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[–] 26 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I honestly still don't understand what gamergate is or was.

I "lived" through it, and both read and saw post mortem videos about it, as well as had various people try to explain it to me. And yet it never made any sense to me.

Nobody can, it seems, point to the specific thing it was about. It's vague, it's nebulous, and it seems to me more like there was controversy for controversy's sake.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    It's because it doesn't make any sense on the surface. Why were people so angry? Why was the jovial jokey part of the internet being so serious and violent? It marked a shift of the internet being srs bzns to serious business.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago*

    It's because it was a lot of things. People are right* in saying there were some toxic elements of it, like on 4chan. But there were also people criticizing how IGN and others seemed to be very lazy in their reviewing, and criticizing Anita Sarkeesian for (from my perspective) valid reasons.

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