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Who else tipped their toes into radicalisation by how cringe this backlash and gamergate were? Like I didn’t play videogames for years out of embarrassment for even remotely associated with this.
I went to her channel when this was all going on hoping for some "Kill all men!" lesbian separatism and all I got was "Maybe women in video games should be more dimensional and less 'Booba-ah-Wooga!' for their personality."
Still ended up subbing tho cuz it's decent stuff on an otherwise reactionary platform.
Make lesbians scary again
Same
I still don’t play video games and I live in Palestine
Solidarity
I never made the connection but gamergate probably pushed me left.
Yes, gamergate really helped me to get over my anti-feminist phase. I realised how much of an embarrassing temper tantrum it was when I started to look into it and all the figures promoting it
I don't know if it's similar but it's feels like how alot of tech workers realised Musk was full of shit when he tookover X and entered their domain. The grifters won-over some losers but pushed alot of us to develop a self-awareness that our culture is rotten to the core and we're shit as a product of it.
Gamergate was definitely a tipping point. Dudes I'd thought were totally rational and on the level started showing their asses, and no amount of my trying to talk them out of it changed anything. Think the moment I gave up on trying to re-educate was somebody I'd grown up with, known for more than half of my life hard-r'd me for trying to investigate their misogynist fuckery and I'm just struck there like "how long have you been like this? how long have you been like this and just hid it from me like that?"
The very final stage of my path from demsucc and succdem toward actual leftism was during, and in large part because of
gate.