I'll give more credibility to the GamerGate intentionality that the other way around.
I personally think it was an unfortunate coincidence, but in this day and age, with sexism and harassment still a prominent issue in the industry, I wouldn't be surprised if it was an intentional dig. It'd be safer to remove the joke or alter it in some way.
Common sense would dictate Nintendo of all companies is not going to go on a gamergate rampage. Treehouse itself has been attacked relentlessly by Gamergate.
And they didn't really do anything about it.
Well, they actually did something, they legitimated the movement.
