And yet his stink is all over gamergate.
I don't understand why people want to downplay or forget gamergate? It was a vile movement that served no purpose.
It happened. To consider it as a cause of the alt right instead of a symptom (as some people have been prone to do over
those places) is pretty laughable however. There's not really anything in the US alt right you won't find in decade old movements in Europe (or well... In the US) and far right militants have long understood the power of the Internet to disseminate alternative viewpoints.
Gamergate is only so useful in that for people familiar with gaming it's an interesting study case of how simmering mundane beliefs (the distrust of gaming press who was a throwaway cliché tossed around for the last 15 years and more of something akin to complaining about slow bureaucracy or late trains, an half truth accepted as a fact of life) can explode and be harnessed by political agendas.
I mean remember when Anonymous was an headline item ? They certainly did more (insofar you can credit them) than Gamergate. Did the latter did anything of note besides harassing a bunch of minor gaming celebrities and gathering at a Five Guys ? I wonder if the need by some to constantly prop up GG as utterly significant to national politics (instead of, let's say, the Tea Party or birtherism) is not a perverse way for geeks crippled with envy to convince themselves gaming is culturally significant to be honest.
GG was My Little Political Movement for a population heavily bent on consumerism and a media largely dominated by shallowness (more so than other forms of artistic expressions at this moment).
