It started with a woman called Chelsea van Valkenburg, alias Zoe Quinn [pic], who's a bit like a whore except that, you know, whores have sex with men in exchange for money, whereas Zoe does it for free.
So Zoe made some shitty slide show presentation called "Depression Quest" and then cheated on her boyfriend with five other guys to get them to write favourable reviews of it and pretend that its a video game. The boyfriend found out and then wrote a blogpost about it on cuckchan. Because Zoe is a nobody literally no-one cared about this but a small handful of autistic anons got together to investigate and see what other dramas were going on in the indie gaming world.
They soon discovered a shitload of collusion and corruption in indie gaming. Basically the entire industry is a handful of sjw jerks who write glowing reviews of each other's games and blacklist anyone who disagrees with them to prevent them from getting jobs in the industry.
So people started to call them on this bullshit and, in response, the entire industry basically said "fuck you" to their own customers and launched a massive smear campaign in which they attempted to depict the entire video game community, i.e. their own customers, as sexist, racist, bigotted &c. &c.
Incredibly, at one point they all published a bunch of articles in which they just matter-of-factly claimed that gaming culture had ceased to exist overnight somehow and that gamers didn't actually exist. Still not sure what they meant to accomplish by this.
Then suddenly the entire thing began to snowball. People on cuckchan got so pissed off that they actually did up a list of advertisers to these sites and started called them and threatened boycotts unless they withdrew their support. Gawker alone lost something like six-figures from this.
Then celebrities got involved in a major way. Then the feminists started their "muh soggy knees" thing because Zoe is a cheap whore. Then the PUA and MRA movements decided to get involved to stick it to the feminazis. Then /cow/ got involved for laughs. Then /baph/ doxed a guy called John Flynn for a laugh. Suddenly it was everywhere.
During this whole process, a bunch of Holla Forumsirgins became majorly red-pilled because they saw, first-hand, how the (((MSM))) companies, which pretend to be competitors actually collude with each other to shape and push narratives. And then they realised that the (((MSM))) does exactly the same thing in politics.
When the migrant crisis broke out in 2015, literally no-one bought into the media's bullshit. When Trump declared and the media started their smear campaign against him, no-one believed a word of it because they had done exactly the same thing to us the year before. So a bunch of anons got majorly red-pilled and Holla Forums took on a heap of new members.
And now Trump is the president, Britain in leaving the EU and White Nationalism is on the rise throughout the western world. Thanks Zoe!
I've left a bunch of stuff out but that's the gist of it.